Price: $2,500
URL: http://www.megaretail.com
MegaRetail.com is an online shopping mall where anyone can sell new and used goods. Buyers can browse through the listings, select items of interest to them and contact the seller directly. Sellers can list and promote their items for sale on MegaRetail.com with instant PayPal Checkout option.
The site operates in the style of malls wherein several vendors can sell their goods under a single roof. On checkout the payment goes directly to the respective vendors who fulfill the orders themselves. Vendors may opt for checkout directly from the MegaRetail.com site or have prospective buyers sent over to their own website.
Being a new site, it is currently set for free listing. It is intended to charge for listings of goods at an appropriate time. Listing charge can be per listing or for a pack of listings; it can be time-based as so many listings over a certain time period; bold listings and premium listings; different prices for different categories and, optioanlly, free categories; etc. etc. Vendors can upload images, videos and documents to their listings which can be free or charged for.
Basically, others buy and sell and you collect the fees. Let’s say you decide to charge $10 per listing for 90 days. 100 listings per month (which is no figure at all considering the size of the market) will bring in $1,000 in a month; 250 listings will bring in $2,500; 500 listings will bring in $5,000; so on so forth. Depending on the exigencies of the market, you can increase or decrease the fee as needed. You can charge for bold and premium listings. The fee is set-up via Site Admin and can be changed anytime as needed. While you can do your own permutations and combinations - pessimistic, realistic and optimistic - note that you can make this money with no overheads at all. All you pay is for hosting and renewal of the domain name.
MegaRetail.com - the domain name needs no explanation - simply means a mega retail complex or mall. Short, highly relevant, easily remembered and brandable domain, would be worth in high 4-figures for the name alone. While it may be possible to build another similar site, a domain name like this doesn’t becomes available everyday.
To make money you must market your service. Initially you may need some effort to popularize the site. Once it starts getting popular, viral marketing will set in. The site, from there onwards, will market itself on its own. Adsense option is always available as a source for supplementary revenue.
Built using PHP scripting with a powerful MySQL database, the site is totally manageable from a browser based Admin Panel. You can manage users, listings, configuration of the site - all from your web browser. Payment for listings can be processed via PayPal.com or 2CheckOut.com or another processor.
Vendors have their own control panel from where they can manage their listings. They can add new listings, modify existing ones and delete the ones that are not required. Listings sold and no more available can remain on the site and marked as such, or deleted.


























