Hi all: Thanks very much for the article. Very informative. I am looking producing an ecommerce website myself to market a meal replacement shake for a direct marketing company I have recently become involved with. I am an charted accountant and have experience customizing excel spreadsheets that I use daily at work, but I have no previous web building experience. I would only be listing aprox 15 different products and just need to capture basic client shipping and billing information that all the sites would do. Ideally it would be important to be able to have videos posted on the ecommerce site for customer information. You will have to excuse my ignorance as I am not sure if all sites can do that or not. I will be building the site and content myself initially to get the store up an running so I would like to use a free or very inexpensive site initially, but I would not be opposed to having the option to upgrading in the future to a paid site with more options such as coupons etc, once we start getting some revenues. I started building the site using vstore.ca yesterday and ran into some uploading issues and then I did a search for reviews and could find very little except one scathing review from a customer that had been using them for 2 years and said his site was often offline and there support was not helpful.

Any input as to the top recommended site in the above list that would meet my basic needs would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance, Sandy