Selling [WTS] Turnkey Pet Supply eCommerce Website. 15,000 products - One of a kind opportuni

Up for sale is SimplyPetSupplies.com. This is a turnkey pet supply eCommerce website that is currently pre-loaded with over 15,000 SKUs.

I owned a large online pet supply eCommerce company and a couple years ago it was acquired by another company. I have a bunch of pet supply domains we were going to develop into new stores at one point, but never did since we got out of the business. I have decided to sell these domains as turnkey stores along with our great vendor relations and lend my experience to give someone the opportunity to start a legitimate ecommerce business. The pet market is growing by leaps and bounds online!

The site is currently using the instantestore.com hosted shopping cart software. As someone that has used or tested a large majority of the shopping cart platforms out there I highly recommend using these guys. The cost is only $49.97 a month for unlimited products and great tech support. Not to mention the cart has every feature imaginable. The site has a custom designed logo, but we just have a template design on the site right now, so the buyer can customize the site how they want. You can have a nice custom design done for $400 through the design company instantestore.com uses for their clients if you want; otherwise they have hundreds of free template that are highly customizable. As mentioned the store is populated with 15,000 pet supplies. This originally took us a very long time because we had to edit each products title and descriptions to make them more eCommerce friendly. Please factor this in if you are interested in purchasing this. It took me nearly a month full time to get this product database to where it is, but still has room for improvement. You would have to do this yourself otherwise as the datafeed from the distributor is not ecommerce friendly at all. We also had the tech guys at Instantestore.com develop us an inventory module that updates the inventory from the warehouse to our sites. We paid a little over $1,000 to have this developed and we will make sure the module is integrated into the site so you don’t need to develop this and worry about out of stock items selling, etc. (however please note that we still own this module and can use it on other stores we may launch in the future)

What comes with the sale?

Domain: SimplyPetSupplies.com (roughly 2.5 years old)

Product Database: The edited and optimized product database in CSV format and preloaded into the store.

Inventory Module: Use of the inventory module we developed.

Logo: This is a custom logo designed for this site.

Vendor Relationship: This is where the value of this sale comes from. We have had a great relationship with one of the largest pet supply distributors in the country that ships our orders direct to customer. This is not some small “drop shipper” that thousands of ecommerce sites online use. They are the real deal. You will be paying below dealer wholesale prices on products through them and they have a very efficient direct-to-consumer program set up.

You will need decent credit to get an account with them though. Otherwise you can have someone cosign that has good credit also. This is not the type of company that allows you to put each order on a credit card. You need to have credit terms with them and they invoice you once a month for the inventory you buy. This shows how big and legit they are.



The distributor has been in business for many, many years and currently stock around 30,000 SKUs including pet supplies, equine, farm, wild bird, pond, etc. products. (Room for growth past the pet segment) Many big companies use them including QVC.com.

Consulting: I will give you 6 months of internet marketing and eCommerce consulting if you need it via email or IM.

First $500 takes it! I accept PayPal only.



Any questions, just ask!

 

Do you have to stay with instandestore?

 

No, you can use whatever shopping cart you want. I can send over the product database, vendor info and logo to the winner so they can use whatever cart they want. I have canceled the hosting on this store, so the site will be down by the end of the month. Let me know if you are interested via PM.

 

wow you are serious about getting out. so how many hours per week do you think it took to maintain the stores properly? and how many domains or sites is going with the sale? and is each store/site targeting different segments of the pet supply business. thank you for your time.
michele

 

I am not really serious about getting out. I just happen to have some extra domains and thought I would see if anyone was interested in buying a store. Its been a couple months and I have had no interest - so instead of paying hosting, i would rather just shut it down. I have no need to sell it nor do i need the money, but am not going to waste my time selling it and giving away a lot of value and services for less than $500.

You keep mentioning stores (plural) -- This is only one turnkey store/domain. It doesn't have any traffic or customers, but it wouldn't take more than few hours a week to run to start off with.

This store targets all the segments of the pet supply business. Of course you could launch other stores once you have the supplier relationship.

Let me know if you have anymore questions or if you are interested. As mentioned, the store will be shut down at the end of the week (april 25) otherwise.

 

Hi I was reading your description adn I got the idea that you had multiple domains you were transfering along with the main site. sorry if I misunderstood you. So you are wanting 500 dollars for each domain. Now I get it. I just thought it would be a profitable concept to have multiple stores all pointing to your main site but each site could cater to a different market: parrots; dogs, cats. you see what I mean. So you are only selling the one domain. Ok sorry for taking up your time.

Thank you for your time,

Michele