If you are not familiar with shopster.com, it is a wonderful business model to create a ecommerce platform. They allow drop shippers and store owners together. Drop shippers can sell items through a number of store fronts. Resellers can create online stores and select products to sell from the catalog of drop shippers. Sellers get commission for selling items. Drop shippers get a number of storefronts to sell their items and hence increased sales. Shopster gets money from BOTH.
Here is a quick video of how the business runs from Shopster.com
If you want to create a store front or you want to locate few sellers to sell items Shopster is great place. But if you want create a market place just like shopster talk to iScripts. We have crated a new version of iScripts MultiCart with multiple vendor, multiple seller support. It’s not yet publicly available. But if you have cool business idea similar to this send me an email, I will send you a live demo. No, we were not trying to create a Shopster clone script. Since Shopster does something similar it’s easier to explain that way. We were trying to create a distributed shopping cart solution with multiple vendor, multiple reseller capability. As usual we can customize this based on your input.
Contact me at abraham(at)iscripts.com

This business model looks like it may be worth checking out. It sound like a pretty simple solution for someone to get an eccomerce business up and running. Thanks for the information,
Comment by Bruce Pockrandt — December 31, 2010 @ 11:57 am