When I was running my PC hardware site. I kept running into walls. Namely what I call a brick and mortar mindset. Out of the 4 distributors, all of them seemed to be stuck in the 70's. They didn't provide hardly any support as far as ecommerce. Their system of operations focused over haggling over prices by phone. They marked up their prices with a very little chance of a profit margin ( Most of the time Neweggs retail prices were cheaper than my wholesale cost). Then of course we get into the problem with product feeds which is the meat and potatoes of ecommerce. All 4 of them had strikes against them. MaLabs didn't provide a simple spreadsheet, no images, etc. Synnex & D&H provided data through 3rd party catalogers, but the data itself contained missing images, poor descriptions and much contained abreviated techno babble, plus it was real expensive for this. ASI distributions had support in csv and xml data, images and good marketing text, however to have complete product data I had to dig through 5 spreadsheets to get all the data on one item. So you can see why I left this madness.

Now to the present. I did a complete 180 degree career change and am now doing Web development. I picked up a few skills through the years and dealing with the ecommerce world I delved into learning Web Development. Ironically I was learned these skills focusing on my ecommerce goal.

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