Any one have an Ebay store?

[ronnie]

My wife and her friend will be selling some things they are making. She looked at an Ebay store the other day and noticed they take about 10% in processing/fee's, if she read it right. Which seems out of hand for non-adult products.

But the big question is, are their advantages to having a store that might out-weigh the cost? One being traffic, do the stores get traffic because they are a ebay store? I know when I search for items myself, I've seen stores with related products listed. Or do you have to pay for that? Also, I know some time back they cracked down on external links in auctions, but of course, saying "check out my store" is no problem.

Also wondering if maybe you gain more trust by being an Ebay store? Surfers more likely to buy?

I can put up a shopping cart for them and hook it up to paypal, which wouldn't be much in the way of processing fee's. But maybe you gain more in the long run with the store?

docHolly, did you get traffic just with having a store? Anything else you notice that maybe an advantage for having a store?