New Wicked Ricter Skate Shop

[JaeKay L M N O P]

Well after years of thinking how great it would be to own a small online skate shop, I finally made it happen. It's nothing big and nothing pretty, but hopefully with time it can get bigger, better, and more successful. The prices are for the most part very low, and I sacrifice some profit for good prices.

Currently, I have a stock of many of the most popular longboarding products out there. Companies include:

Randal
Tracker
Carver
Abec 11
Bulldog Skates
Kryptonics

After a couple weeks of work and about 2 days of nonstop web designing, the site is up. You can go to my website (www.wickedricter.com) and check it out from there, or just go directly to www.wickedricter.com/store.htm. Any feedback, especially products I should add or remove, prices that are too high, or web design aspects that need improvement, is all VERY appreciated. These things are extremely hard to do without as many opinions as you can get.

Thanks for looking, and if you ever want to buy anything, keep me in mind!

Thanks a lot.

[EBasil]

Hey, I checked it out, it's cool and I sent you a PM.

I forgot a couple of suggestions:
--list a geographic location. Okay, maybe not your parents' address, but at least "Detroit, Michigan" or whatever.
--find one of them shipping calculators you can stick into the site so that folks can figure out what it's gonna cost us to ship ten sets of Randals from Detroit to Talahassee, etc...

8)

[Rustyfriend]

at the bottom is a link entitled store info i think, click that and it shows prices for shipping but i do think that a shipping that is calculated on weight would be nicer :P

[JaeKay L M N O P]

at the bottom is a link entitled store info i think, click that and it shows prices for shipping but i do think that a shipping that is calculated on weight would be nicer :P

I agree. I'm going to look into getting that.

[boot]

hey, i checked out the site today- it looks great as do your decks.
congrats!

[BOMBHILLER]

Congrats, Jae!

I wish you good business!!

Just one thing: on the Krypto's wheel page all pics are from 70mm wheels but some are advertising 76mm, 80mm or 85mm ones!!!

[JaeKay L M N O P]

I corrected the Krypto page and put all of the right images in their places.

Thanks everyone for the feedback!

Coming soon:

Crazy Jason's Deal of the Day! Every day, one item from the shop will be listed at a drastically lowered price. This item will only be the deal of the day for a few days, so you can get a chance to purchase a large variety of items extremely cheap. The Deal of the Day will begin in a few days, and possibly for the first few days there will be multiple deals...

[frank]

went to store. Clicked on trucks. Crashed firefox. I tried 3 times before I gave up.

Good luck, its cool your living out your dream!

[JaeKay L M N O P]

went to store. Clicked on trucks. Crashed firefox. I tried 3 times before I gave up.

Good luck, its cool your living out your dream!

It seems to work ok for me on firefox, except that the spacing is a bit screwed up...I'll have to see what I can do about that.

[JaeKay L M N O P]

Crazy Jason's Deal of the Day is up. First day:

90mm Flywheels for $58.99

For a short time, since the store just opened, I will take a few requests for deal of the day...So send me an email if there's something you'd like a discount on.

[Mile_High_Mark]

Having "boards" in the left-hand frame is confusing, as I though it would take me to the boards section of your store.

Are you warehousing everything on your site?

[frank]

Now if I even try to go to your store my browser crashes. Stupid computers

[JaeKay L M N O P]

Mark:

Nope, I'm not. Lots of it is drop shipping. I think this is a good way to start off.

Frank:

At the moment I'm not really sure what to do about that, but I definitely have to look into how I can make the page compatible with many different browsers.

[Mile_High_Mark]

So how hard was it for you to get an account with RAX/Moteng?

[Mile_High_Mark]

Mark:

Nope, I'm not. Lots of it is drop shipping. I think this is a good way to start off.

Frank:

At the moment I'm not really sure what to do about that, but I definitely have to look into how I can make the page compatible with many different browsers.

Here's some friendly advice... If you're paying extra to drop-ship, you might want to bump up the prices to cover that expense. Otherwise, with the margins you have now, you're basically losing money.

And, does your checkout procedure inform the customers that you don't have the item in stock, and that it's being drop-shipped?

[JaeKay L M N O P]

Mark, pmed.

[JaeKay L M N O P]

My website now says that some items are drop shipped.

[Partyboypowell]

Not trying to burn ya, but have you tried some Carvers ?

[JaeKay L M N O P]

Unfortunately, no I haven't. I've heard they're great, though, and definitely want to try some sometime. I've noticed that not many other stores stock them, so I figured it would be a nice thing to have for sale.

[george]

just bought some 85mm krypto's