Sell ye therefore @ Multiply

SELL YE THEREFORE AT MULTIPLY

Been on the net since 1994 and have been in most social network, chatrooms and sites that would have at least a handful of my contacts irc rooms, msn, icq, yahoo, hi5, 6 degrees..

I tried and stayed at multiply since it has the easiest album upload back in 2007, life updates were user friendly. I was doing events and projects that I wanted to share then. No facebooks then, friendster and myspace were king..

But the friendster network became unfriendly when the world migrated to facebook, and myspace more for the multimedia artist than for me, multiply has the good mix of friendster's social interaction, flickr's photo album, yahoo's chat interactions with its message boards, tagging, video and more.. has been resilient to pass obsolescence. I maintain other blogsites, a website, fb but still i kept or at least visit my multiply site until now, i still see friends update or mirror update from their main site to multiply but most of the dynamism is brought about by the selling activity in the site. Online catalogs, merchandise displays from the album facility of the site.. these activities have been keeping my interest in multiply then and now. On-line selling has been infused in the multiply vein, hehe talamak even if this activity was a violation of the rules that one clicks as EULA when you open an account. Actually, I have had a good amount of purchases through multiply.

Multiply has not just showed resilience, it is even reinventing itself.

Yesterday, i went to a gathering of hobbyists at the Secret Fresh Gallery at the RONAC Art Center sponsored by multiply. Multiply showed their new arsenal for e-commerce encouraging entrepreneurship for this League of Hobbyist, how to cash in their passion for comics, toy collectibles and artworks by display selling their wares and the rest will follow.

Multiply's updated platform actually compromised their initial EULA in an "if-you-can't-beat-them-join-them" manner. They realized that in South East Asia, heavy on the Philippines, they have the largest unofficial merchant listing, ka-ching ka-ching! They went to them to dialogue, asked for some wish list and made the network buyer and seller friendly.

What's new?
- Secure Multiply backed payment system
- Credit investigation c/o the multiply network
- list of insurance, courier suppliers with good rates and hassle free update
- best for selling interface that thought of ways how to present your wares to the world,
color, size, variations, special features.. super detailed descriptions, near to front side back side close up photo gallery for visual appreciation
- easy steps to open a store
- customer support for both merchant and buyer
- 0% mark-up from multiply until December 2011

Additional side,
It was my first time for me to go to the RONAC/ Secret Fresh gallery. Interesting collectibles and exhibit, coming from a mainstream toy distributor, it was eye candy and a lesson in niche marketing to enjoy the tokidoki, from tv- pop culture- for the big kid toys at the gallery, i want the CARINA. :)