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Ordering coffees from around the world, online

nitsuj — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:17:00 -0800

I enjoy drinking coffee from various regions. Is there a good online resource for A) determining good coffees from various regions and B) ordering said coffees online? For instance, I enjoy drinking Community Coffee from the New Orleans/Southern Louisiana region, and pick it up anytime I see it. But this doesn't happen often, so I end up buying whatever Coffee X that is available at my local grocer.

-What are some other good regional coffees?
-Where can I order them online?

Some notes: I don't like flavored coffee; no hazelnuts or vanilla flavors, please. I have a grinder, so I'd like to buy full bean if possible.

What's a good easy to use online store builder?

hoverboards don't work on water — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:33:14 -0800

My cousin and her husband would like to set up an online store for selling childrens' clothes, shoes, etc.. They are based in the UK and have very minimal technical know-how. Yahoo's "Merchant Solutions" (here) looks ideal, but it's not clear how suitable it would be for someone outside the US. Is it? Or is there a UK equivalent that anyone could recommend?

Looking for examples of GREAT product detail pages on ecommerce sites...

rschroed — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:03:00 -0800

Looking for examples of GREAT product detail pages on ecommerce sites... I'm designing my first ecommerce site and I'm on the lookout for examples of great product detail pages. (start backwards!) Not so much amazon, ebay, more defunker.com, threadless.com, 2modern.

Web 2.0 is slow to catch up with ecommerce and it seems like so many sites hide the important stuff, "price" "add to cart", have small product images, etc. WHY?!

No AmEx for p9rn sites. Good or bad for business?

matteo — Mon, 09 May 2005 17:48:50 -0800

Five years ago almost to the day, American Express decided to no longer cover credit card transactions from p9rn sites, claiming that business with such sites carried unacceptably high incidence of disputes about transactions.. Other credit card companies decided not to, ahem, pull out. Today, the AmEx decision still stands. After five years, can we say that American Express got... stiffed? Or were they right in the first place and the other companies got... screwed?

We're looking for a good online store system that is easy to setup and cheap to run.

trbrts — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:23:29 -0800

So after 25 years in the computer biz, my dad goes out and buys an organic cattle farm in central Virginia. Now, he's buying a slaughterhouse and is starting his own brand of organic, grass fed, really tasty beef. So, he needs an online store. We're looking for a good online store system that is easy to setup and cheap to run. I've set up Yahoo Stores before, is there anything better out there? What are your experiences in out of the box online commerce solutions?