Best way to start an online jewelry store
 

I have an small Ebay store that sells cheap jewelry. I would like to start a store on my own VPS and domain to cut out Ebay and their 10%. I am a jack of all trades and master of none when it comes to servers, making web sites and design. What is the easiest shopping cart script to use and set up with Paypal? This is a hobby and not a business, so I would like to keep costs as low as possible. I have tried PrestaShop, but it seems to be much more than I need and too much of a learning curve. Does anyone have any suggestions for a shopping cart script?

You do realize this is a message board to conduct porn business, right? The only jewelry we sell here are hot pearl necklaces.

You should do this:
Get your domain if you don't already have one. Find some cheap shared hosting for like $5/month and have them install wordpress on it. Once you have wordpress just look for a free paypal shopping cart plugin and install that. Take pics of your product and put them up for sale. Now promote the hell out of your product or try other forms of marketing to drive traffic to your site. Easy peasey ;)

Checkout warriorforum.com.

You will keep the eBay store and use it for marketing, and have them come to the other store for subsequent orders, right?

theirs something called Woocommerce, thats supposed to be good.
also check out interviews about NastyGal founder Sophia something. She started out selling vintage on ebay in her early 20s then made her own store and its a 9 figure business now

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Woocommerce and Wordpress are actually very easy to use.

OpenCart is another standalone cart.

If you want to avoid eBay, don't use Magento, as they now own it.

we can help you with your domain and hosting. If you hit me up i can offer you a good deal on your vps, help you setting up your store and offering your domain at a great price.