Fillz adds support for Play.com

[amy]

FillZ is forging ahead with our expansion into the European market in an effort to increase your international exposure. We are pleased to announce the launch of Play.com, our sixth international marketplace.

Play.com is the UK's favourite entertainment retailer and was founded in 1998 by internet entrepreneurs Richard Goulding and Simon Perree. Play.com offers a huge selection of DVDs, CDs, games, books, electronics and posters and is the UK's third most visited online retailer with more than 6 million customers in over thirty countries.

With the addition of a new marketplace always comes a great promotion and this is no exception. FillZ and Play.com have collaborated to offer a special deal exclusive to FillZ sellers:
# Pay no monthly subscription fees on Play.com until September 30, 2008
# FillZ fees for Play.com orders placed before June 30, 2008 will be reimbursed
# Only pay PlayTrade commission fees when you sell - 10% per item ordered

[bargainbloodhound]

Play's mandatory free shipping rules the site out for most US based media sellers. 

[mandy]

Scot Wingo's eBaystrategies blog has an article on Play.com

Luke revealed some interesting elements of PlayTrade:

    * Play was started in 1998, by some Jersey boys (and not the Bruce Springsteen variety)
    * Play is the third largest online retailer in the UK, second only behind eBay and Amazon
    * They enjoy 7.6m registered users, of which 3m were active in the last year.
    * They did approx £340m in sales (that's like a zillion $ US with the current weakness in the dollar ;-) )
    * They are primarily a media seller (book/music/video/games)
    * They soft-launched third party in 2006 and then really opened it up in Q107
    * GMS is in the tens of millions of £ in the first years
    * 10 sellers or more are projected to do over £1m turn over

Play believes they offer merchants the following benefits:

    * Bring customers to the site - play.com will spend over £8m to bring customers
    * Strong IT infrastructure
    * Every claim is reviewed by a human to protect the seller - they have merchant-oriented dispute resolution
    * Every ProTrader is given an account manager - so lots of relationship/human touch...

full article: http://ebaystrategies.blogs.com/ebay_str...art-o.html