David Fiske Affiliate marketing & web development musings from Fiske Towers

I am not sure about this product I have stumbled across: Build a Niche Store. It's not a new product but it is certainly very interesting.

Basically, you tell it an eBay category number and it creates a set of pages based on live eBay results.
 
I have some reservations about buying it but I also think it looks to be a great piece of software.

For

• A live, self updating niche store that uses the world's best auction site as it's basis.
• A base for rapid development of niche websites.
• Built-in eBay affiliate links
• It seems to integrate well with Google AdSense

Against

• $97 is a lot for something that doesn't generate enough income (though I suppose it will generate as much as the effort I put into it)
• All the demos look identical so I would question it's flexibility

Summary

Using this US coffee demo as an example, the store itself has a PageRank of 0, an Alexa rank less than this site and a WHOIS registration date of April 2006. Now taking my traffic as a basis, I can't imagine this site making stacks of cash, if any from it's eBay listings.

That's concerning.

Some of the demos are different and have a PageRank of 4 and an Alexa ranking of thousands rather than hundreds of thousands.

It comes back to time and money I think. Is $97 too expensive when added to the time I will have to spend developing niche sites? Or is $97 a small amount compared to what I will earn?

Having been stung by some '$97 ClickBank purchases' before, I am hesitant to splash out the cash for Build a Niche Store.

I will contact the chaps behind Build a Niche Store with my concerns and see if they can alleviate my concerns.