ID one of the sites

hi all -

I'm a newbie so if this is the wrong forum, please forgive

I'm interested in knowing what shopping carts are used on these sites?

1. http://www.a1books.com/
or
http://www.a1books.com/cgi-bin/mktSe...N_ID=755094483

2. http://www.valorebooks.com/

3. http://www.textbookx.com/exchange_de...=9780471056690

4. http://www.bookbyte.com/product.aspx?isbn=0471056693

these sites allow book sellers to list books for sale (similar to amazon's marketplace)

Off the shelf or custom work?

****If custom roughly how much does it cost get something similar developed?

any comments are appreciated.
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The first one looks custom, the 2nd might be something different. The only prebuilt system like what you're talking that I can think of is OS Commerce, which I'm not a big fan of, but if you want to go custom work, if it's just the shopping cart, for decent custom work probably about 400 - 600$, it depends how many features you want built in and how much extra work is needed on the site to incorporate it.

 

thanks for the reply

but oscommerce doesn't offer a marketplace as described above.

So is marketplace hard to implement (meaning if i need a cart with a marketplace would this be considered to be a big project)?

thanks

 

It's large enough it would take several hours minimum, it isn't just a few lines that you'd have to add in.

 

Try X-Cart. It's a pretty good commercial system with a number of good plugins that might do what you need.