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Volusion has had some problems, like completely self-destructing for hours to days at a time depending on which server you were on. In the 2-3 months leading up to mid-november, they must have crashed weekly. It's mostly because they left rackspace for in-house servers and just weren't ready to manage it on their own and things seem OK now, they made it through the Christmas season without so much as a hiccup.
As for the business: That's where I currently am. It's a tough market and unless you can get your hands on the hottest toys and games, you're not going to sell anything fast and even those can crash ridiculously fast. Take those stupid farking Zhu Zhu hamsters for example: October and November I could dump them all day between 55-70 per, in December huge shipments went out to all of the stores and I couldn't move them at 20.
Screenlife is a good place to start with games, they have low minimum orders and their product usually moves pretty well. Is he selling currently on another venue? (Amazon or Ebay)
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