storesonline.com

Its the worst website ever, they mailed me an invitation to there the internet conference seminar. And when we went there we were treated like animals, they made us sit outside of the hall. some people who were inside the hall were attending the seminar and the people outside for whom they didnt have the seats, they treated them very bad.

it was the most insulting day of my life.

Biggest Pro: storesonline.com

Stores Online Scam-Avoid at All Costs!

Workshop, testimonials and speakers sounded promising, invested over $4000 to open an online business; I understand their pricing plan has been revised since 2005. As a beginner I did not understand the computer language they were referring to; I anticipated full understanding on Stores Online from the 120 + page binder, DVDs & other materials handed out at the workshop.

Inappropriate behavior, sales pressure & false urgency to close deal the day of workshop. Customer service representatives are also confusing & difficult in understanding the multitude of steps to get started.

Approached by affiliates unknowing they were not part of the service I paid for, they where vague & I was 'hooked" into spending more money(another $2000 farther in debt).

File a compliant with WI Dept. of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection; to no avail, Stores Online prevailed. I am currently involved in a class action suit 'Hill: v. StoresOnline, et al. Notice of Proposed Settlement' still pending.

STORESONLINE OF OREM, UT., SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN; THEY PREY ON PEOPLE-I NEVER MADE A DIME! I

Do not have any dealings with storesonline. You will regret it.

I am extremely disappointed/discussed/frustrated/XXX/xxx/etc. in the support that I have received from stores on line. Even as far back as Jan 02 when I joined. The chat line is also useless and the several times that I have used it have produced practically no help. My web site is down and has been since yesterday. Actually it has been down on storesonline since Feb of this year (10 months ago). In Feb 09 my web site went down and I contacted customer support and the response was the problem would be passed on to Engineering..... after two days I decided to upload my web site to another host. My website was back up but it was on surf22.com servers.... my shopping cart was still working properly on storesonline so I left it there. I needed to point my DNS back to stores on line and have found that still 10 months later the same problem still exist. I called support yesterday and talked to Jeff and changed my DNS back to storesonline at that time. Early this morning when the DNS got updated I see the same problem I had 10 months ago still exist. I see just my shopping cart back ground and my logo. Again the web site is down (average sales per day - +/-$650). I have called support about 6 times today and get the same story that engineering is still working on it. Three days passes, engineering is still working the problem (BS). I simply do not believe that anyone that knows what their doing has even looked at it. No one will contact me and I am probably not going to get back on line any time soon. I have in the mean time moved by web site any will continue to use their shopping cart until I can get set up somewhere else. It will be a great day when I can wash my hands of them completely. BIG MISTAKE TO JOIN STORESONLINE OR HAVE ANY DEALINGS WITH THEM IN ANY WAY WHAT SO EVER. You can probably guess that I do not have a very high opinion of storesonline hosting. Sincerely, Wayne Drake

Waste of time and money!

I am a StoresOnline customer. They have been my Website host for almost 2 years. I have had 25 years of computer and internet experience. My business partner has been in the computer business for over 45 years! We thought, even though we knew this was a lot of hype, there was some meat in what they were selling and with our experience could make a go of it. And we knew the only area where we were weak was internet marketing and advertising. PMI quickly came along to fill that gap (so they said).

Our site has been fully operational for just under 2 years. The website management software used by StoresOnline is not very intuitive and takes some practice, even for an experienced HTML/Javascript coder. It is also relatively simplistic with many drawbacks and restrictions. Internet marketing is the most important thing to get your site seen by buyers, and this is where they get you! You can have the most beautiful site in the world, but it is useless if no one will see it.

We trudged on, looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow as promised by the hype. Our site is now fully "optimized" for search engines (independantly tested) and we have a great dropshipper.

Bottom line...If you really want a website, don't go to StoresOnline! Run away from these leaches. StoresOnline and PMI (especially) are the most loathsome and unethical people I have ever dealt with! PMI said they would teach me everything I needed to know about web marketing but their people don't know the first thing about the subject and only make suggestions for you to "try".

All the training you need can be found on the internet for free. Good website hosts are a dime a dozen. Stay away from anything having to do with Storesonline. Don't be stupid like me, save your thousands of dollars for a nice vacation when you get your site up somewhere else.

Biggest Pro: None
Biggest Con: Way too much money and nothing for it. The monthly host fee is reasonable.

SOL Review

I have been hosted by Stores Online for over a year now. Stores Online, I believe, has tried to improve on it's hosting over the years. They have a very robust, strong, selling group that really makes you believe that anyone can have a website online and make money from it. Even though they say a few times that great results are not typical. They are very convincing. As it turns out, it is difficult to get ranked on the search engines using thier hosting, their templates because all that purchase through SOL share the same setup. It is my opinion, The search engines see it as a lot of dupllicate content and the sites need to be much better than the average site to be considered original and credible. SOL is working towards eliminating thier problems and will someday be a much better hosting company than they are at present.