Ain't much that's free - except eSeekerz maybe

The title of this post may seem a bit grandiose, but hey, it's almost true. It doesn't cost anything for the air that we breathe, or the sun that shines on us, and I was going to say the water we use - but the latter part isn't true; witness the water companies.

eSeekerz.com, however is free and it's the first social marketplace to be so. What's the catch you might well ask? There isn't one. There is a 20 percent admin charge when you withdraw money that you've made on eSeekerz.com from your account. But this is less of a fee and simply a charge for sustaining the site.

Think about it. With eSeekerz.com you get a free web store, the opportunity to choose from millions of products to put in your store and the ability to earn a commission on each of these products you sell. And all of this doesn't cost you a bean or a pea or a penny or a cent or a paisa or a rupee or a euro. True that.

Look at like this. You open up your web store, in a few nano-seconds, cruise through the ever growing and expansive product database and decide to specialise in jewellery made from the matted hair of a Mongolian Yak or hand crafted products from the blistering deserts of Rajastan, or hand sewn shoes from Roma. 

Your social network friends are intrigued by the items you put in your web store and with a canny eye for their tastes you smile, virtually of course. You start selling, your friends start requesting, for example, silver ankle bracelets from Delhi, and your online endeavour begins to blossom and flourish.

Over the course of tick tocking time you build a nice little pile of money. You decide to plough some of it back into your eSeekerz.com web store by buying and posting your own products and withdraw half of it. You pay the 20 percent admin charge and then howl in dismay at having to part with this wee amount. But think about it. You've built up a sweet online business without putting even a bag of crisps into it. It's cost you nada, nish, nothing. 

And the 20 percent admin charge is used by eSeekerz to build an even bigger and better and fatter and deeper social marketplace where in time you'll be able to buy things like pukka, shiny, chrome on everything, white-wall tyre smartphones from a supplier in the East who's offering you something at the price you'd never get in the West. So don't howl, just think of what you're gaining - for absolutely nothing.