aarrgghh.. those technical glitches!!

Registered myself with 2checkout.com last sept 12, but till now still unable to sell online from my first website keceramics.com. I expected to automatically see their logo in my e-shopping section a few hours after setting up my account.. but after some enquiries with them, I was told that some things in my existing set-up need to be adjusted and integrated with their systems!!

These are what I don't like.. coz I don't understand anything about technical systems or integrations!! aaarrgghh.. but I immediately forwarded their responses & advices to my web-designer to follow up on this, but it's been more than a week.. mmm.. another thing that I dislike: dependency on others who cannot respond as fast as I wanted them to!! :(


Hey Rosmah? what are you rushing for?? I'm just worried that these little glitches would dampen my spirits and I may take less and less interest to pursue and complete my IT-goals.. I've actually set a time-limit: by the end of 2007 these issues would be resolved and I can start seeing real (sale) results:

1. online selling of my 40-items direct from keceramics.com via 2checkout.com
2. online selling of same products (if I'm allowed to?) through eBay.com (USD-markets)
3. online selling of ke-kualalumpur-GIFTS (giftpack sizes) through eBay.com
4. online selling of ke-FACTORY (bulkier stocks) through eBay.com
5. finally set-up my eBay store after accumulating enough positive feedbacks from eBayers who bought my products from above 2, 3, 4 exercises!! yaayyy..
6. online selling of ke-FACTORY (bulkier stocks) locally through lelong.com.my should these items become problematic to send overseas..

Simple goals, huh?? but not-so-simple setting-up processes.. at least for IT-cluts like me.. :(

I've been an 'alammaya' in eBay since 3rd sept 2007 but I only attempted to list my products for sale last Monday 17th sept. Yes, if you'd like to be a seller to the whole wide world.. you'd have to put your credit card on storage/record with eBay.. which took me a few hours to finalise! Then you'd have to list your product by filling in their product forms whick took me almost one day to complete because I checked out all their guidelines to make sure I'd do everything correctly!!

And as I was about to publish my first listing.. another page came up to suggest that I should also apply for PayPal.. which I agreed to do.. but as I clicked on PayPal.. zoom!! evrything went blank!! I back-paged to find my almost-completed first product listing which I spent almost one day to fill in.. but it was nowhere to be seen!! My streamyx connection suddenly went kaput?? Oh my.. the internet connection did go kaput on me!!!

I was sooo frustrated and disheartened.. and started sms-ing dear hubby to get that former school-friend of him who is now TM's big bos Datuk Abdul Wahid Omar (yes, I'm dropping big names now) to improve and enhance streamyx connection in Bukit Beruntung!! Then almost immediately after that, I went to sleep for 2 straight hours.. merajuk lorr.. :(

These setbacks are draining my energy.. I know these are just small hiccups, but they still drain up my spirits.. When people merajuk.. they'd ignore the issues that are bothering them for a while, a few days.. so yes, I avoided eBay listing for the whole week!! Tak mau kawan with you.. :((((

The truth is: I'm angry with myself!! Where is my patience? my perseverance? Aarrgghh..

ebay, here i come..

I've registered myself yet again into ebay..!! The first time I did it was three years ago, but that account was never activated.. I had goosebumps of the IT-kind then.. I'm still jittery though, but I'm planning to face this head-on!!

I was planning to be known as the 'CeramicDesigner' in my ebay community, but that name was already taken, therefore I've settled for 'AlamMaya' as my ebay user-ID.. Yes, if you bloggers are ebayers as well, and happen to come across 'AlamMaya'.. yes, that'd be me the ceramic designer and manufacturer from Malaysia trying to sell her wares to the rest of the world.. haha.. ;)

I'm nervous, yet very excited.. with my recent jutawan-internet and ebay-business readings that i've shared in my previous posts, you'd think that I'm very money-oriented and aggressively ambitious to make it to the top.. ehh??? But please remember that I'm mostly sanguine and passionate in my ventures, my dears.. I've been sleeping and complacent long enough the past few years, and the important fact of my matter is: I still have my products to sell!!! I'm tied to my products, so to speak.. :(

That's my problem of wanting to be a designer first, instead of a business owner.. I'm still not so business-minded even after having survived this business for 15 years!!! My simple business goals now are to self-sufficiently (and automatically?) maintain the employment of my few loyal staff and our tiny production set-up through the most convenient ways known to me!!! If my products can be sold to the rest of the world by touches of the buttons while I'm still dressed or undressed.. yes please God, make me very, very passionate about these simple goals..

Yes dear God.. please also make me very patient with all the IT-technical glitches I may encounter in these few weeks to come as I set up my ebay-presence..