Template Monster and osCommerce
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Loads of people buy Template Monster templates, because they look good. But it's difficult to get support for them as the codebase is hacked beyond belief by the people who TM use to integrate the good looking templates into osCommerce. On the official osCommerce forum, you MIGHT get help, but usually not.
My idea is to set up as a reseller of Template Monster, but my Unique Selling Point will be to also offer upto 1 hour of support time for every purchase. This way, buyers can end up with a decent template, and a small amount of support to get them started. Good idea, or not?
I'm not sure if there are presently ANY osCommerce experts who sell Template Monster designs – do you know of any?
Anyway, if the idea has "legs", then what I would do is set up a quick TM store and a helpdesk, then ask you all to help promote the service 
Would you resell only selected TM templates? The ones that are not hacked up as badly?
Comment by jared call — January 1, 2009 @ 7:13 pm
Jared – it's difficult to know which are not so bad as others…without actually buying them all and then seeing them – which is of course, impossible to do (expensive and time-wise).
Of course, as time goes by, and support is given for templates, it will then be easier to know which are "bad" and which are "good"…
Comment by Gary — January 1, 2009 @ 7:23 pm
I'd probably have 6 customers in the next 6 months for this service.
Comment by jared call — January 2, 2009 @ 2:55 am
I would certainly use this service. I ran into some problems with my own template monster Oscommerce template and had to figure out myself what the problem was (the helpdesk of TM didn't have a clue on how to correct the error).
Comment by Dennis van de Graaf — January 2, 2009 @ 5:25 pm
Well, I guess there is no point in not trying, eh?
So, I set up a quick webpage at http://www.template.me.uk
I'll make a proper blogpost about it tomorrow.
Comment by Gary — January 2, 2009 @ 11:48 pm