Sam's Club (wal-mart owned) starts selling websites
 

Wal-Mart-owned warehouse chain Sam's Club is now offering low-cost Web sites for its members, which are mostly small businesses. The move has implications for the growth of local search.

The company now offers a basic Web site, domain name and e-mail address for as little as $5 a month, or $50 a year. Sam's Club members go online to set up a Web site for the basic $5 fee, which includes domain registration and setup. Free phone online technical support is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.



http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3362801

wtf.....

just what we all need, god knows when i go to sams to get a case of ketchup i'm thinking to myself "fuck me, if sams had websites my life would be complete!"

:(

will they host adult ? :1orglaugh

That's too funny :1orglaugh

i really dont understand why a little old lady, or even my mom at that, would need a website?

only thing i can see that Sam's would offer a website for would be resellers for Sam's.


well being that their membership costs like 50-100bucks a year, maybe they are throwing the website offer in the air tempting people to signup to their membership.. who knows :glugglug

:1orglaugh

no, but a lot of businesses buy bulk from sams, and a lot of businesses dont have websites. Sams is smart for capitalizing on this.

Hehehe well, i guess now Wal Mart does sell everything

i really dont understand why a little old lady, or even my mom at that, would need a website?


Granny porn.
Its big biz.

everybody wants a family website and #1 listing on google!

Why not? I've been doing small business sites for people locally for awhile now and it's easy money. You'd be surprised at the number of small biz places that would love to have a site and will jump at the chance if they have someone to do it for them or walk them through it step by step.

Most of the people I've dealt with want someone to do everything- hosting, domain, setting it up, updates, etc. But a lot of places probably have at least one employee who would be functional enough to set up some easy BS like this.

There's probably some kind of easy add-on shopping cart/payment deal that Sam's is profiting from, as well. Or once they get it set up, they find out they can only sell Sam's products and there's an extra fee for everything else. :1orglaugh

You have to have a "membership" to shop at Sam's. It's supposed to be a discount club, or something. You can do it privately now, but businesses get discounts and they can purchase a deal where all their employees are automatically members, for free. I know it sounds kind of weird, but there are lots of businesses that buy the club deals and give them out to employees. I guess they're targeting those groups.

In the past, I think you had to be part of a group like that to even shop there. They wouldn't let people just walk in off the street and shop. They still won't now, but at least they will let you do a membership without being a part of any group.

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So so sad. What will they sell next? Used cars?

Great Idea. The company that brought that to Sams is going to make millions!

free hosting if you buy a walmart turnkey paysite!

$5 bucks a website

i love it.

you get what you pay for.

the people who that will appeal to will be morons and not someone that has half a clue.

walmart and sams are becoming a monopoly on everything

Is that for mainstream sites only??

off-topic, but that reminds me of the best URL ever:
whorehouse.com - if I wouldn't be a poor student, I bought it within 2 seconds...

no, it means more renegade websites
when I first got into website design, about 80% of my clientele had shitty websites their brother-in-law's neighbor's husabnd built and they wanted "real websites"

this is a good opportunity for small web development firms...

as long as they dont break into the porn industry we'll be safe :thumbsup

Be careful what you wish for... :)

Thanks for reminding me. I gotta learn more about local search :thumbsup

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

:thumbsup

I was so tired of those bullshit improve my wife's website jobs, it got to the point that I kept telling people you can't put a shine on a turd.

Didn't win me too many jobs, but I am sure it saved me a number of headaches. :1orglaugh

You know, if Wal-Mart and McDonalds ever merge, they will end up ruling the world.:BangBang:

There is a mc d in every walmart around us ;-)