Facebook selling app

[lancashirelass]

Does anybody know how to add an app for selling items on Facebook.

I have had a company calling me all day today to try and get me to have an app on Facebook for selling stuff. I have attached the links they sent me for someone to have a look at what I mean, I would think this is possible to do myself without the means of paying £199.

Here are the links

http://apps.facebook.com/simplyfrench/
http://apps.facebook.com/bueglestores/bonkersibiza
http://apps.facebook.com/crafterscorner/
http://apps.facebook.com/sparklers-jewellery/
http://apps.facebook.com/fun-decor-uk/
https://apps.facebook.com/japspeed
http://apps.facebook.com/styleenvironments
http://apps.facebook.com/fun-decor-uk/
http://apps.facebook.com/armyandworkwear/
http://apps.facebook.com/UtopiaGifts/

 

[Ruth Mills]

Aha, they have used a Facebook app to embed an iframe of an online shop site... it should be possible to do this with any online shop site by creating a suitable Facebook application to do so, although, knowing Facebook, it's probably not especially straightforward (it always takes me a while to get my head around the way that Facebook tend to do things)...

 

[lancashirelass]

I wouldn't like to tell you how many times this company have rang me about fifteen times on salon number on mobile then sale then mobile, jeez it's madness.

 

[Ruth Mills]

Ah well, it looks like they've just got a fairly generic PHP-based shopping cart system which they have integrated with a Facebook app... what are their ongoing charges incidentally? Is the £199 just a setup charge?

It would seem silly to miss the chance of coding something similar which could be offered for less money and no hard sell...

 

[Ruth Mills]

Somewhat odd spelling of the company's name too... "Buegle"... as in "Bugle" (the musical instrument)... but the TV presenter Michael Buerk's name was always pronounced like "burk" - meaning that the pronunciation of that company's name would probably be more akin to "burgle" rather than "bugle"...

 

[lancashirelass]

I have emailed them and told them I am not bothered, they said it was £199 and that was it