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Pros
* Allows you to establish your own "real estate" on the Web;
* Allows you to attract a bigger audience; not limited to eBay buyers (not everyone buys on eBay)
* Scaleable as it allows your business to grow;
* Allows you to give more information about your business to your visitors and give them reasons to trust you
* Allows you to give more information about the product, play around with factors that can increase conversion
* Gives you a more professional look
Cons:
* Requires technical know how to create a website (or money to pay someone to do it for you)
* Expensive especially if your website requires special programming
* You have to think how your site will look or hire a web designer to create your website
* Fixed price (price you set is what you get)
* You're basically a "nobody" and you have to build your reputation, brand and traffic from scratch.
* Harder to market and you may need to spend more on advertising.

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Creating a competent website is very important for a small business. I came across a very interesting blog post on importance a competent website for small businesses. You may also find it useful.

• You can design your website according to your own choice to highlight certain item that otherwise may not be possible on eBay.
• You can earn money not only by selling but signing up for different advertising agencies that use your site to advertise on.
• Allows you to build your own brand.

If you are new to website building... you can use a website builder that can help you build a professional looking website.  You can find more information about the website builder here: http://www.rapidweb.com/online-website-builder.php.

If you are experienced in website building.  A website builder can save you a lot of time and effort.  Once the site is up, you can edit the html and css (style sheets).

You can find sample pages made with the website builder here: http://www.rapidweb.com/blog/category/example-sites/

Remember to click on the demo to try it.

Try this site xnynz.com  to build the website

It works
Choose a design
Make it yours
Publish it

Features:
   More than 3,000 design and color combination's 
        Built-In photo album
        Pre-built and ready to go
        Image gallery
        Flash animation
        Sell with PayPal
        Cool stuff 
   
Build your website
    * Choose from our template library, including 3,000+ professional design and color combinations and 120 pre-built websites
    * Add your choice of over 8,700 images (28,000+ with the Premium plan)
    * Pick your theme, color scheme and font
    * Add Flash intros with music, videos and more
    * Publish a "Coming Soon" page in 3 easy steps
    * Share content, add specialty content
    * Make your site .mobi-compatible

Building a website need spend a little long time.

When creating a website I will recommend to start with wordpress like cms software. You need not have to be expert on coding to building website through wordress. I start my website development career with wordpress and then start work with joomla.

Yeah its true having your online website can give you good benefits as of having it free from any third party hosting provider. The most important thing is your ability to make any changes and do experiments and excluding of advertisement from the website which you have to display in free one.

Homestead helps small businesses reach new customers online, so when people search Google and other search engines, they can find you. With our combination of easy-to-use free website building software, affordable web hosting and toll-free customer support, Homestead makes it easy for you to build a website. And once you've created your website, to help your business succeed we can also assist you in increasing your online traffic, sell products and services online and efficiently accept credit card payments.

I started this website for my friends and family because I was tired of seeing them get ripped off when they were creating a web site.  They either paid way too much (and thought it was a good deal!) or got suckered into buying stuff they didn't need.  This was started for them, but I hope you find it helpful too.