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Hi James,

Late reply but I've been too busy to catch up with [_] lately.

I think you will find that the off-the-shelf solutions are aimed
almost entirely at "bulk market" i.e small stores with low website
build budgets - Its really easy to understand why, since they are all
marketed products or OS projects.

Competitive online stores owe their "edge" to their system and
completion process almost as much as their prices and products (in the
same way that service is important in stores) - So these systems are
usually developed bespoke and its hard for a software product solution
to break that market.

We've put together our own e-commerce base engine so that we can
supply these sort of solutions for clients, and I am sure a few other
companies here on [_] have done exactly the same thing or have had to
heavily customise existing OS packages.

By the sounds of it a bespoke solution is likely to be the only answer
at the moment for something that can adapt to all your specific needs
- but if someone has built the base system ready for adaptation or is
accustomed to an existing package you wouldn't need to be paying for
build from scratch.

-Stu