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All About MSMO
Main Street Mall Online (MSMO - pronounced Miz-Mo) is a collection of unique virtual mini-malls, each with specific merchandise lines and featuring specialty stores operated by independent sellers. MSMO is built on a concept of experienced sellers providing quality products in a friendly 'small town' style venue with great service and a friendly atmosphere. It is the kind of place we would like to shop. We hope you will too!
Customers do not require a membership, or need to login, in order to make purchases here, nor do they have to provide personal or financial information of any kind to the main site. All transactions are made directly with the sellers, either through the PayPal shopping cart (optional for sellers) or by other means as indicated in the individual seller's listings. Communication between buyers, or potential buyers, and sellers is facilitated through email from the "Contact Seller" button/link in each store and listing. Unlike many other selling sites we don't get involved in, and we don't track, your emails or purchases. You deal directly with the seller(s) of your choice.
Sellers sign up and create their store(s) on the mall(s) of their choice, offering products and/or services matching the product line represented by the theme of the mall in which their store is located. All sellers agree to abide by both the letter and the spirit of our code of conduct. This is a comfortable place for everyone to do business.
Our goal is to bring together buyers and sellers, great products and services, and a friendly, professional, way to conduct business in a small town mall atmosphere, much like the renovated main streets all across America. Main Street Mall Online is a slice of the way things used to be, and perhaps a look into the way they will be again in the future. Whether you are a potential customer, or a seller, we look forward to you experiencing the best MSMO has to offer.
Main Street Mall Online is also a family business, owned and operated by Lora Henry (DBA: Our Hutch). The site was created, and is maintained, by web designer Rev. Stephen B. Henry, PhD. A number of sellers on the site participate in tech support, promotion and marketing, and other services. We are, in many ways, an extended family, working cooperatively together to the success of us all. Sellers are not required to participate in such services, but many do. Those who choose not to are still welcomed and assistance is freely provided for new sellers as they learn their way around the site. Each and every seller is appreciated and supported here more, we believe, than at any other selling venue.
The site is easy to use, for both store owners and customers, but many may find it different than other sites they may already be used to. We understand this. Assistance is gladly provided to any visitors to the site. You can contact the site owners via this contact the owners link that is also found near the top left of most general site pages, or the "contact msmo" links in the top menu on individual store and listing pages. Or you may post in our open discussion forums where you may interact with site owners and sellers. In order to prevent "robot" spam on the forum site, an approved account is required in order to post. You do not have to provide any personal information other than your email address. The forum account is free. Approval is by email and is usually quite prompt.
MSMO is designed in a somewhat unique way to benefit sellers and customers alike. Sellers of well known items like vintage clothing or jewelry will benefit from the specific advertising and promotion efforts of individual sellers and the site as a whole that bring visitors and customers to their broader product lines. People looking for specific things like rings or necklaces will be likely to find what they want in searches using Google, Yahoo, MSN, or others, and visit the seller here. Other sellers with more unusual things that may not be specifically searched for will benefit from those that are and, with malls specializing in general gifts or unusual items, "window shoppers" are going to find unique things, like guitar pick earrings, canvas travel bag sets, or vintage and antique crochet and knitting patterns they might not even think to look for! The multiple merchandise specific malls were created with both the specific "niche market" shopper and the more general "window shopper" in mind.
Started in June of 2006, MSMO continues its steady growth, providing a base from which numerous sellers offer their wares and even more shoppers find wonderful things to buy. Thank you for visiting Main Street Mall Online and please do take the time to look around through our various malls and stores. And we hope you will come back and visit us often.
Lora and Steve,
MSMO Owners.
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