Hi. I am planning to build a site to sell aftermarket parts in an automotive category. There will potentially be 4,000 plus parts.
I will be setting up and managing the store. I am not a coder and have no real design skills. I have been in internet marketing for some time, though, so a little better skilled than your average person on the street.
I am looking at aspdotnetstorefront and magento at the moment. aspdotnetstorefront seems very feature rich out of the box, is affordable, and they have a partner that has sells features for the automotive industry (for example a make/model/year search add-on). But I wonder why it doesn’t have a larger user base. You never hear about it …
Also considering Magento. It has a make/model/year ajax search add-on and is extremely extensible. I have heard, however, it has a very difficult back end, custom development is expensive because it is so difficult or arduous, and that it is slow. The paid versions are ridiculously expensive in my opinion. The community version seems very stripped down. I wonder- how many add-ons would I need to run an automotive parts store? But then it seems that everyone loves Magento- certainly is growing …
I would appreciate any advice or input anyone may have. Thank you!