You people are looking way to deep into things.
Geodesic has built a fantastic application. I couldn’t even begin to explain how greatful I am for their efforts and devotion to their product.
There support department has even went through the task of answering support questions from my users. Now that’s customer service. The question was about navigating my site, nothing to do with running their software, but they still took the time to give a good response. I will guarantee most companies or people would have simply said, “the program is working right?”.
As far as the Modules, Enterprise has modules too. Their admin is really easy once you get familiar with it. Heck, I modify my pages using Frontpage. All you do is paste a little bit of code on the page, where you want the module to do the magic, and then attach it to that page. Wham, it’s done.
On the inside of Geodesic, they are continually considering feedback. I will guarantee your site will remain, “up-to-date,” with their application. When I first purchased their application, it had half the features it has now. The last conversation I had on their Discussion board was regarding an RSS feed tool. Someone suggested it, they made it, now it needs to put into Beta on someones site.
The people behind Geo will not leave you stuck. I would recommend them to my own Daughter. There is not one thing I could complain about, the people, or what I bought.
I too was considering some other when I purchased Geodesicsolutions Enterprise. The main factors I considered where return on investment, what people really need to market items and a business, and I paid attention to the companies responses to questions.
Esvon, could care less if I purchased their script. As I recall, I sent in an underlying question regarding being left with a purchased script and no support in the future. Esvon wrote back, such is life (<-exact phrase they used), the script is this much, the modules to do what you want is this much. The total was over 1,000.
Several others did not respond for a week. They where really cheap, but do you really want a financial investment where you can’t get support?
Geo did not respond as quickly as Esvon, but they responded shortly following. Their response was the software did everything I wanted, but required a little knowledge with HTML. They told me there was free Email support for one year, and they have a Bulletin Board as well. Heck, I didn’t even try and use the bulletin, they created the account on my behalf.
As far as installing, they personally installed the ap in no-time-at-all. I didn’t need to run some sort of program. I thought that was much more service oriented than, “here is your program, go ahead and get it running”.
I am bothered to read negativity about them. They are one of the few compnaies I have come across who are honost, devoted, and supportive. You just dont find similar companies today. And let me tell you, I sent some far out questions to them I am sure, as I had no knowledge of the internet or writing programs, html, php, javascript. I just had trusty frontpage.
If you are thinking of adding classifieds to your site, take my word for it, Enterprise is the way to go. There are features on there I havn’t even scratched at yet (Ad voting, API, choices of zip radius - state - or custom made (however you want) filters). They just keep going. Additionally, the last I poked around there, the classifieds can be integrated with the Auction Aps too.