JessesGadgets.com is profitable!

I'd like to take this opportunity to announce that JessesGadgets.com is profitable. After a few sales recently I've covered all of the overhead of this operation. By overhead I mean web hosting fees. Everything else for the rest of 2007 is pure profit.
How did this happen in under three months? I'd like to thank Froogle and Google Base for listing my items and Google AdWords for generating impressions of my products to customers in Colorado, Arkansas and beyond. Revenue targets for the summer are pretty high but I'm confident JessesGadgets will exceed them given the extremely high demand and limited supply of Yankees tickets.
What does this prove? Well...it proves a few things. Most importantly it proves that the market for selling used products online is FAR from saturated thanks to Web 2.0 products like Google Base and Froogle. Why would anyone pay to list their items on Ebay when Froogle offers so many different ways to list them for free? Now that Google Checkout is catching on with Froogle customers and merchants I would be very worried if I were Ebay!

JessesGadgets.com update: Listings searchable in Froogle and Google Base

Last night I switched over from Google Checkout sandbox and went live with JessesGadgets.com. I also listed my items on Froogle and Google Base. Check out the JessesGadgets store listings:

Froogle

Google Base

Jesse's Gadgets Ready for Production

I made a few touch-ups to the checkout process and the Blogger feed and now JessesGadgets.com is ready for production. I changed the customer experience slightly to a smoother checkout process. I'm basing my changes on the assumption that each user is only looking to purchase one item at a time. After an item is added to the shopping cart the user is redirected a page which lists the items in the shopping cart. The user can either checkout (using Google Checkout) or continue shopping. I was able to get this functionality working using forms that posts hidden values to a php page which updates the shopping cart. I also added some text next to the "View Cart" link on the main page which shows the # of items currently in the shopping cart. This week I'm going to delete all of my test data and load some "real" gadgets that we're going to sell. Once I do this I'll switch out of the Google Checkout Sandbox environment into production. At that point JessesGadget items should be searchable in Froogle (and Google Base once I add them.)