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Your own toy store with LEGO, Hasbro and Mattel, in 10 minutes. Toy Store Clone Review and Bonus: — 44 Comments

  1. In the past, I have mentioned several “Clones” on this blog. You can see them here:

    http://www.georgekatsoudas.com/?s=coolice

    Here are some answers to frequently asked questions, based on feedback I had received:

    1) Toy Store Clone isn’t just a WordPress “theme” or “plugin” – it’s an already-made WordPress Amazon toy store. You get to upload a zip file on your hosting account, and then you set up your site following an easy “wizard” interface.

    2) This is a ready-made store that sells Toys and Games. It cannot be customized to promote products in other niches.

    3) “Unlimited” and “multi-site” isn’t related to “WordPress multisite.” It just means that you can install Toy Store Clone on unlimited domains you own.

    4) You need to have your own domain and hosting account. A domain will cost about $10/year. I use Namecheap.com. Hosting is $5-$10 per month (for probably unlimited sites). I use Hostgator.com. Coolice has a list of 100 domains that will work great in the “Toys & Games” niche, and, if you are quick, you can register one (or more) of them. That domain list basically gives you domain ideas.

    5) It doesn’t matter where you live in the world. You can still promote Amazon products. For example, I live in Greece but I have associate accounts with Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk etc…

    6) The single-site license covers Amazon.com (US locale) only. The other locales are unlocked with the Unlimited version: (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, China, Japan). With that said, you can sell worldwide with both versions. The other locales are there to target other markets with products retrieved specifically from that Amazon locale website. However, Amazon.com ships worldwide anyway.

    7) The unlimited license basically costs $104. But you can pay the $67 as an upgrade, after you pay the $37 for the normal license. So, the way to get the unlimited license is to invest $37+$67=$104 total.

    8) As far as duplicate content goes: Unique content is always the best choice. Ready-made sites are a way to start in this niche for those who don’t want to write any content.

    9) The posts are not drip-fed. They are all available right away.

    10) Several guides are included with your purchase that show you how to promote your Toy Store Clone website.

    11) You get to CHOOSE one of my own bonuses from this page:

    http://www.georgekatsoudas.com/bonuses

    Hope this helps! :-)

    George

  2. I live in the USRM (United Socialist Republic – MAINE). I am not eligible to participate in Amazon because our “government” doesn’t want me to make a living outside of our state…..

    Sorry for the rant. Nice product!

  3. Everything i see that Coolice designs is done with the intention of being complete…………Just jump in turn the key and drive…I like all his clone store designs.

  4. George you have some great plugins and recommendations!

    I have 2 Ques here – good layout for Toy Clone – but, since based on WP –
    can we alter the ordering of any contents?
    1. Ex. – Home page I like, but when go to Top Menu items – or Menu tabs below slider – the category pages display *all the menu tabs* BEFORE the images.
    >> Can we get the images/ slider to always show First, above the tabs??

    2. Can we choose/ suppress, certain categories/ types of products / OR/
    individ. items from the Azon RSS [ API ] so they don’t appear?
    Could we do this either automatic [ from the feed] or in dashboard after
    they are pulled-in to WP?

    • Hi, Jim!

      1. Yes, the slider can be enabled for all pages on the site and always show up on the top.

      2. Yes, you can easily remove certain products, categories or brands that you don’t want to have on your website from the back-end.

      Hope this helps!

      George

  5. Hi George cool offer you have here…. My state won’t allow amazon affiliates . Is there another way to promote this ? thanks .

    • Hi, Defa!

      Yes, ToyStoreClone Unlimited works with Amazon.de (Germany) and retrieves German products. The contents of the posts would be in German as well.

      Hope this helps!

      George

  6. Hi George,

    You said at point 6) The single-site license covers Amazon.com (US locale) only. The other locales are unlocked with the Unlimited version: (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, China, Japan). With that said, you can sell worldwide with both versions. The other locales are there to target other markets with products retrieved specifically from that Amazon locale website. However, Amazon.com ships worldwide anyway.

    But if i use the plugin ‘Amazon Affiliate Link Localizer’ where i put my affiliate IDs of the other countries of Amazon, doesn’t it redirect to the other Amazon countries?

    best regards,
    Marisca

    • Hi, Marisca!

      I haven’t tried the plugin you mention to be honest. If you have used it in the past and it’s reliable, then it should work with Toy Store Clone as well.

      George

  7. I purchased ToyStore clone.
    I’m no coder and was wondering if there are video tutorials to teach how to setup.

  8. Also I was not aware that this was a plugin for WordPress.
    Can it be installed and activated like all plugins

    • Hi, Elliott!

      There are no video tutorials, but there’s a PDF guide with step-by-step instructions…

      Toy Store Clone is not a plugin for WordPress, neither is it installed like one. It’s an already-made WordPress Amazon toy store, that includes a suite of plugins and two themes. You get to upload a zip file on your hosting account, and then you set up your site following an easy “wizard” interface…

      If you contact Coolice, he will set up everything for you for free.

      Hope this helps!

      George

        • Hi George
          Please disregard the previous question.
          Once I thought ToyStore was a plugin I didn’t bother to look for any instructions for upload. I use Godaddy for hosting my sites and I have a primary site hosted with other sites hosted under it. I guess I would just upload both files: importbuddy.php and back up file into my root folder of the site I plan to use. Do I need to use an ftp client or can I just go into my file manager within my control panel.

          • Hi, Elliott!

            That’s correct.

            You can do it either with FTP or cPanel file manager.

            Or, you can just ask Coolice to set it up for you. Free installation is included.

            Hope this helps!

            George

  9. Hi George,
    I am wondering if the title “ToyStoreClone” that shows next to the logo can be changed to the domain name? Or are all these stores that are being set up with this theme going to say “ToyStoreClone” ?

  10. I was also wondering if the content provided is copyrighted, including the videos. Can we use these freely, or are they protected? I don’t want to get into trouble.

    • Hi, Barbara!

      The content come from the Amazon API, which is allowed.

      The videos are just Youtube videos that are embedded in the posts.

      George

  11. Hi George,

    I looked at your demo site and see you have a blog also. Is that built into the Toy Store clone package?

    • Hi, Glenn!

      The blog is mine. I just installed Toy Store Clone in a directory of my site (toy-store-clone-site).

      Hope this helps,

      George

  12. Hi George,

    I also noticed that when you click the Customer Reviews button it redirects to the Amazon page for the reviews. If they order the product by going to Amazon reviews page, do I get the commisions for the sale?

  13. Please disregard my question about content copyrights. Coolice was able to answer for me. You can delete it since it’s not published yet

    • I didn’t do anything, Glenn! :-)

      Toy Store Clone looks like this out of the box. It comes with two themes: a black one and a “silver” (gray) one.

      Hope this helps!

      George

  14. Dear George,

    Can the price gonna be update automatically? without the price shows as date bla bla…
    Because when I use cron job the price still shows same date as above.

    Thx

    • Hi, Suyudi!

      The point of the cron job is to do exactly that: Update the post automatically. You can set the cron job to run daily, weekly etc.

      Please allow a little time for the cron job to run, the very first time you set it up in cpanel.

      All prices are required by Amazon to have the proper timestamp that says “price is so and so as of date so and so.”

      Hope this helps!

      George

  15. Hello George!

    I just purchased ToyStoreClone – Unlimited Version. How do I get Coolice to set it up?

    • Hi, Sal!

      Just email him at the email address that is included at the very top of the INSTALLATION.pdf guide that came with your purchase, and he will take it from there. :-)

      Don’t forget to email me for your bonus as well!

      Thanks!

      George

  16. Hi George you said “This is a ready-made store that sells Toys and Games. It cannot be customized to promote products in other niches”
    can i add products in other niches at the unlimited oto version ?