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Check out TomFolio.com and control your own business.
You can be the owner.
Our members wholly own ABookCoop, the operator of TomFolio.com.
You set policy.
Owner-members of ABookCoop elect the board of directors and vote on
policy.
There are no hidden charges.
TomFolio never has and never will sock you with unannounced fees or
Commissions.
We are independent.
TomFolio will never tell you how to run your business or interfere between
you and your customer.
Searched by Bookfinder.
Your stock shows up on Bookfinder and Froogle for no extra fee.
Code of Ethics.
Dealers must have basic good business standards to join. You will
not be competing with the big highly discounted book warehouse chains.
TomFolio welcomes the rare, unique, and just-good-used-book dealer. All our
dealers follow a clearly posted standard of ethics so your customers always
know they can shop at Tomfolio with confidence.
Owned by Member-Dealers.
TomFolio is not owned by a mysterious, faceless corporation but by
Booksellers like you. Each owner-member has a vote in major issues, can
participate in discussion of ideas and improvements, and can serve on any
number of the various committees that work to improve and promote the site.
TomFolio's policies can never be changed without the input and consent of
its owner-members.
You control the future.
TomFolio can never be sold without your vote. You will never have to worry
that unnamed investors will secretly buy us out.
Co-operative ownership means democracy in decisions.
TomFolio is a proud member of Co-Op America. We are the first
multi-bookseller website to have been organized around the principle of
democracy.
We are Responsive to Problems.
Our dedicated webmaster has shown time and again that technical problems
can and will be fixed, in most cases within minutes of being reported.
You can have your own webpage.
TomFolio provides a free webpage with a choice of three basic templates for layout
and tools to easily change colors and backgrounds.
There are also several display options, such as the option to add up to
15 of your specialty categories to the top of your page.
Shopping cart.
TomFolio's secure shopping cart is accessible through the main site and
through your personal webpage. It calculates shipping either by flat rate
or by specific amounts for single or multiple purchases; you choose which setting.
It will also calculate state sales tax and add it to the total, if you so desire.
Credit Card Processing.
Any TF member can use our merchant account to process Visa, MasterCard, and
American Express payments, regardless of the location of you or your
customer.
Excellent Search Engine.
TomFolio's search engine is inferior to none. It can search by ten major
parameters and also has a loose-tight option and an option to search items
added within the past 24 hours. Each category also has the option to search
within just that category.
Our category system enables comprehensive subject searches.
A first-rate drill down category search system, perfect for those customers
who like to browse their favorite topic or niche, and for dealers to show
off their specialties. The category system is under constant revision and
improvement, in the capable hands of a number of owner-volunteers.
We're constantly improving.
TomFolio's members, organized into several committees, continually work to
improve and promote the site. We are currently beta-testing a wants
matching system. Other recent improvements include quick search on the home
page with advanced search on a separate page, international currency
conversions, On This Day (holidays and events linked to related
categories), and rotating Featured Items with images on the homepage. More
improvements are in the works.
We supply free or low-cost promotional items.
TomFolio offers free promotional bookmarks, and, at a minimal cost,
promotional magnetic car signs.
Sales are good.
Testimonial from Steve Ericson, Books from the Crypt: "TomFolio has
consistently delivered over $10,000 a year for me for the last three years
at a total cost of $510 a year."
Breaking free of the herd.
Joining TomFolio makes it possible for you to step outside the lemming-like rush
to corporate domination. Break free of the herd mentality and its eternal
downward spiral of quality and service and instead take charge of your own
destiny.
Ownership resides with the members.
TomFolio is not for the penny-seller mass-market dealer. We are here for
those who are willing to invest time and money in their OWN business that
they can operate on their OWN terms in dealing with their OWN customers.
There are no creeping fees, no fluctuations.
TomFolio has not changed its fee structure or minimum requirements since it
was launched five years ago. At TomFolio, you will never have to worry
about secret corporate shenanigans, unannounced ownership transfers, or
sudden fee increases that gouge your bottom line.
With TomFolio.com your internet future is in your hands.
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