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Clone shops

If you've been wandering around online shops in the last few months you might have noticed something odd - clone shops. Completely unrelated vendors using virtually identical web sites, with perhaps just the banner altered. Well, this is because of the revolution that is osCommerce, an open source e-commerce application. While it's great that it gives more power to people to develop their own sites, it's a bit concerning when companies do so little to the default presentation templates. Selpaw, are you listening?