Zen Cart?
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I just went through a month of trying all out the various free options out there... Magento, Zen Cart, OS Commerce, CRE Loaded (yeah those 3 are the same), Cube Cart 3 and 4, Mal's, and a few others.
After testing them all out, Zen Cart was the winner. Once you learn how it's set up, it's not too bad to modify the look. I basically ripped out all the features because I want to use it as a simple cart only.
Magento is slooooooooooooooow. My friend who I host with said it should be fine on his fast servers. Nope, it was just slow loading the Administration and navigating sections, almost like I was on dialup.
CRE Loaded was nice, but without paying for it you're got ads everywhere telling you to upgrade, and they call you wanting to sell more services.
OSCommerce, a proven solution, but ZenCart's modifications were better.
Cube Cart was nice but it lacked a feature or two I was looking for, and it has the annoying feature where it e-mails people when they start the checkout process, then when they complete it. It's a common complaint.
Mal's e-commerce is nice if you want something hosted, but I wanted a well integrated solution.
I still wish there was just a simple cart solution, not a full blow e-commerce store/backend/etc. However, Zen-Cart gets my vote for the time being.
None of them are "easy" to work with :(