A group of people bought a bunch of my products online and overseas using stolen credit cards, now I see them listed on eBay. What can I do? Entrepreneur |
- A group of people bought a bunch of my products online and overseas using stolen credit cards, now I see them listed on eBay. What can I do?
- Hi reddit entrepreneurs, I just completed my manual on service branding. Would appreciate any feedback from this sub. [Link inside]
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| Posted: 04 Feb 2018 07:04 AM PST Hi I would really appreciate some advice, but I will be keeping it a little vague on identifiable details because I'm still figuring out next steps without alerting the other parties, but my situation will still be explained in relative detail. I run a small business selling physical products on the internet, and have done so for awhile. Recently I signed up with an alternative online payment processor besides PayPal, and for a couple months things seem to be going great. However, in December last year I received an uptick in orders for my product (priced at USD$900-ish each), and was of the impression that it being Christmas season was the cause for the increased sales. I fulfilled the orders within a week of these purchases, and sent them out to my "customers". Within 2-3 days of the last of the items being shipped, however, I received a series of emails from my new payment processor that informed me that these purchase were made with stolen credit cards. From there, chargebacks to these purchases started coming in in the next couple weeks. I received a total of 7 chargebacks totaling close to USD$8,000 in the span of two weeks. As the purchases were international shipments to the UK (my business is not based remotely near the UK), it was impossible for me to claw back my products, most of which had been received and signed for by the "purchaser" in the UK. I also attempted to dispute the charges, but none of the disputes ended in my favor. About a week later, I discovered that my products were listed on eBay.co.uk as "brand new and genuine" from three sellers using the same descriptions and product pictures (even the title was consistently wrong in spelling). Coincidentally the number of listings on eBay equaled the number of disputed products I shipped out, and the time delay on the listings were also fairly consistent (1-2 days after shipper delivered the items). This obviously raised red flags for me, and I made a report to Action Fraud UK (apparently the centralized body to handle online fraud and scam cases?) in the first week of January 2018, but have not heard back since. Is there anything else I can do with regards to this matter? Ideally I would want to be able to recover my products, and it would be really easy to identify them because they all have unique serial numbers that can be easily checked. If that is not possible, I would want to at least be able to bring a case against the eBay sellers, as it was not just my products that were being sold under their accounts, but many other "brand new and genuine" products as well. Would appreciate some advice given my situation as a non-UK seller shipping items to the UK, and falling victim to a cross border fraud case. Thanks in advance, and I'd be happy to provide more information in the comments if needed. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2018 03:25 AM PST Hi reddit entrepreneurs,
I'm not here to make a sales pitch.
I don't want your email address either.
I'm a brand copywriter and persuasion marketer, and I've just completed revising my brief manual on service branding principles.
I just wanted to leave a direct link to my manual:
https://misterpajamas.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Perceived.Confidence.pdf
Please feel free to read it. If you find any value in it whatsoever, I'd appreciate some feedback so I can continue to improve it.
That's it. Thanks for reading.
edit: Edited link for corrected version. [link] [comments]  |
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| Students/New Entrepreneurs --- What would you want from a guest lecturer? Posted: 04 Feb 2018 01:56 PM PST I'm doing a guest lecture @ a local uni on entrepreneurship. Not really sure what to do for topics. I want to make the information very applicable for the students. Ideas so far:
Any other ideas? [link] [comments]  |
| Why Enterprises Buy Other Businesses Posted: 04 Feb 2018 12:55 PM PST I was talking with Adam Herscher about some fun and bold predictions for huge buyouts in 2018. Adam made a video giving some incredible insight on why enterprises purchase different companies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJZ1Fq4_D08&feature=youtu.be&t=5m14s Adam breaks down acquisitions into the following categories: * Talent: Small low cost acquisitions where the company is bought before it scales. * Product Gap: Purchased to fill a product or functionality gap. * Revenue Drivers: Acquisition where the buyer expects increased revenue while being able to cut costs by merging the expenses of the two companies. * Competitive: An organization buys a competitor. John D. Rockefeller's style! * Defensive: An organization buys another organization to stop a competitor from purchasing the business. (Watch the video for a better explanation of the types of acquisitions) Adam's initial 'bold predictions' that started the conversation: https://medium.com/@adamjh/a-few-long-shot-predictions-for-2018-d1586ab9162e My follow up thoughts and questions: https://medium.com/@gruberjl/these-are-some-bold-predictions-5a3e80190884 What are your thoughts on acquisitions? Share some bold predictions that will disrupt business in 2018! [link] [comments]  |
| New to ecommerce, couple questions etc Posted: 04 Feb 2018 12:30 PM PST Hi, would love some input if anyone has a minute. I've been reading this sub and other sites and ecommerce and selling a product on Facebook seems the place to be and I'm going to try my hand at it. I know a little about FB ads but it's the product side I have a few questions about. I looked on aliexpress for a product I think would sell well for a specific audience and it's listed at $19. I think I could sell for £20 in the UK so after shipping I'm pretty much breaking even, and that's excluding ad costs. However when I look on alibaba I see the same product listed for $2-3 with minimum orders of 1k units. I'm guessing I'll have to pay some sort of import tax on top? Either way I think this would be the best option? I'm not sure how people are profitable using dropshipping, I assume it's just finding the right product but would love input on this. My plan is to set up a shopify store (or click funnels, has anyone had experience with them?) and make the page for the product and promote it through FB and dropship at a loss for proof of concept make sure there's an interest, then I can look at importing. I'm not sure if I'm over simplifying things and missing a lot but would greatly appreciate any input. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2018 12:29 PM PST tl;dr Created shopify store and need feedback on getting traffic and ways to improve. My Store I am a college student and spent this past weekend researching ways to build a business when I came across shopify. I spent all day Saturday setting up this store based on videos I watched on Youtube. Any feedback would be appreciated as well as any tips on how to market to get traffic through my site. [link] [comments]  |
| Response time for flyers/direct mail? Posted: 04 Feb 2018 06:31 AM PST I put about 300 flyers in the mail for a Tutoring business about 3-4 days ago and haven't gotten any responses. Is this normal or should I change something? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2018 04:30 AM PST I spent $50 at shoutcart and it generated me less than 200 clicks on my website. Now, this might be because I chose bad products to market, but I feel like most of the influencers on shoutcart are overpriced. Am I wrong? How much should you pay for a 220k followers, 10h shoutout with link in bio, generally? Is it worth looking for influencers yourself instead of turning to services like this? [link] [comments]  |
| What shift is best to work while building your business? Posted: 04 Feb 2018 11:59 AM PST I have the option of any shift. I want to do 1st but I hate waking up early. After that I'd probably do 3rd but don't know if I Id be able to get in a routine of working then working on my business. Any advice? [link] [comments]  |
| Is the book Crushing It! worth a read? Posted: 04 Feb 2018 11:49 AM PST Thinking about picking it up but want your all opinions on it. [link] [comments]  |
| Making a product out of plastic. Posted: 04 Feb 2018 11:45 AM PST If you are making a custom part out of plastic and want to have it manufactured will you always need to purchase a new mold? How does this work and what are the cost. Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| What can I do to increase revenue? Posted: 04 Feb 2018 11:42 AM PST I'm very inexperienced, I'm 18 years old and starting to make decent money from YouTube, I also created a magazine/blog type website, it now has google adsense ads placed on it. My YouTube isn't huge, it's a small channel with 1.3K subscribers and 1,000+ views per day on average. The website isn't making anything yet due to it not having much content on it, but with my YouTube growing I'm hoping that passes on to the website. Is there anything else I could potentially do to increase revenue? I'm clueless on what to go for next or should i just focus on my youtube? [link] [comments]  |
| build facebook audience this way...does it work? Posted: 04 Feb 2018 11:14 AM PST Hey guys, have anyone ever tried to create custom audience from names, last names and cities? how much it efficiently? i know these info from my competitors and i want to create custom audience from them in order to create lookalike audience. Will it be working? [link] [comments]  |
| Can you sell a business that has zero revenue? Posted: 04 Feb 2018 11:14 AM PST From my understanding revenue is the biggest factor in business valuation but at the end of the day the business is worth whatever people are willing to pay for it. So lets say I have a growing business with respect to B2B relations but it's not yet open to the public which is supposed to be the main revenue source is the company still valuable? I think there is value in business models, their associated risk, hype (see Snap.), and industry growth trends. An I right or am I missing something? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2018 11:07 AM PST i have a business idea and want to buy a domain i have searched for the name and only found a Facebook page with the name and there's a website link that doesn't seem to work , my question is would i be able to purchase the domain and and create my own Facebook page without getting into legal trouble? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2018 11:00 AM PST Hi I am sure others would have made the same decision at some point in their businesses or may be they had a team that made this decision. Basically I am working in a startup along side some others. When I joined, I was insistent on taking our content to another level. The written content on the website was just meh and the photos were appalling to say the least. I being a hobbyist photographer changed this quickly, also learnt lightroom and I can confidently say that in terms of pictures of products and just generally photos on our website, we are now better than 99.99% of other brands in this market. We regularly get appreciative comments on that actually. Btw the start up is all about women's accessories (clothing related) in a niche market in UK. Now here is the thing, I have always wanted to move to Videography too. However I am a bit on the fence at the moment. On one hand, the geek :P inside me wants to get a nice Sony or Lumix cameras and just go for it while in my spare time I learn about video editing using Pro. Given my experience with lightroom and PS, I know that i should be able to learn the basics easily within a week but mastering obviously is a different ball game altogether. I want to take the step into this World but what's holding me back yet are two things: Financial and Time Costs. It will cost us a quite a bit to get everything set up, camera is just one cost, travelling, other equipment are other costs but more importantly it's the time spent that I am more worried about. Will it be worth the ROI! The thing is as with most women's market, the profit margins are not huge since the products are quite cheap unlike say the electronics market where a gadget could easily sell for £400+ with profit margins of 20% or more whereas in our case our average product cost lies around £10 mark with almost 3-5 quid profit. I can share the average order value if that is helpful...we have a considerable social media presence but we hardly get sales through it. G is however very profitable for us. I would like your opinion on when you or your business decided to take the plunge into the World of videography and what factored in that decision and what would you advise someone in my situation? Thank you :) Edit: Most of our customers find us via G. We have worked very hard on SEO and our customer service (in the words of our customers) is miles ahead of the others. We have been working on our social media and in terms of followers it has been doing really well but for some reason they don't convert. From my research/experience it tells me that social media visitors don't necessarily but it does play a major role in 'assisted-conversion'. But so far we have only done our pictures and just our blog content and not a single video on any of our channels [link] [comments]  |
| Tips on growing an instagram account? Posted: 04 Feb 2018 10:57 AM PST So I recently started up an Instagram account, which I plan to use for business in the future, which is based around fashion, specifically the streetwear/sneaker niche. I'm having trouble gaining followers, and I post 3 times a day. I go on popular hashtags pertaining to my niche and like and follow people, but I can't seem to get my followers where I want it. Is this something that just takes time to build and I should wait it out or should I seek making this easier? Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| I need some advise on how to scale my business! Posted: 04 Feb 2018 10:50 AM PST Hey guys and gals, I run an in home tech company where I mainly teach seniors how to use different forms of social media, home automation etc. I've only been doing this for 2 months and didn't really plan on starting a business with it. Since starting helping customers I've had so many referalls I think I could make a go at this part time. I work full time and live in Canada. Do I now need to go get a business license? What is the best way for a small time guy like me to take payments in customers homes? Any advise would be greatly appreciated. Cheers. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2018 06:30 AM PST So I have a very small web application that automates things for my customers. I charge monthly (SaaS). Currently I am the business and one of my biggest fears right now is losing everything because I am the single point of failure. If I had to leave my business for two weeks would I still have a business when I get back? Maybe. What about a month? Probably not. These questions I got from this video (https://youtu.be/NkwosgdOtyE) and I'm looking for ways to protect my business in case of my absence. I'm worried about giving up control to someone I don't know, especially of my code. I've used Upwork a couple of times for a different endeavor and found people stealing designs for their portfolio so that worries me. So have you outsourced portions of your business successfully? If so how did you do it and what are some tips you could share? [link] [comments]  |
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| Why did your business succeed than your competitors? Posted: 04 Feb 2018 04:15 AM PST |
| Is Content Marketing a Waste of Time & Money or Not? [Case Study] Posted: 04 Feb 2018 05:50 AM PST Found this article from Unbounce, it's probably one of the best and most detailed case study made on content marketing. I'm not affiliated with them in anyway, just sharing it with the community. [link] [comments]  |
| High-ish volume cc/debit processing Posted: 04 Feb 2018 09:26 AM PST I'm writing an app for a small company that will let them serve about 4x their current customers by letting the customers do their own orders. This is a route delivery company that serves convenience stores. They will do about $60,000/week using the self service ordering app I'm writing. I have several other apps that I do Stripe integration with, and it's super simple but 2.9%+.30 per transaction is going to hurt a bit since it's a thin margin high volume business. Does anyone use any pure gateway processors, and if so, what are your thoughts? These guys don't need any physical terminals, etc. they just need to process payments in my app remotely, and preferably using card info stored at the payment gateway. [link] [comments]  |
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