Looking for GetEstore.com Store Owners

Hi,

I recently purchased a GetEstore.com online store. It seemed like a great idea at the time to start making money, but now, I am having second thoughts about the integrity of the company.

Firstly, nobody ever responds to my emails. I'm beginning to think that all the emails go into a black hole somewhere.

Secondly, nobody ever picks up the phone. I always get the voicemail greeting, and then I am notified that the voicemail box is full. There doesn't seem to be any way to contact them!

Thirdly, as I become more concerned, I started doing some research online by typing in 'GetEstore scam' on Google, which is something I should have done prior to getting the store. Wowserz, were there a lot of results! There were claims that items are not sent, and checks were not mailed.

Lastly, as I had recently sold a few products on eBay, and when I visited my store to purchase the items, I was shocked to find out that the product I had sold has been marked 'Out of Stock' and 'Discontinued.' I realize that this happens, but with 7 day auctions and 60 day sale periods, how can you predict when a product is no longer available?

I have also made a few sales elsewhere. As I had already purchased the items through the website, I am now concerned that the products will not be shipped. Also, when I made the purchase, my billing address was different from the shipping address (which is what they asked us to do). Later on in the day, I received an email that asked me to fill out a form and fax it back to them along with a copy of my driver's license and credit card to ensure the security of the transaction. After doing so, I emailed them and called them to make sure that they had received the documents and that the orders would be shipped promptly. No response.

For all you GetEstore.com store owners out there, can you verify that this is a legit dropshipping company - that checks are mailed and products are sent? I would like to know, as I'm sure we all would, if I am getting scammed.

Please feel free to reply to this thread or email me directly at [email protected].

Thanks!

In replay to the person asking about getestore, i also think it is a scam .i have had a store for about 6 months i get visitors but it seems nobody and i mean nobody ever buys,i wonder if get estore even pays or reports sales.
wilbur loftin

This does NOT sound like a reputable company to me. Read here:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff133371.htm

I'd get on the phone with your credit card company pronto!

If they dont answer your emails or replies now they probably wont answer them later. I would run away as quickly as possible from this company. Whatever store builder you pick is going to be either the reason for the success or failure of your business. If the store doesnt work and you can get help to fix it you will lose customers. And you cannot easily get those customers back. Before choosing a new provider email a few or them with some questions or go onto their live chat, if they respond quickly and throughouly you can usually expect that will always be the case. If they are slow to respond or dont even respond to sales requests I would expect they would do the same after you are a customer.

I have read planty complains on this business opportunity and yet I have to say they are not quite correct! I don't think its right to bad mouth the company just because someone failed to achive their personal goal. I'm an owner of one of the stores purchased from this company and so far I was able to do what I planned - make money.
I don't want to get in arguments with anyone as everybody entitled to their oppinion but take a look at this details and you will see that this opportunity is for real and only one thing stops people from becoming successfull - themselfs!

If you have a problem with this company go here:


Registrant:
Universal Banner Network, Inc.

1600 Naomi Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90021
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: GETESTORE.COM
Created on: 25-Feb-00
Expires on: 25-Feb-10
Last Updated on: 10-Sep-04

Administrative Contact:
Universal Banner Network, Inc., Universal Banner Network, Inc. [email protected]
Universal Banner Network, Inc.
1600 Naomi Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90021
United States
2137484826

Technical Contact:
Universal Banner Network, Inc., Universal Banner Network, Inc. [email protected]
Universal Banner Network, Inc.
1600 Naomi Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90021
United States
2137484826

Domain servers in listed order:
DNS1.UBNINC.NET
DNS2.UBNINC.NET


Registry Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK

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Originally Posted by dealclickers

Hi,

I recently purchased a GetEstore.com online store. It seemed like a great idea at the time to start making money, but now, I am having second thoughts about the integrity of the company.

Firstly, nobody ever responds to my emails. I'm beginning to think that all the emails go into a black hole somewhere.

Secondly, nobody ever picks up the phone. I always get the voicemail greeting, and then I am notified that the voicemail box is full. There doesn't seem to be any way to contact them!

Thirdly, as I become more concerned, I started doing some research online by typing in 'GetEstore scam' on Google, which is something I should have done prior to getting the store. Wowserz, were there a lot of results! There were claims that items are not sent, and checks were not mailed.

Lastly, as I had recently sold a few products on eBay, and when I visited my store to purchase the items, I was shocked to find out that the product I had sold has been marked 'Out of Stock' and 'Discontinued.' I realize that this happens, but with 7 day auctions and 60 day sale periods, how can you predict when a product is no longer available?

I have also made a few sales elsewhere. As I had already purchased the items through the website, I am now concerned that the products will not be shipped. Also, when I made the purchase, my billing address was different from the shipping address (which is what they asked us to do). Later on in the day, I received an email that asked me to fill out a form and fax it back to them along with a copy of my driver's license and credit card to ensure the security of the transaction. After doing so, I emailed them and called them to make sure that they had received the documents and that the orders would be shipped promptly. No response.

For all you GetEstore.com store owners out there, can you verify that this is a legit dropshipping company - that checks are mailed and products are sent? I would like to know, as I'm sure we all would, if I am getting scammed.

Please feel free to reply to this thread or email me directly at [email protected].

Thanks!

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I think they are a scam.....how do i get my money back...?
is there any way of getting my money back.....i am with them for about 3 weeks now and 00000000000 buying!
Tnx
R0ss

I have realised that my over joyfull message might cost some people to actually join this company and would like to add to it.

As of Decemeber 2005 I have stopped recommending this opportunity on my site. I have listed all my reasons and data based on which I make my statements, current as well as previous. I have made money with them and for a while it was an easy ride, hence my post before, but then cituation has changed quite drasticly.

Although I do have to say that to my surprise I have made 2 sales last month without any effort on my part. Now only the question left: will I actually get the payment? I have seen this company fail to pay what you have earned based on what they call "fraudelent transaction" or "returned product". All my reqests to confirm it were met with quite a resistance and the answer I got was "do your own sales".

So if anyone considering this "opportunity", please make sure you get your ducks in a row.

Need some help if possible. I think I am being ripped off.

Back in Jan. '06 I was contacted by GetEstore from Phoenix, Az and pitched a program to get 20,000 shoppers to my store. I didn't have a store but I was told no problem. I was told about the Advanced level at a cost of $875 for a 6 month fee and would get me 20,000 shoppers and if in 6 months time if I did not double that in sales, I would not have to pay for the second 6 months--it was on them. They were going to set me up and it sure seemed like not a bad deal. I was told that they would send me a packet and I would need to sign the (?) contract/agreement and fax it back to them. They did send me an email to congradulate me on this decision. Three seconds later, (I kid you not, I checked the email time) I received an email from Universal Banner Network, Inc charging me $59.95 for my 'store'. Did not know who these people were or what this was about and checked my bank statement and that fee never went through my account. I did call the Az. number and asked them who UBN and told them about this email and charge and what did they know and they said they didn't know anythng about them and 'don't have anything to do with them.' AND, that I should not be charged anything extra from anyone! Okay. I find that the customer support contact form has UBN's mailing address at the bottom of the page. What's going on?!

Time passes and I never received the paper work or email, or phone calls--nothing. After leaving several messages on the main line I finally get someone and ask for the person that was suppose to be my rep. He is no longer there and I now have his supervisor in charge of my account. He does not know what happened but he will now do all the follow-up. Now same story---going to send packet, etc. This time he says because they screwed up, that my store will be set up within a weeks time. Actually, he said 3-5 days time and it was like 10 days. I'm charged the $875 and it did go through in April. Now, I am under the impression that I am buying a store for this amount with 1730 products and the guarantee of 20,000 shoppers and am still waiting for papers to sign. Okay, still never got anything in the mail and they said they mailed it and so forth. I never signed anything. Tryed to contact my rep again and he's not available but the office manager will now handle all my questions. I was not getting the satisfaction I needed from her and asked to please speak to her supervisor. I was told that would be the owner and he is not available nor does he have a phone number that I can call and SHE handles the problems. I can write but that was it. Now I am getting nervous. I was just informed that what I actually bought was an advertizing package and not a store---but no one told me that up front. I did not go on their site and go into 'setting up your store', so how would I know any different.

I admit its after the fact but I started doing some research on these guys. 'F' rating on the BBB. Owned by UBN in LA and these people tell me that their logo at the bottom of the GetEstore.com is there only because they are using UBN's templates. That's interesting, but they don't know anything about UBN and there are no other main GetEstore.com's out there. Then on ripoffreport.com, there is about 5 pages of not so nice things about them. Reports of not receiving their money for months on end, defective merchandise, very slow delivery and follow up on returns is not to great, unhappy customers and in most cases the individual store owners are stuck holding the bag.

I think they are operating just barely within the law and that is what concerns me the most. Has anyone tried to get their money back? I checked with my bank and they said that since this company did build me a store---even though I never signed anything and thought it was part of the fee I paid, that I most likely can not get my money back.

I have discovered that the store cost you $49.94 a year and $20.00 to set it up---wonder why I was not told that up front? I have found that in the terms of agreement, of which I never received,but is on their site under Acknowledgments--it states "At any time upon request by GetEstore.com, you agree to sign a non-electric version of this Agreement." I hope that is my saving grace.

I don't want to take them down or anything like that, I just want to leave them alone and me----get my money back. Anyone, comments please.
Mary

It's been my experience and opinion that buying into "Turnkey" stores that already supply products for you to sell from is a waste of money and time. These types of deals are usually non-cost effective b/c everyone's selling the same products and a middlelman is in between the store owner and the products bumping the prices up even more. The only way to make money online in terms of selling products is either stock them yourself and ship them out or dropship them from a dropship supplier. Either way, you'll need to be a legitimate business to do this.

GETESTORE.COM IS A SCAM.

I know, I know, it was stupid of me. I was off in dreamland or la-la land, some place else, not reality when I signed up with them believing their line of garb that they would 100% stand behind their members and do everything possible to help me succeed.
From day one I had problems with them.
1.) I tried contacting them concerning the store set up - never heard from them.
2.) I tried contacting them because a page in their items selection wasn't working - never heard from them.
3.) I tried contacting them because I had some shipping questions - never heard from them.
4.) I tried contacting them because my web never worked, read in their FAQ's this could take 48 hours, this went on over a 2 week period or longer - never heard from them.
I tried contacting them about a refund the 1st time - never heard from them.
I filed a complaint with paypal - unfortunately they was unable to help me because it wasn't a shipped good but they did send my complaint to them - still never heard anything from them.
I contacted the Better Business Bureau and I will regret not doing this first for a long, long time. At the time I did not know you could look up the URL to a website. Anyways they have a "F" with the BBB. I filed a complaint with them - still never heard anything but my website magically appeared.
The BBB had some email addresses and phone numbers and names that I did not have, so I contacted ALL of them and guess what - I FINALLY HEARD SOMETHING - but it wasn't what I was hoping for - apparently they did their part by supplying me with a store (and I am still trying to figure that one out seeing as how mine never showed up online untill after I contacted the BBB) and no refund.

Please check out any company you are thinking of signing up with here: http://www.bbb.org and remember you can check url and remember if it sounds to good to be true, it is.

I am guessing that whatever money I started with, with this group is lost. I was told that papers were coming for me to sign (never showed up and asked twice) and fax back my signature. I have never signed or electronic signed anything to start this program but they do have my money. I did the unthinkable and thought that the information they were (?) sending me would have everything spelled out and that I would make my decision at that time. Anyone know about the people running this that are out of Phoneix, AZ? Or is it a franchise type of thing and groups sell advertizing/store scripts? I have a feeling that I just got took for $895! I will still pursue this matter through my bank as I checked the Terms and find that they ask or 'may' ask for a non-electronic signature. If anyone has additional help, I certainly would appreciate your constructive comments. Thanks.
Mary Lee

If there are this many of you, can't you band together and contact a lawyer? Seems to me there ought to be SOME recourse in the legal system. Maybe start here, if you haven't already
https://www.econsumer.gov/pls/econsumer/wimsnery2$com.main?p_lang_seq=1

Update: I find out today that the company I paid my $875 to is eCommerce Business Services and they have nothing to do with GetEstore, except they built my e-store with them. So I thought my whole package was with GetEstore as that is where "my store" is and that is who I did my research on & of course find all the negative things. I was never directed to this ecommerce business services site to check policies, etc. Interesting.

I researched this business and on their site: www.ecomm-business-services.com they sell domanin names and build websites. I did not find anywhere that they sold advertizing packages. I spoke with Monique who is the manager and of course got told all sorts of things they said I agreed to etc, etc. and when asked to speak to her supervisior was told the owner Mr. August Tsutsumi was the owner of the company she represented and the actual owner of my store since they built it, and her supervisor and of course he is never in the office or very rarely, so there is no one else to speak to.

Still have never received any papers to sign nor have I signed anything electronic. I don't want to repeat what was in my earlier post, but now have filed a dispute through my bank on these folks and on netcheck.com---they're are members there with different names and phone numbers, etc. Will see what happens. Just a warning to you all out there, you might want to be careful with these people as well.
Mary

I just wanted to say a BIG THANK YOU, to all of you who posted here about your experiences with this supposed business opp.! I was seriously thinking about joining, because it didn't really seem like a lot of money for the yearly set-up, and the name brand merchandise looked really nice, so it looked like as long as you advertised, you'd probably do pretty good with minimal effort! However, after reading all of your posts, I wouldn't want to even consider it now, and I've wiped them out of my "favorites" site.

I really wish there were more legitimate homebased business opp. out there!

May God Bless You All!

Remain in control of your own money. Never, never, never go looking for that little white pill of happiness. Redundent? Perhaps but there are an awful lot of people out there willing to fork out their hard earned dollars in the hopes that someone else will make them rich.

Just a quick update---as of this date August 15th I still never received a contract to sign from the company mentioned in my posts. My money did stay in my bank so I believe the situation is closed. A word or two to the wise---do some research and your homework and always get a signed contract that both parties agree to. Then you are both covered. Best wishes to all.
Mary

WOW, am I glad I found this forum, I was just about to sign up and now I am soooo very glad I researched. Thanks

Sounds to me like the company is a scam as is the case with most drop shippers. You need to be very careful with these as most of them are fakes.

Last note on this particular subject: final decision from my bank was in my favor and I kept my money. Please be careful in looking into these companies and listening to their sales pitch. They are pretty good at selling, maybe not delivering but selling. Always check companies out WELL! This was a difficult one for me but I stuck to my guns. I have never heard from these people and don't expect to. They are to busy going onto the next person to think to much about me. Never heard back from the BBB or the online NetCheck for web businesses either. Good learning lesson that I don't wish to repeat again. Good luck to you all.
Mary Lee

i have gotton several calls from this getestore after i registered.it was from a so called specialist who wanted to conduct an interview.he kept insisting i will make 20000 a month,if not,something is wrong with me.towards the end of the interview,he wanted to know my credit limit.i thought this was odd,and would not tell him,he kept pushing harder and harder,got smart with me at one point and stated he has my credit card numbers.thats when i told him to f himself and that i had used a prepaid card,and hung up.he called me about a dozen times after that to tell me he was going to report me to the feds for my foul mouth,i blocked his calls and left him a voicemail stating his momma didn't mind it.these people are crooks,if you gave them your personal info.,i suggest you change your credit cards and pay for a credit alert.we all have to file complaints,here is the scam,the site we pay for is actually an outlet for them to take our orders,we will recieve nothing,ever.point blank!the paypal links are dead,the only live link on there is to direct people to thier site so they can sign up and get took,thats why that link is there,so poor sucker like us will think they can be a wholesaler too.his number and email are: [email protected] (435)487-9059 in salt lake city utah!please feel free to distrbute these all over the internet!

Hi folks, I have been scammed as well and feel like a complete fool. I have spent a considerable amount of money for optimization and submission services on top of the other time, effort, and money. Why don't we get together and get an attorney. We may be able to stop someone else from waisting their money.

Ericm
Sorry that you are one of the "gotcha" group. Its very time consuming and costly to go after these people. Their all over; Arizonia, Utah, and California to name just a few places. Mine was out of Arizonia but all connected to GetEstore based in California. If someone would really want to go to the effort to start some sort of Class Action suite, you may get somewhere. I don't know that anyone would get any money back and I am not so sure you would close down these 'foul' feathered birds. In most cases they just barely operate under the fine wire of lawful. I think everyone just needs to do their homework as best they can and even then it's not an absolute that you will be safe. Just remember to keep good records, make sure you have a contract that is binding on their part and never agree to anything until you have it in writing. Happier trails to you.
ML

I have been reading through all the posts here regarding Getestore, and I thought I'd give a different perspective. I also purchased a web store from them about a year ago. While some of the claims that people mentioned are in fact true about the customer service (ie. not returning emails, hard to get a hold of on the phone, etc.) I found that this was usually the case around the Christmas season when there is alot of shopping going on. I would assume that they are in over their head around that time of year. During the other times of the year, I usually have no problems with service, or products being out of stock. At least for the products I've sold thus far (ie. playstation systems, accessories, cell phones). I have not had one case where the products were charged to me and not shipped. I have had a couple cases where the products were no longer in stock by the time my auction ended, however that is understandable.
As for promoting the website, there is alot more to it than the typical person would imagine. Alot of the website promotional services out there plain do not work. I have been doing business on the internet since 1999 with my own website, and I have tried a good number of services out there to no avail. I found that even if a service provided me with traffic, it usually was not the right targeted traffic that resulted in sales. That is what I am thinking is happening with alot of the people who are trying to promote their Getestore website. As for my own hobby website, I had good targeted traffic, yet most were window shopping, and my average was one sale for every 100 visitors. Also, every so often I would get a fraudulent credit card sale. That is for the Hobby Market, and is different for every market based on pricing, ad layout, demand for particular brands, etc. I promoted my hobby website in google by making sure that my webpage was linked to, from a good number other websites of similar nature. I also made sure that all my metatags were correct and matched the content of each product page. As a result, after about a year my page was up to a Page Rank of 4, which is not high compared to some of the power house businesses, but definitely effective and resulted in an appreciable income.
My Getestore website on the other hand was not so easy to promote in the search engines since I did not have access to the code, only some of the metatags. I decided to hire a professional to try to figure out what to do. Here is what he found. Getestore websites are not very easily crawled in depth by the search engines because of the way the code is written. That means only the main page will be crawled by the search engine, but the deeper individual product pages will not be, or will have problems when they are crawled. Well this is a problem since the main page is so generic, and has a diverse amount of products. The search engines will not rank the main page very well because of this. If the search engines could get to the individual products pages then it would be better since the metatags associated with the products pages will be fewer and more related to the content on the page. Here is what is being done about this problem. The guy who is working on my website decided to create separate webpages independantly hosted from another server (not getestore), which has informative articles about specific products that I have on my getestore website. These article webpages have links which take the customer to my getestore website. Thus, targeted traffic. The reason why these webpages are able to be indexed well in the search engines is because they are custom tailored to be very search engine friendly, and targets a specific product. It has been about 4 months now since this work has been done, and I am now seeing results. It takes some time for a webpage to mature and get ranked higher in the search engines. And that's assuming that the webpage is properly made to be search engine friendly. Yes, I spent about $3000 so far with this professional, but the amount of work he has done makes it justifiable.
I am writing this long winded message to give a better understanding of why some people are not getting the results that they are looking for. I guess the bottom line is, unless you are a professional internet marketer, you will have to invest some money in the right direction before you can realize some cash flow. Consumer electronics is a very competitive market on the internet, and unless you can penetrate that market, you will not see any appreciable results.

Regards - Steve

All this talk about getestore makes me nervous about using any company.

Has anyone heard of www.instastore.com

I have had my getestore since November last year, looks very nice. not making a lot of sales, I have sold 2 stores and received a check for $34 and last month I made over $800 selling the Nintendo wii and I have not received my check yet and on one of my sales where the wii was already shipped to the customer they then issued a chargeback and it comes out my account, not fair (I spent over $700 on a shopping site to sell my wii's and if I dont receive my check I have just lost this for nothing)

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Originally Posted by R0ss

I think they are a scam.....how do i get my money back...?
is there any way of getting my money back.....i am with them for about 3 weeks now and 00000000000 buying!
Tnx
R0ss

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Try the Better Business Bureau

I don't speak or write English very well. I have my e-store since Oct. 2006.

I have a different experience. Things are moving slowly I think it is because the people who visit web stores have bad experiences in the past. They use to buy things from big webstores like Amazon, because it "looks" safe.

When I talked with my customers the first question they ask me is if the buying process will be safe in matters of all this issues of stole identities through credit cards. Right now 60-100 persons visit my e-store DAILY but in a regular month only 8-12 people make purchases.

Regarding the Customer Service they are great for me. If a have any question I contact them inmediately by phone, because the email address they have is a little bit slow sometimes I get answers quickly, some times it takes 4 days to get back an answer. But the girls in Customer service are very nice with me. I have receive all my commision checks on-time and without any discrepancy.

For me this is a part time job and a hobby. I really enjoy my e-store and since last October I make about $2,000.00 I only spent 50.00 to get the store. So I think it is working. I wish I would have more time to work with my e-store. But right now it is okay. I know that I need more time so the people can see my store consistely so they can trust more in me and start to make more purchases. Also I treat my customers very good so they can spread good words about my products and service.

I really think this is a good idea. I have no employees, no inventory, I don't have to pay a local rent etc.. But every busisness no matter of what requires time and effort ..sometimes for months.. before you can see the results...
Good luck!! Angela

Hi, I posted a few weeks ago saying that I have been waiting for my monthly check ($818), I have finally got it 60 days after which means you get paid 2 months behind, I think this is to protect the company as there is a lot of fraudulant credit cards and charebacks in the US. I have restarted to promote my store and products on shopping comparison sites again, I hope this continues!! :)
www.dropship-warehouse.com

Hi,
I have been more than 18 months with getestore company, and I'm really happy with them. They answer my calls and they email me back and I have noooooooo problem
www.greatwebmart.com

I finally figured this whole thing out and made some decisions! I decided to go with First Atlantic Commerce and I have to say I'm glad I did. Since they're not a massive company I don't feel like a small fish in a big pond..quite the opposite in fact! They also have some interesting bespoke services (Virtual Corporation, etc.) that help get around some of the red tape involved. I would definitely recommend them!

http://www.firstatlanticcommerce.com..._accounts.aspx

I have heard the same thing about GetEstore from 3 other people. There seems to be a real issue with their responding. I looked at them before joining another dropship/ecomm business. I recently joined http://www.dropship-business.com/index.html?aid=208301 as an affiliate rather than spending a pile of money on companies I know nothing about; it just made sense to test the waters before jumping in. I got my first $ last week from a couple of sales and will take that $ and invest it in their ecomm store now that I know they are legitimate

Good luck!



I recently purchased a GetEstore.com online store. It seemed like a great idea at the time to start making money, but now, I am having second thoughts about the integrity of the company.

Firstly, nobody ever responds to my emails. I'm beginning to think that all the emails go into a black hole somewhere.

Secondly, nobody ever picks up the phone. I always get the voicemail greeting, and then I am notified that the voicemail box is full. There doesn't seem to be any way to contact them!

Thirdly, as I become more concerned, I started doing some research online by typing in 'GetEstore scam' on Google, which is something I should have done prior to getting the store. Wowserz, were there a lot of results! There were claims that items are not sent, and checks were not mailed.

Lastly, as I had recently sold a few products on eBay, and when I visited my store to purchase the items, I was shocked to find out that the product I had sold has been marked 'Out of Stock' and 'Discontinued.' I realize that this happens, but with 7 day auctions and 60 day sale periods, how can you predict when a product is no longer available?

I have also made a few sales elsewhere. As I had already purchased the items through the website, I am now concerned that the products will not be shipped. Also, when I made the purchase, my billing address was different from the shipping address (which is what they asked us to do). Later on in the day, I received an email that asked me to fill out a form and fax it back to them along with a copy of my driver's license and credit card to ensure the security of the transaction. After doing so, I emailed them and called them to make sure that they had received the documents and that the orders would be shipped promptly. No response.

For all you GetEstore.com store owners out there, can you verify that this is a legit dropshipping company - that checks are mailed and products are sent? I would like to know, as I'm sure we all would, if I am getting scammed.

Please feel free to reply to this thread or email me directly at [email protected].

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I have been an owner of one of getestore's website for years. There should be a law against such fraudulant promises that these type of companies make. I have dealth with Olga Resnik the owner of Getestore for a long time to try to get matters resolved but no luck even then. I now have an attorney involved in the matter and he has spoken with the owner(s) several times but the fraudulant activities of this company continues to go on. I purchased this store as a dream to become a successful business owner and being nieve thinking that people just couldn't be as dishonet as these people are I continued to try to hang in there hoping that things would get better. Well let me tell you this. It doesn't not with this company. I don't know how these other companies do business with Getestore and partner with them knowing how these people run their business. It seems every time I have ever had a purchase at my store Getestore claims that there was fraud involved from the customer or a chargeback because the customer returned the product as so they say. The only time it seems that it was not a fraudulant purchase was when I made the purchase myself. This is the reason why I had to get an attorney to look in to this matter which is still ongoing. I was told that there is a buzz in the wind of a possible CLASS ACTION SUIT against this company. What all you store owners need to do is contact you an Attorney and get them involved and flood Getestore with calls from your attorneys and maybe something can be done about them stealing our sales. I don't know if you no this or not but you may jor may not notice that in your stat pages there sometimes your customers are redirected to getestore checkout instead of your own sometimes. I had to find this out from a monitoring company and a company that I hired to review my site. I am telling you something big is going to happen with GETESTORE so guys you had better jump on the band wagon and get on the phone with someone to get some legal advice. I was told by the Better Business Bureau to contact your Attorney General and report these matters and make sure you report this to the Better Business Bureau, the more documentation they have of what is going on when the time comes the better. Also make sure you report the matter to Consumer Affairs. I have been a business owner for many years not just with GETESTORE. We storeowners have more rights than you know. Keep calling Getestore customer service let them know you are consulting legal advice put the scare in them maybe together we can get this company to jump start to trying to be true, HONEST,
Americans like the rest of us.

I wish you all luck,success and many blessings for the New Year! Keep me posted on your actions and reviews.

Hi, This post is very informative, however I would like some specific information. If someone can help me then please send me a private message. Best Regards,

Any of these sites selling cookie-cutter stores with preloaded products will not work well for most people. What is to differentiate you from the 1000s of others with the same stores? Nothing.

What will make your store more search engine visible than theirs? Nothing.

What will make you site more competitive? Nothing.

All they are is get-rich farms for the store promoters themselves. The ones selling you the out-of-the-box solution are the ones making the money.

I purchased (skeptically) about a 1 1/2 years ago. It wasn't until AFTER I purchased the store that O found out that their RETAIL prices were inflated by a minimum of 15% over what you could purchase any given product for at Wal-Mart or Target. I was able to contact an admin via a real phone number, after several failed attepts, explaining my concern about pricing. I also came to notice that well over 80% of the items so-called wholesale prices were above and beyond retail pricing by an average margin of 3%-11%! How does a company legally call itself a "wholesale distributor" when the "wholesale" prices are above retail. I tested the site by purchasing a very inexpensive product, and I did receive it in less than 10 days, and I also got my credit for the $2.00 profit at the 15% margin I had initiated at setup (you can set your own profit margin percentages during the store setup). I was absolutely appalled by the advertising deception as they DO NOT show you an actual wholesale price matrix until after you purchased the site. It is a total scam, and they should be shut down and fined, and be forced by law it issue refunds, but I am sure there are loopholes protcting them as they are still operating. I was able to call via phone their so-called "support" personel and conveyed my disatisfaction about the pricing. I had over 1500 hits to the site the first month, spent over 500 adverting on google adwords...and made not one single sale except the purchase I made to test the site. DO NOT invest with this company as it may not be a true "scam" in te legal sense of the word, but you cannot, and WILL NOT make money unless you get a real stupid sucker who does not care about how much money he/she spends on any given item. Whe I called and spoke to support, I demanded a refund and was told "well you should have done your research, it's not or fauly you are naive and stupid"...then I heard laughing in the background. What a shame as the concept was great and the ease of use was great and the site was professionally laid out....too bad it's legal "scam". After all this hapened I started to esearch other products, and a large percentage are "reconditioned". Not too many people, including myself, like to purchase remanned items, except auto parts but that's different.

Buyer beware. I can't evn get my $2.00 profit back because they only send a check after you accumulate $25.00 I believe.

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There's no such thing as a free lunch. It breaks my heart to see all these people getting ripped off by these 100&#37; hype solutions. If you want to run a store, dig in and do it yourself from scratch. If you just don't have the skillz either partner with an individual you trust unconditionally or run an eBay store.
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It's also amusing to see the 1 poster jabs tossed in like greatwebmart above "i love this solution, they answer my calls". Someone should verify that or delete it just to make sure nobody else gets scammed by these crooks.