Didn't meet expectations!

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YourOwnStore - www.yourownstore.co.uk
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Guest's review of YourOwnStore - www.yourownstore.co.uk

“Didn't meet expectations!”

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written by on 09/12/2012

I bought my store (bestphoto.co.uk) on the 16th of August 2011 and received two invoices from YourOwnStore.co.uk for the total sum of £4901,95. The store ‘estimated MINIMUM annual earning’ was advertised at £57,670.

YourOwnStore (YOS) failed to deliver the following:

- YOS is advertising ‘a PROVEN internet business franchise’ but fail to deliver evidence that one or several owners are achieving their target earnings.

- I was missold a price comparison website, enabling visitors to compare prices from different UK retailers and search for the best online deal. This functionality is not working as expected, YOS very basic searching capacity is far from being competitive.

- YOS’ IT platform has suffered from multitude of servers issues and technical glitches during 2012 and has not deliver ultimate service on a 24/7 basis.

- According to YOS sales pitch: ’10 to 15 hours of work per week would have been sufficient to generate a substantial revenue’. According to several website owners experience, including me, that is far from reality. I have worked for about 4 months on a full time rota and never ever managed to get £1 revenue.

- Following recent Google algorithm updates, YOS was unable to successfully adapt their system and failed to present a clear strategy to their clients on how their will recover from this situation. This search engine will not index any of the YOS' websites.

To date, my store has generated £0.12 of commission from external buyers, in 15 months, despite all efforts deployed to follow their video training program, created more than 400 back link articles, and remained active with all social network platforms.

To date this company demonstrated his capability to create fake testimonial, utilize aggressive and threatening behavior when challenged, plus lack of consideration for its franchisees.

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Yourownstore's Comment

Written on: 14/12/2012

Hello Leo,

We value your feedback. However, you mention Google's algorithm updates, you may wish to look at.

This will show you that the sites do indeed rank. If you'd like confirmation of the rankability of our sites.

You on-site efforts stands at a very poor 62% - therefore all of the training has NOT been followed by yourself. I would suggest your particular site isn't ranking because of poor keyword choice and poor optimisation.

If you would like to remedy this, you are very welcome to contact us direct via our Help Desk. Until you do so though, you should more than likely continue to expect poor results for your website.

So we'll leave this up to you Leo.

Thanks again.

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