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They tell you how much money you are going to make but it's just a lie, you won't make any, you have to be very very competent on the computer to do the behind the scenes stuff which is really difficult to get the hang of. The stores they offer for sale look lovely but they won't generate any money. When you try and sell it they tell you their sales people are dealing with it but you will never, ever hear back from them. The only time they will be in touch with you is when they are phoning you all the time to persuade you to buy from them. I have lost over £4000.

Don't waste your time or money, Yourownstores don't work and will never work as long as Google ranks these sites lower than the scum that are selling them!! You would be better off taking the money and going to Los Vegas and putting it all on red!

I bought my store for about £5000 and was very enthusiastic for a few mouths but slowly i got the felling that i was ripper off, the phone staff started to get less helpfull. and then you could only get in touch by the ticket system. my hart sank when i found them on scam book. I now know that i have been had and its sickening. what a wast of money. I do not have much hope of geting my money back but lets show these people up for what there are .

The store I have bought from YourOwnStore (BrightLightMedia) was said to make £70K and cost about £5400, -

My store is now 13 months old and I have optimized it for 100%. I have made no money other than the £30.00 I did receive because family members bought something through my website, to see if it worked.

I have not had any other customers buying from my store and visits have not even reached 250 a month let alone the ‘just’ 250 a day as they stated by YOS would be an easy target to reach.

The time I have spent on my store is around 30-35 hours a week instead of 1-2 hours a day I was told was all that was needed to make this a success. I was never told I would have to write so many articles, no mention about article spinning (I had never even heard of it) it was all easy work; even a novice could do it.

After I had bought the store it became clear an article of at least 400 words had to be written for each category in your store. My store has more than 100 categories so that’s a lot of writing. Besides more articles had to be written for article spinning, needless to say I haven’t even gotten as far as that. As my writing isn’t great I had to outsource most of it which has cost me a further €600,-

Now I’ve come to a point where it’s no longer fun to work on my store as all the effort I have put in is not paying off.

I feel I have been misled by them and feel cheated out of my money and my precious time. Every night after a full day’s work I have spent another 3-4 hours categorizing and optimizing my store.

In my opinion YOS is misleading people into buying these stores with the unrealistic promises they make. So far we have not been given any real proof of any of their stores making real money. We have asked for that proof many times and we now believe they are unable to give it to us as it doesn’t exist.

I have been scammed by YOS. Bought a store, worked long hours each day every day for months, following their training videos. YOS has predicted an annual income of £55k, I hadn't even made a fiver. I wondering where was I going wrong. And then the penny drops, I come across a group of other YOS store owners who were in the same situation as me..duped by yos. YOS have not been able to provide any evidence that this business model works. Anyone thinking of buying their store, I will urge you to do your research, Ask YOS for evidence to support their claims..

This is my complaint on Scambook

YourOwnStore

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Date Occurred:04/10/2012

Reported Damages:$8,651.34

Location: Bournmouth England

dupedbyyos

I bought my own store from YOS Bright Light Media back in March of this year, it cost me £5,400 and to be quite honest I wish I had never heard of them. I was told I could expect to earn £47k a year and was realistic to know that would not happen over night and would take time and a great deal of effort on my part. I did expect to start to recover most of my outlay within six months. In 8 Months I have fully followed their training modules and videos. I have built up over 1600 likes on my Facebook Fan Page, my site is fully optermised and has been for many months. I have tweeted over 3000 times, sent hundreds/ thousands of other messages and blogs through Digg, Pinterest,Linked In, Google+,Posterous, Stumble Upon, Facebook and many more. During that time I have made one sale with commission of £80 which is a lot more than many of my fellow store owners have made whom I have been in contact with. I started to build up reasonable Google rankings on 8 of my 10 categories and the traffic to my site remained constant a miserable 20-40 per day. Now since Google has brought in major changes to their algorithms my Google rankings vanished over night several weeks ago and never reappeared, my traffic has dwindled to less that 10 a day.

I have worked tireless on my site since I bought it, not just a few hours a week or day as YOS proclaim is sufficient but sometimes as many as 5-6 hours each and every day. YOS tell me I need to do more, more backlink building and blogging etc the same response it would appear they make to all store owners who eventually wake up and start asking awkward questions to them.

In recent months its become impossible to talk to YOS staff by phone as they have changed their phone options, now you can only send in tickets with problems you might have.

I must confess the staff were always at the end of the phone to help with problems most of which were sorted out. I fully believe when they sold my site to me that they were fully aware of the Google shake up which has rendered our stores totally unworkable and useless as without Google rankings we can make no sales. I very much doubt I will ever get a refund from them as they have all the get out clauses built in to their contracts which none of us that Im aware actually signed.

At the current rate of sales and commission it will take me 50 years to recoup my outlay. I really wanted this to work as I have put all my savings in to this and would love to be proven wrong by YOS as I had great faith in them and found the staff very helpful but so far we have heard nothing from them about how they are going to resolve this issue with Google, Their silence is deafening. Instead they are working to promote new get rich schemes not for customers as the only ones who seem to be making any money out of YOS stores are YOS. Take my advice stay away from YOS and Bright Light Media products. I fully expect this company to soon up sticks and disappear leaving us with no websites or any chance of getting our money back.

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Posted 11/03/2012

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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.

It's easy to see at a glance what you need to do, and the training videos are priceless if you consider what it would take to set up your own site from scratch