YourOwnStore.co.uk (Bright Light Media Ltd.)
Complaint 160600 Details

  • Date Occurred: 09/01/2014
  • Reported Damages: $10,000.00
  • Location: UK
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The complaint is against an online dating profile

The complaint is a listing fraud posted on public forums or sites against an anonymous entity

The complaint is mobile text spam or smishing related against an anonymous entity

The company or person contact no longer exists

International boundaries

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 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 the first quarter of 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 substential revenue’. According to several website owners experience, including mine, 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 panda and penguin updates, YOS was unable to successfully adapt their system and failed to present a clear strategy to their franchisees 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 in a full year despite all efforts deployed to follow their video training programme, created more than 400 backlink articles, and remained active with all social network platforms.

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

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  • gillianmckee
  • gillianmckee SBID #096b6c9f68
  • Posted 11/03/2014
  • Most people, like myself, bought into this as a business that would have to be worked at and not as a get-rich-quick scheme. I have worked hard at it - Seo (some paid for), articles, blogging, optimizing, getting 'likes' Facebook promotions - you name it I have done it - I have had my site for a year and 2 months now and I have had one sale of £33.00 through Asda of which I earned £1.33. I did not have the money to throw away like this and they promised me I would be at least earning £45,000 a year if I worked hard at it! I am now lost and don't know what to do. This was my future - I cannot work at a regular job due to a disability and I am now £4500 down with nowhere to turn. I am so hurt at their lies and promises.
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  • Complaint Against YourOwnStore.co.uk (Bright Light Media Ltd.)
  • Complaints Filed: 32
  • Reported Damages: $265,743.94
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