My honest review: stay away this seller. Such a time waster in a clever way.
I ordered his service a month ago. He promised that he could do such and such things.
Few weeks after I asked him how the process, and he said "If you are pushing me to deliver the service, I am going to refund for you. I don't want to work under stress."
Alright, I stepped back and apologised. I gave him time to do the work.
After few more days, he messaged me and told me "it is difficult to buy Amazon gift card now and I have a private group with all real buyers to buy your products!" and provided me a slightly expensive package, which is my product price + 8.5 + 3 per order. I was like wtf.. and I started feeling being scammed.
Here is his message:
"As you have already experienced generating mass amount of gift cards is becoming harder and harder to do unfortunately every day with amazons new gift card policy. I can only generate so many per day and its becoming increasingly difficult just to generate enough for my own products and trying to generate them for my own products and clients is starting to put a strain on my own amazon business. I can not safely generate gift cards for clients anymore, as well as myself, even the ones I have already generated cards for. I have a few solutions for the predicament we are in that I already use for my own products which allow me to do the purchases without needing so many gift cards I would like to tell you about. We have 3 options that I see as possibilities and very good ones at that.1. Obviously you can always keep trying to slowly generate the gift cards you need and use them for the purchases, this would cost the gift card of course (15% amazon sales fee) plus the $3 for the tracking from me.If you can not generate the gift card codes no problem, here is option #2:2. I can pay real people in my review group of over 600 trusted and dedicated USA amazon prime members to buy the product. They would search the term just like I would in the first method, buy your product, and I would still generate the UPS tracking code for you to enter into amazon to show the product as shipped and delivered. No gift card is needed, the buyer would use their own personal credit card for the purchase. No product would be sent. I have a little over 600 people in the group willing to do this for $5.50 order cost + $3 tracking number cost = total cost $8.50 per order. If you need to use this method, and can not get gift cards on your own, I will refund you $100 of the original $400 service cost to you to help with these fees putting your cost at $300 instead of the $400 you already paid me. This would give you basically a free $100 in fees to start with using this order method. 3. Regardless of if you are buying the gift cards yourself or using my review group to get the FBM orders, I also recommend turning on PPC ads for the “exact keyword match” of the keyword we are targeting. This would allow you to generate actual real sales through the keyword we are trying to shoot for and will cut down on the buys through gift cards or through my review group that would be necessary. I can help those of you who do not use PPC to set this up correctly, no problem. I use this for some of my products and supplementary to the buys and a few of my clients choose only to use this method along with our onsite and offsite SEO for their ranking instead of doing any FBM buys.4. Alternatively if you have a reliable group to generate orders that would cost you less than $5.50 per order then you can use this, supply me with the buyers address and I can get you the tracking #s for $3 still. All 3 of these main ways of generating keyword SEO optimised purchases work perfectly fine and I use them all for not only my own products but for current ranking clients. Obviously if you can generate your own gift cards this is the most cost effective way to generate the buys. Most people are able to generate gift cards on their own but for Canadian citizens and people who travel abroad or simply need a huge volume it can be difficult and also extremely time consuming. My review group is here to help out, and if all of the orders need to go through them although a higher per order cost, it is still a great option. You can decide whether the cost is worth it for your keyword, I can also help you do some calculations, in my opinion almost all the time it is absolutely worth it in the long run. For one of my products last week I used my review group only to rank it in combination with onsite and off site SEO, a $50 product took 50 units through FBM buys to bring it from P3 to P1 and is now selling 5 per day, and was only doing 0-1 per day on P3. I make about $20 net on each sale. It cost me in product FBM buys all through my review group (no gift cards used on this one) $8.50 + $7.5 (15% amazon sales fee) = $16 per buy total. Thats $800 total expense for buys. I now sell 5 per day, and it should get as high as 10 per day that means it only takes me with a $20 margin of profit on this product at 5 sales per day, 8 days to recover the total cost. Now I am on P1, the only maintenance needed is on site and off site SEO and the cost was just 8 days of profit. You can see the potential here and this is how most of your products will work too. Of course if you have paid me already for gift cards through paypal that money will/can be refunded to you if you decide to do none of these options through me. I will also refund the full service fee if non of these option work for you either and apologise for the time wasted. Personally from selling on amazon since 2013 these are all very small fees to pay to achieve P1 rank for competitive keywords and I hope you can come to the same conclusion. There is a lot of information here, please re-read it a few times before you make your decision and let me know if you have any questions."
Alright, he suggested me to buy egift card and I bought them, and then he turned out saying that Oh you should not buy from here and you should buy from there after I sent him the code.
And today he refused to start the service because of the following reason:
"I hate to keep coming back to you with updates without even having this started yet… Over the weekend my UPS tracking number connect said he can’t really generate any more valid tracking numbers because he’s being questioned at work... Basically what that means is I’m refunding most of my clients in full because the option to get tracking numbers is too hard for most people.I can generate the orders no problem for the SEO buys, but the tracking number I can not get anymore. To get a valid number from any USA carrier you choose, you’d have to actually ship an empty box to the address on file. The advantage here still is you don’t have to actually give the buyer the item, but you do have to ship an empty box. At this point I can either refund you in full, or we can go ahead with the on site, off site, and buys acknowledging that you would need to provide the tracking for the orders by sending an empty box to the buyer.Ranking for clients is becoming too complex to keep taking on more clients and I’m basically just finishing up with the 35 or so I have and keeping it to a small number. I originally started this because I thought it would be fun to rank other people’s products but its starting to become too complicated. Please let me know what you would like to do, if you do want to continue just to re-iterate I can provide the on site and off site SEO, and SEO purchases, but not the tracking numbers. You would need to get the tracking number by shipping an empty box."
I am very pissed. He could not deliver anything over days and kept providing different reasons. I asked for refund and got full refund, and he blocked me on skype.
What a joke.
