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Chec(kout) - Sell anything, anywhere. A platform for longtail ecommerce.

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Re: Chec(kout) - Sell anything, anywhere. A platform for longtail ecommerce.

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Post by devan »

freshhawk wrote: post #56
devan wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We provide region specific shipping options for physical products, and will be doing tight integrations with UPS, Fedex, RoyalMail apis to help you with fulfilling physical items.

Do you have an eta on that integration? That sounds very interesting and the type of service we are already researching.

I'd say within 6 weeks? We're a tiny team (2 devs). I'd love to speak to you about it and see what you'd like to see implemented.

drop me an email at devan [at] madebyswipe.com

Re: Chec(kout) - Sell anything, anywhere. A platform for longtail ecommerce.

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Post by devan »

icelancer wrote: post #59
devan wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We provide region specific shipping options for physical products, and will be doing tight integrations with UPS, Fedex, RoyalMail apis to help you with fulfilling physical items.

Wow. If you can provide this, I will move away from my self-hosted shopping cart to you guys.

I'd love to speak to you about it and see what you'd like to see implemented.

can you drop me an email at devan [at] madebyswipe.com?

Re: Chec(kout) - Sell anything, anywhere. A platform for longtail ecommerce.

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Post by devan »

eth wrote: post #60
devan wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gumroad's a platform for people who want to sell digital things they create and has a 5% fee. We're a platform for long tail merchants. So for example - you'd sell the psd your not going to use in your app on gumroad, but you'd sell the final app through chec. - if that helps. - we also only charge 3.5% and can do a lot more with downloads + handle physical products. We position ourselves between Gumroad & Shopify (i…

Regarding the P.S. - is this why there is now Chec and Ribbon.co (a d/b/a for Kout Inc.) doing similar things?

Yup. I was the original founder & ceo of Kout inc now ribbon.co http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/print-edition/2011/08/12...

We went through a pretty messy founder split which will probably come to light in full later on.

in short.

Chec's the original - you can probably tell by how consistant our product is compared. The old cofounder ran off with the corporation and didnt follow through on his agreement to transfer the assets over, after i was asked to stand down and incorporate a new entity - so i had to rebuild the company from the old room back in england.

Re: Chec(kout) - Sell anything, anywhere. A platform for longtail ecommerce.

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

liquidise wrote: post #52
sylvinus wrote: post #8

My 0.02c: you should change the name. If you already have to append "(kout)" to explain it to hackers, it will be 10x more difficult marketing it to a larger crowd. Or you can start printing stickers that read "you know, without the 'k'" ;-) Apart from this, great design!

$0.02 or 2¢ =P

Try explaining that to Verizon.

Re: Chec(kout) - Sell anything, anywhere. A platform for longtail ecommerce.

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Post by fatbat »

devan wrote: post #45
brador wrote: post #35

Seems like we get a site like this every few days. Are they making crazy money or is there some other reason everyones is making one? Are they just really easy to make? Maybe because payment process disruption has occurred? What's up?

Most of these sites will go down due to one big hurdle. Payments. Underwriting merchants and get verified by Visa/MasterCard as a payment service provider is a bitch. Aggregating credit cards is a heavily regulated area - but most of these sites are unaware of this issue. We initially started on Stripe, and got told what we were doing was unregulated/not allowed on stripe, so we then grabbed a coffee with them and le…

Interesting. Does using Stripe Connect bypass this restriction since you are not actually handling any money? Or am I misunderstanding things? Questionable site name, but well done! :) Cheers

Re: Chec(kout) - Sell anything, anywhere. A platform for longtail ecommerce.

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Post by Amarandei »

devan wrote: post #23
arkitaip wrote: post #17

How do you handle charge backs and fraud?

heuristics & 3 strikes with chargebacks and we lock your account. But we've got a lot to do here.

It seems a bit harsh. The seller has no control over the chargebacks and you actually 'punish' the seller for them and not the buyer. Digital files chargebacks are more common than you think. How do you decide if the chargeback should receive a strike in the even that the buyer simple doesn't answer any contact requests(happened to me more then once). I've also had buyers lie about the purchase when in fact I had IP and email proof that they wore actually the ones buying but the chargeback was submitted(and approved) because they said they wore not the ones who made the transaction. Is anyone else using this 3 strike rule?

Re: Chec(kout) - Sell anything, anywhere. A platform for longtail ecommerce.

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Post by devan »

fatbat wrote: post #67
devan wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of these sites will go down due to one big hurdle. Payments. Underwriting merchants and get verified by Visa/MasterCard as a payment service provider is a bitch. Aggregating credit cards is a heavily regulated area - but most of these sites are unaware of this issue. We initially started on Stripe, and got told what we were doing was unregulated/not allowed on stripe, so we then grabbed a coffee with them and le…

Interesting. Does using Stripe Connect bypass this restriction since you are not actually handling any money? Or am I misunderstanding things? Questionable site name, but well done! :) Cheers

yup they do, thats why sites like spacebox.io & shoplocket are fine, but others are (probably) just illegally aggregating.
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