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I just went into our Control Panel and I'm quite baffeled. Neither DrGonzo nor anyone from Murrumburrah attempted to buy anything from us. In all seriousness, I'm quite pissed off that you guys badmouth our reseller in our forum, when the problems you experience are with somebody else. [that's not true, DrGonzo actually did order something, and indeed it was stalled - I made a mistake when checking this]


Why? - Because these problems with ShareIt do not relate to us.


That's because we have a bit of a different account with ShareIt. We have much more control over the system than their common clients, simply because, hmmm, we're in their upper sales bracket. Therefore we have a guy at Shareit assigned to us who only deals with a handful of clients. He can make things happen, because we're not just a number that pops up on the screen of a random helpdesk agent.

Typically with ShareIt one gets a manual screening rate of 30%. The way we set up things is however clever enough to bring this down dramatically. 22 orders went into manual screening this month. 3 out of these 22 orders were done with stolen credit cards, the other 19 went through with a short delay. That's a screening rate of 4%. In December and November it was under 3%.

They're effectively picking those 1% of attempted frauds. In fact they only missed 8 known incidents of fraud in 10 years. That's 1 out of 4000 sales. Who else has that rate? Certainly not PayPal if I believe some fellow developers.

As for currency exchange rates... yes they were bad because of an insurance they put on top. Now, we use our own insurance. The actual conversion rate has been pretty spot on since we pay for that insurance. Again, this is for u-he, I have no idea if other vendors have any similar control over this.

So yes, I agree that ShareIt in general may not be the be-all-end-all reseller, but neither is any other. For us however it's quite perfect and we get better support than we would get from any other such service.

Hence... if you need to vent about ShareIt, please leave u-he out of the picture. We're fairly different.

And of course, if there's a problem - contact us and we pass it on to our guy. He's a good guy 8)

Cheers,

Urs
Last edited by Urs on Wed Jan 30, 2013 1:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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Urs wrote:I just went into our Control Panel and I'm quite baffeled. Neither DrGonzo nor anyone from Murrumburrah attempted to buy anything from us. In all seriousness, I'm quite pissed off that you guys badmouth our reseller in our forum, when the problems you experience are with somebody else.
Either your system or Share-It doesn't keep records well. This was the last thing I expected to hear from you Urs. Why on earth do you post such a incorrect claim without even checking with me first? Have you heard about PM?

Seriously. I'm getting so pissed off being accused of lying so much I had to rewrite my reply three times before posting.

PM is on it's way.

/C
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jacqueslacouth wrote:Sorry, but more and more, Australians are getting sick to the back teeth of "The Australia Tax" imposed by these quasi financial institutions who treat us like backward antipodean patsies. The Aussie dollar is one of the world's strongest currencies and yet thieving bastards like ShareIt continue to treat us like PNG.
I'm in the land of killer flood and bushfires also. I change the currency to USD all the time. It's a better deal getting Paypal or better yet my CCard company to convert it.

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Okay I take that back :oops:

My sincere apologies, I was looking at someone with DrGonzo in his email address and jumped to the conclusion that that person was you.

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Okay, I have an order for DrGonzo and it may be one of the 22 stalled ones. I'll get our guy on the case.

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Here's what happened.

When the IP-address of an order does not match the country of delivery, then some human is going to look over the transaction. That's perfectly normal - it would be weird if it wasn't so, and it isn't any bad behaviour exclusive to ShareIt. If the transaction starts when it's evening here, then it takes till the next morning for someone to look at it. This is what happened to the DrGonzo and what led to the original post.

Unfortunately this may have happened to him before, so whatever one can accuse ShareIt of is that they're maybe too cautious at times. I understand that this is frustrating. Yet it isn't the common case warranting the generalisations that were made in some follow up posts by others. 96% of transactions are *immediate*, the remaining 4% are screened by a human, e.g. if IP and address don't match. If this prevents the 1% of fraudsters from succeeding, then we're happy to live with that. I have no figures from other services, yet I can't imagine them to be careless or anything.

I would have resolved the whole issue via PM (email, actually, I had to disable PM here) if the OP had done the same thing in the first place. In that case I wouldn't even have had the chance to confuse him for someone else.

- Urs

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Urs and I have had quite some discussion in private about this whole matter, and I'd just like to clarify one thing so no one needs to feel confused about my intensions.

When I was ventilating my thoughts on Share-It - I was only talking about Share-It.

I see Share-It and U-he as two very separate entities. I do not wish to make any harm to U-he. I wish U-he to sell as many plugs as they possibly can. Diva is in fact my number one synth and has been since it was released.

But Share-It on the other hand... :lol:

/C
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