Win a shopping cart worth £199

One of the ways some online traders have been combating the recession is through additional orders pouring in from new customers outside UK who usually do not buy from UK because of the strong pound. Since the start of the recession, the pound sterling has lost about 30% of its value, at one point it was virtually on par with Euro, making products and services in UK more affordable to EU countries, this lead to some online traders getting additional revenue of up to 35% from the EU.

If you are not already selling online, how about the opportunity for you to win your own ecommerce shopping cart that could help you start selling online within a few hours? UK Webmaster Forum, Webmaster server is offering to give one lucky winner a Boss Cart Premium shopping cart. There is no long-winded entry form, you just need to register at Webmaster Server, visit the win a shopping cart thread, update it and you could be the winner.

It is highly recommended that you visit the forum and win a copy of Boss Cart and start taking advantage or the online retail opportunity that savvy ecommerce merchants have been taking to increase their sale in this recession.

Online business and chargebacks

As usually webmaster and small business related discussions are going on at UK Webmaster forums. One of the post that caught my eyes was on that highlights one of the most serious problems facing small online business: fraud.
It is very difficult to get a payment processing account if you are strictly and online business, the few institution that gives you credit card payment processing facility give you at extremely unfavourable terms (for example WorldPay ask you for a deposit of your one month turn over and also pays you in arrears of four week.UK Webmaster forum senior member ablaye from USA highlight the problems he faces at one of his sites in this post:

The question says it all.
What is your worst loss in an online business due to fraud?
What steps did you take to prevent online fraud in the future?

Recently, I have been hit by a wave of fraudulent credit card transactions on some of my websites.
Over the years, I lost a few $xxx due to chargeback fees.
I am so glad that I did not have to ship any product. All I am offering are services that are promptly cancelled the minute I discover the fraud.

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