Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Meet Market Makers Launch Reinvents the Online Marketplace

New site connects individual and business products and services; starting as the single source for risk-free transactions and full-scale cross-resource transparency

October 15, 2012 – Minneapolis, MN– Meet Market Makers, an innovative internet start-up, announces today the launch of its online market for individuals and businesses alike to interconnect products and services – all in one place.
 
Meet Market Makers' business concept is created in response to the widespread job loss and spending retreat caused by the recent economic slowdown. People with great minds, skills, and talents found themselves without jobs and companies with great offerings found themselves with fewer clients. Today's existing online market channels are built to act primarily as either resume sources or flea markets, neither useful for professional, business-minded users looking for legitimate commerce opportunities in the global market.
 
Meet Market Makers’ online marketplace offers a new direction in resource creation and exchange, allowing people to list products, services and jobs, and transact risk-free. The multilevel category directories offer instant navigation to and between location-based offered or wanted listings with on the fly communication exchange per the site-embedded email system. Users can express interest, make an offer, accept or counter an offer, participate in auction bidding, and complete secure payments which are held on deposit to protect the buyer against online fraud. To help users gain early stage traction, each 1-month first-time services category entry is free of charge for 60 days effective from the registration date. Other user benefits are free card or bank payment processing, and a 1 or 3-month discount for 6 or 12 months services profile listing commitments, respectively. These benefits together with crime and fraud prevention go beyond the combined Craigslist, eBay, LinkedIn and Yellow Pages business services in terms of full user protection, lower transaction cost and better cross-resource marketability and visibility.
 
“Our mission is to assist people to connect and showcase collective services, products or jobs listings productively in an open market and protect them against improper or misleading online practices”, said Thomas Tomassen, Founder and Chief Inspiration Officer of Meet Market Makers. In other words, we provide a single source for individuals and businesses to gain greater marketability and visibility in or outside their geography without security compromise. This allows for vibrant and reliable online transactions development without the risk of payment loss or crime exposure. We believe that creative, active and honest community members not only enhance or stimulate their quality of life, but also contribute to strengthening the local economy and social progress.
 
For more go to www.meetmarketmakers.com.

 

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Monday, October 15, 2012

What You Can Do!

• Advance your personal or business competitive edge
• Create awareness for profession skills, talent or expertise
• Showcase personal or business experience and expertise
• Publish open format personal or business profiles with unrestricted URL linking
• Put your business out front to showcase goods and services
• Enter your storefront as a service to promote the business and merchandise
• Develop a wider circle of loyal customers and followers
• Drive new customer traffic to your website through direct linking
• Take advantage of NO posting fees for unlimited product listings
• Enter goods for auction or regular sales
• Sell goods free of payment processing charge
• Sell goods per auction bidding at a fixed cost of 2% transaction sales fee
• Buy products or services risk free with free buyer payment protection
• Post jobs anywhere at a flat rate of $20 per listing
• Generate business and product visibility to stimulate traffic and demand
• Advance profile directory visibility through multi-category entry posting
• Navigate instantly in and between services, products and jobs categories

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Is Transaction Protection Against Online Fraud Realistic?

by Meet Market Makers, Incorporated

It is official, seller and buyer protection against online transaction fraud has arrived.

The conditions do not lie. With continuing economic weakness and soft employment conditions more and more people resort to careless online behavior to target the blind trust of others assuming they will not get scammed.

Fraudsters operate online because they can act in obscurity without the real threat of being caught or prosecuted for their demeaning behavior. In fact, many victims of these acts have little or no recourse against the blatant online dishonesty or plain negligence practiced by charlatans.

The reality is that Internet transactions, especially buying products or services from strangers, have inherent risks. Too many people have been displeased by what they got or did not get in return for their prepayment. Of course, expectancy is often greater than reality but the opposite is true when buying from those whose ethical fabric lacks honesty. At the other end of the scamming spectrum buyers overpay sellers so-called by mistake by money order demanding to have the overpaid amount wired back at the payment deposit time before the seller knows that the payment instrument is a counterfeit. To make matters worse, anyone cashing a fake money order can get in legal trouble with local authorities as the act is a criminal offense in most countries. Besides who wants to get involved in spending time and money to recover from an online transaction that went bad. Scammers count on the fact that you succumb to the lesson learned and not come after them even when they reside in your native country.
 
Here are some examples.
http://www.khou.com/news/investigative/Crime-online-Craigslist-popular-with-buyers-sellers-and-criminals-alike.html
http://forum.freeadvice.com/online-purchases-sales-87/ebay-automobile-purchase-fraud-false-pretense-582484.html
http://www.thedailyaztec.com/2010/11/avoiding-craigslist-crimes-safety-tips-for-online-buyers-and-sellers

Therefore, more than ever before is it important to protect sellers and buyers against online misbehavior or misrepresentation and to finally put an end to these everlasting problems. The sad truth is that industry efforts have and are focused mainly on identity theft and financial data protection, which is a very good thing, but hardly any action is directed toward protecting people against online transaction scams. To combat this terrible crime and the ongoing rise in online transactional fraud and dishonesty, we decided to do the work for you and deploy fraud prevention by giving you the personal tools to literally inspect what you paid for is what you got or made believe you would get. This means that we hold the transaction payment on your behalf until you confirm to be fully satisfied with the transaction outcome. Only then the payment deposit transaction amount is released. However, when visual inspection presents any undisclosed or unreliable material facts you can reject the transaction whereupon we refund the prepaid transaction amount in full.

The good part of it all, the payment protection service is free of charge and risk free because it all happens in one secure place. More about this and other free payment services at www.meetmarketmakers.com.

We look forward to protecting and serving you!

Online Transactions With Strangers Now Risk Free.

by Meet Market Makers, Incorporated

For real, seller and buyer protection against online crimes is finally here.

The tales of heightened online crimes keep coming at a faster pace. Is it a sign of the time? Today’s continuing economic weakness and soft employment conditions drive more and more people to the Internet to unload or acquire belongings for cash without consideration of risky potential harm. As news on latest incidents confirm, doing business online puts users at increasingly higher risk of scams, identity fraud and other more serious crimes. Here are a few examples (sorry the hits keep on coming against Craigslist).

http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Police_Increase_in_Craigslist_crimes_141663043.html
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012/04/lenny_dykstra_lewd_craigslist.php

Criminals literally use the Internet to lure all kind of willing people into their web of trickery. These crooks, often working in groups, intimidate and force their opponent to handover their cash and belongings advertised for sale. Even people best prepared to fend off such risk run the chance to get into bigger trouble with potential exposure of personal injury or worse. Why take the risk to knowingly and willingly submit yourself to these kinds of hazards without little or no defense against the blatant violence committed by charlatans. We have decided to confront these problems head on and build the best possible defense against these criminal acts.

Products or services transactions with strangers are now protected against these online crimes. How you may want to know! Well the solution we offer is simple and bulletproof. There is no need for you to personally know who you are dealing with because we do that for you. We handle all aspects of the transaction with the seller first to make sure you will get what was promised or disclosed in the online posting. Our crime and fraud prevention solution gives you the personal tools to literally inspect what you paid for is what you got or made believe you would get at your own place. This means that you do not have to meet with the seller and be worried about any unanticipated risk or transaction payment loss, because we hold the transaction payment on deposit for you until you confirm to be fully satisfied with the transaction outcome. Only then the payment deposit transaction amount is released. However, when visual inspection presents any undisclosed or unreliable material facts you can reject the transaction whereupon we refund the transaction amount paid in full.

The good part of it all, the payment protection service is free of charge and risk free because it all happens in one secure place. More about this and other free payment services at www.meetmarketmakers.com.
We look forward to protecting and serving you!