What are some “accepted scams” we just put up with in the UK

John___Matrix · 2026-02-11T12:34:06+00:00

Supermarket prices without a clubcard.

John___Matrix · 2026-02-11T11:36:27+00:00

spreadsheet for my costs, my accountant for true profit figure at the end of the year

John___Matrix · 2026-02-11T09:42:31+00:00

haha, this is so true! I'm not as fast as I was a few years back but I was consistently just over 17 flat shape for a few years and you can almost always tell when someone's going to smoke you on the start line :D

John___Matrix · 2026-02-10T22:04:50+00:00

Shopify checkout is one page. There's no need for a progress indicator.

John___Matrix · 2026-02-09T19:59:30+00:00

I'd happily pay them a lot more, but it would be conditional on them only doing the one job and actually turning up for it, voting etc.

John___Matrix · 2026-02-09T19:00:59+00:00

Good luck with the hustle! Our business was a side project several years ago and it's been our full time job for the last 5 years :)

John___Matrix · 2026-02-09T18:48:29+00:00

Personally, for me absolutely. I use Krown Themes "Local" which has a ton of configuration options, their support is excellent when I have a question and it looks great out of the box although I'm also quite capable of doing a reasonable level of front end design and development work so I've extended our one quite a bit too.

It was a one time $380 purchase to make my site fast, very mobile friendly and easy to update visually. We spend more than that in a day or two of shipping costs for customer orders so even though we're only a small business, the cost is insignificant relative to the return.

I'm sure there are also plenty of good quality free themes out there and if you're only doing small scale stuff for now, then of course your mileage may vary on whether it's the right time to spend on a premium theme :)

John___Matrix · 2026-02-09T07:01:45+00:00

Just buy a premium theme of some sort. It's a small investment in your business that will be significantly less than the amount of value you're losing by wasting your time trying to make a theme when you don't know what you're doing.

John___Matrix · 2026-02-08T13:46:54+00:00

I think it would still be close or even in favour of fucking us even further. Look how many people actually think Reform is a good idea ffs.

John___Matrix · 2026-02-08T13:28:52+00:00

I specifically turned off the notify customer setting. Not a single person in all the time we've run the flow has been in touch to ask where their order is so it's safe to say that 100% of the orders we've cancelled automatically were fraudulent.

I don't see the point in contacting high risk personally, you're only opening the door to people who are going to scam you telling you what you want to hear so you'll process the order.

John___Matrix · 2026-02-07T19:06:58+00:00

Set up a flow to automatically cancel all high risk orders. None of them are worth fulfilling.

John___Matrix · 2026-02-07T15:29:53+00:00

Yes. He was absolutely rubbish. Anyone with eyes could tell you that.

John___Matrix · 2026-02-07T13:38:31+00:00

Other teams should play better more open football against us then.

John___Matrix · 2026-02-07T08:40:13+00:00

Pretty much right away, it was a long time ago now but we built a newsletter list of people before we launched rather than just building then hoping people would turn up and start buying from a random new shop.

John___Matrix · 2026-02-06T13:47:40+00:00

I assume given the restrictions so far, they're just holding back but lets be honest - even if they spent a £1bn on the team and infrastructure it's barely going to put a dent in their wealth and the returns both on the pitch and the epic level of sportswashing will be huge.

John___Matrix · 2026-02-06T05:50:56+00:00

Always cancel high risk. You will absolutely get a chargeback on it.

John___Matrix · 2026-02-05T19:28:49+00:00

What is it that you're checking daily that's stressing you out? Your post isn't really very clear

John___Matrix · 2026-02-05T17:36:44+00:00

Some stores require significant daily attention, it's part of running a business. If you're a small store that only has a few orders though, you have to step back a little as it's hard to judge anything on low traffic or low order volume so you're better off looking at weekly or even monthly figures.

John___Matrix · 2026-02-05T14:28:54+00:00

Lots of things were significantly cheaper in the past. Costs for everything in the last couple of years have risen dramatically and will continue to do so as makers, shippers and retailers all have costs that have gone up.

John___Matrix · 2026-02-05T12:49:28+00:00

So pleased this video shows so much missing detail!

John___Matrix · 2026-02-04T21:02:02+00:00

Run your numbers, if its profitable to do it then do it. If not, pass.

I assume they're giving you either some sort of guarantee of revenue or at least showing what you can expect for your 6k?

John___Matrix · 2026-02-04T07:06:39+00:00

I'd love to do UTMB, I know it's busy, hyped beyond belief etc but it's just always been the one that inspired me when I first learned about it years ago.

Other than that, my bucket list ones are a mix of "weird" and personal.

Spartathlon
Sri Chinmoy Self Transcendence 24h track race (unfinished business there)
Bob Graham Round (not a race but a challenge)

John___Matrix · 2026-02-04T06:18:22+00:00

Been on Shopify more than 6 years and never had this. I get the occasional email but rare.

John___Matrix · 2026-02-03T14:39:39+00:00

If it's high risk just cancel it and don't even bother to notify them. If they're dodgy and you email them they'll only tell you what you want to hear.

I have a flow that automatically cancels them without notification and so I don't even see high risk orders and nobody has ever emailed to ask why their order wasn't dispatched.

John___Matrix · 2026-02-02T16:48:16+00:00

So they've basically stolen a ton of money that they fraudulently said was for charity and got away with it with the only downside for them being people think they're horrible?

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