Marcus Eikenberry

Current

• CEO at Trust Who

Past

• Web Server Administrator at Bonneville Power
• President at Eikenberry Computer Services (Sole Proprietorship)

Education

• Hard Knocks

Recommended

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Connections

192 connections

Industry

Computer Games

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

Marcus Eikenberry’s Summary

I am Marcus Eikenberry and I’m a serial entrepreneur. I make a living dealing in intangible goods and services within online video games. My companies sell huge volumes of game registration codes and game time codes as well as providing anti-fraud solutions for other sellers within these online gaming markets.

I started in 1997 selling virtual items within the game Ultima Online. I noticed a couple of sales of UO items on eBay and wanted to try my hand at making a sale there. I took two extra game accounts I had that were about 3 months old and put them up on eBay with full details of all the virtual loot that would be included on them. When I sold the accounts for a combined total of $2400 I knew I was on to something. I thought to myself I could make a full time job of this and do very well. I have ever since then.

Now more than 10 years later, I no longer touch in-game goods for those games where it is a violation of the terms of service. I focus on the sales of game codes and providing anti-fraud for other companies.

After being taken for a lot of money by scammers and thieves at my online stores I developed other anti-fraud and payment processing companies.

TrustWho http://www.trustwho.com anti-fraud services doing transaction processing and payment verification for companies experiencing high fraud rates.

Shattered Crystal http://www.shatteredcrystal.com where new game codes, upgrades and gametime have been sold to several hundred thousand satisfied customers since 2002.

Marcus Eikenberry’s Specialties:

Online: Online sales systems for intangible goods (Video game industry), SEO, SEM, Online Community Development,
Entrepreneur: Owner and founder of multiple companies.

Marcus Eikenberry’s Experience

• CEO

  Trust Who

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  November 1997 — Present (11 years 9 months)

  Currently managing multiple companies all related to payments and anti-fraud in the video game industry.
  
  *Transaction processing and Anti-Fraud: http://www.trustwho.com
  *Online sales of intangible goods such as game codes and authorized direct currency purchases in games: http://www.shatteredcrystal.com

• Web Server Administrator

  Bonneville Power

  (Government Agency; Oil & Energy industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years)

• President

  Eikenberry Computer Services (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  March 1992 — September 1995 (3 years 7 months)

  Retail computer store. Sales and service.

Marcus Eikenberry’s Education

• Hard Knocks

Additional Information

Marcus Eikenberry’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog

Marcus Eikenberry’s Groups:

OGDC Seattle 2007, Ultima Online

•    LinkedSEO
•    LOGIN Conference
•    Payment and Fraud Professionals
•    Game Payments

Marcus Eikenberry’s Contact Settings

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