I ran a restaurant in India before any of this. It closed. Not because the food was bad or the idea was wrong — it closed because I didn't know how to run operations. Staff, supply, systems, the unglamorous machinery behind a business — I didn't have it, and it cost me a huge loss. I'm not telling you this to be humble. I'm telling you because it's the reason I obsess over operations, processes, and account health now. I learned the hard way what happens when you don't.

December 2022, I came to the UK to study Management, on the back of a Computer Science degree I already had. To pay my way, I worked as a chef. Long shifts, physically brutal, the kind of job most people use as an excuse to switch off when they get home.

In 2024 I opened an eBay account and started dropshipping. I did it for 9 months. I'm not going to dress it up — dropshipping taught me the platform, the mechanics, the customer service headaches, but it wasn't the model that built anything sustainable. It was tuition, paid in time and small losses, not a success story.

In 2025 I switched to retail arbitrage — buying stock at good prices and reselling on eBay. I ran that for a full year, until the end of March 2026. This is where things actually started working. It's also where I found perfumes specifically, and where I stopped thinking of myself as "someone who sells stuff on eBay" and started thinking about brand, margin, and repeat customers properly.

Right now, my eBay and eCommerce work generates six figures. Not from one lucky product — from three years of getting it wrong on dropshipping, getting it right on arbitrage, and paying close attention to what actually made money versus what just felt busy.

In August 2026, I'm launching my own perfume brand, AKSCENT LONDON — a registered trademark, not a side hustle. This isn't me pivoting away from what worked. It's me taking three years of retail and platform experience and finally building something with my name on it instead of reselling someone else's stock. Where scent becomes memory — that's the brand. I'm building it the same way I built everything else: hands-on, no shortcuts, willing to be wrong in public.

I'm blunt. I don't sugarcoat. If I tell you something will work, it's because I've done it and it worked. If I tell you something's a waste of your time, it's because I already wasted mine on it — dropshipping taught me that lesson directly. SarvaMangal is me teaching what I actually did: the account creation, the product sourcing, the platform mechanics, the mistakes that cost me money so they don't cost you yours.