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Is This A Legit Site?
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I saw this adorable handbag and I plan to buy it. It has loads of good reviews but are not a UK company. (As PP would say they are forrin)!!
Is it an okay site?
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Is it an okay site?
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The domain name for that website was only registered on 21 September last year, so it's not been around for long. (Obviously, all new companies have to start somewhere but I'm always very wary of new players).
The domain name was registered through a web service that redacts the registrant's true details 'for privacy', with the registrant being listed as an 'individual' (which grants greater privacy rights), rather than as a 'company'. I can think of no reason why any legitimate company would want to do that.
Customer reviews for the website seem to be non-existent (which suggests that they've either not sold very much yet or possibly that, despite registering the domain name back in September, they've actually only just started trading). However ScamAdviser has, like me, spotted that the site owner is hiding behind a privacy shield and has some other concerns as well:
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I'm always VERY suspicious of a single website that offers prices in multiple currencies, rather than setting up separate sites for each part of the world that it trades in. (That site offers an option, at the top right of the page, to switch between any of 8 different currencies). I get further concern when, despite offering to accept multiple currencies, the shipping information can't switch between them and only refers (as that site does) to US dollars.
I distrust websites that try to suggest a company has been trading no longer than it actually has. (It seems odd, given that it's a new company, that ' © 2020' appears at the foot of the page.
Spelling and English errors can be worrying too. 'Jewelries'???
The 'Contact Us' page does, at least, admit that it's a Chinese company, with a postal address and an email address using the same domain as the website (rather than, say, a Gmail one, which is always worrying).
The 'Refund policy' is clearly a straight copy-&-paste from another site, rather than anything that they've thought up themselves. Quote: "Perishable goods such as food, flowers, newspapers or magazines cannot be returned. We also do not accept products that are intimate or sanitary goods, hazardous materials, or flammable liquids or gases". Given that don't sell any of those things in the first place, they obviously didn't write that themselves!
That website certainly wouldn't be first choice of sites to buy from!
However, if you really want that bag, a reverse image search finds it offered on Amazon UK ;-)
Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation
The domain name was registered through a web service that redacts the registrant's true details 'for privacy', with the registrant being listed as an 'individual' (which grants greater privacy rights), rather than as a 'company'. I can think of no reason why any legitimate company would want to do that.
Customer reviews for the website seem to be non-existent (which suggests that they've either not sold very much yet or possibly that, despite registering the domain name back in September, they've actually only just started trading). However ScamAdviser has, like me, spotted that the site owner is hiding behind a privacy shield and has some other concerns as well:
https:/
I'm always VERY suspicious of a single website that offers prices in multiple currencies, rather than setting up separate sites for each part of the world that it trades in. (That site offers an option, at the top right of the page, to switch between any of 8 different currencies). I get further concern when, despite offering to accept multiple currencies, the shipping information can't switch between them and only refers (as that site does) to US dollars.
I distrust websites that try to suggest a company has been trading no longer than it actually has. (It seems odd, given that it's a new company, that ' © 2020' appears at the foot of the page.
Spelling and English errors can be worrying too. 'Jewelries'???
The 'Contact Us' page does, at least, admit that it's a Chinese company, with a postal address and an email address using the same domain as the website (rather than, say, a Gmail one, which is always worrying).
The 'Refund policy' is clearly a straight copy-&-paste from another site, rather than anything that they've thought up themselves. Quote: "Perishable goods such as food, flowers, newspapers or magazines cannot be returned. We also do not accept products that are intimate or sanitary goods, hazardous materials, or flammable liquids or gases". Given that don't sell any of those things in the first place, they obviously didn't write that themselves!
That website certainly wouldn't be first choice of sites to buy from!
However, if you really want that bag, a reverse image search finds it offered on Amazon UK ;-)
Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation
Worth a read:-
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