Dodgy shop website – tell me it’s a scam! – Chat Forum

alanl

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Doing a search for some new Fivefingers.
This site came up:
http://www.theenglishpig.co.uk/

Looks good superficially. But, the prices are far cheaper than anyone else. There are no contact details, and occassionally there is a description in what I think is Turkish.
It's got to be a scam hasnt it?

Posted : 05/02/2018 11:22 pm

Cougar

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As ever, if you have to ask...

Domain name: theenglishpig.co.uk

Registered on: 06-Sep-2017

Expiry date:  06-Sep-2018

Name registered last September for just one year. Could be legit (I've not enen looked at the site) but that's enough to ring alarm bells for me.

Posted : 05/02/2018 11:27 pm

Phil_H

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Looks like a scam to me.

No contact details, registered for 1 year only.

Posted : 05/02/2018 11:30 pm

Cougar

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Registrant: Anne French

7 El Alamein way,Bradwell

Bradwell,gt yarmouth

United Kingdom

NR31 8SX

United Kingdom

Looks nice enough. https://tinyurl.com/yco2cuzl

Posted : 05/02/2018 11:30 pm

Cougar

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Also,

Doing a search for some new Fivefingers.

Delete your account.

Posted : 05/02/2018 11:32 pm

mattyfez

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Website is reasonably slick and nice looking.

However there's no contact details, no address listed.

Proceed with extreme caution, Will Robinson.

Posted : 05/02/2018 11:32 pm

davidtaylforth

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Deffo a scam, their shoes are the give away. They must be taking the piss, surely?

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Posted : 05/02/2018 11:36 pm

GlennQuagmire

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I didn't know FiveFingers were a thing.

Learn something new every day.

Posted : 05/02/2018 11:38 pm

m0rk

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https://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/theenglishpig.co.uk

Looks dodgy AF.... Where's the post with the guy who bought the Troy Lee from an equally heavy discounting site?

Posted : 05/02/2018 11:51 pm

mattyfez

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It's for people who really want to get athletes foot.

Posted : 05/02/2018 11:52 pm

grum

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Scammier than Barry Scam from Scamsville

Posted : 06/02/2018 12:00 am

jonnyboi

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https://m.facebook.com/12leavescom/

the Facebook link is interesting

Posted : 06/02/2018 12:01 am

funkmasterp

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Vibram have a great way of dealing with counterfeit five fingers. You have to also be a brick and mortar store to retail them. No physical shop, no sell.

Posted : 06/02/2018 3:49 am

richmars

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No comment on the website. but that's a great street address.

Posted : 06/02/2018 9:12 am

Rockhopper

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Despite having the PayPal logo of confidence on the item page, when you checkout they don't actually offer PayPal - I'm out....

Posted : 06/02/2018 9:57 am

wwaswas

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El Alamein Way

The road for those who go the full monty...

Posted : 06/02/2018 4:50 pm

alanl

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Obviously I'm not going to buy from them, but it just shows how convincing these fake/scam sites are to the less intuitive.

Posted : 06/02/2018 8:04 pm

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