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8 December 2009, 05:21 AM | #1 | |
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avenue-jewelry.com: looks suspicious
Saw a too-good-to-be-true deal on their website ($2000 below the lowest price online) via a google search, and after a bit of poking it became apparant that they're at a minimum suspect:
1) no terms of use page on site (clicking the link for this and next two returns a blank page reading "put here your terms of use" or "refund policies", etc., clearly using some sort of prepackaged webpage software being used here); 2) no refund policies on site; 3) no shipping/return policies on site; 4) domain avenue-jewelry.com is listed with an address which is, according to google maps, not a jewelry store but a construction company (Wayne Nail Construction Inc); 5) the "contact us" page has no phone number/address, has only a form to fill out with your email address and question; 6) the prices, as mentioned, are ridiculously low, well down into too-good-to-be-true territory. 7) they don't accept credit cards, wire only, but very conveniently they only inform you of this after you've entered the credit card number. To check this, you've got to set up a fake account (which I did, using fake info, fake birthdate--yes, they force you to register and in that form all of this is required info--and fake email) and *attempt* to pay with credit card; I did this with a blatantly false card number, figuring that they weren't gonna have facilities in place to check them, and lo and behold, instead of a "bad card" message, I get this banner message, in red: Quote:
Buyer beware...
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