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| Stella & Dot Rebel Pendant |
So I look up reviews, which totally not a weird thing. Apparently there are hundreds and thousands of reviews of Stella and Dot stuff because Stella & Dot is has an annoying direct to customer pyramid MaryKay-esque tupperware party marketing scheme.There are tons of bloggers peddling this stuff for a sweet cut. By the way, this is my affilate link
I'm not saying I don't want it. I do. Its almost Christmas. HINT.
But I digress.
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While idly looking at reviews I stumble upon a website that seems too good to be true. This website claims to be selling my necklace online at half price for only 5 more days! I am immediately suspicious.
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| You see, this is what we want! |
Strike 1: The website title is "jewels fab" and their URL is "spicy piece" Why would they do that? It sounds like the sleezy SEO web designer bought lots of URLs to direct to this page. Or, maybe they are doing A B testing in their infancy. This makes it forgivable potentially without being a total scam.
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| Kate Spade's Weird answer to the Joan Halloway |
But there are reviews! These people must have bought jewelery from this website successfully, without getting their credit cards stolen. I copy pasted one of the reviews into google only to find that the review was actually originally a facebook timeline comment from the Stella and Dot Company facebook page. Strike 3.
Another annoying thing about that google search is that the same review was listed on two other websites, jewelsgift.com and jewelsfab.com. Besides a few fonts and floating tables, the three websites are identical. Strike 4.
I also noticed that the shipping and payment is done exclusively through Paypal. If this was a real operation, they wouldn't have to go through an anonymous money transfer company. This leads me to believe that it is either an international operation hoping to sidestep tax and business licensing, or just some guy. Strike 5.
The website is riddled with spelling mistakes.
"we ship to worldwide for free shipping on all order."
"The postage for Standard shipping ist $6.95."
And the kicker
"We devote ourselves in providing you premium quality snow boots with reasonable price and knight service."
Snow boots? The website is not even internally consistent. What is knight service? This is one poor quality scam. Strike 6.
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NOW, here is the nail in the Coffin.
Norton Secured is a security company that, for a small fee, bets its reputation on the legitimacy of a website proudly displaying its symbol. To prevent people from ripping off the company and otherwise deceiving users, they change their symbol every once in a while and updates all of the sourced images automatically. For instance, it used to not say "powered by Verisign" Now it does. Soon it will say "powered by Symantec" Jewels Fab stole an old version and its as plain as day. An additional authenticity failure is how no information pops up when the seal is clicked as symantec assured an real symbol would do.
Do not buy!
If I did my little part on the internet, those links will be dead soon and these deceiving malefactors will be out of business. I have already reported them to Norton Secured for Seal Misuse and I invite you to do the same if you've verified my story.
Thanks
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Update: Spicypiece.com, Jewelsfab, and jewelsgift is no longer operational. Thank you to all those who reported the seal misuse to Norton Secured.
However, it seems that a similar operation is happening at vipjewlerysale.com. That website is riddled with spelling errors and did not remove the copyright at the bottom of the page to stella and dot when they ripped off the website.