So this popped up on Facebook. I'm wondering if they're selling knockoffs, purely scamming, or worth giving a go.
We've seen the past deals from that UK Superdry eBay store with $30 jackets… I realise these websites are far from official outlets but it gives credence to these kind of prices bring possible.
Thoughts/experiences?
.ga domains are free and available for everyone to get as many as you want. It is meant to be used for websites from an African country, Gabon.
If that is not enough proof that those are nothing but scam websites then go ahead part with your money.
Gotcha. Thanks :)
You can get better domains, like .club, for $2 for the first year. So cheap, yet anything but a .com/au looks so shady unless you're already an established brand.
Do you really need to ask?
It's so obvious that the brands wouldn't go around advertising such big discounts as this will ruin their brands. No-one would be buying their stuff again at full price.
The scammers who do this go for relatively small amounts because lots of people don't bother complaining or putting much effort into getting those amounts back.
I almost think that anyone who falls for these scams deserves it!
It's so obvious that the brands wouldn't go around advertising such big discounts as this will ruin their brands. No-one would be buying their stuff again at full price.
I read that and immediately thought of 'Wish' (since they sell cheap knockoffs)
Throughout Asia you can buy good quality (and some poor quality) knock offs of famous brands in markets and stalls for a fraction of retail prices.
In the last few years, enterprising small business people have brought the convenience of web purchasing to this merchandise, by setting up web sites that disappear after a short window.
All the sites on your list are like this.
What I would really like is knock offs made on the factory night shift or whatever, but sold without labels/branding.
Often the knock offs are made in the same factory, and the quality is good - I just don't want the labels, fake or not.
Its what you're paying for anyway with the marked-up originals. 50c to make, $500 to buy - all because of a label!
It's not true in most cases.
I have friends who own some of these factories that do contracted manufacturing.
Sure, somethings like t-shirts etc can be manufactured outside of agreed amounts.
Most items of true value cannot. Ie. Shoes. A small quantity can be made but it would be too small to market effectively. The companies typically send their materials and they know the yield. They have a cutting template for their materials and the production manager knows the expected yield.
Some of the parts require a whole different manufacturing facility, ie. shoe soles. Large companies always split manufacturing sites where possible. With only scraps of material that managed to go undestroyed and limited number of soles, there can only be very few shoes that are unaccounted for.
What the counterfeiters do is take a mould of the soles. This is a very crude process as the original mould already introduces enough error through material expansion/shrinkage. A copy mould will have more errors. Also, machining the original mould costs tens of thousands (larger items cost exponentially more). The copy moulds are lost wax investment technique - aka. more errors yet again.
The counterfeit cast makers wouldn't know where to put the ejector pins either.
The sales pitch of - "oh, this is the same item made with excess material from the same factory" - that's bollocks.
I would say that they are knockoffs