Watch out for websites like this, disguised as a foreign website with no contact address. It is easy to setup a shopping cart using pirated scripts and “professional” looking graphics.
The guys behind these did not make any effort to hide their whois identity, and this is what we found from a whois search showing that it originates from China.
Registrant Contact:
zhang jin
jin zhang Email Masking Image@ymail.com
+86.15800522964 fax: +86.15800522964
songjianquxinqiaolu154hao
shanghai shanghai 201612
CN
However, there is nothing on the website showing that it is from China, including a contact address. What if you need a refund? What if you have an issue to complaint, where do we find them? Is this a reputable company or a home-made website ran by a one-man show with just a computer and a table? Are they related to Pandora UK?
If you are looking for a branded product, never buy from a dodgy website like this. It only costs $9 to buy a domain name and anyone could download a cheap shopping cart software easily. Sites like this could be setup within 3 days, and anyone could probably setup 10 of such sites within a month.
Even when we talk about brick and mortar stores, there are companies that set up to look like the global companies, including brands such as Star Bucks and Watsons.
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This is a submitted reported regarding this website:
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Hi, I recently bought over £100 worth of Pandora charms from what I thought was the official Pandora website. I have contacted the sellers to say that I am not happy with the products as I was expecting genuine charms and I got a load of cheap looking trinkets delivered from Hong Kong. I realise that I cannot do anything about it now but I wanted to inform you so that you can look into it. The email of the person I have been dealing with is pandoraonlinestore@yahoo.com. This woman is called Lucy.
The website is http://www.charmpandorajewellery.com/
If you take a look at it, it just looks like the official Pandora website. I know I’ve benn had, and it was very silly of me to think I could get the charms for so little but I really did think it was some kind of past seasons collection (I have recently bought a bracelet and a few charms from a shop and the new stuff wasn’t on the site).
I don’t know if you can do anything about this but I thought I’d contact you having read your website. Maybe if they can be stopped then other people would be spared being ripped off.
The only thing I can do is post this everywhere to warn others about this!
Thank you,
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