ugg outlet- is it a scam?

how did you pay i paid by paypal and i put a claim on the payment and they said that i will be refunded within ten days if the seller dosnt produce a valid tracking number or proof i received it which iam sure he wont cause its a scam

gnaril wrote: »

I mean really girls know how much the real thing costs ( im assuming here). Must be thinking when ordering them they are not going to be real. your not going to get an item for half the retail price or less really in this day and age......

My partner's a retailler. I know what stuff comes in at and I know what stuff goes out at. Not just in his line of business but in plenty of others too because I know what the wholesalers sell at and I see what that then goes out for etc...

500% mark-up is not as rare as you'd think, in fact it's bog standard (buy it for a tenner sell it for fifty). I'd be willing to bet you a pint of the landlords finest that in under five minutes in your house I could find a bag full of items that have a 500% mark-up or more as standard.

Clothing, accessories and other fashionable items have a fairly large mark-up because they are high risk. One fat/old/ugly celeb wears ugg boots on the telly and no one wants uggs ever again. Fashions change, and fast. So fashion is higher risk for a retailler, therefore high mark up for you...

Which means it's not just the naive and daft who reckon 50% of retail prices is achievable, it actually is achievable if a retailler chose to do it (in fact it's still a 250% mark up if the RRP represents a 500% mark up). Some retailers do exactly this, even reputable high street ones (TK Maxx springs to mind).

For the sake of accuracy I just looked that site up, the discounts look entirely normal and reasonable. I've got 4 random styles of ugg boots on my screen now They are discounted to... 90%, 66%, 80% and 69% of thier RRP's (mean average = 77% of RRP). I can't think of a single high street fashion chain I shop with that hasn't offered similar levels of reductions on branded goods this year.

Manufacturers often set RRP's high deliberately so retaillers can knock the stuffing out of them! It's well known!

It's easy peasy when the brown stuff hits the air conditioning to say "you should have known better" but that's tosh in this case. The website looks legit even under a cynical eye. Victim blaming is automatic for human beings, it makes people feel safer by giving them the illusion the bad thing will never happen to them.

The truth is you'd go for a product on 77% of it's RRP too without the internal scam alarms going wild, have a look on the end of any supermarket aisle, branded goods on 50% of RRP are an everyday occurance even in the grocery sector where the mark-up is well below the ladies fashion sector.