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Stratine-has anybody bought a laptop from this company?

My SIL is looking at buying a new laptop from this company, but she just wants to be sure they are legitimate. They are based in Madrid, Rome and New Jersey, they promise next day delivery on all laptopss. Any info gratefully recieved.
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  • f1charlie
    f1charlie Posts: 1,228 Forumite
    They don't accept credit cards or Paypal, so no protection if anything goes wrong. I would look elsewhere.
    Charlie
  • stratine is fake online shopping site!!!
  • fwor
    fwor Posts: 6,910 Forumite
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    It certainly looks very suspicious that the only methods of payment that they accept are ones that cannot be recovered by any form of chargeback if they don't deliver.

    So +1 vote to steer clear...
  • Avoid at all costs. This thread is #1 in searches for "stratine + laptop" on google. That should tell you something.
    Russia is HERE
  • #1 search on google doesn't mean anything. But I can garanttee that you won't get your money back or any e-mail reponses after you paid the order by wiring cash to SPAIN!!!
  • I'm glad I googled the company name, cheers guys!
  • My friend already be cheated by this online website, do you want to be the next one? There are hundreds of thousands website can be googled, but they are internet SCAMS. Don you think google pay you money back if you were cheated?
  • vyseyboy wrote: »
    Avoid at all costs. This thread is #1 in searches for "stratine + laptop" on google. That should tell you something.

    What I meant by this, is that if a post made a few hours ago can make it to the top of google rankings for a search string including a business name and their primary product, then surely it's a bad sign for the legitimacy of the original business.

    I'd be wanting to see reviews, product pages from the company's website, or even blogs with people's experiences of the company getting more traffic / higher ranking than the OP's post.
    Russia is HERE
  • superscaper
    superscaper Posts: 13,369 Forumite
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    vyseyboy wrote: »
    What I meant by this, is that if a post made a few hours ago can make it to the top of google rankings for a search string including a business name and their primary product, then surely it's a bad sign for the legitimacy of the original business.

    I understood what you meant. JGURU must have misread it or in their haste hadn't read it completely.
    "She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
    Moss
  • fwor
    fwor Posts: 6,910 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    I think most of us understood...

    Interesting too that the website claims that the company has been trading for 2 years, but the stratine.com domain name was first registered on 14th July 2008!

    Hopefully anyone tempted by attractive prices will Google the company name and find this thread before making an expensive mistake.
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