How do I check if a website is genuine?

paddyrg

So it arrived as spam and you think it might be genuine?? Run a mile!

spooni

I am here after a google search of 'jewellerydailydeals.co.uk spam'

I have never had any dealings with this company but I have been getting their spam emails everyday which started a week ago coming from [EMAIL="noreply@jewellerydailydeals.co.uk"]noreply@jewellerydailydeals.co.uk[/EMAIL]. Some spam is also coming from dealrepublic.co.uk with an almost identical layout... Up until a week ago I received next to no spam.

I have not and WOULD NOT buy anything from either site.

WilliamO

InsideInsurance wrote: »

My guess is the address is a virtual office given a newly formed sole trader is unlikely to have their own office

Could you please clarify that statement?

Are you for example implying or guessing that a new Sole Trader is unlikely to have enough money to have a "proper" rented or bought office of their own? Or are you implying or guessing that a Sole Trader must be dodgy just because they have a Virtual Office?
Or perhaps you have met so many thousands of Sole Traders in your lifetime who have turned out to be a scam that you can make such an authoritative guess?

Not everyone has the need for a "proper" office, new and well established sole traders included, especially if they operate a mobile service for example and especially with the high prices of a "proper" office. With a guess like yours the new Sole Trader might get tarnished as being a poor sod who can only afford a Virtual Office and therefore being marked out as a scammer.

WilliamO

andy.m_2

I use: http://www.scamadviser.com/

by no means perfect but has stopped me ordering from a couple of sites now that have subsequently turned out to be arsewater.
They have a tab <check website> and you input the URL and it gathers as much info as it can and makes a judgement.

andy.m_2

Name: Zynga Technologies Other UK Entity (e.g. clubs, associations, many universities)
Street: Spectrum House, Dunstable Road, Redbourn, St Albans, Herts, Herts, AL3 7PR, United Kingdom
City: Herts
State: Herts
Postalcode: AL3 7PR
Country: United Kingdom
Registrar: eNom, Inc. [Tag = ENOM]
Web : http://www.monimet.uk

railbuff

andy.m wrote: »

I use: http://www.scamadviser.com/

this site is not to be trusted in anyway.

it shows all my sites are untrustworthy for 1 reason and that is i am based in the UK and the servers my sites are hosted on are in the USA.

how does this make a site untrustworthy is beyond me.

for one of my sites it states

Technical contact email address is a free one
Administrative contact email address is a free one

yet i use my o2 email which is not a free email address.

gb12345

I posted a few things to check on a similar thread here http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=58502575&postcount=24.

bluesnake

The big no no, is that the contacts page is a web form, which is fine for Tesco but not for a small company. Also on this contact page or anywhere else there is no address.

The amounts are so small there is no card protection.

Saying all this, looks like cheap junk presented by classy women. They should have been more honest and got Vicki Pollard to model them.

Yes, if I had a young teenage daughter, I would probably buy her tat like this, but would go to the market as it must be cheaper there.

GeorgeandMillie

Bought an item from this company at the end of January and am still waiting for delivery of my order. Have been fobbed off repeatedly with different excuses, but still no sign of my item. They've now stopped replying to my e-mails. Avoid this company at all costs.

gb12345

GeorgeandMillie wrote: »

Bought an item from this company at the end of January and am still waiting for delivery of my order. Have been fobbed off repeatedly with different excuses, but still no sign of my item. They've now stopped replying to my e-mails. Avoid this company at all costs.

How did you pay?

If it was Credit card then contact your card issuer to arrange a Section 75 claim. If it was debit card then cantact your bank and tell them that you want to arrange a chargeback on the basis of non-delivery.