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I would like to get opinions on a group of websites that are attempting to sell table tennis equipment. I'm very suspicious of these websites but not absolutely certain that they are scam or fraud. Normally when I am correctly suspicious of a website I can get verification that it is a scam by simply googling the domain name along with the words scam or fraud and I quickly get discussions about it being a scam. So far my attempts at this have not shown the below websites to be scams but this could be because each of the websites is very new and there hasn't been enough time for this yet.
The websites that I am suspicious of are as follows:
Oops. Forum rules are that I am not able to put place links in any post until my sixth post. I think this is important enough to make it worth being posted six times. This is post 1
Things that make me suspicious of these websites are as follows:
1) When scrolling through the items for sale, I find multiple versions of the same item with slight differences in description and header. I believe that this is due to the fact that a robot was used to pinch the list of items from actual legitimate sites. The robot was not able to understand that they were the same item
2) Some of the sites have domain names that have recently been registered.
3) The domain names are not very good. They don't mean anything.
4) Table Tennis websites that handle these types of goods are normally specialised table tennis only websites. They are not normally part of a general all sports websites. The required inventory for all these goods would be enormous.
5) In some of them the apparent total number of table tennis items is excessive.
6) Structural problems with the menu/index system. Starting from the home pages of these websites it is not easy or possible to find all the table tennis items that are available from the links that I gave above.
7) The prices are often too good to be true. Are they really selling Tenergy 05 for under fifty dollars?
Can anybody confirm or refute my suspicions for any of these websites? If they were legitimate there are items there that I would love to purchase at their prices.
Cheers
Ken
The websites that I am suspicious of are as follows:
Oops. Forum rules are that I am not able to put place links in any post until my sixth post. I think this is important enough to make it worth being posted six times. This is post 1
Things that make me suspicious of these websites are as follows:
1) When scrolling through the items for sale, I find multiple versions of the same item with slight differences in description and header. I believe that this is due to the fact that a robot was used to pinch the list of items from actual legitimate sites. The robot was not able to understand that they were the same item
2) Some of the sites have domain names that have recently been registered.
3) The domain names are not very good. They don't mean anything.
4) Table Tennis websites that handle these types of goods are normally specialised table tennis only websites. They are not normally part of a general all sports websites. The required inventory for all these goods would be enormous.
5) In some of them the apparent total number of table tennis items is excessive.
6) Structural problems with the menu/index system. Starting from the home pages of these websites it is not easy or possible to find all the table tennis items that are available from the links that I gave above.
7) The prices are often too good to be true. Are they really selling Tenergy 05 for under fifty dollars?
Can anybody confirm or refute my suspicions for any of these websites? If they were legitimate there are items there that I would love to purchase at their prices.
Cheers
Ken
