Is http://www.ajfootwear.com/ a legit website?

[Ross]

I do not want to be scammed, and I want real Jordans. Can you please look at the website and tell me what you thin. Thank you.

[newby]

I'm 99% sure that it is a scam.

Links on the bottom of the page--like for its blog, YouTube, and Facebook--are broken. Similarly, the FAQ section does not link anywhere, meaning it was added for the sole purpose of *seeming* legitimate.

I checked out the registry information on the domain at whois.net, and the site is from China and has been around for less than a year.

Good eye in spotting it as a scam. In the future, utilizing sites like whois.net will help you check up on sites like this one.

[Jake]

Yea there's Zero chance of getting the real thing from a Chinese site, it good place to start is the domain name owner registration information:
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp
About 85% of the time a Chinese site will be immediately exposed, the other 15% use a paid "privacy" registration proxy to conceal the real owner information or provide a fake U.S.s address.

The operator of ajfootwear.com appears to also own these counterfeit stores:
supraproshop.com
Isabel-marant-boot.com
aj-fr.com inactive

Any store site asking for your money wit no identifying phone# or address on the Contact Us page is highly suspect, often there's lousy English or evidence of the site being copied from another on these Chinese site thrown together in a short time.


Here are some large respected shoe sites:
Zappos.com (has free shipping and return shipping) did have some bad publicity once after their customer database was hacked.
6pm.com ( Zappos owned clearance store)
Onlineshoes.com
Shoebuy.com
Shoemetro.com
eastbay.com (shares facilities with Footlocker)

pickyourshoes.com 10 1/2 year old, probably OK


There are forums that are dedicated to sneakers, and can be educational.
http://solecollector.com/forums/
http://www.sneakerfreaker.com/forum/
http://niketalk.com

[Jollyhorn003]

100% scam.

That is a fake website pretending to sell cheap merchandise.

Any site that advertises merchandise cheaper than the official manufacture's website is a fake site shipping gosh awful crappy knock-offs or simply collecting cash and not even bothering to ship fakes.

The pictures on the site look like the real merchandise because those pictures ARE of the official merchandise. Those pictures were stolen from the official manufacture's website. If you receive anything at all, which is doubtful, it will not resemble those pretty pictures at all.

The payment options say it all, paypal and Visa, through a third party software and website.

Paypal can only get your money back if there is money left in the scammer's paypal-linked bank account. Scammers know this and will immediately withdrawal your money and disappear. No money in the scammer's paypal-linked bank account means absolutely no possibility of refund for you.

Visa, through a third party software and website. Good luck getting a reply from the original site or that payment processor when your credit card is charged again and again by that site and others for months or years from now. That site and payment processor could be shut down for fraud by the time you realize you were scammed, then you have no way to get your money back.

If the site is still around, then your bank might be able to get some of your money back, eventually, if you fill out lots of paperwork for the charge back procedure. However, some banks won't even try to get your money back once they realize you attempted to purchase cheap knock-off merchandise from some Chinese website. Purchasing or just trying to buy replica, fake merchandise is against the law.

In all seriousness, when something goes wrong, what will you do? Send an email that is ignored and blocked? Send chat requests until you are ip banned? Call internationally and speak fluent Chinese?

The UPS, TNT and DHL icons are there only to take up space, that site only ships with EMS, the Chinese post office, good luck getting the "tracking number" they give you to work on the EMS website. You will need even more luck trying to contact EMS when your tracking stops and your "package" is lost somewhere.

You could then be really lucky, your "package" is discovered, seized by "customs" and all you need to do is pay even more money via Western Union or moneygram to the "custom's official" who uses a free email address just like that site has a free email address as its contact information.

Free email addresses are easy to open and close completely anonymously.