Is this website a scam?

[sinead]

I'm thinking of buying some toms, on the real toms website the shoes seem to be pretty dear so I browsed on other websites, I came across this one, http://tomsshoesoutlet.co.uk/ and I was just wondering is this just a complete scam or are they genuine toms? Thank you.

[Kittysue]

TOMS.com and TOMS.co.uk are the ONLY sites selling real TOMS allowed to use the "toms" name anywhere in their domain name. Any other site you find is committing trademark infringement

EDIT "If a person operates a website using a domain name that contains someone else's trademark (for example, "www.nikestuff.com"), people who see or visit that domain name are likely to be confused and believe that the site is affiliated with Nike when it is not. People may also mistakenly go to this website thinking it's connected with the other company, only to find out that it is not. Intentional misspellings of and similarities to trademarked names (for example, http://www.amizon.com) may also be considered trademark infringements. Just because a company hasn't registered all variations of its name or trademark as domain names doesn't mean that others can use those domain names. If the domain names are likely to confuse consumers, they're probably infringing."

[Jake]

The registration info show the 9 month old site is owned by an Asian name: qijian ren, with a London address Google finds to be in the suburbs near a park. It may be on a dedicated file server. (Some scam sites fake addresses)

I sampled one shoe image which Google found on 166 other sites, not all legitimate.

The contact address on the site seemed to be occupied by:
H.Samuel is UK's largest jewellery & watch retailer.

Didn't seem to see it on the official find a dealer page: http://www.toms.com/store-locator/

[Who]

"kitty sue"

as far as domain names - what you say is absolute rubbish

Anyone can use whatever domain name they like provided it hasnt been registered ,

[581]

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, Western Union, moneygram and bank transfer, only anonymous cash payments.

Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

Your bank can only get your money back if there is money left in the scammer's bank account. Scammers know this and will immediately withdrawal the money you transferred. No money in the account means absolutely no possibility of you getting your hard-earned cash back.

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.

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

[AB Gnome]

I'm willing to bet that site has no connection with the UK! It has the look and feel of a site based in China.