Is this website a scam?

[eddie]

http://www.magicdress.co.uk

[Lily]

Yes, yes it is.

[Jake]

Although the 5 month old site is registered to a Bill Clinton at a London address (likely bogus), the about us page spells out that it's a Chinese business. There are always added uncertainty dealing with a Chinese "business" they often show images stolen off other sites and deliver something substantially different.

Look up as site owner and creation date with a whois tool (some use 'privacy' registration proxies to conceal the real owner info, some Chinese sites fabricate an address, look for Chinese +86 phone numbers)
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp

You can copy the location of an image there (right mouse click?) them go to google image search, clicking the little camera icon to search for more copies of the image, that first Wedding Bridesmaid, over the shoulder dress is shown on about 30 sites. You will find a huge variety of prices, sometimes too low is a bad sign.

Deal with a more established major name.

The one other site on the same file service may well have the same owner
astralleds.com

[Unluckylamp508]

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 and moneygram. The credit card icons are just there for show, that site does not accept credit cards, 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.

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.

[InspectorBudget]

Yes, it's a scam.