Is kickshut.com a safe and trust website?

[Boend]

http://www.kickshut.com/, if anyone has bought from this website and is it safe to buy shoes from?

[Jake]

That 13 month old site is Chinese registered, so it's a certainty that any brand name sneakers would be counterfeits. (that's the case with perhaps 90+% of the sneaker sites people ask about here)

The 3 basic tests you can make of an online store.

1) Check the domain name whois owner information, many of the Chinese counterfeit sites will be immediately exposed, (anything from China would be fakes.)
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp

2) Test 2: check the Contact Us page, if there is no identifying phone# or address forget it, imagine how easily an email alone can be ignored.

3) Search the web for complaints, try Googling: "thesite.com" scam, to see if it's been submitted to fraud site registries, a site under 3 months old may not yet be included even it deserving.

For this site you will find:

"Bad online reputation" "Low trust rating" from an automated checkers.
http://www.scamvoid.com/check/kickshut.com

http://www.scamadviser.com/is-Kickshut.com-safe.html

Didn't encounter actual buyer complaints.

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


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

Here's the official authorized Nike store finder
http://www.nike.com/us/en_us/sl/store-locator