Would you say this site is a scam or real?

[Dsadaserr]

Is this a scam site or not?
http://www.thenorthfacestyle.com/index.p...page=login

I saw it on the side of Facebook just now, the sponsoring ads section?
Is this a scam?

[Jake]

The site registration information shows it's just 7 days old, registered to someone in Norway, too new for me to trust. The possibilities of their delivering counterfeits or nothing is too great. Any site with only a disposible gmail address on their Contact Us page should be viewed with suspicion.

[Zachary]

Yes, I would say it is a scam. You can always research these websites with Google but its a waste of time. If your trying to make money online there are only a hand full of good websites out there. I can point you in the right direction!

Good Luck,
ZM

[Awesome personn]

dont trust it.

[relievedhorn931]

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?

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.

[Paul]

Hello Dsadaserr,

Hmmm, I haven't bought anything from this site yet. Just heard of it. Obviously, there are a lot of websites that we can't directly pin-point whether or not they are legitimate.

With that, I'd like to share some tips and information that I found out about this site. Hopefully, these will help you out in your decision-making.

1) Typically, when I'm doubtful about a website, I check its identity using Verify1st.com. This is really helpful to uncover a site's reputation and relationships with other sites, too. It's a free online tool, but unfortunately, upon checking the site - http://verify1st.com/thenorthfacestyle.com - they don't have any information yet. Perhaps this will be indexed in the database on their next release.

2) As for http://www.whois.com/whois/thenorthfacestyle.com - obviously, the domain was registered last 25-Oct-2012 and will expire immediately on 25-Oct-2013. (It is relatively short to be in the business if you are a viable one, don't you think?)

3) Its global Alexa ranking - http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/thenorthfacestyle.com - is way too far to be popular and there's NO DATA at all for sites linking into their website. (This involves HIGH RISK, because if your business is viable, someone will know about you and will start linking into your site.)

4) Since this is new, some reputation tools show that the domain is UK-based and there are other countries involved that can be considerable to be of at risk. Being relatively new, there are not much reviews to be found so you just have to be extra careful and gauge yourself if you're up to take a risk.

5) Upon checking the website, it's quite odd that they don't have a valid contact number - just a free e-mail address. A viable business should have one, don't you think so?

6) Also, I see icons at the bottom of the page. Anyone can just include those icons to make their site look more legit, but it would have been better if upon clicking on them, you'll be directed to the originator's site (just like how a valid Third Party Trust Verification Badge works)

Bottom line, all these don't automatically make them scammers (being new in the business), but they are not totally risk-free either. You may get what you ordered but it may not be the exact quality that you expect it to be or worse, you don't receive anything at all. If you have a bit of skepticism, just trust your gut. You can always purchase from an official North Face outlet. At least, you'll be sure that it's all genuine and warranty is secured.

Hope this helps! Tread carefully!