Caution out there fly by night websites The price is too good

[woodchucker]

Saw a website that was offering what I was looking for , for almost half of what it was selling for.
That raised my scam radar.
The site was kickbuytool.shop and they have a bunch of other similar names.
The site registered 6 days ago.

 

[Gaffer]

Scam-O-Rama!

 

[woodchucker]

oh, there's more. The inventory was 11, then 8 for the same item...
I came back a few minutes later after clearing my cookies out...
now there are 18 left.
big scam... They are just making it up... get your money and run.

 

[pontiac428]

Anything to save a dollar, right?

There's a reason I shop McMaster, Zoro, Grainger... No such thing as a free lunch.

 

[Jim F]

Saw a website that was offering what I was looking for , for almost half of what it was selling for.
That raised my scam radar.
The site was kickbuytool.shop and they have a bunch of other similar names.
The site registered 6 days ago.

That is why you buy from reputable sources, not chinese websites......

 

[woodchucker]

That is why you buy from reputable sources, not chinese websites......

Well Jim, this appears to be a website in the USA. Massachusetts, but the registration was from Florida.
And many Chinese websites like Alibaba, AliExpress, Bangood are not fly by night. But this one IS.

 

[woodchucker]

Anything to save a dollar, right?

There's a reason I shop McMaster, Zoro, Grainger... No such thing as a free lunch.

more like $80. If it were real I'd be all over it. Because I don't need it, but want it.

 

[mattthemuppet2]

A while back there was a run of scams using dividing heads or rotary tables as the bait. I don't think anyone lost any money due to CC protections, but for sure no one got a dividing head or rotary table.

 

[Jim F]

Well Jim, this appears to be a website in the USA. Massachusetts, but the registration was from Florida.
And many Chinese websites like Alibaba, AliExpress, Bangood are not fly by night. But this one IS.

I avoid buying chinese crap at any expense.........

 

[woodchucker]

A while back there was a run of scams using dividing heads or rotary tables as the bait. I don't think anyone lost any money due to CC protections, but for sure no one got a dividing head or rotary table.

I remember, but that was an ebay scammer.