if they ask for social security number and etc, don't give it to them!
Exactly. When dealing with real money people use caution. The site is just awful, in fact it's one of the worst shop sites I've seen.djphetal wrote:
Zimmer, take it easy. Based on the look of the site, one would (and should) have second thoughts before giving them your money and personal information.
Now, you happen to know something most of us didn't about this site. For you to correct people is fine, but to go ape shit is completely pointless. You could teach people something, but instead all you'll do is piss them off.
I don't know what the big deal is, if you don't work for them then what do you care if they get 6 dollars or not?
I'd just buy it off a normal, mainstream site. If you can't be assed making a proper site you don't deserve money.
On the look of a site? You base it on the look of a site?
Some sites don't make enough profit to have a pro designer/coder make them a snazzy site, so they have to make do with the basics.
It just annoys me that you come to such conclusions on the image of a site. "Normal, mainstream site" - see? People like you don't allow smaller businessess to expand, don't allow new ideas to come up and basically kill sites. Why? Because all you will do is touch something that you have touched for 2 years; anything new or weird you wont touch. Which is why a lot of the internets good ideas and good sites are going to waste - people wont touch them because they hate change.
I've seen worse shops, all of them being completely legit. If someone was going to scam people, they would at LEAST make an effort. Why the other way around? "I wont make an effort on the site, make people leave so I can scam them" It just doesn't work - see? THe moment you saw that site you said "NO"... but why would a scammer go to the extent of making a site that is so bad people will leave it? There is no reason to it.
Things to look for on a safe site :
SSL Certificates ( on the URL, you should have [b]https://[b] and not http ) - VeriSign and the rest are trusted safe sites. To check for the certificate, click on the little LOCK on the url of your browser ( changes from browser to browser, but is quite clear )/
VISA and CC approval signs ( yes, I know, anybody can grab them off another site, but if that site already has SSL, I doubt they would risk adding fradulent shit onto it ( SSL certificates cost a lot of money, so when a site has it, it would be weird for it to be scamming you )
Paypal certified - yes, most sites don't work with Paypal because they prefer to go straight to CC. But once a site is paypal verified, you know you can trust it. You can do a dummy checkout on any site that says "paypal certified" and if it takes you to the Paypal portal, then you are on the right tracks.
Google - it is your friend in this case. If you find a site you think looks dodgy, make sure to Google it : You are guaranteed to get results about people asking about the site and if it's trustworthy. Look into them.
Google checkout - almost guaranteed to be a safe site, if you google the site and it pop ups, you are in the right.
Customer reviews - if there are actual reviews and comments on the site, all the better... Makes you feel as if you aren't the only twat that is looking at the site.
Try to ignore the design and look at functionality, make sure that all links should take you to the desired place and that the checkout really is a checkout - it's very hard to code up a "fake" checkout... The free eCommerce solutions are well made and solid enough to be trusted, and the scammer is very unlikely to be able to afford a homemade eCommerce solution.
There are many eCommerce sites that run on another site - for example, this one right here... Most of these sites are completely trustworthy.
I hope that helps.
Some sites don't make enough profit to have a pro designer/coder make them a snazzy site, so they have to make do with the basics.
It just annoys me that you come to such conclusions on the image of a site. "Normal, mainstream site" - see? People like you don't allow smaller businessess to expand, don't allow new ideas to come up and basically kill sites. Why? Because all you will do is touch something that you have touched for 2 years; anything new or weird you wont touch. Which is why a lot of the internets good ideas and good sites are going to waste - people wont touch them because they hate change.
I've seen worse shops, all of them being completely legit. If someone was going to scam people, they would at LEAST make an effort. Why the other way around? "I wont make an effort on the site, make people leave so I can scam them" It just doesn't work - see? THe moment you saw that site you said "NO"... but why would a scammer go to the extent of making a site that is so bad people will leave it? There is no reason to it.
Things to look for on a safe site :
SSL Certificates ( on the URL, you should have [b]https://[b] and not http ) - VeriSign and the rest are trusted safe sites. To check for the certificate, click on the little LOCK on the url of your browser ( changes from browser to browser, but is quite clear )/
VISA and CC approval signs ( yes, I know, anybody can grab them off another site, but if that site already has SSL, I doubt they would risk adding fradulent shit onto it ( SSL certificates cost a lot of money, so when a site has it, it would be weird for it to be scamming you )
Paypal certified - yes, most sites don't work with Paypal because they prefer to go straight to CC. But once a site is paypal verified, you know you can trust it. You can do a dummy checkout on any site that says "paypal certified" and if it takes you to the Paypal portal, then you are on the right tracks.
Google - it is your friend in this case. If you find a site you think looks dodgy, make sure to Google it : You are guaranteed to get results about people asking about the site and if it's trustworthy. Look into them.
Google checkout - almost guaranteed to be a safe site, if you google the site and it pop ups, you are in the right.
Customer reviews - if there are actual reviews and comments on the site, all the better... Makes you feel as if you aren't the only twat that is looking at the site.
Try to ignore the design and look at functionality, make sure that all links should take you to the desired place and that the checkout really is a checkout - it's very hard to code up a "fake" checkout... The free eCommerce solutions are well made and solid enough to be trusted, and the scammer is very unlikely to be able to afford a homemade eCommerce solution.
There are many eCommerce sites that run on another site - for example, this one right here... Most of these sites are completely trustworthy.
I hope that helps.
I am not wrong again. You have to leave that website to go find the info, hence I am correct.Zimmer wrote:
Wrong again. The legal mumbo jumbo is on ChannelAdvisor
Case closed.
Also, when I go to buy things, I am not going to go search around on different sites to find the legal info. So, you may have shown they are trust worthy, but off face value, they are not imo. I would see that website and skip right over it tbh.
I love you too, marine.usmarine wrote:
I am not wrong again. You have to leave that website to go find the info, hence I am correct.Zimmer wrote:
Wrong again. The legal mumbo jumbo is on ChannelAdvisor
Case closed.
Also, when I go to buy things, I am not going to go search around on different sites to find the legal info. So, you may have shown they are trust worthy, but off face value, they are not imo. I would see that website and skip right over it tbh.
Well, Zimmer has proven it's trustworthy. Just realize that it is "Like New" and "PLEASE NOTE that this item was taken out of a Xbox 360 bundle and does not include packaging." Meaning it's used, which is why it's so cheap.