reading cloned site threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly
reading cloned site threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down.
Nearly paid a cloned storefront. Caught it because one character in the domain was wrong and I paste rather than type.
Was in a group buy that went quiet for six weeks. It resolved in the end, but the structure meant I had no visibility and no recourse the whole time.
Asked a new shop for a batch-specific certificate before ordering. The reply was a generic catalogue page. I did not order.
Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.
best — the order this archive was captured in
A report is useful here when it carries dates, the exact domain, what was requested, what arrived and what did not. Everything else is atmosphere.
The site had a decade of testimonials and a domain registered in March. That was the entire investigation.
group buys concentrate risk in one person and nobody plans for that
Merged into the standing thread for that domain so the reports sit in one place.
Do you have anything in writing from before the payment?
Agreed. The clone copies the front page and never the paperwork, because the paperwork is the expensive part.
Correction: that domain is one character different from the one you posted, which is rather the point of this thread.
Never name an individual. The sidebar rule exists because the cost of being wrong falls on a person and the benefit of being right falls on nobody in particular.
a cloned storefront copies the design, never the documentation
check the domain character by character before you check anything else
report it here with dates, not adjectives
Careful. What you are describing is a delayed shipment, and this board should not turn that into an accusation without more.
Reported something here with dates and screenshots and was asked for the document trail. Fair challenge, and it made the report worth reading.
Reported something here with dates and screenshots and was asked for the document trail.
This is the check that catches most of it, and it takes under a minute.
the pattern repeats because it works, not because people are stupid
This. Anything urging you to decide today is doing so for its own reasons.
Yes — describe the sequence of events with dates. That is a report. Adjectives are not.
Now I buy small from anyone new, test it, and only then commit. It has cost me a few small orders and saved me one large one.
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