unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about cloned site is guesswork
Posting this as a discussion rather than a claim: unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about cloned site is guesswork.
The site had a decade of testimonials and a domain registered in March. That was the entire investigation.
Asked a new shop for a batch-specific certificate before ordering. The reply was a generic catalogue page. I did not order.
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.
Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Merged into the standing thread for that domain so the reports sit in one place.
This. Anything urging you to decide today is doing so for its own reasons.
The directory deliberately separates "we have nothing on this name" from "this went badly". Collapsing the two is how boards like this generate false certainty.
Push back: "nobody has tested them" is a fact about this board, not a fact about the company. Say the first one.
Agreed. The clone copies the front page and never the paperwork, because the paperwork is the expensive part.
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.
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.
Do you have anything in writing from before the payment?
Nearly paid a cloned storefront. Caught it because one character in the domain was wrong and I paste rather than type.
What did the storefront say the lead time was?
Agreed on the no-names rule. It protects the board and it protects people who turn out to be wrong.
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