Zorac (zorac) wrote,
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Blatant rip-off of the day

Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring to your attention Amkells.co.uk. alnitak pointed this site out to me - the similarities in the site design to Amazon.co.uk are quite breathtaking. For the most blatant example, have a look at their safe shopping guarantee and compare it to that on Amazon - they're word-for-word identical, as is much of the "Where's My Stuff?" etc. section at the bottom of each page. Google searching turns up virtually nothing for amkells other than link shops.

I'm not quite sure what's going on there, but it certainly smells like fish to me.

Updates: The email I fired off to Amazon has had nothing but a form reply so far. Googling for amkells now turns up my LJ on the first page :)

More updates: The information in this comment does lean towards their legitimacy, but on the other hand, the site appears to be down at the moment...
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Re: Amkells - once was enough

Anonymous

April 5 2004, 09:13:17 UTC 17 years ago

You want another "boy". I orderered some CD cases on 12 Feb, and despite my credit card having been debited on 9th March, still no CD cases. Now their web shop is "temporarily" closed. Legit? You guess.

Re: Amkells - once was enough

Anonymous

April 26 2004, 07:46:36 UTC 17 years ago

ordered goods to the value of £150 never recieved the goods but cc was debited imediately, tried to cancell with cc but they would not. Sent seven emails and got one patronising answer about order and company structure. The cc have returned my cash but i dont like being ripped and i am gonna make a trip to basildon wiv da boys...................

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