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 - kelkoo points to them regularly

bwarb

March 12 2004, 06:52:07 UTC 17 years ago

Alex, if you try the link that Kelkoo gave you to contact Amkells (including the part of the link not "hypertexted") you'll find it takes you through to a page of the Amkells catalogue and NOT the Contact Us page.

The jury is still out on these cowboys .....

Re: amkells - kelkoo points to them regularly

Anonymous

May 8 2004, 08:20:20 UTC 16 years ago

Sorry to hear you had a bad experience with Amkells I would just like to say to anyone who reads this that I have purchase from this company many time and have never had any problem with them. Obvious if they service loads of customers occasionally things could go wrong like when buying from any company I was charged twice for an item from Argos back in December 2003, I just wanted to add a positive feedback for AMKELLS a company that has always delivered a quality service too me.

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