Heated throws part 2 - the scam!

Unfortunately, these sites are so convincing. I was taken in a few years ago, when I bought a pair of Ugg boots at a ridiculously low price. Of course, when they arrived ( from China) they were fake and it would cost £50 for postage to return them. Mr P still casts it up to this day.
Buyer beware, indeed.

Elegran I too have been looking at Damensein and a number of other sites with totally different names but very similar clothes. I have been so very tempted by them during the summer and their winter range have some pieces that I would love. However, like you I have heard very bad reviews of them, so I am resisting temptation. Actually I think they came up on a thread earlier in the year, and the poster said that when the garment arrived it was inferior to that in the picture. I keep telling myself that if the price seems to be too good to be true, then it is.

This is happening on ebay too. I have always looked at the bit that tells you where the goods are coming from and use those that say UK. But even those arrive with Chinese paperwork. Presumably they are setting up depots in the UK, which does not make the goods an better quality.

I tried to find the country of origin but no luck. This was afterwards of course! What showed up on my credit card statement was something else altogether. Looked like it was French.
I've been buying online for years and have obviously just been lucky so far. It makes me appreciate Amazon. They are very easy to deal with if there's a problem.
By the way you really have to persevere with the credit card company. They don't make it easy!

Whatever I buy now I always email the company to ask for country of origin. Most times I don't get a reply but I keep on looking and asking.
I use Paypal wherever possible. I've found on the rare occasion where things have gone wrong to be very helpful in getting money back.

Not on a throw itself but on some recliners. We thought we were getting a bargain, looked like some famous make but considerably cheaper. We were disappointed and luckily able to return but at our own expenses. The foreign websites often if not always includes a UK address which gives you a false sense of security. After that episode we headed straight for our local furniture store where we ended up buying the real thing. ‘You pays your money you takes your choice’, as they say!

PS I was put off by the reviews and didn't buy anything from Damensein, so I have no personal experience of them. All I can say is that if they really sell all the quality things they say they do, I should have heard of them already.

I knew about cloned clothes sites, but of course any pictures and details of nice things can be copied and used to to illustrate sales of inferior copies.

Since I looked at the pics of some very nice clothes on one site (it was Damensein, which turned out to have lots and lots of reviews that mentioned how people had been diddled that way) my internet screen is swamped by ads for similar sites with loads of attractive clothes, many of them showing identical pics. I don't trust any of them.