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Online clothes company that keeps changing it's name

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Magenta8 Sun 12-Jul-26 13:25:10

There may be more than one company doing this but it always seems to turn out the same way.

There are photos of clothes on the website that look really nice in the photos and are often described as being made from natural fibres and decorated with lace, embroidery, flowers etc.

You order what looks like a really pretty top in the photograph online, only to find that what arrives is made from cheap polyester with a printed design on it that looks really awful.

You try and return the item but this proves impossible as you seem to be blocked from doing so at every turn.

A short while later you find what look suspiciously like the same tops being advertised by a company with a completely different name. It would appear that they trade under one name until they have a few one star reviews on Trustpilot, then they simply change the name of the company and start again.

A while back I bought what was supposed to be a knitted cotton top with embroidered flowers. What arrived was a printed polyester fleece top with unhemmed edges.

Magenta8 Sun 12-Jul-26 13:32:26

Sorry that should be 'its name' (the heat strikes again)

MawsRosie Sun 12-Jul-26 13:55:41

The Chinese curse strikes again!
I should know better, I DO know better but I have fallen for these too.
Why didn’t I check Trustpilot?
I am now very wary of clothing /handbag/shoe companies which sound VERY British, often with a place name in their name, or claiming to be an old family business reluctantly ‘going out of business’
Caveat emptor was never so relevant.

Primrose53 Sun 12-Jul-26 14:28:04

These Chinese scammers have been featured on Watchdog a few months ago and more recently on the consumer prog with Gloria Hunniford and two other female presenters.

At the moment there’s a firm calling themselves Harrington & Co advertising mens caps. All the reviews are fake and have daft names. If anybody posts a negative review they disappear immediately. All made in China not England and mass produced not individually made and very poor quality.

Mollygo Sun 12-Jul-26 14:46:44

I ordered something from MASIRA.co.uk.
Took 3 weeks to arrive . . . From China.