http://appleiphone5forcheap.com
please help me because i wanted to buy my niece the iphone 5 but i dont wanna pay $600 for it. thank you! xo
100% scam.
That is a fake website pretending to sell cheap merchandise.
Any site that advertises merchandise cheaper than the official manufacture's website is a fake site shipping gosh awful crappy knock-offs or simply collecting cash and not even bothering to ship fakes.
The pictures on the site look like the real merchandise because those pictures ARE of the official merchandise. Those pictures were stolen from the official manufacture's website. If you receive anything at all, which is doubtful, it will not resemble those pretty pictures at all.
The payment options say it all, Western Union and moneygram. The credit card icons are just there for show, that site does not accept credit cards, only anonymous cash payments.
Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.
In all seriousness, when something goes wrong, what will you do? Send an email that is ignored and blocked? Send chat requests until you are ip banned? Call internationally and speak fluent Chinese?
That site only ships with EMS, the Chinese post office, good luck getting the "tracking number" they give you to work on the EMS website. You will need even more luck trying to contact EMS when your tracking stops and your "package" is lost somewhere.
You could then be really lucky, your "package" is discovered, seized by "customs" and all you need to do is pay even more money via Western Union or moneygram to the "custom's official" who uses a free email address just like that site has a free email address as its contact information.
Free email addresses are easy to open and close completely anonymously.
The internet is filled with stores selling counterfeit products, or delivering nothing for your money, it's so easy to duplicate a legitimate site overnight. In some regards the internet is still the wild west.
This site has all the indications of one you would want to avoid. it was registered just 5 weeks ago to a "prada, gucci" at a mangled U.S. address in a residential neighborhood. Too new to be listed in the scam site lists. It's fairly common for Chinese counterfeiters to use faked addresses. The same email address is used at cheapjordansme.com.
The same web server also houses these counterfeit sites create at the same time:
cheapiphone5cool.com
cheapiphone5wholesale.com
discountappleiphone5.com
originalappleiphone5.com
This very similar site using the same product images is Chinese registered
wholesaleiphone5sale.com
I would not send my money to any site with no identifying phone# or address on the contact us page, imagine how easily they can ignore you once they have your money in hand, you really have no legal recourse with one of these Chinese operations, you could probably get a Credit card chargeback at least in the case of non delivery.
Most major makers forbid the use of their copyrighted brand or product names in a domain name, this one really went overboard. Why the iPad boxes in the iphone 5 site header?
You are likely to have a bad experience not buying from an authorized dealer, there are lots of look alike Chinese counterfeits that are something completely different on the inside, like a Windows mobile device, if there are actual unauthorized copies rumored to come off the same assembly like there wound be no warranty of support by Apple. I would probably not trust such a new model at ebay either. I could probably sleep at night buying through Amazon.
No. If you buy an iPhone from an unauthorized dealer, prepare to be scammed.
Why would you pay $600 for a phone that you can get for $200 with a new service plan?
BASIC LIFE LESSON: If it sounds too good to be true, there's a 99.47% chance you are being scammed.
No, appleiphone5forcheap.com is probably not legit. I mean you could try but I doubt you would actually receive a real, working, iPhone 5. I mean, it looks like they're selling from China... not exactly the most trustworthy place to be buying cheap iPhones from.
If you do try it, be sure to tell us it if worked or not!
High probability it is a scam site. Best thing to do is to avoid it.
here's the link:
http://appleiphone5forcheap.com
please help me because i wanted to buy my niece the iphone 5 but i dont wanna pay $600 for it. thank you! xo
