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 paypal. 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.
Paypal can only get your money back if there is money left in the scammer's paypal linked bank account. Scammers know this and will withdraw your money immediately, no money in the account means no possibility of refund for you.
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?
The UPS, TNT and DHL icons are there only to take up space, 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 first thing you should do in investigating a store site is to look at the Domain name owner whois information, most of the time it will immediately expose a shady foreign site.
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/in...
In this case the information is muddled, there is a very Asian sounding name with a confused address having the city and country as Qita. The site is 4 years old which is usually a sign of not being a totally fly by night operation, but this obviously deceptive address is not a good start.
The second as previously suggested is to do a web search for the name, maybe:
"prettyquinceanera.com" scam
Due to the site's relative long existance it's accumulated a number of deserved complaints:
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaint...
http://www.scamfound.com/f13/prettyquinc...
http://usashameboard.com/internet-web/on...
http://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.pr...
Bear in mind this could be a perfectly professional looking site created only 6 weeks rather than 4 years ago that would have no complaints yet, be sure to examine the owner information which 80% of the time will immediately identify a Chinese operation, other times you may hve to look for smaller signs, should it be a site using a paid proxy registrant to conceal the owner information or are using a fake U.S. address, sometimes the registration will still show a +86 Chinese phone number.
They appear to also own at least 23 other sites, including these:
buyquinceaneradress.com
prettypromgowns.com
promdressfactory.com
promdressbuy.com
lovelypromdress.com
usaweddingdress.com
weddingdresscity.com
weddingdresshere.com
myweddinggowndress.com
buybridesmaiddress.com
oilpaintingsworld.com
So they can just discard a site if it becomes troublesome.
You can also use Google image search by example to find other sites using the exact same catalog photo, this can be use in price comparison or debunking claims ot exclusivity, it involves copying the image location (url) and clicking the tiny camera at: images.google.com
Yes, I have ordered from them before and would recommend them. My daughter competes in pageants and to help keep the costs down I use a few asian companies that "duplicate" these dresses for a fraction of the price I'd normally pay. It's a secret of ours that we don't really advertise to any of our competitors. BUT, you must order with at least 60 days notice from the date of your event. Make sure you triple check your measurements as well. Good Luck!
Google the company name followed by the words, scam, and complaints.
Complaints.com has a couple of reviews
I can't get them to upload to give the link.
Can't you find a gorgeous dress in the mall?
Not a site that is in qita (where ever that is?).
My quince is in 2 months and i found this website, it seems legit to me but i don't know. Has anyone ever ordered a dress from here ? please help
