Is this satisfactory enough to buy something from Alibaba?

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I am recently planning to order something from Alibaba. Since this is my first purchase I like to ask few questions.

The Company has the following details.

1.Dongguan Linbiao Anti-Fake Technology (Name of the company)

2. It is Escrow verified but so far the payment method we have discussed is Western union.

3. I have done my search on the company and they do look legit. The are listed on few other sites also like tradeboss & wdtrade. With the name of the contractor & company address mentioned there.

Is this enough to trust?

Thank you for your help

Buffy Staffordshire · Accepted Answer

100% scam.rnrnThat is a fake website pretending to sell cheap merchandise.rnrnAny 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.rnrnThe 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.rnrnThe payment options say it all, Western Union, moneygram, paypal, bank transfer or escrow., only anonymous cash payments.rnrnWestern 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.rnrnPaypal can only get your money back if there is money left in the scammer's paypal-linked bank account. Scammers know this and will immediately withdrawal your money and disappear. No money in the scammer's paypal-linked bank account means absolutely no possibility of refund for you.rnrnYour bank can only get your money back if there is money left in the scammer's bank account. Scammers know this and will immediately withdrawal the money you transferred. No money in the account means absolutely no possibility of you getting your hard-earned cash back.rnrnThe escrow company is just another branch of the same scam website. You are actually just sending your money directly to the scammer. Even if the escrow site was owned by another company, can you trust them? Who owns the site? Who is receiving your money? Where? What country? What street address? How to contact them? Whats to stop the escrow company from just forwarding your money to the seller and completely ignoring your emails?rnrnIn 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?rnrnThe 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.rnrnYou 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.rnrnFree email addresses are easy to open and close completely anonymously.

Is this satisfactory enough to buy something from Alibaba?

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