[Discussion] fake COA is doing more work than we give it credit for
fake COA is doing more work than we give it credit for. Not a hot take, just something I have not seen said plainly here. Nearly paid a cloned storefront. Caught it because one character in the domain was wrong and I paste rather than type. The directory deliberately separates "we have nothing on this name" from…
Never name an individual. The sidebar rule exists because the cost of being wrong falls on a person and the benefit of being right falls on nobody in particular.
Cloned storefronts copy assets, layout and testimonial text. What they cannot easily copy is a batch-specific document that ties to a lot you can then have tested independently.
Never name an individual.
This is the check that catches most of it, and it takes under a minute.
This is the check that catches most of it, and it takes under a minute.
rohan_krastev has the group-buy risk right — it is structural, not a judgement about anybody in particular.
This is the check that catches most of it, and it takes under a minute.
Adding the practical version: buy small from anyone new, test it, then decide.
the review page nobody can find on any other site is a warning
Is this a shop, a group buy, or an individual reseller? They fail in different ways.
Not convinced. A payment window that closed is a payment window, not evidence of intent.
Reported something here with dates and screenshots and was asked for the document trail. Fair challenge, and it made the report worth reading.
Correction: that domain is one character different from the one you posted, which is rather the point of this thread.