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sprinterman

Original Poster:

1 posts

171 months

Saturday 13th February 2010
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just want to warn other vulnerable buyers not to purchase anything from topswiss.co.uk. i ordered a watch over 3 weeks ago i payed 350 for it and it has not been delivered .

Ikemi

8,449 posts

206 months

Saturday 13th February 2010
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Get the pitchforks ready, lads! wink

elster

17,517 posts

211 months

Saturday 13th February 2010
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Don't know who they are, however I do get their spam.

DAVE-W

544 posts

212 months

Saturday 13th February 2010
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Ikemi said:
Get the pitchforks ready, lads! wink
hehe like a lamb to the slaughter wink

ShadownINja

76,510 posts

283 months

Saturday 13th February 2010
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Out of interest, where are they based?

For the wider readership of PH, I understand that for whatever reason (probably the same mentality that gives illegal immigrants 10 bedroom mansions and £50k salaries wink ), you don't have to live in or have a company based in the UK to register a .co.uk. Thus, many .co.uk domains are owned by foreigners, particularly dodgy ones from China.

Their whois server isn't contactable... tell me you didn't pay by debit card, cos your account is about to be emptied.

Kinky

39,624 posts

270 months

Saturday 13th February 2010
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ShadownINja said:
Out of interest, where are they based?
Russia IIRC.

Well known wink

DAVE-W

544 posts

212 months

Saturday 13th February 2010
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So to clarify....Russians selling chinese swiss watches to the British, probably via Uguandan bank accounts hehe

wiffmaster

2,604 posts

199 months

Saturday 13th February 2010
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Servers are in Russia, but unsurprisingly they've opted out of listing their address on the whois.

Kinky

39,624 posts

270 months

Saturday 13th February 2010
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ShadownINja said:
tell me you didn't pay by debit card, cos your account is about to be has been emptied.
Edited for correction, considering it's been 3 weeks smile

HereBeMonsters

14,180 posts

183 months

Saturday 13th February 2010
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This is not going to go well.

anonymous-user

55 months

Saturday 13th February 2010
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i don't understand the price of these replica sites. Why are so expensive for something that just looks like the real one.

I remember the days when you went on holiday and bought one for 10 quid from a 'lookie lookie' man, who called you del boy while you were drunk. To spend 350 quid sober on one, to me is just stupid..

And what is the 350 quid for, the 'quality' of the replica, the mechanisms..

These sites just keep multiplying, but if there is still demand then they will keep churning it out..



Edited by The Loose Goose on Saturday 13th February 22:45

anonymous-user

55 months

Saturday 13th February 2010
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An easey thing in future is just to google the name followed by scam..When website come up, you know you need to pass it by..

it looks like from this review it is better something doesn't turn up.


http://www.rolex-replica-scams.com/topswiss-co-uk-...

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'This is an underground counterfeit industry and it's not exactly regulated by the Underground Counterfeit Fair Trade Standards Association.'


steve cadman

1 posts

169 months

Tuesday 6th April 2010
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sprinterman said:
just want to warn other vulnerable buyers not to purchase anything from topswiss.co.uk. i ordered a watch over 3 weeks ago i payed 350 for it and it has not been delivered .
Hello there i orderd a so called AAAA Top swiss made replica on the 25th march 2010 i received a parcel on the 31st march, as i opened the parcel the fedex bloke commented it had come all the way from the philipines. As i opend it i realised i had not received a top quality swiss made replica but a standard copy with the usual japanese movement. A good copy but only worth half what i had paid.
I e-mailed them straight away and got a reply back asking me to photo the watch i had received and email it to them i did and they replied saying it was indeed the swiss watch i had orderd and payed a whopping 300 pound for! I complained again and to be fair they did offer me a refund or an exchange if i returned it to them special delivery, i was going to send it back but after researching this company further and hearing your experiences i think i would be better off just taking it on the chin as i dont trust i would get a refund or an exchange ,and think iym lucky to get anything at all !



Kinky

39,624 posts

270 months

Tuesday 6th April 2010
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Sprinterman - it's now been almost 2 months since your posts. Any updates on what happened?

anonymous-user

55 months

Tuesday 6th April 2010
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Kinky said:
Sprinterman - it's now been almost 2 months since your posts. Any updates on what happened?
we never did get a definition of a 'vulnerable buyers'

is that somebody too stupid to use a CC...???

Ikemi

8,449 posts

206 months

Wednesday 7th April 2010
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steve cadman said:
sprinterman said:
just want to warn other vulnerable buyers not to purchase anything from topswiss.co.uk. i ordered a watch over 3 weeks ago i payed 350 for it and it has not been delivered .
Hello there i orderd a so called AAAA Top swiss made replica on the 25th march 2010 i received a parcel on the 31st march, as i opened the parcel the fedex bloke commented it had come all the way from the philipines. As i opend it i realised i had not received a top quality swiss made replica but a standard copy with the usual japanese movement. A good copy but only worth half what i had paid.
I e-mailed them straight away and got a reply back asking me to photo the watch i had received and email it to them i did and they replied saying it was indeed the swiss watch i had orderd and payed a whopping 300 pound for! I complained again and to be fair they did offer me a refund or an exchange if i returned it to them special delivery, i was going to send it back but after researching this company further and hearing your experiences i think i would be better off just taking it on the chin as i dont trust i would get a refund or an exchange ,and think iym lucky to get anything at all !
In fairness you should've taken your £300, popped over to Goldsmiths/Ernest Jones and used it as a deposit in conjunction with a 0% finance deal ... You would've then walked away with a real high quality Swiss made watch with a Swiss made movement that you could treasure and if push came to shove, would be worth at least something second hand!

Instead you actively bought tat for £300 to fool people into believing you bought an expensive watch ... and got stung! £300 gets you a decent watch, y'know wink

andy tims

5,586 posts

247 months

Wednesday 7th April 2010
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Ikemi said:
you actively bought tat for £300 to fool people into believing you bought an expensive watch ... and got stung!
Harsh.......................................but true.

sneijder

5,221 posts

235 months

Wednesday 7th April 2010
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Who the hell would give 300 sheets for a Graham knock off, that's what I want to know.

Scraggles

7,619 posts

225 months

Wednesday 7th April 2010
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http://www.who.is/whois/topswiss.co.uk/

Registrant's address:
The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their
address omitted from the WHOIS service.

that in itself is a warning, who wants to do business with a non trading trader ?

IP: 89.108.71.204
IP Location: Moscow, Russian Federation
Website Status: inactive

lol, some people never learn smile