Would you trust this website?

[lennox1185]

I'd like a pair of headphones that are becoming very popular, but they retail at £150-£160....which I would NEVER pay for headphones.

But I came across this website, based in London.

Would you trust it?

http://www.starlight-time.co.uk/Monster ... 20575.aspx

[1234dist]

short answer, no.

firstly selling at a 3rd the price should be the alarm bell.

also domain details:
Domain name:
starlight-time.co.uk

Registrant:
Patrick Morris

Registrant type:
Unknown

Registrant's address:
32 Wellington Parade
Walmer
Deal
Kent
CT14 8AB
United Kingdom

Registrar:
Namesco Limited t/a Namesco Ltd [Tag = NAMESCO]
URL: http://www.names.co.uk

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 25-Mar-2011
Renewal date: 25-Mar-2013
Last updated: 08-Jun-2011

Registration status:
Registered until renewal date.

Name servers:
ns0.phase8.net
ns1.phase8.net
ns2.phase8.net

WHOIS lookup made at 20:49:05 26-Oct-2011

Don't match the trading address
Starlight Time
44 Langbourne Mansions
Swaines Lane
London
N6 6PT


And worst of all the contact number is a mobile and probably a PAYG
07885 741576

[vinny19791]

£30 here

http://www.dhgate.com/wholesale/headpho ... 08002.html

My brother has bought from china for years. Decent gear, probably not genuine but all seems well.

We used to buy the beats ones for £40 and flog them for £150 on ebay.



Never had any issues

[Null_Byte]

short answer, no.

firstly selling at a 3rd the price should be the alarm bell.

also domain details:
Don't match the trading address


And worst of all the contact number is a mobile and probably a PAYG
07885 741576

It isn't uncommon to have a registrant address that doesn't match the trading address. Often a domain is registered on behalf of somebody anyway.

However, if a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is. Mobile numbers and dodgy looking websites offering an item at a low price is never a good sign.




On a side issue, you do realise those beats headphones are utter rubbish and not even worth £40? If you are just getting them for looks then that's fine, but if you actually want £150's worth of sound, you will be disappointed.

We used to buy the beats ones for £40 and flog them for £150 on ebay.

Some Chinese imports can be very good, but either way,selling counterfeit goods is probably not something you would want to publicly be admitting.

[Punx0r]

You mean you sold counterfeit gear on ebay?

[1234dist]

the website should always be registered to the owner of the site.

Otherwise they have no legal right to the site or any content and if the runner of the site wanted to steal it, without the register stating they are the own its basically tough sh*t.

The database engine on one of my sites cost over £7k in design and execution, i would hate to see that just stolen off me.

You should be the registered owner and your web designer should be the technical contact.

[vinny19791]

You mean you sold counterfeit gear on ebay?

Nope

Sold some dr dre beats headphones that happened to come from china! Sounded fine

[jmurray01]

"I am sorry but due to a recent bereavement I have had to place the store temporarily as inactive We will be back soon"

Hmm... Or he was rumbled ?

[Null_Byte]

the website should always be registered to the owner of the site.

Otherwise they have no legal right to the site or any content and if the runner of the site wanted to steal it, without the register stating they are the own its basically tough sh*t.

The database engine on one of my sites cost over £7k in design and execution, i would hate to see that just stolen off me.

You should be the registered owner and your web designer should be the technical contact.

Erm, the contact details relate to the domain name, not the website or the content. It is perfectly permissible to have a completely unrelated company register and hold the domain. In fact many companies offer this service for purposes of anonymity. UK domains also have an opt out clause.

It has nothing whatsoever to do with legal copyright.

HTH

[1234dist]

"I am sorry but due to a recent bereavement I have had to place the store temporarily as inactive We will be back soon"

Hmm... Or he was rumbled ?

I stand by my original comment

[lennox1185]

In response to the above comment about them not even being worth £40, I disagree. They do sound great.

I have a £30 pair of Sonys and they sound nothing like the Beats.

[Null_Byte]

In response to the above comment about them not even being worth £40, I disagree. They do sound great.

I have a £30 pair of Sonys and they sound nothing like the Beats.

I'm not saying they are a bad headphone, but they are not rated as a good headphone either. For £150 you can get some really excellent audiophile grade kit, the beats are not in the same class.

If you want to know more get yourself over to head-fi and join up on their forums, they are the rovertech of the headphone world. I did some extensive research on there before getting my AKGs and saved myself a lot of money as a result!

[dann2707]

NO NO NO do NOT buy from this store.

I was tempted to get Paco Robanne 1 million from there but did a bit of research before. It's all cheap and nasty knock off crap.

Found this thread, I posted in it. Quite a remarkable thing happeend where the store owner saw that I posted on this link im about to post and refunded my money after i ordered wit them because I was "slagging their company off" - more like because id report back to the website how fake the product was when I recieved it.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/misc/anyone-e ... -uk-961439

Iposted under dann2707 and Karbineftw. God knows why they banned my karbineftw account :S I couldnt log in with dann2707.

[< KEVIN >]

Don't know if you've noticed but that said store is now been temporarily closed.

[Punx0r]

Nope

Sold some dr dre beats headphones that happened to come from china! Sounded fine

You're kidding yourself if you think that constitutes a defence. If they're counterfeit, you're guilty.