9 Foolproof Tips To Avoid Fake Ghd Hair Straighteners
those returned when you search for ghd, ghd hair straighteners, ghd straighteners, ghd styler, etc) have included numerous sites which purport to offer genuine ghd hair straighteners for sale but instead sell ghd hair straighteners counterfeits.
Thankfully, it is possible to spot these illegal websites if you follow some simple tips:
Can you see a UK address? This is important as most of the websites selling fakes are based overseas. Although be careful, there are some UK-based fake ghd websites (if you spot one, be sure to report it to trading standards).
2. Does the ghd retailer have a UK phone number?
This number could be a 0800 or 0845 but should not be an 07 or any number with an international dialling code.
3. Can the site show you that it is VAT registered?
Take a look in the terms and conditions, you will be able to spot a VAT number and also a Company number. If you can't find either, you could try emailing the company and they should be more than willing to provide this information to you.
4. Is delivery of your ghd hair straightners from within the UK?
Watch out for the details hidden away on a delivery or shipping page. Your ghd hair straighteners should be sent to you from within the UK using a postal or delivery service that takes no more than 2 or 3 days. Be extremely wary if the delivery is more than 4 or 5 days or if it passes through customs.
5. Are these the ways of paying: Paypal, Google Checkout, Western Union?
It is unlikely that any scammer has their own credit card processing facilities (via a processing company like SagePay, Protx, Worldpay, etc). Instead they make use of Paypal, Google Checkout, Western Union (or a combination of all three).
If you are not on Ebay and are being asked to pay by Paypal, then be aware that your chances of being scammed just went up. Not because Paypal have anything whatsoever to do with the scam (indeed they do their best to shut down all sorts of illegal scams that use their service), but because it is easier to take payments via Paypal if you don't want to disclose certain details that you would need to set up a proper merchant account with a credit card processor.
6. Can you see the words: Two ghds for the price of one, Tax Free, No Sales Tax or Direct from Factory?
These sorts of terms are only found on websites selling fake ghds and not on websites selling genuine ghds.
7. Can you see lots of other products related to haircare?
Most genuine ghd retailers sell loads of top salon products in addition to ghd hair straighteners (there are a few that don't but they'll pass on the other points in this article). Equally, you should not expect to find Chanel, or Louis Vuitton or uggs or other expensive (and thus commonly counterfeited) brands.
8. Does the ghd website offer the ghd hair straightener with gold clutch bag?
If so, then the site is probably not genuine. This particular ghd hair straightener Limited Edition has not been available for many years from ghd, but is still being made by counterfeiters. No legitimate website has this product listed only the fake websites do.
9. Are the cheap ghd hair straighteners just too cheap?
If the price is GBP 42.00 or GBP 50.00 or even GBP 84.95, then you are dealing with the probability that the product being a fake. Many of the prices we see on the fake ghd websites are actually below the wholesale price of ghd hair straighteners, which is surely all the proof you need that the product isn't genuine.
Finally if you still think it might be okay to take a chance with a really cheap ghd deal, do remember that by purchasing counterfeit ghds, you might be contributing to organised criminal behaviour, and you might even be risking injury as a fake ghd hair straightener will not have passed any electrical safety tests. That means it will not have been CE tested and will probably be made of the cheapest components available.HotNews PJMY12XIAOXU0827 ：
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