unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about scam is guesswork
unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about scam is guesswork — a position I have arrived at slowly and would like tested.
The directory deliberately separates "we have nothing on this name" from "this went badly". Collapsing the two is how boards like this generate false certainty.
Nearly paid a cloned storefront. Caught it because one character in the domain was wrong and I paste rather than type.
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.
Screenshot none of this. Read the whole thread, including the parts where I am told I am wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Domain age, registrar and certificate issuance date are all public and take about a minute to check. A site claiming years of history on a months-old domain is the cheapest signal available.
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.
Disagree with naming anyone on that basis. One person’s bad month is not a pattern and the sidebar exists for this exact reason.
Left up. It carries dates, a domain and a document trail, which is what a report on this board looks like.
Lost money once, years ago, to a shop that pushed hard for a decision the same day. Every time I see that pressure now I close the tab.