[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 "this went badly". Collapsing the two is how boards like this generate false certainty.
Ask for the batch-specific certificate before payment. Any operation with a quality system behind it can produce one; the request costs you nothing and it filters hard.
If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something. Alone it is an anecdote.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
What did the storefront say the lead time was?
Small fix — the name you are describing is in the wider-market table with almost nothing on file, not in the documented twenty.
a domain registered last month with a decade of testimonials is the whole tell
ask for a batch-specific document before you send anything
never accuse an individual, describe what happened to you
Cosigning the domain check. Character by character, every time, and paste it rather than typing it.
Is there any independent testing on file for this name anywhere?
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