Year 2024 Beware of the Abandoned E-Shop Online Store or eCommerce Website

[Kiriakos GR]

I have a fresh experience to share, and this is a BEWARE about the numbers of abandoned E-Shop, Online Store or eCommerce Website.

I did a huge use of search engines, this kept me busy for many weeks and even months, because I was seeking stock of a discontinued product.
Google and other engines gave me bunch of links, but all were a DEAD END.

The huge number of eCommerce Website, this is especially at south hemisphere of planet earth.
Malaysia, Peru, India, Africa and even China.

Many of these Online Store's were build with government money, a sponsorship in assistance of very small business so these to expand.
Many other stores its a Chinese scam, Chinese based in China, they build several eCommerce Website, by the use native language ( Malaysia, Peru, India, Africa), any fool using the Buy-Now, they are ordering from China with out having any awareness.

A third poorly organized scam, this is eCommerce Website (no a store) this operating as link between buyers and sellers for a specific geographical region,  United Arab Emirates (UAE),  India and  Malaysia.
These scammers, they hide the origin of all sellers, and the buyer has no way communicating directly with a seller.

Another issue this of highest significance, a tremendous amount of expired product listings, and the indicator of items in stock this is not updated for over a decade.

One last huge scam, some stores include and Facebook page link,  Facebook page seems alive but due automated produced new posts.
When you do send a direct message, there is no reply.

95% such stores administrators, they hide behind a mobile phone number, and the rest 5%, it might have a working email address or a physical location.

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My golden advice, Never place an order and hope that this is a sincere business.
Always try first to come in direct communication, due email with the Online Store, if this fails? You are dealing with a abandoned store.
       
Another scam this Made in China, it is the abandoned stores at Alibaba, and or Taobao, and similar platforms.
95% are not real stores, its a kid pretending a sales agent.
Products in stock indicator its again false information.

If you dare placing an order in favor of a discontinued product, then your order will never be served, and you are getting in trouble about waiting for some one so to refund your money.
Unfortunately also within Amazon they are huge numbers of abandoned Online Store, but the waiting time for getting a refund, this is sorter.

Personally I tried to establish communication with 20 stores, and a single one responded, a Chinese agent was begging of me to accept 30$ USD commission, if what I need this was found in stock.