Gotta Be a Scam

[The23rdman]

I've been helping a friend look for a brand new camera. He found these guys and I had to explain how much these things are sold to retailers for before he wasted a fortune!

Anyone come across them before?

 

[wontolla]

They are using Camera Castle (without the -) to clone the website by the looks of things.
Too close a clone to be co-incidence? I would not touch them personally!

 

[The23rdman]

Yes, exactly.

 

[CSB]

70D for £311 and 5D mkIII for under a grand?!

Too good to be true, I'd stay well away!

 

[abdoujaparov]

They have a Palm logo on the front page. Palm no longer exists, and that logo hasn't been used for 3 years. Smooth.

 

[ecoleman]

They've used a bog standard opencart template for the store. Probably setup in 5 minutes and a few products added.

Stay well away.

 

[Steep]

Well it is that time of year!

 

[applemint]

Whois info hidden by using a privacy service: http://whois.domaintools.com/camera-castle.com

Always a big red flag with a business site.

Contact us address (on their website) is in Australia.
Camera-Castle
Edward
67 Bungana Drive
HART SA 5464
Australia

 

[wave01]

if its to true to be good then it probably is

 

[Steep]

The address doesn't match the post code and Bungana Drive seems to be a sparsely populated residential road.
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?clie...gl=uk&ei=Xp2AUrOrFYKzhAezwIAI&ved=0CC4Q8gEwAA

 

[The23rdman]

Yep, I did all the whois stuff to show Nathan.