bennygill...
Given the additional input by my colleague answerfinder-ga,
in confirming that the address and phone number given on
this newly-created site do not exist, as well as the
existence of a sister site stated to be under the auspices
of the same company, Online Shopping Store, I now feel
confident in asserting that FOR SURE, this is not a
reputable company with whom you should feel safe doing
business.
The point that my colleague pafalafa-ga makes about the
company's absence on the BBB's list of registered sites,
despite the use of the BBB logo on the site, is also
telling and very much appreciated.
The additional information provided in the comment
by hardtofindbooks-ga are also useful and appreciated.
So I will reiterate my initial findings here in the answer
box for the sake of future readers.
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This site has some mixed results, as to its authenticity:
- The Registrant and Administrative contact given
when the site was registered is a real person
with real and verifiable contact information:
Nancy Brandt
1969 co hwy 2
Ada, MN 56510
US
Phone: 1-218-7844093
Email: crisp@ma-uit-la.tv
But the site was first registered on:
Created on..............: Sun, Jan 08, 2006
Expires on..............: Mon, Jan 08, 2007
This is not a good sign at all. It was *just* created,
and is only registered for a year. This can be the
sign of a take-the-money-and-run operation, or a sign
of a low budget and lack of confidence in the business.
Solid, established companies like Google register for
10 years at a time.
http://www.allwhois.com/
On the plus side, the phone number of the Registrant
and Administrative contact, 1-218-784-4093, checks
out as belonging to a Robert Brandt, at the address
given, in Minnesota:
http://www.whitepages.com/10001/search/Reverse_Phone?phone=218-784-4093
On the negative side, a search for the email address
given by the Registrant turns up only one result.
The email address is hidden in the source code for a
web page with a flash presentation on a Romanian
website.
The Google search:
crisp@ma-uit-la.tv
://www.google.com/search?q=crisp%40ma-uit-la.tv
The single result page:
http://www.cornulprest.ro/index2.swf
If you select View -> Page source or View -> Source
from your browser's toolbar, and do a search for
"mailto", you'll see the email address.
The company's address and phone numbers, as given
on their 'about' page, are:
Address: 64 Belgame Road, London, SW5 9PE, UK
Toll Free Number: +44-800-471-5000
Fax Number: +44-20-7760-7241
http://www.electronics-powersale.com/about.html
Searches for both the address and all its variations,
as well as for the phone numbers, came up dry.
So, while it's theoretically possible that a person
or group or company in London has made arrangements
with a web designer in Minnesota to register, in her
name, a site she designed for them, and she uses an
email address which is found in the source code of a
webpage she designed for a transportation company
in Romania:
http://www.cornulprest.ro/
...and the company in London has limited funds so
that they only want to register the site for a year
at a time...
Then I suppose it's possible that this is a legitimate
company in whom you can have the greatest trust.
I would tend not to believe this was so, and would
probably pursue the issue, if I wasn't already
convinced, but sending an email and/or placing a
call to Nancy Brandt in Minnesota.
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And, as suggested by pafalafa-ga you can also email the
BBB at bbbonlinets@cbbb.bbb.org and inquire as to the
legitimacy of the use of their seal on this website.
Please do not rate this answer until you are satisfied that
the answer cannot be improved upon by way of a dialog
established through the "Request for Clarification" process.
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