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Website Name: essencetradingltd.com
Location: Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Date of Registration: September 13 2021
Owner (registrant): Domain Protection Services Inc
Alexa Rank: N/A
Website Speed: Slow
No. of other Websites on Server: 1,392
Email ID: info@essencetradingltd.com
Phone Number: +31 6 87895120
Address: Nieuwe Gouw 4-1, Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Company Name: Essence Trading Limited
Registration Number:
Owner: Not provided
Social Media Profiles: Not found
Essence Import-Export is a trading company that lists its business type as ‘Manufacturer, Trading Company, Distributor/Wholesaler and Other’. A Google Search of the listed address showed the company also goes by Essence Import-Export. As Essence Import-Export, Marion Helsloot is listed as the contact person and the company is said to have been around since 1999.
However, a look at The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce Directory failed to produce any registration details of the company either as Essence Trading Limited or as Essence Import-Export. The only results returned on both counts were of another trading company that shares certain keywords with Essence Trading Limited.
Another strange occurrence is that www.essence.nl is the website listed as the official company site whenever Essence Import-Export is mentioned, and this includes on Marion Helsloot’s social media pages (LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook). It is important to note that essence.nl is actually the official site for a psychedelic institute in The Netherlands.
The credibility of the content of the website was another issue of concern. Running the opening statement from the company’s ‘About’ page - ‘With over a decade of delivering quality products to a vast market in Europe, the UK, Russia, Canada, Japan, the Far East and the Middle East, and Africa, we dare say we have come to stay’ – through ScamAdviser’s Scam Analyzer revealed there were many other websites with the same tagline, all of the e-commerce stores selling a wide range of goods. Interestingly, shopping on essencetradingltd.com and the sister sites is not very straightforward as customers have to place orders through a contact form and/or WhatsApp. The prices are also not listed with the products either.
These stores, all 11 of them, were built using the same website template and most of the business description information on the ‘About’ page is similar. Check the Appendix at the end of the article for the full list of sites. As at the time this article was written, an attempt at understanding the purchasing/payment process on essencetradingltd.com went as shown in the screenshot below:
Each of the related websites also had contact emails listed as help@companyname.com, and checks for validity of the emails showed the listed contact mails to be valid. The phone numbers for the sites were all domiciled in the various countries as listed.
The essencetradingltd.com website had no social media handles linked to it and a quick search on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram revealed that there are indeed no accounts with the said business name. None of the remaining 10 websites linked to essencetradingltd.com had social media handles linked to them either. User reviews on other review sites such as Trustpilot and WOT were also lacking. There was therefore no way to gauge the quality of user experience or products on this site.
Having reviewed the crucial details of this website, the registered company information and similar information from other related sites, the various inconsistencies such as having so many businesses with one and the same tagline as well as the various other discrepancies noted in the course of the article, shopping on these sites is not advised as they are most likely scams.
