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When shopping for online products, convenience, legitimacy, and fast delivery are among your top priorities. When I stumbled upon Bonaloty.com, I was curious to see if they fit thecriteria. Bonaloty.com offers outdoor adventure products from boots to yoga clothing to tactical outfits.
The location of a shop is very important especially when an online store wants to win the confidence of users. Bonaloty.com claims its headquarters are in France on the “About Us” page, but they don’t provide an address.
But on the contact page, they provide an address in the UK as their headquarters. The address listed is for another company called Kentesh Ltd. The company is owned by Qing MIAO a Chinese national, which could suggest its part of a larger Chinese scam syndicate.
This is a common trick used by scammers to mask their identity. The fact that Bonaloty lists two addresses on their website is highly suspicious.
On the about us page, the site claims to have been started in 2017. But on ScamAdviser, it shows the page was started in December 2021. There are dozen other websites which use the same line indicating that Bonaloty could be a part of a larger scam webshops.
Since new websites are hardly trustworthy, dubious sites may try to look older than they seem to win over the confidence of shoppers.
Online reviews are very enlightening as they help one have a clearer picture of the website. On Trustpilot, a trusted review website, Bonaloty has some not-so-good reviews with customers complaining that they did not receive the products they ordered.
Upon further research on the mentioned site; Fionani.com, the site does not seem operational. It could be part of a big syndicate of scammers who used several websites to scam people.
Usually, when a site goes live, they have checked everything to ensure no typos or silly grammatical errors. But Bonaloty seemed to have skipped this step as their website is filled with a lot of schoolboy errors.
It looks as if the website was in a hurry to go live above everything else. For any serious website, grammatical errors are unheard of as they go through everything before publishing.
With most online shops, when a buyer receives a defective product, they can return it for a refund or exchange it with the correct product. But Bonaloty says that if a buyer wants to return the product, they must pay for the return shipping costs.
This looks like a deliberate effort to deter people from wanting to return defective, damaged, or wrong products.
Overall, we doubt the legitimacy of Bonaloty. There are a lot of similarities and indicators with sites whose legitimacy is highly suspicious. Caution is urged when shopping here.
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