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Shopping for clothes online can be easy and sometimes, ridden with scammers. When noracora.com appeared on the most searched items on ScamAdviser, we decided to take a closer look at the website. Noracora is a fashion store that focuses on trendy wear for women.
Most scammers, we have found often use the same images over and over. I wanted to know if Noracora does the same and that’s why I decided to check out one of their products. I randomly selected “Women's Casual Floral V Neck Lace Cotton Blends Short Sleeve Tops T-shirts” and got a lot of similar images.
I found the same exact image on another site, zolucky.com.
This is very common with many scammers, especially from China who duplicate images over and over, without even changing the title of the clothes much.
A quick look-up on Scam Adviser shows the site was registered in October 2014. But on the website, the site claims to have been started in 2018. What were they doing for the four years is a question only they can clarify.
With most online shops, you expect to find authentic and realistic photos of their models. But a closer look at Noracora shows that most of their images are badly edited to fit in the models.
Even to a naked eye, one can easily point out the edited parts of the picture. The clothing shown is not an accurate representation of what customers can expect to receive. In the case of these Chinese scams, the colors and material quality are much worse compared to the images.
In most cases, when an online store offers discounts, it’s usually a way of attracting new customers. But when the deal sounds too good to be true, customers start to get cautious. Noracora offers a “Clearance sale” of up to 90% off. This is such a huge discount that one cannot help but wonder why would they sell the products at throw-away prices.
When you receive a defective product or simply wish to return it, be prepared to pay for your own shipping costs.t. This is a weird return policy as most legit online shops will shoulder the burden of returned products. After all, they are responsible for the state and well-being of the product and for ensuring that the correct product is sent, for that matter.
Not the case with Noracora as all defective, wrong, or damaged products are returned at the cost of the buyer.
I found this to be a deliberate way of complicating the return policy so that even if you get the wrong or counterfeit product, you shiver at the thought of returning the product.
Most of the customer reviews on the site look and sound manipulated. Most of the reviews I saw on ScamAdviser.com were negative with users giving it a 1 star. Most of the reviews from TrustPilot were mixed with an overall star rating of 3.2.
On SiteJabber, there were a lot of reviews with many customers complaining of wrong orders, poor quality, and wrong sizes. Most had a rough time trying to send their products back to China.
What I found suspicious is the high number of reviews on SiteJabber. This is highly unusual as some of the well-known online stores like Amazon have less than 10k reviews, with Noracora having as many as 130k reviews. Considering the website is only a few years old, the high number of reviews was highly suspicious.
On De-Reviews, I found a high number of customer reviews, most of which were negative, complaining about bad quality and the inability to return defective products.
On Facebook, most of the negative comments were suspiciously missing and some complaints were left unanswered.
Noracora is registered in China, with its headquarters in Room 302, Building 1, No. 418, Shatai South Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. But, what I found suspicious is the company is registered under a completely different name, Guangzhou Ruichida Network Technology Co., Ltd. This has been a common trait by most dubious online stores to mask their identity by sheltering under different companies.
In short: Is Noracora a scam or legit?
Overall, Noracora does not seem to be a scam. Many consumers are receiving packages. However, it seems to be selling (very) low-quality products from China. The return policy makes it hard to return the products or reclaim your money. Be cautious when shopping with them.
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