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When people search for a website on ScamAdviser, they want to know if a site is legit or fraudulent. When many people searched senbark.com, we went on a deep dive to find as much as possible about the site and decide whether the site is a scam or not.
Senbark.com is an online store that sells women’s clothing and beauty products. They say they are all about inclusivity and providing inclusion, solutions, and choice for every woman.
When we checked on Whois.com, we found that the site only started in May 2022. This makes the site a few months old. New websites are hard to crack as there is very little information you can use to gauge whether the site is legit or not.
While a website being new does not mean it is a scam, it takes a bit of convincing before customers can decide to buy from it.
The other downside of having a new website is that reviews are hard to come by. And this is the case with Senbark.com, as we could not find any store reviews. There were no reviews on popular sites like SiteJabber, Trustpilot, and ScamAdviser.
Again, this does not help win potential customers' confidence because one can hardly tell of the experience they will get from the online store.
But upon checking some of the products, I found some products had as many as 500 reviews. This is strange as there are no other indications of reviews anywhere except on the website.
But upon further investigations, most of the reviews looked cooked, with all reviews having a 5-star rating. We found this to be a common trick by scammers who use manufacturedreviews to confuse potential customers that their products are perfect. There is no way of checking if the reviews are legit, and since there are no reviews on other sites, their authenticity is doubted.
Senbark has social media pages on both Facebook and Instagram. They have added links to the platforms on their website, which is a good sign as most dubious sites have blank pages.
The Facebook page is relatively new, having been started in May 2022. There are very few posts on the page, and the ones available have very few interactions. This is never a good sign, as one cannot be sure of why people are shying away from the page. But since this is a new store, judging why they have minimal posts and interactions can be harsh.
Usually, an online store may use flash sales or promotional sales to win more customers. This seemed to be the case with Senbark.com, as most of their products have huge discounts. We checked the “crystal hair eraser,” which had a 50% discount and retailed at $35.
But on Amazon, the same product goes for $10.98. The difference is too huge to ignore and to think they have originally set to sell the product at $70 is astonishing.
Other items, like the “California dress romper,” go for $45 rather than the “original” $95.
But at Walmart, the same dress goes for $29.66.
This is a cheap marketing trick where they pretend to sell products at lower prices, but in actual sense, the products are more expensive compared to other stores.
Senbark seems to be a new store trying to make it in the women’s clothing space. But the lack of more information about this new websiteraised a few questions. The fact that all the reviews about their products can only be found on their site does not do much to boost the confidence of potential customers.
They also sell their products at higher prices, though they earmark them as discounts. This is a marketing trick that can be considered deceptive. Caution is advised when dealing with the site.
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