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I would like to get opinions on a group of websites that are attempting to sell table tennis equipment.  I'm very suspicious of these websites but not absolutely certain that they are scam or fraud.  Normally when I am correctly suspicious of a website I can get verification that it is a scam by simply googling the domain name along with the words scam or fraud and I quickly get discussions about it being a scam.  So far my attempts at this have not shown the below websites to be scams but this could be because each of the websites is very new and there hasn't been enough time for this yet.

The websites that I am suspicious of are as follows:

https://www.vsagor.com/table-tennis-ping-pong-c-1752_2697_2731.htm

https://www.fermerdoch.com/table-tennis-c-18472_19846_20912_21078.htm

https://www.webyostg.com/table-tennis-ping-pong-c-2986_4143_4209.htm

https://www.nartotra.com/table-tennis-ping-pong-c-2254_3354_3418.htm

Things that make me suspicious of these websites are as follows:

1) When scrolling through the items for sale, I find multiple versions of the same item with slight differences in description and header.  I believe that this is due to the fact that a robot was used to pinch the list of items from actual legitimate sites.  The robot was not able to understand that they were the same item

2) Some of the sites have domain names that have recently been registered.

3) The domain names are not very good.  They don't mean anything.

4) Table Tennis websites that handle these types of goods are normally specialised table tennis only websites.  They are not normally part of a general all sports websites.  The required inventory for all these goods would be enormous.

5) Structural problems with the menu/index system.  Starting from the home pages of these websites it is not easy or possible to find all the table tennis items that are available from the links that I gave above.

6) The prices are often too good to be true.  Are they really selling Tenergy 05 for under fifty dollars?

Can anybody confirm or refute my suspicions for any of these websites?  If they were legitimate there are items there that I would love to purchase at their prices.

Cheers
    Ken

I'm pretty positive that these are all fakes.
In addition to your points here are some more:

* the layouts are very similar
* the links to the social medias (facebook, twitter etc) are not filled in (they go to the main pages)
* there are pictures of them working with PayPal but in the payment section no one mentions such option
* the texts in different places are pretty much the same

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An additional website in this line is as follows:

http://www.ththrt.com/table-tennis-c-1436_3434.htm

Can anybody add any other table tennis website to this list?

Fakes??? More like fake news. All of these seem to be general sports equipment retailers that carry rec-grade table tennis equipment. In other words, they're not worth our time - no player who takes the sport seriously would EVER buy this stuff anyway. I mean, who wants this???

https://www.webyostg.com/rampaging-red- ... 421161.htm



I mean, seriously. Why even mention these sites? No one on this forum would ever buy this stuff anyway.

Iskandar

If the prices are cheap enough, some people will always try them.

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The general public would. Enthusiasts might just to see what they're like if they're intriguing enough (see that thread about Sriver SE). But the table tennis cognoscenti who know about equipment, play in leagues and tournaments and post on this forum? Use this stuff in actual matches? Heck no.. There is perfectly good ITTF approved stuff that IS cheap, that stuff does work, the stuff from these random websites? I doubt anyone would touch it.

Iskandar