Hello and welcome to the new article in this series of “Finding online scams every day.”
While visiting the different stores, I have come to know about this newly created online store, Fastfitstyle.com. I am not surprised that these stores can offer this many discount offers and the best quality of clothes with great and unbelievable descriptions and promises. When the store is designed and built only to showcase and not to deliver, why not make it feel like a genuine and decent one? (This is the common motto of the stores, which are only designed to trap the innocent users who are not aware of the online scams or those who do not read and watch any reviews before trying any new online store to buy anything.
Now that you have come to us to know about this website, let’s begin the full review.
First Impression:
First things first: As we open the website, we see a lot of categories and drop-down menus where we can find the desired products, and while scrolling through the website, the pages are full of products, and their little descriptions are shown on the home page itself. There are separate categories for men’s and women’s clothing on the home page, which makes easiar t find the products for the users’ requirements. While scrolling down, the footer page has all the necessary details about us, contact us, return and refund policy, etc.
At first impression, the website looks clean and professional with trendy and modern style clothing, but only a good design and good picture of products on the home page does not determine if the website is purely genuine. This is the common practise of scammers to show trends and modern style clothes on a website so users can get attracted easily and fall into their trap.
Website Age: A very important factor:
This is the most and very common thing that we say to all our users: never forget to check the website’s age and WHOIS information. By checking the age of any online store, there are chances that you will surely get to know about the legitimacy of the website. In Fastfitstyle.com’s case, this website is just 1 month old, and that’s the most important thing to consider. Although not all the new websites are fraudulent, it is suggested that if the website is very new, do not just simply believe and invest your money in it. The newer the shopping website, the higher the chances of scams. While checking the age, there is also other information shown on WHOIS info, e.g., in which country it is registered and so on. Always check on these info to avoid any chances of fraud.
Product Images:
Fastfitstyle.com offers a great collection of images of products on the website, but they are attractive only if you are new to online shopping or a person who trusts anything blindly.
If you check properly, it can easily be determined that all these images are cropped and copied from some other website, as most images are not shown fully and try to hide some part of them. You can never see the full face of the models who are wearing those dresses. Usually, these images are cropped and copied from other genuine websites. If images are not seen clearly, it is surely a Red flag.
Product Description:
You read the product description that says comfortable, breathable and so on, but have you ever tried to find the fabric quality in the description? The source of manufacturing and the quality of stitching on it? Generally, these types of stores write the big description with useless details to fill the description spaces, but do not provide any important details to the customers.
If you see incomplete or useless details in the product description, do not consider buying the product, as there are high chances of scams waiting for you. The motto of scammers is always to sell comfort, not to provide clarity.
Pricing of Products:
Imagine! We land on a website, and everywhere “sale” is ongoing. All the products have huge discount offers, and prices have dropped heavily on each and every product. Feel imaginary only right? But at Fastfitstyle.com, you can feel this very easily by checking the prices of products on the site. Almost all the products have discounts, and everything is on sale. We all know very well that it is not possible for any website, even when it is just a 1-month-old store. Fastfitstyle.com offers very unconvincing pricing, and that’s one of the biggest red flags on this store.
“About us” Information:
At Fastfitstyle.com, their ” About Us ” page has everything except their “About Us ” information. There is a lot of useless information given, but not a single word on the owner of the website or the team behind this online store. All the details are improper and unconvincing.
Usually, the genuine store shows all the related and useful information to show the real owner and the people who built the store, and who are the people behind it. Hiding or showing incomplete About us information on the website is a very common practice of scammers. If you do not see proper information, simply switch to the other genuine website for shopping and avoid any hassle later.
Contact information:
Let’s assume you buy something from Fastfitstyle (though we do not suggest that), and now there is some issue with your order, either it is not coming to you, or if you are fortunate enough to receive it anyway, there is some other issue like fit and finish or anything else. What would you do first thing? To contact Fastfitstyle.com, right? What would happen if you found out that the email shown on the contact details is not working or is incorrect? There are no other options to contact customer care, as they have not provided the contact numbers or the physical address of the store. The scammers usually do not provide any contact details. If you ever try to buy from a newly established store, do not forget to check all the details before hitting that buy button.
Return and Refund Policy:
Among all the other policies, the Return and Refund policy plays a crucial role while shopping online. Always check the following details while you are on a new website:
- Return Eligibility- When and how you can return the products, the time frame and the conditions.
- Return Process- If the process for return is suitable for you, or if it is going to be very hectic.
- Refund Process- Will there be an easy process of getting a refund in case of undeliverability or other reasons?
- Return Shipping Cost- Who is going to bear the shipping cost while returning the products? Some stores ask that the return shipping charges be paid by the customers.
- Non-Returnable Items- Make sure the products you are willing to buy do not fall into the “Non-Returnable Items”.
- Special circumstances- Do not forget to read any other condition that blocks your chances of return.
Fastfitstyle.com clearly shows the full return and refund policy, but its customers duty to read it carefully to avoid any problems later.
Payment Methods:
Fastfitstyle.com offers many payment methods, which include: Credit/Debit Cards, PayPal, Google Pay, and Apple Pay. One thing we need to keep in mind is that showing multiple payment method to website does not guarantee the legitimacy of the online store. Some stores show them to look professional and legit to scam people.
External Reviews of Fastfitstyle.com:
While checking the review of Fastfitstyle.com on multiple websites, this website does not appear to be a genuine store.
Scamadviser.com shows the trust score is 1 out of 100. The website has more negative points than positive.
Many other websites also categorise Fastfitstyle.com as a scam and fraud website. All over the internet, the website has negative talk.
What Fastfitstyle.com actually is:
- Looks like a premium website, though it is not.
- Cropped images of products.
- Fake description of products.
- No internal reviews of customers who actually bought and used the products.
- Just a 1-month-old website. No long presence.
- No proper About us information,
- Incomplete Contact information
- Negative external reviews.
- Low trust score
- No positive review anywhere.
Final Verdict:
After all the detailed assessment, this is not one of those “maybe okay” websites. We checked all the details and points, but could not find a single reason to give a clean chit to Fastfitstyle.com. My advice is to keep away from this fraudulent online store and buy the products from any other genuine store. There are several online store that sells good quality products at a reasonable price. But do not forget to make a deep check while shopping from a new kind of online store.
Be smart! Be safe!