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Possible source for 100 Radius Rocket Stage II NuBus cards

MrFahrenheit

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The listing mentions “both cards” so the quantity is very much inaccurate.

As to whether it’s legitimate or not, I’m going to venture a guess that it’s not.

A site such as that likely offers little to no protection for any buyer. You could get an empty box in the mail. But if you are willing to sacrifice $100 to test it, I’d love to know the final outcome, either way.
 

Johnnya101

Well-known member
There's just no way. Who names a site canpharm.top? No reviews or information at all anywhere. The generic shopping images don't make me feel too comfortable either.

Although I did do a reverse image search, and it is a unique photo...
 

Unknown_K

Well-known member
Can't find them address they listed on the website.
They don't use https so good luck with your credit info
 

Juror22

Well-known member
They DO have a valid SSL and a 91/100 on Scamadviser, and quite a few items that also seem to be listed on eBay.

The thing that I liked best was the number of items available. Every item on their site is available with 100 items in stock - here I am about to corner the market in Radius Rockets - Count 'em, 76 of 'em! Of course it would cost me $4200+ to get that many, but they would come with free shipping. :)

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joshc

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I think it's a scam/fake. I came across them when looking for a Maceffects SE/30 clear case and it was a similar thing, stock photo with lots of quantity available/low price. Usually, if it's too good to be true, it is.
 

Daniël

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They DO have a valid SSL and a 91/100 on Scamadviser, and quite a few items that also seem to be listed on eBay.

An SSL certificate says nothing about the legitimacy of the site's business at all. I work in webhosting, and do happen to be the main TLS certificate guy (maintaining it by timely installing new certificates for customers that use our service).

Anyone can request an SSL for any domain. An SSL certificate issuer does not check what your site is used for, as that's quite literally not their job. All they check is that you, as the certificate buyer, are the legitimate owner of the domain, or are in a position to be authorized to act on behalf of the domain owner. This can be done through various means of validation.

And these days, paid SSLs aren't even a necessity anymore, Let's Encrypt was specifically started by the EFF as to make SSL certificates available to everyone and boost the amount of sites using the technology, which they have succeeded in. I believe CloudFlare issues them freely as well to their clients.

I don't know ScamAdviser, but if that's using user-generated input for their scores, they could potentially be hit by bots to inflate scores for scam sites with the resources to do so. That also highly depends how secure their site is against such traffic.

Finally, the items being on eBay is probably telling of where they stole their advertisement titles, descriptions and photos from. These sites are very unlikely to be managed to actual people, they likely run scripts to scrape eBay ads for items that sold for decent money. Then, they post those on their site for relatively low prices, with high stock counts, in the hopes that some of those items are desirable enough that people will tempt it, and lose money.

The more that happens, the more it makes. The fact all of this can be scripted, means that it's low cost, and easy to set up again once they do get smacked by the hosting service provider they are using at the time and need to try elsewhere. It's a lucrative scam.
 

Juror22

Well-known member
I thought that showing that there were significant flaws in the site (the stock number of items at 100 and that I could order 76 of them) implied that it was not legitimate.
 

olePigeon

Well-known member
WARNING: That's a scam site!

Do NOT buy anything from it. If you do searches on Google for various rare or obscure things, you'll start running into those websites. They dynamically list whatever it is you're looking for at impossible prices and quantities with images generated from some type of image search.
 

Daniël

Well-known member
I thought that showing that there were significant flaws in the site (the stock number of items at 100 and that I could order 76 of them) implied that it was not legitimate.

And I did not imply you weren't implying as such, I just find it important that certain safety features are properly understood as to how they work and what they do.
 
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