Friday, January 2, 2009

Is Parts.com a fake site?, Is there any bank account open for parts.com in Maldives?

I was looking for fairly inexpensive part for my van's door.

They seem to have it, and about a third cheaper than dealer list price.

But I always look for an 'about us' that includes a physical address, so I can see if they will charge tax, (and maybe if they are a 'real' company?).

On the other hand, a website address like 'parts.com' would be fairly expensive and un-likely a cash rich hacker gang would shell out for it. (Tho that money-terrorist Madoff was a total fake and he probably has an expensive website for his ponzi scheme company that sucked $50 billion down the tubes)

There is no place I can find on their website (and yes, I looked at site map) that lists a physical address. And if you don't think this is a problem, there is a website selling windoze computers for a hefty profit preloaded with a specific vendor's ERP software that is probably a stolen illegal copy, they don't have an address listed and are probably out of that major country of a billion that we out-soure so much stuff to.

Ok, my part would probably drop ship from a warehouse but still like to know where the company resides, make sure they are not operating out of a hidden russian hacker gang bank account in the Maldives islands.

Then on main page, I click on 'get 866#' up top.
This comes up with a paragraph that they have taken down the 800# because too many people call it. Well, duh, that's what it's for.

It has the first word spelled wrong also:
(should be 'Due', ok maybe just some outsourced non-native english speakers created the site and couldn't be bothered to actually check their work)

Note: Do to an overwhelming response to Parts.com, we’ve had to upgrade our phone system to accommodate the volume of calls. We have currently pulled the current number down during this upgrade and expect a solution in place by the first of the year. We are providing direct numbers on the order tickets for customers to call directly but will only answer new order question via email. We apologize for any inconvenience experience during this transition and appreciate your business and patronage.

The only other minor scary thing, was a diagram showing my part (which I selected for REAR side door) has the #s mixed up on the diagram, pointing to the FRONT door.

Anyone ordered car parts from this place?
Any problems? The parts.com site doesn't inspire confidence for the reasons I've listed above.
Do you think this type of bank accounts can be open in Maldives?

Source: techrepublic.com.com

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I ordered from this website 6 days ago and the status is "processing" still. I see the charges on my credit card have been already made and i feel this site is just phony now.