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Legit or Scam?

Hey ladies,

I know we have all been shopping online for a specific item, let's say a new bathing suit for the summer season and an ad pops up for a super trendy and cheap bathing suit. You automatically head to the website purchase your bathing suit and maybe get a cute t-shirt or bathing suit cover up because it's also cheap enough to justify the purchase. You patiently await for your order to arrive on your front door and then DING DONG... the shirt looks like it is a child's medium and the bathing suit has enough fabric to cover one bum cheek. Well at least the top of the bathing suit fits, so you wear that to the first pool party of the season and everyone loves. When you do your laundry that next week you pull the top out of the dryer and there are 100 pills and the bathing suit looks like it's been shrunken enough to match the bottoms. We say to ourselves "at least is was cheap" or "you get what you pay for" to make ourselves feel better.

But we can avoid these mistakes that cost us money and pain. We can distinguish from digital marketing what makes a company legit or a scam.


  1. First check the on site reviews of the product you wish to purchase. If there are none, this is a red flag. If every single review on every single product is positive this is also a red flag. 
  2. If the background picture of all the products change drastically that means the products they carry are not on location so they are being imported from other countries or warehouses anywhere around the world. This should be a red flag also. 
 These red flags should not stop you from purchasing from an online store but you should proceed with caution and follow the following steps.


  1. Take a look at off site reviews and influencers that have purchased items from the website before you to make you decision on if you will further your purchasing decision. 
  2. Trust your gut. If it is a little sketchy and comments are in a different language just know that Americans are not the same  size on average as the rest of the world so we need to be aware of size differences when purchasing overseas. 


Hopefully you can use website's digital designs, pictures and reviews to help recognize when an e-commerce site might be a scam.

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