A plain check of every shop. Before you pay.
Before you pay a shop you don't know, three facts matter: the company behind it, how long it has existed and how you pay. We are building a check that shows them, the same way for every shop.
Before you pay a shop you don't know, three facts matter: the company behind it, how long it has existed and how you pay. We are building a check that shows them, the same way for every shop.
Each one comes from a source you could look up yourself. Where a country publishes more official data, like Switzerland, the check goes deeper.
Back to the start pageWho you are really paying, from the official company register where one exists, like Companies House in the UK. The US has no national register, so checks there will say less.
Official company registersFake shops are often days or weeks old. Public records show when a web address was registered.
Public domain recordsCard and PayPal let you dispute a payment. Money sent by bank transfer is very hard to get back.
The shop's own checkoutIn Switzerland the check will also use the official company register (Zefix), the police warning list of fake shops, whether the shop takes TWINT, and the Swiss Online Garantie label.
Police and consumer groups warn about the same patterns again and again. If you see two of these, stop and look closer.
Big brands at a fraction of the price, while everywhere else is sold out.
Fake shops live for weeks, then vanish and come back under a new name.
No register entry, or an imprint copied from another shop.
Money sent by bank transfer is very hard to get back.
Seals that link nowhere, or to a register the shop isn't in.