Purchasing software for my Computer

Ger555

Hey all,

I came across this website which sells software for computers at really good (cheap) prices. See link below;

http://authenticsoftware.net/

The company say they are based in California and seem to run under two names, Deluxe Discounter Ltd and Deluxe Downloads Ltd.

There prices however seem to good to be true and i'm worried its all a scam! I have "googled" the company on the net in search of reviews, etc and have found nothing.

Just wondering if anyone has had any dealings with this company or what people think of their website??

Any opinions/advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Nody

Scam would be my guess; to cheap to be true is just that.

dudara

Moved to Online Buying & Auctions

dudara

Cabaal

Its a scam, only an idiot would give them credit card details

I find there T&C's amusing

Chargeback Policy:
9.1 Chargebacks are not good neither for you nor for our Store because in this case you will lose 10% of your money and your credit card’s fraud rate will increase which in its turn results in inability to make other purchases online. That’s why its simpler to make all the disputes together with our Support team and resolve them in a timely manner;

They'll likely string you along for a few months until you can no longer do a chargeback for the payment,

tallaghtoutlaws

Too be honest as badly written as their T+C are they are selling OEM software hence why they prices are so cheap. There are plenty of European websites selling OEM versions of the software for the same price.

tricky D

SCAM

The address 162 west texas street fairfield ca doesn't exist or is residential.

The code also uses absolute URLs which makes it easy for the scammers to move the site elsewhere and to have multiple versions

This version is owned by a Russian:
Ad / Name Andrey Polev
Adres ul. Krasnaya d.117 kv.119 Solnechnogorsk Moskovskaya oblast 199538
Tel +7.4963612199
Faks +7.4963612199
E-posta pulp@5mx.ru

and it's registered in Turkey

server located in EU

Ger555

Hey all,

Thanks for all your prompt replies. My suspicion of SCAM was correct!

Cheers

tallaghtoutlaws

http://gold-oem.com/

Same guys. In fact if you google the West Texas Address they put in in brings up all their scam sites.

rubadub

The fact "authentic" is in the name should be warning enough!

The site has a few badges/logos on it, one is cnet. if it really is "cnet verified" then I would expect to find it mentioned on cnets site, but there are no hits for it. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&complete=1&q=%2Bauthenticsoftware.net+site%3Acnet.com&cts=1267722933354&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

jimoc

rubadub wrote: »

The fact "authentic" is in the name should be warning enough!

The site has a few badges/logos on it, one is cnet. if it really is "cnet verified" then I would expect to find it mentioned on cnets site, but there are no hits for it. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&complete=1&q=%2Bauthenticsoftware.net+site%3Acnet.com&cts=1267722933354&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

Why can't the just save us all a load of wasted time and call their sites
www.weareabunchoflowlifescumandwewillrobyourcreditcarddetails.net

jor el

Another scam. The website has been registered through a secure proxy company, in Belize, which is about the dodgiest thing I've ever heard of. Stay away from this, as it is definitely not genuine.

Actually, I just noticed that they also claim the same address in CA, and that post is likely to be spam, so it's deleted.

npj81

jor el wrote: »

Another scam. The website has been registered through a secure proxy company, in Belize, which is about the dodgiest thing I've ever heard of. Stay away from this, as it is definitely not genuine.

Actually, I just noticed that they also claim the same address in CA, and that post is likely to be spam, so it's deleted.

Thanks for that I will stay well away from the website so. Also there was no need to delete my message as I was genuine in asking the question and was trying to help other people not get caught out with these chancers on scam sites. I only joined last night so maybe you thought it was spam so I understand. Anyway thanks again for the help .

Shane-KornSpace

8.3 After having received a refund you must delete all software and files you received from our Store and our support team;

I'm pretty sure since they're just "selling" the product and not administrating the serial keys the software comes with - they cannot tell if you have deleted the software or not. Again, a very badly written T&C.

"- other reasons which are can’t be handled by our Support team;"

Even more bad English.

"2.5 Software can’t be registered on-line due to the definite limitations;
2.6 You won’t be able to receive any printed license confirmation;"

Even if they do send you the downloadable program, you will most likely be in possession of an illegal/pirated copy.

All signs of a dodgy company

paconnors

Scam alright there even selling Microsoft Office 2010 Beta link here and it can be downloaded free from microsoft