No you didn't.

asked by Chris O. on 10/14/10

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Thumbnail of user sarahp

Now this jiasell site doesn't seem to exist. Has anyone actually bought anything and received it?

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Thumbnail of user toddl

THe sad truth is some of these companies that scam people take down their website and just put up a new one the next day with a different URL. We will see if this website returns or not...

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Thumbnail of user robf

Has anyone any idea of how to stop this happening. I am constantly receiving returned mails from my email postmaster which this company must be sending out. This is the first time I have been able to find any information on it until now.

RobF

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In response to this review: http://bit.ly/avZI1k, but applicable to everyone so I'll post here in the conversation. I know it's easy for me to say, after the event, but it's probably - no, let me make that *certainly* unwise to buy your eye glasses from a company that sells underpants.

In any case, wherever you go to buy glasses, you need to know far more about the specific pair that you're buying than just the style and color. And you need to know something about your own prescription, too. How narrow, or how wide should the frame be? What about the width of the nose piece? And most importantly, what's your pupillary distance, or P. D. as you'll normally see it written? The thing is, you may not normally see it written, because optometrists (read as "opticians" in the UK) often don't want you going to anyone else to buy your glasses so they don't write it on your prescription and, at least in the States, they aren't obliged to. With the P. D. though, you can go anywhere you want. And it may be an essential piece of information, especially if your P. D. is unusually narrow or wide, as mine happens to be. I'm on the wide side, enough to restrict my choice of frames, but I also want to be able to see properly so I make sure anyone I buy glasses from knows what my measurements are and I won't buy otherwise.

It's hard to resist a bargain in frames, since the genuine designer items are so horrendously overpriced. By coincidence I was at my own optometrist's store yesterday, looking at D&G frames selling for more than $350 and some Danish designer frames at $525. It's three pieces of plastic and two hinges, guys, come on. How can you get away with this? Well they do. And the frames are probably made in a country with low labor costs, too.

Me, I buy my glasses from Zenni Optical at www.zennioptical.com, I bought three pairs, one for each distance, more than two years ago and paid $13 a pair, lenses included. I'm still using them, though they've been endlessly dropped, sat on, chipped around the edges from seriously careless use (they're mostly rimless), chewed by the cat, and generally treated with the kind of respect you'd expect for a pair of glasses that only cost $13 and can be easily replaced. The darn things are awesome, I've never even had a screw come loose and they straighten up and keep going whatever you do to them. I've no doubt that the D&G frames are just as tough, but I saved $330 a pair and that's just for the frames alone. And to be honest, handling them up close, they're no more impressive than any other frame. It's an awful lot of money for a logo.

Another good site for glasses used to be 39dollarglasses.com, but I switched to Zenni because they were even cheaper. And yes, they do ask for your P. D and only show you the appropriate frames if you ask.

These Chinese dealers are certainly offering you fake goods, even if you ever actually get them, which are probably of lower quality than those you can buy legitimately at somewhere such as Zenni. And given that they might not even fit, it doesn't seem worth the risk to me.

By the way, if you look at the front page of this site at the time of writing, the title is "shopping mall name" - i. E. they haven't even bothered to replace the default text in the template, and another thing to watch for is that little icon of an orange shopping cart that you'll see at the checkout but also in the title bar at the top of the pages. It's the mark of an application called Zen Cart, and although it's a perfectly respectable and very respected application, it is free. Most companies seeking to appear well-established don't use it, but it is in widespread use on these fake wholesale sites because it can be installed in a very short time and it costs nothing if it has to be abandoned in a hurry.

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Thumbnail of user stephanieb6

I purchased a Chanel bag and UGG boots from this web, they are cost $ 427, very pleasantly surprised after receiving the goods, because that makes me worry a lot of information. They are so beautiful.

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