Ialta

Same negative experience. After leaving my creditcard info I received a mail with a very sleek invoice that my creditcard was rejected. I checked with my creditcard company and they said that they did not try to charge my creditcard nor was it rejected. They just try to make you pay via bank transfer so you cannot get your money back if they don't deliver. This is what they wrote: "However we are unable to start processing your order as our credit card processing gateway has refused to process your payment. In order to continue with this purchase we require the payment by direct bank transfer. Please find the proforma invoice attached below. Once the payment is done please let us know so we can start processing your order."
Lesson learned; If it's too good to be true it probably is.

I was shopping for a digital musical instrument and found their prices to be drastically lower than any other online retailer in the US. Happily provided my credit card details when completing my website order to only receive this email (excerpt): "However we are unable to start processing your order as our credit card processing gateway has refused to process your payment. In order to continue with this purchase we require the payment by direct bank transfer. Please find the proforma invoice attached below. Once the payment is done please let us know so we can start processing your order."
I spoke to my bank and they confirmed there was no issue with this transaction on my end. They also advised against doing the direct transfer due to increased risk. When I emailed IALTA to ask if I made a mistake in inputting my credit card details or if they can try again because I would not proceed with the bank transfer, they simply cancelled my order without any explanation. No bueno! Never doing business with them and strongly recommend people consider the same just to be on the safe side.

Came online on September 15,2021 but crafted to make it look like it's been online much longer. Amazing (fake) deals... too good to be true. An elaborate scam complex of at least three sites, all of which support each other in making the fake sales site (ialta.com) appear real. The "reviewers" all comment on "how long shipping takes". This is so when the site disappears in October or November, the buyer will have been on the line for a month. Don't fall for this like my freind did. Try Wayback machine and look up each site up and see when the actual content went live (Spoiler: September 2021).

Very nicely run fake site with excellent "sales" interactions. Too bad it's all bogus.