Club price disparity

[Airsporter1st]

You may have read about my trials and tribulations with obtaining new grips for my oldish TM Burner OS Irons. I think I am sorted now, but in the meantime was considering buying a new set of clubs.

I've been looking online and there seem to be two distinct prices for e.g. Ping G25's. One is around £230 with free U.K. delivery from Online Sale Golf and a few other similarly 'unknown' retailers and the other is around £400 ~ £500 from the mainstream online retailers such as AG.

Anyone know the reason for this? I subscribe to the view that if something looks too good to be true, it probably is!

 

[guest100718]

The cheap ones will be fake...

 

[Airsporter1st]

I guessed that may be the case. Can't understand how they get away with flogging them so openly.

 

[Doh]

Ping do not allow their clubs to be bought on line so anyone selling them via a web site will be selling fakes.

 

[pbrown7582]

Always look for a UK address and landline avoid any without and email contact only.

You've found a fake site there.

 

[Hacker Khan]

Ping do not allow their clubs to be bought on line so anyone selling them via a web site will be selling fakes.

Yes they do http://www.lefthandedgolf.co.uk/sta...requery=true&sort=&manu=&users=&types=&page=4 The retailer won't allow you to click on 'add to basket' so you have to phone them up for a static fitting, but some web sites are authorised to sell them so saying they are all fakes is wrong.

 

[Hacker Khan]

You may have read about my trials and tribulations with obtaining new grips for my oldish TM Burner OS Irons. I think I am sorted now, but in the meaneam online retailers such as AG.

Anyone know the reason for this? I subscribe to the view that if something looks too good to be true, it probably is!

if you go to www.onlinesalegolf.com you will be redirected here http://keepgolfreal.com/. Which should be a clue

 

[Airsporter1st]

Thanks fellas.

 

[Foxholer]

if you go to www.onlinesalegolf.com you will be redirected here http://keepgolfreal.com/. Which should be a clue

Now that is fabulous!

 

[pbrown7582]

Yes they do http://www.lefthandedgolf.co.uk/sta...requery=true&sort=&manu=&users=&types=&page=4 The retailer won't allow you to click on 'add to basket' so you have to phone them up for a static fitting, but some web sites are authorised to sell them so saying they are all fakes is wrong.

Plus some places will order in a standard set average lie and loft to sell on without the custom
Fit even static option.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

The site in the OP is a fake. They exist because sadly there are still gullable golfers out there looking for a deal. In this day and age if it looks good to be true it usually is, certainly in terms of dirt cheap clubs which 99% of the time will be a fake, albeit good ones in some cases which would fool many people

 

[LinksTurf]

I've been looking online and there seem to be two distinct prices for e.g. Ping G25's. One is around £230 with free U.K. delivery from Online Sale Golf and a few other similarly 'unknown' retailers and the other is around £400 ~ £500 from the mainstream online retailers such as AG.

I would be very wary indeed. If in any doubt about the validity of an online retailer use scamadviser,com

http://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/onlinesalegolf.co.uk

In this case website is 11 days old and based in US, but pretends to be a UK site. One or two others of a similar nature are based in China.

 

[Doh]

Yes they do http://www.lefthandedgolf.co.uk/sta...requery=true&sort=&manu=&users=&types=&page=4 The retailer won't allow you to click on 'add to basket' so you have to phone them up for a static fitting, but some web sites are authorised to sell them so saying they are all fakes is wrong.

I never said they were all fakes, and I know you can get them via the internet but you have to ring them also. I should have said you cannot buy purely online.

 

[c1973]

I would be very wary indeed. If in any doubt about the validity of an online retailer use scamadviser,com

http://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/onlinesalegolf.co.uk

In this case website is 11 days old and based in US, but pretends to be a UK site. One or two others of a similar nature are based in China.

Not sure about the sites reliability, golfmonthly.co.uk shows up as a new site from Canada.

 

[LinksTurf]

golf-monthly.co.uk and golfmonthly.co.uk are not the same site. Scamadviser picks this up. Our esteemed magazine can be clearly seen NOT to be a scammer and has an excellent trust rating. The other site? Don't know what that is!!!

http://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/golf-monthly.co.uk

http://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/golfmonthly.co.uk

 

[c1973]

golf-monthly.co.uk and golfmonthly.co.uk are not the same site. Scamadviser picks this up. Our esteemed magazine can be clearly seen NOT to be a scammer and has an excellent trust rating. The other site? Don't know what that is!!!

http://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/golf-monthly.co.uk

http://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/golfmonthly.co.uk

Ah, my mistake. It's good to know GM aren't operating a long con.........in fairness it would be a helluva long, long con.

 

[LinksTurf]

Indeed! The longevity of the website is one of the things folks should be alert to. It's a mistake just to look at the overall trust rating only. It's an important indicator, but only tells part of the story. Reading all of the text on the report usually provides quite a lot of telling information, including which other fake websites by the same operators are using the same server and how long they've taken out the licence on the domain name.

I found out about scamadviser the hard way after my daughter bought some fake aftershave for xmas. Site was registered in Bulgaria, a hot-bed of such scams, but looked to all intents and purposes as if it was UK. Even provided a fake UK phone number!

 

[Hacker Khan]

I found out about scamadviser the hard way after my daughter bought some fake aftershave for xmas. Site was registered in Bulgaria, a hot-bed of such scams, but looked to all intents and purposes as if it was UK. Even provided a fake UK phone number!

Well let that be a lesson. I always buy my 'Pagan Man' and 'Horn for Men' from Boots as you know you are getting the pukka stuff.

 

[Airsporter1st]

Well let that be a lesson. I always buy my 'Pagan Man' and 'Horn for Men' from Boots as you know you are getting the pukka stuff.

Can you still get Hai Karate! from Boots?

 

[Airsporter1st]

I would be very wary indeed. If in any doubt about the validity of an online retailer use scamadviser,com

http://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/onlinesalegolf.co.uk

In this case website is 11 days old and based in US, but pretends to be a UK site. One or two others of a similar nature are based in China.

Very interesting and thanks for the link - I have bookmarked it for ongoing use. This has made me think about various other "UK" sites that I have bought from in the past - nothing major, luckily.