mandag 12. januar 2015

LuxStyle / LuxGroup (snoring pills, hair removers, gambling ads) - scam?


LuxStyle.no is a valid Norwegian domain. So it appears to be more legit than the common scam. However, this domain is owned by a Danish company. They have a website at luxgroup.com where you can access the local sites easily.

I will not go as far as calling this a SCAM. I don't have enough proof to support that. However, it's definitely not a serious company. Why? Well, they don't show you that you are on a secure website. You normally see a padlock next to the website address if you are on a secure site. There was no indication in my browser that I was about to send my credit card information on a secure connection. All serious internet shops should show you that you are on a secure site. Despite this, they ARE in fact sending your credit card information over a secure socket "under the hood". But the normal customer can not know this and should only deal with websites that have the credit card information form with the padlock showing by the address bar. Otherwise it's too easy to trick/scam people.

However... I could say a few more things.

Once I had picked my products and went to the cart, I had to go through 6-7 steps of deciding whether I wanted to buy 5-6 other products as well. Hair removers ("LuxSmooth"), fake eyelashes ("QuickMax"), snoring pills ("Snore Killer"), facial mask ("Blackhead Killer"), detox bandages, a product to get rid of "skin worms". Snoring pills? Just ask at your pharmacy, if they don't have it, you should not be eating them.


When I finished the order, they had an ad for an online casino. This is not legal on Norwegian web sites. Again, no serious online shop would have illegal advertisements like this.

I assume all products are sent from a different country than yours, probably from Denmark. This means that you most likely has to pay additional fees when you get the shipment (VAT etc.)

On their web sites they have 4 "user reviews". However, these people are not identified with full names. They are not connected with Facebook either, so anyone could have written these reviews.

My overall judgement: Not a scam (unless the products doesn't work as advertised, which I know nothing about), but semi-legit and not serious enough. I would not recommend it at this time. The owners of this shop should get their own SSL certificate and use it on their web site so that people can see that it's secure, remove their gambling ads, have more believable reviews, possibly an official Facebook page so that you can see what other people are saying about this company.