Were you approached on Instagram by someone who wants you to showcase Gnarcy jewelries and receive 3 free jewelries? Beware! It’s an influencer scam and not a real genuine offer. Here’s the truth about gnarcy.com;
Exposing How Gnarcy.com Jewelry Store Actually Works
Gnarcy.com portrays itself as a store that sells quality 18k gold, tarnish free and waterproof jewelries for affordable prices. Whereas it’s actually a drop-shipping website that buys bulk cheap $5 jewelries from China and sell them off for exorbitant prices.
The store uses Instagram DM to get buyers by offering a fake brand ambassadorship deal. People think they are getting the jewelries for free but in the real sense they’re being cheated. The $36 paid for just shipping covers the price of the jewelries and international shipping fee times three.
Is Gnarcy a Scam?
Gnarcy.com is operating a bait and switch scam coupled with other shady business practices. Its brand partnership is offered to all and sundry, even to Instagram users who are less active and have very few followers. This proves it’s not for advertising, but a marketing influencer scam. Partners of this brand do not get value for the shipping cost paid.
Meanwhile, customers are automatically added to a monthly paid subscription plan. All efforts to unsubscribe are often futile and customers continue being charged a monthly fee for cheap jewelries in the mail.
Also, there isn’t any information online about who the owner or owners are. The ‘About Us’ story on the website is vague and contains no details about the entities behind the brand.
Tips on How To Spot Scam Influencer Ambassador Brand
Whether you’re approached on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook or any social media platforms, here are glaring red flags of dishonest brand ambassadorship;
- Requests for Payment: They might ask you to purchase their product first for reimbursement later, or to purchase at a discount or pay just shipping fees.
- No Formal Offer: Asking you to create content for their use in return for promoting your social media accounts. Or requesting a collaboration by commenting in your comments on Instagram, or your blog.
- Unprofessional Language Use: If they’re using language like sweetie, darling, honey, etc. or use language that contains spelling and grammar errors.
- Offering you a special affiliate commission with a “discount” for your followers (there are affiliate programs galore that you can sign-up to).
- It’s from a sketchy company that when you Google it, seems to be doing some questionable work or has poor reviews.
How to know If an Online Store is Legit
Aside from the obvious too good to be true discount sale, here are other ways to identify a scam website;
Check Website Registration Age
How old is the website? The domain age of a website tells a lot about a store’s legitimacy or transparency. Websites below 6 months old are often considered unsafe. You can find out a website’s age by checking on Who.is ( a free domain checker tool)
Find Out If The Website Has SSL Encryption
find out if the website is secured with SSL encryption. (https and padlock symbols). If the padlock symbol doesn’t appear near the website’s URL, then it means your personal and financial information is at risk at the store.
Verify The Business Address
Does The website provide return address? If Yes (Copy the address and paste on your browser. Google map would show if it is a real warehouse address or a residential address) If the address has also been used by other websites you’d see reviews in search results.
Search For Reviews Online
Are there customer reviews online? (It is advised that you sit it out if there are no customer reviews of the store. However if you’re not patient enough to wait you can send a mail to us to verify if the store is legit)
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