Has anyone ever bought Jet tools from the 'clearance' rack that shows on one of their web pages? Select Sale: Clearance ⊕ (jettoolshop.com) Yeah, seems too good to be true and, if online reviews for Jet are accurate then........... Just one of those questions that seems to need an answer.
Are you sure that's the official Jet Tools website you're looking at? The website I found was jettools.com. There are scam sites that look like official websites but really aren't - I don't know if this is one, but when prices seem too good to be true they usually are. This site doesn't give that site a very good review. https://www.scam-detector.com/validator/jettoolshop-com-review/
Scam! When you type in their address listed on the bottom of page of website, ( 201 N. Nellis Blvd ) it is a Walmart in Las Vegas
It's a scam. The intent is to harvest your credit card info. A couple years ago, I got fooled by a similar website. They take your order, then you get a real tracking# from China. But they send you an empty envelope. So you don't suspect anything before the envelope shows up, that buys them time. Then they used my cc# to order 30k worth of gold coins, computer hardware, and jewelry and had it all overnight shipped to an apartment in Las Vegas. My credit card company did not hold me liable. I ***ume the merchants ate it. It was a h***le, right before I was leaving on a road trip and had my card cancelled.
It almost ****ed me in, I wanted to check shipping charges and put a random card number in, bounced that number. Couldn’t get around it. Guess I won’t be waiting at home for that 99 dollar mill to show up. But I will say, if it’s a scam site, they took it to great lengths. Someone “has to be there upon delivery to sign for the item”. Guess they want your $$ and your time as well.
A lot of the fake websites have a / after .com. Like this..... jettools.com/ If you see the slash at the end stay away. I have been corrected and the above info is not correct.
Yeah, the descriptions are the tell. "tendy style"... "special style"... all that just screams scam to me.
Scammers these days are getting pretty sophisticated with the quality of their web sites. Always best to contact the companies they supposedly represent through another legitimate web site first. They see all those scams too, and can tell you right off if it's legitimate. Of course the old saying, "if it seems to good to be true, it probably isn't" applies.
They did a good job of copying the Jet pages. The big problem with Jet is that they simply do not answer the phone or return emails in any sort of timely fashion. JTW Industries covers several brands and I was hoping that our fellow member from Baleigh would weigh in. Perhaps he will.
the funny thing is, if they had put the sale prices at say 15% off instead of the insane amount like 80% off, they would probably hook alot more people. Most people when they see 80% off realize it's too good to be true.
My son got a "damaged in shipping" Jet Lathe from a dealer not too far away. I was able to drive to his warehouse/showroom and pick from two that were available. I picked one that had a digital readout that was worth what I paid for the whole thing. Damage was to the electric motor and a couple of small things. He had quite a few Jet items that were damaged. Even damaged items were not being sold for 80% off. The lathe was a nice unit for the price .Think we gave about $1600 for it. When we tried to buy a replacement electric motor, we found that getting parts was not easy if at all possible. The motor was not available....at least not in any definable time frame. Since it was a 3 phase 2 HP motor, we just adapted a 3HP 3 Phase that I had sitting on a shelf...........removed from a bandsaw I converted to single phase years ago. It took a little effort, but it worked out well and my son has a nice lathe thats worth double what he has in it. My point here is that if you see a deal and its close enough that you can go see it in person, then I wouldn't hesitate to investigate it. Might get a good deal. Something on line, you might try contacting Paypal before sending money and see if they have had any dealings with the site, and will they refund your money if you do try to buy something. The buys on the website above are just too good to be true ....in my opinion.
There are utilities that allow you to download entire web sites. Once you do that, all you need do is do a find+replace of the legit website name, with the fake one, and change out the back-end payment processing code. It would take just minutes. Your average 14-year-old can do this these days. Yes, that site is very much fake.
Not true. All websites have a front-slash after the domain type. Its appearance is dependent on how your browser is set up.
Got to be a scam. Gear head drill press under 100bucks, with free shipping? That would cost the shipper way more than the selling price.
Except that they did not. They used a s****ing utility like HTTrack Website Copier to copy the entire Jet site. "Can HTTrack copy any website? Of course, to really make this work, you would need to make a replica of the site you were s****ing, or better yet, you could simply simply make a copy of the original site and host it on your own server! HTTrack is just the tool for doing that. HTTrack takes any website and makes a copy to your hard drive." That process takes, at most, a few hours, and no website is immune. This sort of thing is child's play. It is up to the USER to determine that a site is safe. Caveat lector. Caveat emptor.
They used a s****ing utility like HTTrack Website Copier to copy the entire Jet site. Downright scary to this old man.
I guess cause I'm in that biz, I see bicycle ads on social media all the time advertising 2K bikes for $79-$99. Usually with pics that make it look like it's a real deal.. People must fall for it, I guess. With free shipping. And money back guarantees. What could go wrong?
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