Scam Website: Anyone bought a bike from here before

[avman]

is it me or does the shop look dodgy, im after a cheaper ebike for my wife to join me on the trails. i maybe wrong but.......

The Bicycle Company (UK) LTD (thebicyclecompanyuk.com)


thinking of a cube stereo hybrid 140 in small

 

[Jackware]

Edit - apologies - maybe not so legit as I first though after looking at your further posts...

 

[Mteam]

looks dodgy to me (the website) - the company the website purports to represent may well exist - but that website and the wording/language used just screams scam - if its really genuine, they need to get someone to rewrite all their copy.

The THE BICYCLE COMPANY (UK) LTD service team will do its utmost to fulfil your change requests, if it can still be done. Several orders can be bundled upon your explicit request only.

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[avman]

No more dodgy than your post

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not sure why my post would be dodgy

 

[avman]

looks dodgy to me (the website) - the company the website purports to represent may well exist - but that website and the wording/language used just screams scam - if its really genuine, they need to get someone to rewrite all their copy.

The THE BICYCLE COMPANY (UK) LTD service team will do its utmost to fulfil your change requests, if it can still be done. Several orders can be bundled upon your explicit request only.

Buy best bicycles online for men women and children

largest bicycle manufacturer

I feel the same the website feels like a scam with some wording just seems wrong.
i was wondering if the actual shop was there as its not on google maps.

 

[avman]

photo shopped from google maps holy shite.
actual

on the website

 

[NULevo]

Might it be worth a visit? not a million miles to Peterborough, and you could pick up the bike.

 

[RustyMTB]

The building in the picture is occupied by a company Called Truck UK who do legal compliance services for the haulage industry. There is no bike to collect.

 

[Tubby G]

Let’s not beat around the bush, it’s dodgy as fuck

 

[billwarwick]

Let’s not beat around the bush, it’s dodgy as fuck

They’ve gone to a lot of trouble. Even photo shopped in a rack of bikes.

 

[Tubby G]

They’ve gone to a lot of trouble. Even photo shopped in a rack of bikes.

Surprised they didn't photoshop a happy customer handing over a huge wad of cash too!

 

[DtEW]

photo shopped from google maps holy shite.
actual
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on the website
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Definitely a scam. Google Street photo is copyrighted as of 2021. They claimed to have opened up shop there as of 2018.

Edit: I'm going to walk that back a bit. Now on a computer and seeing that although copyrighted 2021, image capture is specified to have happened in 2016. But the photo is obviously a photoshop of the Google Street photo 2016 image, and they remain most-likely a scam.

 

[billwarwick]

Surprised they didn't photoshop a happy customer handing over a huge wad of cash too!

And a big pile of broken Levo motors. That would have been convincing ?

 

[avman]

change the title hope no one has bought from them.

also reported it to nominet etc...

 

[Aikone]

Reported to two of the brands who are being shown on the site, both of which I know will actively pursue it.

 

[Jackware]

If this is a scam it's well done apart from the poorly worded website and it would be interesting to make contact as the Company reg no shows various info as above and the VAT number is registered to a London bike shop;

Googling that address does indeed show a bike shop;

However Companies House shows this business with different Directors.

 

[DtEW]

If this is a scam it's well done apart from the poorly worded website and it would be interesting to make contact as the Company reg no shows various info as above and the VAT number is registered to a London bike shop;

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Googling that address does indeed show a bike shop;

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However Companies House shows this business with different Directors.

It seems like they found a legitimate bike business with a generic-enough name, copied their VAT number, and concocted a fantasy entity that could pass as said business in the eyes of marks who desperately want to believe the deals are true.

It needs to be noted that nothing on their website points to this Google Street photos-confirmed brick & mortar. All contact info and addresses would keep people from contacting this real business. The nail-in-the-coffin is their claimed history, which cannot be reconciled with the facts of the VAT record.

If I were in the UK, I'd contact this legitimate business as well and let them know of these people who are using their VAT number.

 

[RustyMTB]

It's scammier than a scammy con wearing a stripey jumper & a mask. The photo shopped office, the huge number of bikes, all a grand cheaper than any actual shop. The accounts which show a dormant company with £3 (lol) of capital in it. I guess for a few hundred quid knocking up a website, if you reel in a couple of punters & pocket a few grand before closing it down & repeating then it's worth the effort.

 

[tophies]

Your link is opening the following site thebikecompany.co.uk who are a legit company - possibly being redirected go google

 

[MrPeaski]

Clicking the link as provided by the OP does now go to a legit company as @tophies mentions.

However if you type the address into your browser (thebicyclecompanyuk.com) it still comes up with the original scam site ☹

 

[GrahamPaul]

I love this one: "https://thebicyclecompanyuk.com/imagesSSL.png"

I'm sure that's not supposed to be a hardcoded image

(You'll have to copy and paste the bit inside the quotes)

 

[tophies]

I love this one: "https://thebicyclecompanyuk.com/imagesSSL.png"

I'm sure that's not supposed to be a hardcoded image

(You'll have to copy and paste the bit inside the quotes)

Looks like the site is down - 403 forbidden error page

 

[GrahamPaul]

Looks like the site is down - 403 forbidden error page

Try copy/paste of the bits between the quotes.

 

[tophies]

Try copy/paste of the bits between the quotes.

 

[GrahamPaul]

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Interesting...

I get this:

 

[DtEW]

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[tophies]

Interesting - I note you are both not in the UK, maybe UK IP's are banned from accessing the site

 

[MrPeaski]

I get this (UK) Firefox desktop browser (copy and paste between the "")

 

[tophies]

Oh well - at least its not going to scam anyone now!

 

[GrahamPaul]

I get this (UK) Firefox desktop browser
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Yabbut... you're in Wales. Maybe it's England's net nanny that's saving them...