I purchased a couple of Polo custom fit shirts from a website called Polo Outlet 2012 a few weeks ago - the link is now gone but there is still a Facebook page for these 'stards. I'm sure they will be back.
The website looks just like Ralph Lauren's online site with the photographs, etc. I thought the retail prices looked a little strange (they were very high), but the discount price was $39.99. I ordered two and by the time I had gone through the payment processing, I knew I was dealing with a rip-off. I got an email confirming my order from a yahoo address and the money came out of my account immediately, so I knew it was a fraudulent website. I called the bank and tried to cancel the payment, and they said I had to file a claim with Visa (this was my debit card.) Anyway, two weeks later I actually got a package, much to my surprise, with a return address in Chinese. It contained two imitation Ralph Lauren classic fit shirts - the logos and fabric looked very similar, but the tags had a different font, the fabric on the collars and fabrics was wrong and didn't match the shirt fabric, and they were about four inches too short.
Needless to say, I can't return them and now the bank is telling me I have to get a letter from a Ralph Lauren merchant stated they are bogus & and I am out 87.00.
The only kind of Polo Outlet that exists are the stores in outlet malls. No way is a website that sells the full line of merchandise real, and these thieves will rear their ugly heads again. Don't be a chump like I was - I've been shopping online for years and I guess I got complacent.
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