DH bought me a dodgy hairdryer!! AIBU?

We used to do that - during our 30+ year marriage all money went into one pot and either parry could spend it. I was a SAHM or worked part time and he earned a lot. We are now divorced and apparently I have never bought anything as everything was bought by him as he was the main earner.

The website fortehair looks really dodgy! It's littered with typos and returns process seems very odd. The product is much cheaper on Ali express. Your husband almost certainly has been ripped off.

OP I do feel your pain
One Christmas my lovely husband presented me with an expennsive voucher for a facial (£100) Now I had previously expressed my desire for a facial but I hadnt expected to receive one. I was upset at the amount as we were on a very tight budget due an Easter Holiday we were having. I did mange to return it but it took a bit of badgering to get a refund and I did feel sad that I upset my husband. Tricky situation you are in, I hope the credit card company are sympathetic and cancel the transaction for you. We have a joint account but we wouldn't generally buy something expensive without discussing it with the other first. Hope you can talk about it together and resolve it.

I think they're fantastic!

I'm with you OP, you're husband has been a total idiot, not mincing my words

@GreenDuck1 was it a Virgin money credit or debit card? I ask because I noticed a strange transaction last week on my Virgin app, also marked as pending and when I rang to query it I was told that because it was already authorised there was no way of stopping it. I had to cancel my debit card in case whomever it was tried again! Your best hope that it doesn't arrive and you paid by credit card as you should have some insurance.

Do agree that joint money is a strange concept in this day and age however 🤔 everyone should have their own income, I've worked since my kids were 5 months old to ensure exactly that!

That's about as dodgy as they get. The website was only registered on the 25th September 2024 (see below). No such UK company (the .co.uk at the end of a website doesn't mean it's a UK company).

In the contact part, there is no landline number, no phone number and no address.

I would NOT be using any hairdryer sent by this company, if you actually receive anything.

It would make me despair OP if my partner did that when we were short of money and our money was shared so in effect I was paying £80 towards something I didn't want or need.
I believe that he thought he was being generous and I believe that he's genuinely hurt by your response, but still.
If he can do this he will almost certainly be managing money badly in other ways which is a bigger concern.

@GreenDuck1 I think your husband’s heart was in the right place. Don’t be hard on him. Remember it is the thought that counts. And he thought he was doing something really nice for you.

FWIW I have had plenty of friends who love shopping online, getting a (to me) too good to be true bargain. That to me looks like it has to be fake, inferior product, scam and they claim vehemently that they are very happy with what they got and the quality of the product. I am (then and to this day) far too distrusting and very risk adverse and would never buy anything that looks like a fake. But, on the other hand, others are not like me and seem to be quite satisfied. So, what would I know? Perhaps, in the whole scheme of things, they are right and I am just a scaredy cat.

Be open minded. Try the hairdryer first before judging. And give us an update on whether or not it was good.

FWIW I clicked on the link you posted and it looked really convincing to me.

Oh dear... If this is their mission statement, I think your husband has been had!

Our Mission & Vision
Vortehair brand promise is "make you hair health" and recently launched its new motto: "Vortehair - make you hair health".

Makes no sense at all!

How is it fake? It's not claiming to be anything but whatever brand they stuck on it. The CC company won't care that it's available for £20 elsewhere. If you buy something for £100 and discover it's on sale in TK Maxx for £20, that's nobody else's problem. Besides, you can't prove it's the same thing in this case anyway.

I'd not use it unless it is approved to CE or BS standards and rated at the correct supply voltage (230V 50Hz)

A lot of Chinese illegal imports are rated 220V and will after a time overheat, or don't have overheat cutouts, not made from non combustible plastic, fake UK plug without a fuse etc etc..

Look at the rating plate / embossing in the plastic and see what it says.

£160 is a LOT of money for some people. Maybe consider that not everyone is as wealthy as you

I think your husband has been silly, but with good intentions. I think you are being really unkind to your husband about it though. If id been scammed and my husband had been this annoyed with me, id be so hurt.
If money is tight because of only one income then why cant the other one bring money in?

And the purpose of this post is???? 🙄

If you can't cancel it, then wait until it arrives and request a refund with them paying for the return. If they refuse then argue with them for a while over it so that you have an email trail.

Then put in a claim with your credit card company saying that it is overpriced fake goods and you should get your money back at that point.

I was successful in getting money back for a desk that was not fit for purpose and the company wanted me to ship it back to China. The credit card company refunded me when they saw the company emails that just kept offering me bigger and bigger discounts to keep the item and refusing to pay to ship to China.

Vortehair brand promise is "make you hair health" and recently launched its new motto: "Vortehair - make you hair health".

Finest Chinglish right there.

I think YABU for goggling the company and calling him out on this before the present has even arrived. He made a mistake but the intention was good.

When it arrives just send it back. If they won't accept the return, your credit card company will help.

Any update @GreenDuck1

If he believed those reviews as research, he's acting like one.

I love mine. My hair takes ages to dry, but not with Dyson.

This. And an electrician who thinks it’s fine buying cheap dodgy Chinese clones is not an electrician I would use.

But surely you're missing the point. It might be a decent hairdryer but the fact that it's available for £26 means it's a complete rip off at £160…

I've got one of those Dyson hairdryers they're really not as good as they're made out to be.

I actually have this hairdryer!! Funnily enough from my husband I was dubious too but it’s been 2 years and it’s fine! Although it was called something different when I got it but it’s 1000% the same one