Do not buy from 'Made By Jessica'!

[AgentPidge]

I bought two dresses online (£39 each) from what I thought was a UK-based boutique after a recommendation on a thread on MN. The website shows a pregnant woman, and says that 'Jessica' is closing her boutique due to the imminent arrival of her baby and is selling off stock at half price. The OP said about how much she loved the shop, etc.
Alarm bells should have rung when they ask for £4.99 insurance (to send a parcel from Surrey?). Also because there was no description of the fabric content given, only that it was a 'light and airy summer fabric'. They took a long time to arrive (direct from China?) and came today. The material is almost plastic, and they are a heavy weight, huge, shoddily made, with no labels (fabric content, washing instructions, brand) apart from 'Medium'.
Looking at Trustpilot, lots of people have the same story. They are Hong Kong based. There does not seem to be a UK store. 'Made by Jessica' my arse. They promise easy returns and refunds, but I don't hold out much hope, and it will cost a fortune to send them back to China. But will update.

The bastard company has come back saying they won't send a returns label, and that when I send the parcel back I should get round import taxes by declaring the value to be 50% of the actual value, 30% if over $100!
So I have replied saying that sounds illegal, asking once again to please clarify what I'm not understanding about "Free 30-day returns" on the website, and calling them a right shower. Let's see what their bot makes of that!
But I'm losing patience and will contact my card company. Thanks for all your advice and sympathy, lovely MNers.

Bums, bums and thrice bums. May their beds be full of hedgehogs.

Why, if most people know they are scam companies are they allowed to operate on Facebook etc ?

They just place ads on Facebook, as any company can do. Facebook isn't going through and checking out every company advertising on their platform, it would be impossible. And as soon as one gets closed down, another opens.

Its called Pity Marketing and they also do the videos of young lad/lgirl, sometimes with an SEN crocheting or making bags and someone tells them they are horrible and throws it on the floor and a plea to buy his/her products.

Also old man or woman making shoes, toys etc having to close their store.

I have reported one to instagram and they said there was nothing wrong with it!!!

I've reported these fakes to youtube and instagram and got no where

“I’ve reported those fakes to Youtube and Instagram and got now where.”
Oh @bruffin that is maddening 🥲

I was looking at some dresses that came up as a sponsored link when looking for maxi dresses.
The site is called Jessica by bee.
Googled it and it has links to made by Jessica with lots of negative reviews

Just tried to send a dress back. 4 emails back words and forewords. First want me to send photos, after 2 weeks offer 15% and when I ask to still send it back they told me it will not reach them before the 30 day return. Avoid this company

I keep getting adverts for Made By Jessica while I'm browsing Mumsnet which is bloody annoying!

I wish there was a company that took the designs shown on sites like Buddha Stones, Buykud et al, and made them to be good quality. I'd buy so much of it!

I’ve often thought that too @moggerhanger
Some of those images on dodgy fashion sites are absolutely gorgeous- both style and fabric.
If only they lived up to them in reality ☹️

That would be illegal. You can’t copy designs or patterns or stitching details etc.

Exact duplicates, yes, though I question whether it would be an infringement to actually knit a jumper like in the AI generated image of what turns out IRL to be a printed pattern on a polyester sweatshirt. But changes to the design should get you around it, for unregistered design rights anyway. And I doubt very much whether these drop shipping scammers have bothered to register their clothing designs.