DO NOT BUY from JESSICA BY BEE

[Scammedffs]

Just a warning.

I have been totally and utterly scammed after following a link provided by someone posting on a MN thread this morning about Wedding outfits.

I thought I understood all the pointers to potential scamming but was really taken in for a number of reasons.

• I really need an outfit for a Wedding so my guard was down.
• The dress looked attractive and the price was reasonable.
• Delivery was apparently free
• The site indicated that they had a retail shop in an area close to me. Not close enough to drive too, but an area which is known as a really lovely shopping district
• The site contained a very convincing story about how the business had been set up and a plausible argument for the discounts they were offering
• There was only one of these dresses left in my size and the pressure was on to buy.
• I was due out for an appointment so didn’t take the time to check Trustpilot
• Neither stupidly did I see the very small print saying ‘sale’ items could not be returned.

I know, I know, I know, how could I have been so stupid !!

The minute I pressed pay the emails arrived

• I had been charged an extra £4.95 for Insurance
• The order would take 5 - 15 days to be processed, with no information about delivery

I challenged the Insurance charge through their contact form and was basically told ‘tough’

I then replied asking them to cancel the order and am being ignored.

In the hours since I have done some trawling, the very attractive shop front shown on the website, is in real life a Costcutter. The location of their US shop is a Pizza place on a highway. The business does not appear on companies house and their Trustpilot reviews are awful.

My credit card company say they are being inundated by scams like this and that I now need to wait to see what arrives before they can advise whether they will step in.

My only consolation through all this is that I only ordered one dress and that by the time they wrote to me offering an 20% off any additional items I might like to add to the order, I was becoming very suspicious.

So I have been scammed, am feeling stupid and incredibly cross with myself, but I have also learned a very important lesson about who and when I trust in the future when it comes to linked items.

NEVER* have

I am being advertised a scam site on this page - ‘wearshes.com’ which also is a sale site, with a very low Trustpilot rating and people reporting very low quality products arriving from china that do not reflect the pictures….

Well the company do still get their money so it does work. I see your point ie "don't sweat it if it happens" but lots of people don't want the stress of dealing with it or to receive something they didn't order. It's not catastrophising to warn others of what to look out for.

Banks recoup the money, why is why most companies are motivated to sort out customer issues before it gets to that point. Where I bank it takes a minute to fill the form in, and about a day to get a decision.

They can try to recoup the money but often they don't get it all or any - these websites work; that's why there are so many of them.

A voice is reason isn’t always well received

What?

Exactly. Plus anyone being caught out may well be out of pocket for some time before getting a refund. I've never bought from a site like this (they are obviously scams) but I don't believe that banks just instantly apply refunds.

I’m so sorry about your reading comprehension. It’s very obvious that the ‘is’ should’ve been of*. Getting shitty about simple typos is about what I’d expect from such a rude poster, full marks. ✅

Never ever had an issue myself. Ordered a takeaway once and it didn’t turn up. Had the money back in my account the following day and this was without being able to provide any photographic evidence during the charge back process.

No, she clearly doesn’t give a toss because she deliberately left out the posters name when she was replying and calling her a “rude condescending mare”.

Probably best not to engage with stroppy posters like that as they’ll never admit they’re wrong but just double down even further. 🤷🏻‍♀️

IRL, and certainly on the internet, when I encounter people on the wind up and repeatedly being rude, I name it and I match the tone. That’s all there is to it.

The flaw in fatphalange's argument of "doesn't matter, you'll get your money from the bank" is that it enables these fraudster sites to get the money in the first place. The bank refunds, but who cares about banks - are the banks going to pursue the fraudsters? Probably not, so effectively money is paid over to what are basically criminals.

Far better for everyone, including the banks, that no one ever gets taken in.

I think I may have been scammed on a second hand book I bought this morning in a hurry for my son. It's a US import and hard to find and I just bought it very fast as I was so pleased to have found it for him.

I think I am generally pretty savy but I'm so stressed at the moment that it's hard not to slip up.

Absolutely, fatphalange is all about him/herself. Sometimes we need to think outside the box! Scammers are probably the reason why banks charge so much in interest & fees..they need to make their losses back somehow!

No I am not all about myself ffs, what a thing to say.

You shouldn't rely on banks as a catch all for if you get frauded. Yes banks will repay you the money in some not all circumstances. If a customer is regularly falling for these scams the bank will stop refunding them and can actually exit them as a customer as a liability. Also banks don't have endless pots of money and fraud can be their biggest loss, it is in the bank I work for, so the losses will be recouped somewhere else.
Sorry @Princesspeaches99 I didn't mean to quote you

I feel your pain. I too ordered a 'dress' from these charlatans recently - only £29.99 - but even so. It took almost 2 weeks to arrive and in that time I googled reviews and saw things like this! Silly me. I believe the dress was being thrown together on a sewing machine while I waited - cheap material and all the wrong shape - atrocious. When I queried it and demanded a refund they said I needed to take pictures and a video of it?!. I basically just wanted to wash my hands of them so Im not doing anything other than putting the dress in the clothing bin at my dump.I have reported the company online and am hoping they will be shut down. More people should do the same.

Jessica by bee they are scammers dot buy from them you will never get your refund back ad never get what you want this website should be reported

Don't trust websites like this where they have very generic dresses, they're dropselling and making a profit off you. In future if using google chrome you can right click the image and choose "search with google lens" and make sure you shrink the box that pops up to only have the dress for more accurate results than the whole image being searched, and see if it's being sold on shein or taobao. I did this with two of the dresses (one basic so I chose a more unique patterned dress) and both came back on amazon/shein/whatever. Like this for example - https://jessicabybee.com/collections/the-santorini-days/products/elara-round-neck-short-sleeve-striped-maxi-dress
came up on shein as - https://www.shein.co.uk/Women-s-Casual-Comfortable-Vacation-Linen-Textured-Striped-Floral-Print-Short-Sleeve-Maxi-Loose-Dress-Spring-Summer-p-367107925-cat-12476.html?&feed_tp=LMTT
They're pretty much just scamming people by making their website look more exclusive but it's the same crap.

Double posting as I found the little rabbithole interesting, looked more at the website and if you put the images into google lens, they have several other websites using the same images from the "about us" section -
https://jessicabybee.com/pages/about-us
https://emmarosecapetown.co.za/pages/about-us
https://stellaandgracedresses.com/pages/our-story

If you look closely at the faces you can see alot of glitching in the mouth area, and the bag the brunette woman is holding the text is nonsense text that shows no results when reverse searched.

When you look at the customer testimonials "Loved by our customers" when scrolling down on this page - https://jessicabybee.com/collections/trending-now/products/haven-quiet-gather-dress
If you reverse image search with google lens the "customers" they have photoshopped the words on the bag and use them on even more websites! There are several of the same women holding the bags with different text
https://onlyfancy.co.uk/products/nova-vibrant-midi-dress-with-airy-comfort-for-the-weekend
https://www.lynnandmason.com/products/annie-comfortable-summer-dress
https://sophieandjane.com/collections/mini-dresses

It's better to stick with more well known brands, there are alot of these scam websites popping up using ai lately.

Sorry to read the posts about being scammed. It has just happened to me too with the same pattern, ignoring my request to cancel after I realized, having paid that something wasn't right. They have since tried to entice me to make more purchases promising 20% and 50% off. I should have read the Trustpilot reviews first but admit that I was rushing to get a dress sorted for an event and now I don't expect to receive a refund either. I really don't feel comfortable buying online anymore and if I do purchase online it will be from recognized stores. There seems to be more of this around including scam emails trying to get you to click links and posing as reputable companies. As someone who grew up without the Internet, I feel like returning to the "old fashioned" way of doing things but that is difficult too because everything is online.
Anyone feeling stupid for being caught out - don't be because we all have busy lives and are trying to get things done and these fraudsters prey on that and are despicable. I feel so sorry for those women who have bought a dress for a wedding and been disappointed. Of course there are lots of sales on at the moment with significant reductions so it wasn't out of place that they were lowering prices too. I did see some of the signs but it didn't compute. Lesson learned but I won't be fooled again.

Exactly the same thing happening to me right now, I unfortunately ordered 3 dresses at a cost £104. They initially answered my emails regarding a return as the sleeves are too tight wanting a photo of it on me, all measurements of the garment which is irrelevant, I also said no to sending them, haven’t heard back from them since. I’m so annoyed I couldn’t pay by PayPal as it wasn’t working, so used my debit card, I’m hoping I can do a chargeback with my bank. I believe they are a bunch of Chinese crooks 🤬

Exactly the same thing happening to me right now, I unfortunately ordered 3 dresses at a cost £104. They initially answered my emails regarding a return as the sleeves are too tight wanting a photo of it on me, all measurements of the garment which is irrelevant, I also said no to sending them, haven’t heard back from them since. I’m so annoyed I couldn’t pay by PayPal as it wasn’t working, so used my debit card, I’m hoping I can do a chargeback with my bank. I believe they are a bunch of Chinese crooks 🤬

Their address claims to be a shop in York on Bishopthorpe Road. It most certainly isn’t the shop in the photos (unless they’ve opened a newsagent) and I live there and have never ever seen them or their AI scam shop.

Yeah Temu or Shein doesn't pretend to be an independent boutique based in a cutesy UK location that's been operating for decades by two sisters.

In fact these cheesy back stories about elderly couples where one died or two sisters forced to close the business for some sob story sounding reasons, accompanied by obvious AI photos is always a marker of a scam site.

Shein etc is cheap Chinese plastic. But the quality is what you'd expect for the price so not a scam or rip off in the real sense.