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Sean H.

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4 Reviews by Sean

  • Calceus

10/6/21
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DO NOT BE FOOLED BY POSITIVE REVIEWS OF CALCEUS ON TRUSTPILOT: THOSE ARE FAKE. NOTICE ALL THE "EXCELLENT" VIEWS HAVE BLATANT AND SIMILAR GRAMMATICAL AND SPELLING ERRORS INDICATING THEY WERE ALL WRITTEN BY THE SAME PERSON OR TEAM; MULTIPLE "EXCELLENT" REVIEWS UPLOADED EVERY DAY AT ROUGHLY THE SAME TIME (more details below).
My REAL review: My order number was ******* on September 7,2021. This company has a slick website and nice photos but reality is different. Items not true to size. I ordered two pairs of shoes, both size 9. The shipping label to me was from Vernon California. One shoe was much smaller than size 9 and the other was larger; neither shoe fits. When I requested a replacement calceus said I had to ship the shoes back to an address in China with tracking, which costs more than the shoes (although they shipped the shoes to me from a California warehouse). I researched and the company is "offshore everywhere", registered in Cyprus (meaning a nameplate on a wall somewhere in Nicosia), no identifiable address, owners, factory, etc. don't be fooled like I was, avoid this company.
I actually sent the items back with tracking to the address in China but still no refund.
I am seeking a refund from PayPal but so far no help there.
Also they only post positive reviews on their own website so that's not accurate.
Below I have quoted verbatim from the "excellent" trustpilot reviews for calceus.org, you can see that every "excellent" review has the same types of grammatical and spelling errors. Examples:
"These Quick-dry shoes are fit nicely..."
"To confortable to wear them"
"I recommend this for anyone who really enjoy the outdoors"
Be advised: being a non-native English speaker myself I would NEVER make light of someone else's honest grammar or spelling mistakes. My purpose is to show clearly (and I hope trustpilot is reading this) that all these "excellent" reviews are fake and uploaded by the same person or same team of fake review writers overseas.
Also, notice that virtually all the trustpilot reviews are either "excellent" or "bad" with nothing in between. If the reviews were legitimate we would expect a normal distribution with most reviews at some level and gradual fall-off from that level, not extreme sharp peaks at either end of the distribution.
Finally, you can generally get the same shoes from Amazon (from the same manufacturers) with a valid refund right.

  • Trustpilot

9/29/21

Trustpilot is a scam on consumers. Trustpilot charges companies to delete negative reviews regardless of cause and allows companies to post fake reviews. There is no way to remove a fake positive review or even object; if you "flag" a review, it just takes you to a screen that asks you to sign in as the company being reviewed, i. E., only the company being reviewed can flag, object to or remove a review. If you look at the numerous positive reviews of companies with problems you can see all cookie-cutter "excellent" reviews with short text and no details of product purchased, order number, etc., multiple "excellent" reviews all posted on the same day, odd names for reviewers (the types of fake and "off" names you see on your spoof phonecalls), and similar and blatant grammatical and spelling errors. Clear signs that the positive reviews are coming from overseas review mills that pay people a penny a review to post. Trustpilot never removes the positive reviews, only negative ones. Also check out the "about us" section on Trustpilot. Trustpilot brags about removing "fake" reviews but when you read the text, it is all reassuring companies (not consumers) that "fake" (meaning "bad") reviews will be removed. There is not one word about removing or preventing fake positive reviews posted by the companies themselves.

  • Crazybulk

9/29/21

Crazybulk is just a massive, well-orchestrated internet marketing scheme. Crazybulk has flooded the internet with fake reviews, even the apparently "skeptical" reviews (like the ones that start with "What's up with this company Crazybulk" or "Read before buying Crazybulk" or "Is Crazybulk for real" are also fake and always end up promoting the company. Crazybulk pays its resellers 30% or more to push the product so there is a great incentive to post positive reviews. It is impossible to find an unbiased review because Crazybulk has so many fake reviews that the fakes push out any real reviews. The reviewers, even on Youtube, all promote the product and include links to purchase the product. Even the reviews from supposed medical sources or personal trainers include multiple links to purchase the product. Crazybulk uses SRO (search result optimization), for example linking to popular sites, linking to each other's reviews, and paying for top search results, to make sure their fake reviews are at the top and crowd out any legitimate reviews (if any). Other tricks include: 1. Crazybulk posts its fake reviews under fake urls that sound like journals or newspapers like "www.kirklandreporter.com". 2. Crazybulk has multiple pages and sites that post its ad entirely as an image, not text, so that the term "crazybulk" does not appear in the search. This way if you get tired of seeing crazybulk ads and you search, for example, "safe steroids -crazybulk" (trying to exclude crazybulk from the search results) the crazybulk ad will still come up, there is no way to exclude the search term. 3. Crazybulk has paid heavily for its fake sites and ads to come up if you search "safe steroids" or "use steroids safely", in fact Crazybulk is not steroids and is not a replacement for steroids.
If the company had a good, functioning product it would not need these dubious sales tactics.
I have found exactly one independent review of crazybulk and this one states crazybulk contains a dangerous ingredient, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gHRFByJnY8.
The reality is crazybulk has dubious ingredients that do not help at all and certainly do not, in any way, match the results of steroids. At best crazybulk has some vitamins or herbal supplements with no clinically proven results. For example their "D-Bal" pill, which they explicitly market as a substitute for the genuine steroid dianabol, contains some vitamins and ingredients like "MSM". Review MSM on any legitimate medical website it will say MSM has no proven effect on anything, let alone musclebuilding. Example: https://www.webmd.com/vitamins-and-supplements/msm-methylsulfonylmethane-uses-and-risks.
If you want steroids results you must use actual steroids and accept the risks. Or don't use steroids which is fine too. But don't waste your money on crazybulk.

Products used:
none, I just analyzed their reviews and list of ingredients

  • AliExpress

11/1/17

Site does not work for consumers. Sellers use "generic" photos that do not match the actual product. Actual product color, size, material is usually off. I think they consider this an acceptable business practice and not fraudulent, and maybe that is true for wholesale buyers/sellers. Consumers expect to get exactly what is advertised. Refund process does not work, site makes you give a long explanation and upload photographic evidence and then ignores you, no refund ever.

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