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<\/p>\n\n\nFashionable outfits, home gadgets, gifts for everyone, and all of it at a fraction of the usual price. Craftobuy.com is built to make you stop scrolling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The product shots look fantastic. What you actually receive often doesn’t, and getting your money back can take far more than placing the order did.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Craftobuy.com sells products it doesn’t make. It follows the same model as thousands of similar shops: list items from low-cost suppliers, then ship them directly from warehouses in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The store never handles the products itself. It sets prices, runs ads and takes payments, while a supplier you’ll never hear from packs and mails your order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Craftobuy.com is part of a pattern. A scam network operates near-identical stores, copies the same templates, product photos and return policies between them, and reopens them under new names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nothing about the items matches the ads. They’re very low quality, and the pictures are usually borrowed from other sellers or brands, so they show a product you’ll never get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Skim the refund policy and you can come away reassured. Read it properly and you’ll find this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Craftobuy.com is a high-risk store, and buying there is likely to cost you far more than the item is worth. Do not buy. There’s no practical way to return it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here’s what stands out about Craftobuy.com:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The steps below show how most orders go. Learning them up front can save you the money and the weeks you’d lose to back-and-forth emails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Facebook, Instagram and TikTok are the usual starting points. A slick photo or short video shows the product steeply discounted, frequently with a “limited time” tag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Look closely and the same video often turns up in ads for dozens of other shops. They share suppliers, and they share marketing material too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At first glance, Craftobuy.com passes for an established shop: categories, star ratings, a friendly About Us page. Often, though, all that sits on a store template and a supplier list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The About Us page usually comes from a template too. Its tale of a small family business or a passionate founder appears, in the same words, across many unrelated shops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your order travels all the way from China, so the promised 5 to 7 days can become three or four weeks. Don’t be surprised if tracking sits unchanged for days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead of one parcel, some orders arrive as several small ones, all tracked separately. When a package never turns up, proving which items are missing can be hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The item that eventually arrives is a cheaper cousin of the one advertised. It’s smaller, thinner or simpler, the kind of thing other sellers offer for pocket change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The biggest share of complaints is about clothes. You get cheap-feeling fabric, stitching that pulls loose, and sizes cut to a chart that doesn’t match the site’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ask for your money back, and the reply asks for pictures first. Then comes the catch: the item has to travel to China, and postage alone can cancel the refund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Next comes the usual offer: keep the item for 15% to 30% back. Fair on the surface, but most of your money is still gone on something you didn’t want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The policy is written this way for a reason: at this point, many buyers give up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here’s what gives Craftobuy.com away. These signs show the low prices aren’t the deal they seem, and you can check every one in a minute before paying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Spot a leather bag at $29 or a smartwatch at $19? That’s not luck. At that price, what arrives is a much cheaper version of what’s in the photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Watch the “original” price with a line through it. It’s rarely real, and it’s meant to make an ordinary price feel like a discount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Put the photos through a reverse image search and they often surface elsewhere: other stores, marketplaces or a brand’s own website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don’t assume a brand photo means a brand product, because your order won’t come from that brand. If it’s a marketplace photo, that same item is often cheaper there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shops in this network rarely display a registered company name, a tax number or a local address, so tracking down the seller after a bad order is hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An email address or a contact form is usually all you get. With no phone or live chat to fall back on, time-sensitive problems can take weeks to resolve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your bank and PayPal give you a set window for disputes, and slow replies eat into it. Keep those deadlines in mind while you wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Watch what happens on a reload: the countdown jumps back to the start. Add “only 2 left” stamped on every item, and the goal is clear. They want you rushing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Give it time. Close the page, come back later, and see whether the “sale” is still running. If it is, there was never a limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A second item, priority handling or shipping protection can already be ticked when you reach the basket. Read each line of the total before paying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The add-ons rarely change how fast your order arrives or how well it’s covered. They raise a bill that may already be far more than the order is worth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Watch what happens when you click to pay. A payment page showing some unrelated company’s name is your cue to stop, because that stranger would receive your card details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You’ll find the same About Us story, policies and product photos on dozens of other shops. Close one, and another pops up under a fresh name selling that catalog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A few minutes of checking can tell you whether an online shop is worth your money. Start with these questions before you pay:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If several answers come back wrong, close the tab. There’s almost always a seller with a clearer return policy and a company you can actually look up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For extra protection while you browse, Malwarebytes Browser Guard<\/a> warns you about many known scam and phishing sites before they load.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you found something appealing on Craftobuy.com, buy it through a safer route:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The price may be a bit higher. What you get for it is the product you actually ordered and a seller that honors its refund promise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ordering from a shop like this doesn’t mean the money is gone. Acting early gives you the best chance of fixing the order or getting a refund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you paid by bank transfer, contact your bank right away and ask whether the payment can be recalled. The sooner you call, the better the odds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If the store won’t cooperate, file a complaint at econsumer.gov<\/a>, which handles cross-border shopping complaints, or at ReportFraud.ftc.gov<\/a> in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Craftobuy.com is a high-risk store in a scam network. You may receive your order, but you’ll be stuck with very low-quality items because returns cost too much. Do not buy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Expect most items to ship from suppliers in China, with nothing in between. That setup can mean several weeks of waiting and tracking that is often slow to update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What you see in the ad is usually borrowed from other sellers or brands. What you receive is a cheaper version, produced to hit a low price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You usually can, but the package has to go to China and you cover the shipping. On a cheap order, that can wipe out the refund and then some.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hold off on shipping it. Your card issuer or PayPal can tell you whether a “not as described” dispute would cover you instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Write to the store before anything else. A refusal or runaround means it’s time for a dispute with your card issuer or PayPal, backed by item photos and listing screenshots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don’t take them at face value. Reviews hosted on the store’s own site are simple to stack with praise. Buyer photos and comments on independent sites are a better guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Craftobuy.com is a high-risk store, and the lookalike shops around it form a scam network. The very low-quality items look nothing like the ads, and a return rarely makes sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The decision is clear: do not buy from Craftobuy.com. Shopping for something you spotted there? A marketplace with buyer protection is the safer place to look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’ve already ordered, keep the order email and product screenshots, and photograph what arrives. Should the store refuse to fix it, open a dispute with your card or PayPal.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We investigated Craftobuy.com shopping site – legit store or a scam? Read this before you shop to see what we uncovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":430700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,2838],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scam-reports","category-scam-shopping-sites","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430701,"href":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430699\/revisions\/430701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Where to Buy Instead<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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What to Do If You Already Ordered from Craftobuy.com<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Is Craftobuy.com a scam?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Where does Craftobuy.com ship from?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Why does the product look so different from the photos?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Can I return an item to Craftobuy.com?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
My order never arrived or isn’t as described. What now?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Are the reviews on Craftobuy.com real?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The Bottom Line<\/h2>\n\n\n\n