Beginner Sax What's up with this?

[ESJohn]

An ad popped up today online from a company based in Wistow, SA (South Australia?) called musicdrum. They are offering a Cecilio alto sax with everything that one could want for $99 US. It gets better as a silver "intermediate to advanced" sax is on sale for $89 US.
What do you folks know of this company?

 

[Colin the Bear]

Is it an ornament? Miniature like?

 

[ESJohn]

Looked to be full size to me. website is musicdrum.shop. Hopefully a genuine seller.

 

[h4yn0nnym0u5e]

Just popped up; 75% off everything; contact email is generic gmail; fractured English descriptions; “guarantees return for free within 7 days after delivery if the products have quality problems. Due to its own reasons, the customer must bear the refund processing fee and return logistics fee”.

Seems legit.

 

[Jimmymack]

What's up is that it's a scam.

 

[Colin the Bear]

I ain't even gonna goigle it.

 

[ESJohn]

I'm guessing that a very real and legit company had their identity hacked briefly. After my first post, I went back and could not find the ad anywhere, although I did find a link to the company. It's my hope that it was shut down quickly.
Our company's ceo had emails going out with his name to us asking us to click a link, etc. and we've gone through internet security training to help recognize things like this. They're getting more slick by the day!

 

[spike]

sill there: musicdrum

support your local dealer . . .

 

[JayeNM]

An ad popped up today online from a company based in Wistow, SA (South Australia?) called musicdrum. They are offering a Cecilio alto sax with everything that one could want for $99 US.

That's about what a Cecilio is truly worth, so it seems reasonable to me....

 

[jbtsax]

I just tried to send an email to the garytaylor4351********** contact listed on the website and no such email exists.

 

[JayeNM]

Interesting street address...

 

[JayeNM]

Anyone wanna try the phone number ???

 

[ESJohn]

Looking at Google Maps, the address of lot 202 appears to be, at best, an empty lot. Wistow's population is around 290. I found this image online with the caption "this is the one and only Wistow shop."

 

[Jimmymack]

You can pick up your horn and fill up at the same time, can't say that for many saxophone shops.

 

[jbtsax]

Another case of "If it sounds too good to be true. . . . "