Fake ghd Guide

As the popularity of ghd hair straighteners has increased, so to as the number of fake ghd websites and auction sites that are claiming to sell genuine ghd hair straighteners. It is important that you buy a quality, authentic and ghd approved styler because the manufacturers of fake ghd hair straighteners use poor, low quality grade components This in-turn increases the chances that you can ruin your hair, not mention that these can be dangerous. ghd Stockists has decide to put together a comprehensive guide to spotting fake ghd hair straighteners and counterfeit websites and sellers. These websites, fill often be selling out of stock models and current ghds for anything between £50 and £70. Its not just websites taht you need to be careful of, fake ghds have been found in salons and at car boot sales and markets.

How To Spot Fake ghd Hair Straighteners

• Look Out For Bargain Prices -- If a website or auction site seller is retailing there ghd hair styler for less than £88 than there is a good chance they are fake. ghd is a premium product and if they were selling ghds for this price, they would not be making any money. If the price look too good, be suspicious.

• Older ghd Models -- Counterfeiters often sell popular models and Limited Edition versions that are not longer in production. Please note that ghd Purple, ghd Glamour, ghd Pink Kiss, ghd Dark, ghd Pure and the ghd Rare models are no longer being made. If a website is advertising these products, again they are likely to be fakes.

• Ceramic Plates -- The plates on genuine ghd hair straighteners are floating, what I mean by this is that they move if you press them on either side. Fake ghds tend to have rigid plates, with no give in them. Fake styler also use a cheap ceramic effect spray to cover there plates, this will sooner or later flake off or chip easily.

• Verified ghd Stockists -- All the websites featured on www.ghdstockists.co.uk are approved online retailer. We have regular contact will ghd to make sure we only link to genuine ghd websites. Another way you can be sure a website is selling genuine ghd hair straighteners is to look out for the “Beware Of Fake” logo on websites (see image below). If a website has one of these logo’s, just click it and you will be taken to the Official ghd website, where it will be verified as being a approved stockists. Not all genuine retailers have this feature yet, so as a secondry measure you can use the ghd website checker -- to verify the website.

• Google Listsings -- Fake ghd websites also advertise in Google Sponsored ads -- where they Pay Per Click (PPC) for a advert.  These adverts appear on the very top and on the right side of Google search results. According to Internet Marketer David Naylor “when I looked at Google PPC over 70% were selling fakes” . See image below for a example of these adverts.

• Google Search Results -- Having taken a look on the major serach engines, such as Google using the term “ghd hair straighteners” – I have found that 2 of the website that show up on the 1st page are selling hair straighteners. When I the search Google using the term “ghd”, things are even more worrying. From this search term I found that, 5 of the websites on the 1st page are selling fake ghds. These websites use Spamming tactic and unethical internet marketing tactic to influence Google results. So, just because a website shows up high in Google, Yahoo or Bing this does not mean they are a reputatable company.

Beware Of Fakes Video 1

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Dangers of fake ghds

The copy cats use sub-standard components to make there hair straighteners. The casing can look identical, but inside you are getting a £5 or $7 hair styler -- this is not value for money. These fake hair straighteners have not passed any safety tests and can be very dangerous. I have heard reports of fake stylers catching fire and severley damaging peoples hair.

What Do Fake Site Look Like?

• Websites selling fake ghds will often be based and hosted in China and the Far East, but will often use .co.uk. .net and .com domain names and will also try and use the word ghd in there web address. For the non technically minded it can be difficult to check where the website is hosted, soon look for contact details. No ghd approved stockists would use a mobile phone number or a hotmail, gmail or yahoo email etc as a point of contact. Also look for a registered UK based address and a VAT or registered company number. Any website selling ghd hair straighteners will be turning over a large amount of money in a short period of time, as a result they will be required to display there VAT number on there website.

• As mentioned  in the previous section, to try and cash in fake ghd websites make out of stock stylers such as the ghd Purple and ghd Pure -- if you see them online, they are not real.

• These websites will often use official ghd images, take from genuine ghd websites to try and trick you. Many of them also try and copy the look and feel of the official ghd website. This includes using promotional slogans, graphics, logos, pictures and checkout carts that all look like the real thing.

• One thing that you will also notice, is that the fake ghd website will only sell ghds. This is something that is not allowed by ghd, therefore will suggest they are not official or genuine retailers. Near enough 100% of official ghd retailers have a link to the hair and beauty industry. Therefore, they will also sell a variety of other hair, beauty, skin care and sometimes fashion products.

• Fake ghd retailer also fake other products -- such as Ugg Boots, Nike Trainers and Designer Handbags, they will often place links to there other websites at the bottom of there web pages.

Name & Shame -- List Of Known Fake ghd Websites

Ok, this my chance to name and shame the counterfeit websites. below is a list of known websites selling fake ghd hair straighteners. I will try and keep this list up to date and add to it when I can.

loveghdhairstraighteners.net ghdshop8.com ghdshop7.com/Ghd-hair ghdaaa.com UKsGHD-Shops.com ghdhairshop.co.uk ghdhairshop.com okghd.com ghdsale.com webghd.com ghdselling.co.uk

buysghdhair.com ghd-flatirons.com ghdcentre.com ghds-hairstyle.com ghdshop8.com ghdshop8.com goodghds.com loveghdhairstraighteners.net ukghd8888.org ghdaaa.com

ghdshop7.com/Ghd-hair GHDStylers.co.uk hair-uk.co.uk uk-Ghdsstore-cheap.com UKsGHD-Shops.com uksghd-stores.net chi-ghds.com ghdshop3.com ghdshop2.com iloveghdstraighteners.com

What To Do If You Bought Fake ghd

• Stop using them imediately as they could be dangerous.

• Report the matter to ghd on 0844 8794905, they will not be able to get your money back, but it may prevent other suffering a similar fate.

• If you got them from a hair salon, carboot sale or other retailer contact Trading Standards on 08454 040506