I purchased a pink GHD flat iron limited edition with the bag from ebay without reseraching all the scams out there on these flat irons. I did not realize there are fake flat irons. I won an auction Monday on ebay by what seemed to be a real authentic GHD iron, the seller had 50 feedback with 100% positive reviews. The GHD iron came in yesterday and I had the real iron to compare it to from Sephora.. the identical model because after I purchased and paid for the iron, I found the postin on ebay for 22 ways to spot a fake GHD. I picked up the real thing from Sephora to see if they are identical... The GHD from ebay came in yesterday and I spotted it as a fake RIGHT AWAY!!!! I am so happy I had the real GHD to compare it too.
These are the differences:
1. The cord was pink on the fake, not black as pictured in the auction or on the real GHD
2. NO safety button like the real one has
3. The packaging was black inside the box, not pink like the real deal
4. The iron had black scuff marks all over it, not perfect like the real GHD
5. The DVD was pink and all scratched up, didn't sit as firm into the box as the real GHD's BLACK DVD.
6. The manual was super thick, didnt open the bag to look for misspellings and the real GHD had a thinner manual
7. The shade of pink on the box was lighter than the real one
8. There was a round slit on the outside of the box whereas the real GHD box did not have that... and the packaging writing was completely different than the real one.
9. The bag/mat it came with were all worn in and completely cheap made, smaller in size and different shades (lighter pink and black instead of pink and greyish color), also no stars on the buttons like there should be.
10. The inside of the box where the flat iron sat in was all torn apart and wrecked, this was definitely not a brand new item as described and definitely not a real GHD.
I contacted the seller immediately and waited a few hours, no response... So I set up a dispute on paypal hoping not to lose my money. Fortunately the seller responded later and said she would refund me all my money ($105) plus return shipping. She said that she purchased these irons from someone else and was told they were real. She has excellent communication with me which is a huge plus. I'm so happy I'm getting a refund. I am definitely keeping the GHD flat iron from Sephora. I just wish I didn't have to deal with all this headache.
I really appreciate everyone's posts mentioning all GHD's on ebay are fake, that really made me realize this iron needed to be inspected. Seems as real as these auction listings are on ebay, they still send fake items and hope you don't catch on to the irons being fake.
I also read somewhere that
Amazon.com sells fake GHD's, so buyers beware.
I just want to inform many people so that they don't run into the same problem.
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