A luxury pair of 'premium' leather shoes and an authentic classic linen polo shirt. Shoppers who bought from online websites thought were nabbing a good deal on legitimate and quality boutique items from UK-based stores.

But instead, they took weeks to come and arrived in vastly different condition to how they were described online. The items, sold for a fraction of the price on the likes of Amazon and AliExpress, were instead poor quality and made from cheap fabrics.

Like many other online shoppers, they are being duped and left out of pocket by websites set up in China and shipping from huge warehouses. The stores, purporting to be UK-based and often closing down after 'decades of successful years in business', have instead been branded a 'complete scam' - on a global scale.

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