Anybody Heard of This Bikeshop?

Ascot17
Ascot17 Posts: 97
edited October 2016 in Road buying advice
I noticed a couple of adverts today on Gumtree with the following web address:

http://bikeshop.radosims.com/index.php

Has anybody ever heard of it before? There seem to be some great prices but it all looks a bit suspicious:

- the website is under a subdomain
- the main domain radosims.com does not seem to exist
- there is a bulletin board in Finnish at the following address: http://www.radosims.com/radola/

There is supposedly an actual shop in Walthamstow, London, but the address does not seem to exist on Google maps.
This is looking like a scam!

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  • fat daddy
    fat daddy Posts: 2,605
    THE BIKE SHOP LTD is a Private Limited Company registered on 31/08/2012 with company number 08198232. The company has a status listed as "Active". The business office is registered in N R M Accountancy Services Ltd, 70 Wood Street, Walthamstow, London E17 3HT, UK. The geo coordinates are 51° 35' 26.1" N 0° 0' 17.4" W.
  • Ascot17
    Ascot17 Posts: 97
    That doesn't exactly answer the question, does it?!
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    No,never heard of them.
  • g00se
    g00se Posts: 2,221
    This is the street view from a couple of months ago. Doesn't look like they've got much room for stock:

    https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.58978 ... 312!8i6656

    They do appear to have 'customised' bicycle parking out front though....
  • Redbaron1
    Redbaron1 Posts: 116
    No obvious phone number, whole thing looks dodgy.
  • bbrap
    bbrap Posts: 610
    From the Picture that g00se posted it should be next to the Builders merchants which has a contact number. I'd ring them and ask if they are next to a bike shop or an accountants.
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  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    buy something expensive and report back when in turns up.
  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 17,130
    Ascot17 wrote:
    I noticed a couple of adverts today on Gumtree with the following web address:

    that alone says run away, gumtree is a favourite for fencing stolen bikes
    my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
  • fat daddy
    fat daddy Posts: 2,605
    bbrap wrote:
    From the Picture that g00se posted it should be next to the Builders merchants which has a contact number. I'd ring them and ask if they are next to a bike shop or an accountants.


    tjhey will be next to an accountants .. the bikeshop "business office" is registered in N R M Accountancy Services Ltd, 70 Wood Street, Walthamstow

    where the bikeshop is .. well that's anyones guess, possibly a bedroom of a house somewhere

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