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Any of come across this sepwalk.com website? I was looking for some Air Max Plus 2’s when I stumbled across this page…they show up alarmingly high on Google Shopping. And…typically…fake sites don’t

April 22, 2022

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Any of come across this sepwalk.com website?

I was looking for some Air Max Plus 2’s when I stumbled across this page…they show up alarmingly high on Google Shopping. And…typically…fake sites don’t show up in the first few results on Google shopping, so…I started poking around.

For Air Max 2’s…an under-the-radar release still roughly around retail prices - their quoted prices kinda make sense; they’re close enough to retail on the types of pairs I look for (non-hype, under the radar classics) and they seem accurate in a close-out kind of way.

But the address that they advertise actually shows up as an outlet mall in Texas. Which, I suppose, could make sense…I mean, a legit closeout store could be located in an outlet mall, right? And any time I see all of those ridiculous icons at the bottom of a page my alerts start flashing…And that copyright at the bottom left? 2009-2022? Um…2009 and we haven’t heard of you? Yeah, no.…I started searching up some different names. Who still advertises that they accept Mastercard? Or runs McAfee? Or…even…an American Flag? What is that down there for?

Running a search for ‘cactus jack’ brings back a ton of fakes. Shoes that were never even made.

I’m not an idiot…I know that fake sites exist…I know that fakes are a thing…I’m just a bit shocked that this site ranks so high on Google Shopping…My guess (with no evidence whatsoever) is that they are a fake distributor in China with a forwarding address set up in Texas. I bet 9 out of 10 people who buy from this site either don’t know or won’t complain.

How do we get sites like this taken down?

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