rockin
Well-known member
I managed to buy a couple of fake pigments on ebay myself recently. Thankfully I have managed to get a refund, but I am out of pocket by £8.70 for the return postage because of having to send it recorded.
The seller claims she is a makeup artist having a clear out and insisted that they were genuine, then said that she had got them from her usual wholesale supplier. I pointed out that MAC don't do wholesale, and told her what told me the pigments were fake - the lack of 'ridges' around the inside of the jar, the lack of a space after the "DIST. BY/PAR:" , and the fact that the font on the box was thicker and whiter than it should be. They also had that odd smell. I told her she had been conned by her supplier, but she refused to believe it (or maybe refused to admit that she knew they were fake, I don't know which).
I looked today and she has relisted them, or others like them. She's charging £24.99 each for them, so there was no low price to make me wary. Since she has relisted them, I feel I should warn people. The pigments I bought were Fairy Lite and Jardin Aires, but she has others as well, all in the old jars. The seller's user name is nosie57 and she is from Ireland.
The seller claims she is a makeup artist having a clear out and insisted that they were genuine, then said that she had got them from her usual wholesale supplier. I pointed out that MAC don't do wholesale, and told her what told me the pigments were fake - the lack of 'ridges' around the inside of the jar, the lack of a space after the "DIST. BY/PAR:" , and the fact that the font on the box was thicker and whiter than it should be. They also had that odd smell. I told her she had been conned by her supplier, but she refused to believe it (or maybe refused to admit that she knew they were fake, I don't know which).
I looked today and she has relisted them, or others like them. She's charging £24.99 each for them, so there was no low price to make me wary. Since she has relisted them, I feel I should warn people. The pigments I bought were Fairy Lite and Jardin Aires, but she has others as well, all in the old jars. The seller's user name is nosie57 and she is from Ireland.
