TL;DR: If the pricing on a website appears "too good to be true," it most likely is.
There has been an increase in scam template websites in recent times. Scam template websites appear to sell legitimate products — with the associated product images and verbiage — at steep discounts. Victims report non-delivery, fake tracking information, and no legitimate contact information, with no recourse for reimbursement. Fraudsters will scrape legitimate store information and reproduce it on bogus websites for the unweary. These whack-a-mole websites pop up quickly, accept orders, and then quickly disappear.
Red flags for scam template websites include:
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Generic templates
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"Too good to be true" pricing
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Stores that sell wildly varying products (musical strings to car mufflers)
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Lack of contact information (phone, address)
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Boilerplate language
It is always recommended to purchase Gamut strings directly from our store or from one of our Authorized Worldwide Dealers.
If you are looking for exceptional deals on strings, our Overstock Strings offer great discounts on items due to packaging oddities, over-production, customer order cancellation, and so forth.
Forewarned is forearmed.