Walktrends.com Review: Is Walk Trends Legit? (No, Definitely Not!)

June 22, 2019June 8, 2019 by Andy

Walktrends.com came to us through our contact form as a request to take a look at. When we looked at it initially, we found several errors in the site the concluded to us that they were indeed a scam website.

Is Walk Trends Legit? Not from we saw on the site. In this article we’ll do our best to help show you just why we believe Walktrends.com isn’t an authentic shop, nor why they should be trusted. Hopefully this review will help you think twice before purchasing through stores like these.

Table of Contents

Quick Review

Walktrends has some shady discounts on their site, as well as not explaining why everything is so heavily discounted
Walktrends has a Privacy Policy that isn’t updated correctly and has certain ‘default page’ issues
Walktrends looks exactly like 2-3 other sites – same images, same design, same contact info
Walktrends claims to have 24-hour customer service – as of this date, we have yet to hear from them (it’s been over a week…)

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Walktrends.com – The Discounts

When going to Walktrends.com, the site seems like a normal one. In their About Us page, they claim to be a leading store that offers discounts and lower prices. So much lower that they claim you can save 30%-70% of the retail cost.

However, when you take a close look at their discounts, and their products for that matter, you’ll notice a common theme. And that theme is that every single product they list is being sold for $12.95:

We’ve seen this enough times to know that this is a scam. If a site has that many products on their store for that low of a price (and all the same price we might add), then it truly is a scam. There really is no need to investigate further about it.

You don’t purchase lawn-mowers, computer desks, or even beach chair sets for that low of a price.

This is just a common ploy by scammers to get traffic to their site. People see low prices, go to the scammer’s site, purchase something (because they think they are getting a good deal), and lose money over it.

Now, like we said, we could stop our review there, and say that the site is indeed a scam. But, just because we’re convinced that it’s a scam, doesn’t necessarily mean that you, the reader, are convinced. So, it’s on the next issue with the site.

Privacy Policy And Default Theme Issues

Did you know that each online shop and store are required to have a Privacy Policy on their site? For them to operate correctly, a website needs to have some sort of page where they explain what info they collect, and how they keep your information private.

While Walktrends.com does have one on their site, we wouldn’t really call it authentic. If you notice in the screenshot above, you’ll find that we’ve highlighted several sentences in their Privacy Policy. Each sentence starts with ‘INSERT’.
What this means is that Walktrends.com just grabbed a default Privacy Policy, and never even updated it to their terms and agreements. Which means they never really set up their store, or their Privacy Policy, correctly.

Sites that have issues like this shouldn’t be trusted. If a site claims to have discounts, and claims to be a leading shop in the retail discount business, then they should have better site set up.

This is once again a common issue with scam websites. Since they are up one day and gone the next, they are often found with errors, like the ones above.

Additionally, their About Us Page can be found to have issues with it:

It appears that the owners forgot to completely set up their About Us Page as well, as you’ll notice in the screenshot above. Highlighted is the words ‘Store Name’, which is probably supposed to be changed to the actual store name.

But the way it is written is actually okay. Because it leads us to our next issue with Walktrends.com. And that is their ‘store name difference’.

Who Is Strectrend.com?

Does the above image look familiar? It should, since it’s found on Walktrends.com’s site.

While searching around for Walk Trends contact info, Strectrend.com popped up saying that it was also located at the same exact location as Walk Trends:

So, why does Strectrend.com have literally the same exact website as Walktrends.com, but just with a ‘store name difference’ ?

We don’t know, but (as we’ve said before), this is common among scammers. To have several sites that look alike, and are running the same scam on them is pretty typical for a scam owner.

Additionally, there was another site that also claimed to be that exact location, though their site didn’t seem to want to load for us:So that is three sites that all claim to be at one location. When you see something like that, it usually means only one of them is telling the truth.

Is Their Support 24 hours?

According to Walk Trends contact info, they claim to have 24/7 support. They even give an email address to use in the case that you need to get a hold of them:

We took the liberty of contacting them, and see how quick their service was. We contacted them all the way back on June 3rd, and we still haven’t received a reply from them, even though it’s been over 5 days since we sent the email:

We asked a simple question, about PayPal, to see if they would respond. And they haven’t yet (so much for 24 hours service).

Now, some of you may think that this doesn’t matter, but it deeply matters, since their email is the only way that you can get a hold of them.

What happens if you decided to order something (even against everything we’ve shown above), and wanted to get in touch with them? Maybe the order didn’t come, or you wanted a refund? The only way to contact them is through their email address, and they don’t appear to be answering that.

Is Walk Trends Legit?

In a short answer, no, Walktrends.com doesn’t appear to be legit. They are running a site that doesn’t have a very clear Privacy Policy, that has discounts which are typical for a scammer-run website, and several other sites look just like them (and have the exact errors they do!).

WalkTrends.com also doesn’t answer their emails, nor gives reasons why they share a location with two other sites. In the end, Walk Trends isn’t a site that we wouldn’t recommend ordering from.

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