UK Worldwide Technology Limited
Blacklisted in B2B Supplier/Buyer Blacklist

However, when it came time to pay, I was concerned since she would not accept PayPal for payment and would only accept Western Union. We had a lengthy discussion back and forth about payment options and I voiced my concerns about paying for anything online with Western Union. She tried to convince me that this is how all business is done in China and no one uses PayPal because it costs too much and no one likes to use it. They are all used to using Western Union or T/T (wire transfer) for payment. So, finally we worked out a deal that seemed agreeable to both of us. I agreed to send half the money through Western Union up front and then once they shipped out my order and I received it, I would send them the rest of the money.

However, once she got half of the money, she suddenly said that her "boss" wouldn't allow my order to be shipped out until I paid the rest of the money. I don't understand why she would have accepted a half down, half on delivery agreement though if her "boss" would not allow that or it was against their company policy or something. Something didn't seem right about it and that is when I was really worried that I had been scammed. I have tried several times to get her to ship out even half of my order that I already paid for and I keep getting the same seemingly copy and pasted response back from her saying that her boss says they cannot ship out my order until I pay the rest of the money. I have asked for a refund of my money then and at first she said they will give me 70% of my money back and when I told them to do that, then they went back to "now our boss says you pay the rest of the money and we will ship your order".

I seem to be at an impasse here with her. I cannot get her to ship out the items that I have already paid for and I refuse to send them more money as I believe I am being scammed. She won't send back the money I have already paid either, even though she initially said she could refund at least part of my payment. Now it seems no matter what I write to her in E-mail that I keep getting the same copy and pasted response back to pay more money.

I went to their website (http://www.worldwide-uk.com) to try to see if there is someone else at their company that I can contact to resolve this matter. However, all of the E-mail links on their website are bogus - the accounts do not exist. The only way to contact them is through the contact form page on their site and that just forwards to the same E-mail address above. I have also tried contacting them at the phone numbers they have given me and they are no good either and are disconnected. The ONLY way to contact them is via E-mail it seems, which also has me believing that this is a scam and not a legitimate business in China.

The biggest problem I have with this is that they have "6th Year Gold Supplier" banners all over their website for Alibaba. So, when I checked out their website before I ordered, it seemed like I was doing business with a trusted supplier on Alibaba. Now I believe that to be a complete hoax.