[BillyA]

Originally Posted by wholesale_gifts

Then I suggest these legit chinese companies who use hotmail accounts spend £4 to register a domain name and have proper email addresses. There are several sites I have seen who have a website (ie they also have web hosting) and are using hotmail addresses - thats just stupid!

One of the first steps I taken when vetting a company is to check that the whois info for the domain matches the contact info displayed on the website.

Otherwise....I wouldnt touch them with a barge pole.

Spot on.