Being a female, I have the natural obsession with shoes. More specifically, I have an obsession with heels, classic in style more often than not, and very expensive taste. And so, as a special birthday approaches, I decided I'd research into the financials of the Christian Louboutin shoe, made ever so famous by the numerous celebrity customers and of course, the red sole. This post is going to end in disappointment, rather than excitement, which has bubbled through me for the last 24 optimistic hours.
As I began searching, I came across more than one site offering Louboutin shoes for remarkable prices; little over 100 pounds, and the excitement started to grow. 100 pounds was more than affordable. However, when I settled down and began looking into the site reviews, I discovered that little over a two years ago, various scams hit the internet, claiming to sell original, hand crafted Louboutins with nothing less than a 50% discount. The sites look real, they have pages and pages of shoes, copyright dates at the bottom of the page (which are recent), free shipping etc etc. Only someone that truly sat down to look a little further would have realised the grammatical errors that the information pages were ridden with; that there weren't telephone numbers in sight, only contact via email and tiny other hints to the fact that the page was fake. First and foremost, grammatical errors and contact details should be dead give aways as to whether a site is fake or not.
Doing further research, I discovered some of these articles, confirming what I feared...my excitement was too good to be true.
I would love spend the R5000-00 odd rands on these gorgeous shoes, but unfortunately, I have more important things to think about spending that kind of money on. These sites showcase the real deal as far as images are concerned, but on taking delivery, you will discover that they are knock-offs and complete fakes. The site that I was on was www.christianlouboutinuk.uk.com. They even made an error in spelling Louboutin, "Louboution".
Anyway, as my hopes have now been slashed, I just thought it a good idea to make it known to all the other shoe lovers out there. And should you wish to look and revel at the authentic site with sky high prices, it's www.christianlouboutin.com.
