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  • dredging a thirteen year old thread to avoid creating a new one? No, me neither.

    What I wanted to ask was: has anyone heard of Southern Distributors? I want to buy something from their website but instead of just being able to do the transaction on the site, they sent me a proforma invoice and their bank details. I assume they are legit and perhaps usually do trade on a company-to-company basis, but just a bit of an unusual process.

  • I landed on their website recently while searching for something. The site 'seems' fairly legit and they're not on of these outfits that just lists every conceivable item available and in stock.
    However, when I got to the checkout and saw the 'Please submit your order and we will contact you to confirm and arrange payment' I just high-tailed it out of there.
    So, they may very well be legit but personally I will never give them a penny.
    Suppose you make a bank transfer and never hear a thing from them again? You have no comeback whatsoever.
    A site that doesn't take PayPal or credit cards just screams scam to me....

  • They are a distributor who's day to day business is supplying shops and trade accounts not the general public. I think they are now accepting orders from consumers but by the sounds of it they don't have a full e-comm platform up and running.

    They are definitely not scamming anyone.

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