I'm looking at purchasing perfume on line. What are 'grey market' sites?

'Grey Market' sites are perfume discounters like fragrancenet.com and fragrancex.com. They are legitimate sellers, so don't put up alarm bells if you hear the term "grey market" applied to an online perfume seller. What grey market perfume means is this: A fragrance that has been imported from abroad that goes beyond the original distributor's intended channels and will typically be sold without the manufacturer's warranties.





Here's an example of how this would work...





Let's say you're looking at a bottle of Creed's Green Irish Tweed online at Joe's Online Perfume Emporium. Normally a bottle of Green Irish Tweed would retail at a department store like Neiman Marcus for $250USD. But on Joe's Online Perfume Emporium, you see Green Irish Tweed only costs $100USD. Chances are, that bottle is legitimate. It's just been imported from another country where Green Irish Tweed is sold at a significantly lower price.





A few months ago, perhaps Joe's Online Perfume Emporium came across a few bottles of Green Irish Tweed in Dubai selling for around $50USD. Knowing that GIT is selling well above that amount in the US, Joe strikes a deal with some perfume retailers in Dubai, buys some GIT at a favorable exchange rate, then marks it up a little and sells it to US consumers online for $100USD. Now, the reason why Creed's Green Iris Tweed is selling for so low in Dubai as opposed to in the US has to do with international markets, how well a country is doing economically compared to another country, and exchange rates. I don't know if Dubai's economy is currently weaker than the US. I only use these two countries as an example.





This all sounds just fine, but sometimes you might come across fakes when you buy from grey market sites. The fakes getting mixed up in with the legitimate fragrances is what lends to the term "grey market". It's not that the grey market online discounters want to sell you fakes on purpose, but with all the importing and secondary channels they go through to get their stock, they are bound to let a fake in here or there. Most legitimate discounters have return policies that you can use to your own advantage. Always check the return policy before you buy. If a discounter does not allow returns, go somewhere else or accept that you may encounter a fake and won't be able to do anything about it. Otherwise, send the bottle back and demand a real bottle or your money back. Fakes aren't a rarity in grey market shopping, it's also not common. It's just something that will happen if you do a lot of it.|||i think u should try macys,and dillards sites