Now that buying on Alix is a skill, PSA:
when wondering about a seller, do a bit of digging. Click on the store, see the name, see the reviews, how long it's been active for, sales volume, click on the registration documents, see what they sell and if it makes sense or not. For example, if they sell necklaces and crap like that, and ONE niche cycling item, it's more likely to go wrong than if the store only sells bike stuff. Common sense, essentially, but it's worth asking oneself these Qs.
For simplicity, you can stay away from new stores with low feedback, or no feedback, and ones with weird names.
Depending on how easy it is to return items in your country (varies wildly from country to country), your risk appetite may vary.
One fairly universal truth: when selling fakes, often the shop will pop up with a random name made with a string of numbers, operate until it's sold inventory and / or got flagged as IP infringement. As an individual, you cannot flag IG infringement because AliX is 100% complicit in this illegal business, so you can buy full on fake clothing, fake helmets and the likes, then a month later, the shop is no more, usually only to reappear under yet another random shop name. Rinse and repeat.
