NOW ON ETSY.COM!! 13Gypsies ripped me off for over $600 over the span of 3.5 years. She used to sell her oils as "Macabre Undertakings" in 2006, where she was doing more or less the same thing. She constantly changed her company's name, the scent descriptions, websites... all of which I thought were odd. I still bought from her, because she was a very nice woman that I befriended through MySpace and we had a ton of stuff in common.
In late 2009, I decided I wanted to start making my own perfume so I found a community for perfumers called "Basenotes", and a kind person there pointed me toward saveonscents.com
I was on a budget, and they said that this was the best way to experiment with oils without spending a fortune. I noticed a lot of the oils that I wanted to buy seemed familiar: the names, descriptions and often both. I ordered them, figured I saw them somewhere on anotherfragrance site that I was browsing through, as well.
When she moved over to Etsy, each order I placed, the oils just got weaker and more diluted. A lot of the dupes I ordered were completely different from the ones I already owned. I was getting fed up with all of this, since she began to charge nearly double of what she charged on her MySpace /website.
The last order I placed was so negative that I never bought from her again, and my order from SOS/Save on Scents arrived around the same time. I opened the oils to smell them, and... OH MY GOD, I already OWNED them !! I was pretty sure I knew who the culprit was, and sadly I was right. Here I was getting ripped off the entire time, and her perfume oil shoppe is beginning to really take off on Etsy and it makes me sick.
I called her out on it by reaching her most frequent customers to tell them what I saw. Some thought I was a liar, one of them even said they could care less if she is a reseller and doing it dishonestly (who am I to stand in the way of their stupidity ?) and I even heard back from one of them claiming they knew something was wrong with her oils and that they stopped liking them.
For the last year, off and on obviously, I have been gathering research against her to publish for all to see. I visited a forum I used to frequent back in 2006, called bpal dot org, and I noticed that people noticed this back in 2007 !! She has a long paper trail of ripping people off and then closing her shoppe and relocating.
I created a
blog where I wrote about my experiences with her and her company, it can be found here: (((link redacted)))
If you love gothic perfume oils like I do, read the blog and be informed ! She is ripping people off and clearly, she is one that should be avoided !
3 Updates & Rebuttals
FiaM
Stuart ,Florida,
False Rip Off Report, Claim is Simply NOT True
#4Consumer Comment
Sun, September 21, 2014
I have 3 oils by 13 Gypsies that are glorious! After reading your report I purchased 10 more Gypsies oils and 15 Save On Scents oils. Then I sniffed and compared... side by side testing....The are NOTHING ALIKE.
You should change this report as it is FALSE and you are misleading the public.
CAH
Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,
USA
Willful Slander
#4Consumer Comment
Sun, November 18, 2012
I am a loyal long time customer of 13Gypsies and have been purchasing perfume oils and products from this business since the mid 1990's. The oils are fairly priced & finely made. I have always received everything I ordered in a timely fashion and have never had a single complaint with the products or the service received.
anonymous
roseville,California,
United States of America
False report
#4General Comment
Tue, March 29, 2011
This report is BS by a sour grapes whench. 13Gypsies is an awesome and honest seller and this report is nothing but a fabricated lie. Don't believe it people! Amy is just trying to cause trouble.