SCREENSHOT
Sheer Girl is a Chinese company that specialises in wedding dresses.
A woman is warning other brides-to-be to be vigilant when shopping online for wedding dresses after being scammed just months before her big day.
Elizabeth Neeves had been planning her March 18 wedding for eight months, and only spent a few weeks looking for a potential dress before she came across her “dream dress” on the website Sheer Girl.
“The dress was full lace with a full neck line and the back line went halfway down my back,” she said.
The website was the first site that came up on Google when she searched “wedding dresses NZ” and the owner of the store, who she knew as David, had fast responses and worked with Neeves on measurements and sizes.
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“I did check reviews before purchasing my dress, and they were great,” she said.
The company is based in Suzhou, China and has not responded to a request for comment.
But when Neeves’ $700 dress was shipped, and she noticed the tracking number she was given said “delivered” but it was nowhere in sight, she knew something was wrong.
“I emailed him immediately with no reply. I hounded him with emails and told him how stressed I am, then how…
