I Bought The Same Dress For $4, $30, $60, and $200
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- Опубликовано: 4 май 2024
- HELLO FRIENDS!! So, I found something... a few months ago, while we were trying to film a video where I let TikTok ads pick my outfits, I stumbled upon... this dress. It goes by a few names but it's most commonly some version of the "floral midriff shaper corset sundress" - and after buying one for the video, my for you page started getting flooded with TONS of ads for what looked like the same dress - but all from different companies, and with wildly different price points. So, I decided - let's buy a few of these bad boys and see what actually ends up at our doorstep - and find out, what the heck IS up. Where are all these dresses coming from? Are they all the same dress? Clearly someone is lying here - but who? I guess we'll find out...
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MUSIC
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Executive Producers: Safiya Nygaard & Tyler Williams
Head of Production: Carey Fiock
Production Manager / Producer: Melissa Douglas
Junior Associate Producer: Ishara Mathews
Production Assistant: Aayanah McCreary
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Short Form Producer: Myia Lambe
Editor: Andrew Lainhart
Editor: Mandy Padgett
Assistant Editor: Hailey Cox
Graphic Designer: Dayana Espinoza
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
2:06 The Dress That Started It All: LarRobe
4:51 Scam Websites?? Buying From Infec And Viola & Lewis
7:07 Things Are Looking Fishy
9:49 Our Receipts
12:47 Stolen Influencer Videos
15:14 Ordering The “Control Dresses” For Our Experiment
17:04 The Arrival (Or Not) Of The Dresses: Infec
17:57 Try On Begins! First Up: House Of CB Dress
19:23 Testing The LarRobe Dress
21:47 Viola & Lewis Try On
23:22 Trying Our “Bad” Control Dress: AliExpress
26:37 The Dress Is Gone…But The Scamming Issue Isn’t
28:42 Outro
#fashion #dress #vlog
HELLO FRIENDS!! today, we investigated a mysterious dress that has been advertised all over my tiktok for you page.... and then bought that same dress from 4 different companies for $4, $30, $60, & $200 to see what the actual *heck* is going on here, batman… 🕵🏻♀have you guys seen any fishy tiktok ads before? what should we look into next? xoxo, saf
You are amazing slayyyyyyyy
Question for you, are you a FBI agent like you deep dive just for a video lol
Safiya... We love your franken videos.. Do more of these...❤
WE LOVE U SAF
I love this sooo much also you should try running your own drop-shipping and see what happens! 🩷🩷
Safiya turning into a social media consumer protection investigative journalist is the energy we all need
Absolutely
Totalgarbage! Copying 8SNT stealing!
What can’t she do. ❤
She needs to buddy up with Anne Reardon, the matriarchal voice of reason we all love and need
You wrote what I was thinking perfectly. I am enjoying her murder mystery lens looking into these fashion ads.
I am LIVING for how totally unhinged Saf went when she sniffed a scam. This is a masterpiece. This is a Netflix doc. This is DETECTIVE LEVEL SH*T
A few years ago I repented to God then begged for help, "I was until then an Atheist."
I then had a dream of Jesus coming before God and he spoke of the Tabernacle in perfect context, "A word I didn't know existed.", and what I felt from Jesus when I held him was unlike anything I've ever felt before - A lifetime of Love every second - It brought me to sobbing and it changed my life, forever.
I've had Many experiences since, "Several witnessed", one was seeing a bright orb of light pass across my face in the dark, hours before a major surgery the second I gave up in my heart.
Know that God and Jesus ARE real and that they Love us deeply. Let go of your hatred and Imagine yourself holding the people who've hurt you. Tell them you Love them.
Always have hope, I believe that prayer, following God's laws & Love is the answer, and through that, Truly becoming humble, merciful, welcoming, giving, gentle, respectful, compassionate, patient, kind and forgiving, To All.
You have a mild standard for unhinged lol
And that’s exactly why I love her, she puts in the work she does not sugarcoat🥹 she looks out for us.
It feels like one of the bdg unraveled videos lol
OMG YES!!!!
You deserve a Pulitzer for this piece of investigative journalism
I know right, it was thorough and impressive. I have new understanding how product scam is dealt with fake ads. She gets a follow for this video.
the only thing i didnt like was she did not verify the legitimacy of the steve madden ad. ive seen scam websites try to imitate companies as well through facebook ads. (i dont use tiktok that often)
Funny that "LARROBE" in spanish sounds like "La robé" wish in english means I stole it 😂😂😂😂
when you're completely honest about your business but you confess in a different language so everyone ignores it lmao
I think they were trying to go for french because in french "la robe" means "the dress"
I was about to say that😂 but it probably is in french as the girl above me said
I feel the same way about “catchall” store. I can only hear “gotcha!” lol
We, the collective, appreciate you spending over 400 USD and 6 months buying and investigating dresses that are the farthest thing from your own aesthetic
a comfy bat in a corseted sundress!!!!!
she is really dedicated to the cause! (the cause being THE TRUTH!!!!!!)
and god heard her and brought her a black dress😂
the $400 is a business write off
I’m sure
@@stevethepussycat9968 oooh! forgot that, that's true!
This has become a a HUGE problem. I don’t make clothing, but I am an amateur silversmith. Even at my level, I’ve had photos of my jewelry stolen and used on some sketchy sites. I work very hard on my pieces and spend hours on photography alone. It makes me extremely angry knowing my hard work is being used to scam people out of their hard earned money, and it makes people less inclined to purchase genuine artisan items.
Do you place "watermarks" on your pictures? Do the scammers somehow erase them or just leave them hoping that people won't notice?
@@cb9825 They don't care about watermarks. They'll either crop it out, blur it, or just leave it in and know nothing will be enforced. Simply Nailogical investigated her photos and videos being stolen way back in 2019 or so. I'm sure it's even more prevalent now that the Holo Taco business is larger too.
@@cb9825 It's very easy to take watermarks off if they're not splashed all over the image, and even if it's all over the image, if you're good with photoshop, you can still take them off. It's a big problem in the art community with reposters posting art online without credit & erasing the watermarks.
@@cb9825I was gonna ask the same - if people have business nowadays especially selling products, I wouldn’t go without watermark on every photo. Stealing is unfortunately normal especially with fast fashion sites…
@@cb9825 The scammers will often use the images, watermark and all!
Funnily enough, House of CB started out as Celeb Boutique, basically doing decent quality knockoffs of expensive bandage dresses and then branched out. Now it has those same factories doing knockoffs of their dresses 😅
yeah i thought exactly the same!!
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There needs to be more punishment for online fraud. A lot of these just want your card information to further steal from you and they never get in trouble for it
Accurate!!!!
its okay, you can say Temu.
this is why i never want to order from these 😭 i even ordered something from ali express and it came in like 2 weeks and it was legit
That’s why you use google/Apple Pay
You have to be really careful where you put your card info in
the problem is most of these companies are from China. China doesn't give two shits about fraud and copyright, even less if the US is complaining about it. They literally ripped off so many famous things and they got off scot free.
Safiya should get into more investigative journalism like this. She’s a great presenter, and there’s so much material to work with in the fashion/beauty world.
Omg yes it would be so good
YES! PLEASE!
I mean she was literary a investigatetory reporter in escape the night
She used to do work for BuzzFeed but I think she enjoys freelancing/doing her own content because she can choose what topics to cover (and she probably makes more money too haha)
@@Alex__Size she also didn’t really do stuff like this at Buzzfeed
I am still in awe that they managed to track every ad, seller and review. Kudos to Saf, Tyler and team for the amazing work!
18:57 😂😂😂 I don't know why I stopped watching your channel but I just remembered why I loved it. Your passive aggressiveness, reading the ENTIRE 47 word name of a dress lol etc etc
all jokes aside, Safiya has singlehandedly done more to investigate TikTok’s data-mining operation than the united states congress
That's because congress is made up of pensioners who only know Tik Tok as the sound clocks make.
I just discovered her. I'm going to ask someone that may have more knowledge than myself. I'm looking for boxers. Do you have a place you order or would order from? I do orders for elderly people so I check everything. Before I order. But I see lots of ads for boxers(it's for a woman but I do wear men's as well). Excuse me for asking
@@Nursing1988just stick to reputable sites.
@@Nursing1988you are so polite 😊 it’s so refreshing ✨
Safiya doing investigate work is what she should focus on more. I like Jenny Nicholson the most too when she is investigating something like the park video.
I love how she's actually doing and showing us all the investigation process behind, and not only buying and compering the dresses. that's actually the best way to do a reveiw in my opinion
I came for a silly, yeah these are bad quality knockoffs, and stayed for the investigative journalism. This took me by absolute surprise.
+ for making it interesting
This is top tier investigative video journalism right here. I was so tempted to get this dress (from one of the scam sites) months ago but got sketched out and decided against it. I too started seeing it advertised a ton all of a sudden. This phenomenon makes me feel uneasy that's for sure
Same it looked so cute but I found similar ones on Amazon which to me is far more trustworthy
Okay, the amount of work that went into this video is absolutely *chef's kiss*
MELT👏THE👏DRESSES👏TOGETHER
Thats EXACTLY what i'm saying!!!
I laughed out loud thank you for that
Frankendress!
So while the cheap ones are probably some polyester/ poly blend that could melt, the real one likely has a solid amount of natural fibers and would burn instead (the burn test is a legitimate way to figure out fiber content of unknown fabrics)
😂😂😅
I feel like this was a complete documentary unmasking an industry 10/10
In less than 30 minutes!
Same😂❤
agreed!! This is all drop shipping from super easy from shopify
SAME
Jesus . I almost bought this dress , actually I was planning to buy 2 of them : solid color and with flowers … I don’t even remember where, because I found out a few sites who were listed this sun dress 👗 and I found it on Amazon too. Can’t say for sure if I went to House of CB or not … But , I got confused and suspicious and didn’t bought the dresses anywhere… Thank you so much for your video ❤❤❤. Now I know that only House of CB is place to shop . Thanks to you ❤🦋🌸☘️
I would watch a series of this lol this is the investigative journalism we need
The biggest problem is that real-deal small designer shops that create their original products probably suffer because all the copycat fake ads overshadow them.
The biggest problem is that tiktok and instagram (meta) benefit from these scams and won't do anything about it. And no government is even considering holding them accountable for anything.
They absolutely do :C For example, etsy used to be all about small-business, independent, homemade artisan goods. Now it's just another outlet for drop shippers selling the same thing from a Chinese warehouse. You can still find the real artists for sure, but they are drowned out, or just plain hard to find due to etsy's SEO model prioritizing the spam-like quality of the drop-shipper listings.
@@hiddenmutant which reflects horrible on Etsy
@@hiddenmutant I haven't been using Etsy as much, but have definitely noticed this more. It's truly disheartening to see, especially when the knock-offs and imitations are sososo bad for the environment, too! We will all pay for cutting costs and fast fashion when our atmosphere is no longer inhabitable, which could end up happening in the next century and is why the wealthy guys are investing so much into space travel... everyone suffers when capitalists and big corporations only care about one thing. Sad, because they won't be able to take their money to the grave with them. And the average person doesn't understand the value of a handmade product or art anymore, because of websites like Temu showing them a similar product for 20 cents! I'm frugal but I absolutely refuse to save money by supporting the hot garbage they try selling with the use of extreme exploitation and reduced quality. I've always been really cheap, but I've been leaning more towards either buying things used, or making sure that what I buy is ethically sourced and produced, at least when it comes to things like clothing/furniture etc. Still working on groceries.
@@hiddenmutantyeah i dont even know how to tell what's a small business (that actually makes their own goods) anymore
i don’t think we’re talking enough about safiya’s deep dive and research she did for this video like it’s so impressive how wonderfully she did with proper information and facts. you can tell that she has an incredible mind and is so smart.
Right? I would have looked at all of these websites advertising the exact same thing the exact same way and gotten so overwhelmed and not known whete to start, but Saf seems to be really good at cutting through the overwhelming amount of information.
Wellno, she doesn't have the faintest idea what she is talking about! She just keeps parroting the copyright monopoly industries brainwashing and lies, pretending that copying is stealing! Copying is NOT stealing! If it wasn't for copying human culture won't even exist! By railing against copying she is railing against our culture! Safiya wans our culture to NOT exist! She wants a handful of giant corporations to own all human culture! She's a piece of capitalist garbage
I know right, She is so smart
i'm actually extremely grateful that thanks to safiya I have a new website of dresses to drool over while i save up enough cash to actually buy anything HAHA
she did go to Stanford
Please make more of these! The information and investigative skills are priceless. This was so educational 🔥
Moral of the story, don't have fake/ dupe clothing. The authentic product is expensive not just for the name, but also for the design, material, quality control, etc..
I love the level of journalism that goes into a dress comparison video. Literally, the reason I love watching
She is a pro :)
It’s actually so intriguing cause I would love to do this kind of investigating myself if it wasn’t so much effort and it’s cool to see it be done fully without me having to do it
@@LuaBarbosa01ruclips.net/video/KF2fIVQ0bk8/видео.htmlsi=lbiqYePDCjL1mkGE
It's not even a good amount of investigating lol.
A few years ago I repented to God then begged for help, "I was until then an Atheist."
I then had a dream of Jesus coming before God and he spoke of the Tabernacle in perfect context, "A word I didn't know existed.", and what I felt from Jesus when I held him was unlike anything I've ever felt before - A lifetime of Love every second - It brought me to sobbing and it changed my life, forever.
I've had Many experiences since, "Several witnessed", one was seeing a bright orb of light pass across my face in the dark, hours before a major surgery the second I gave up in my heart.
Know that God and Jesus ARE real and that they Love us deeply. Let go of your hatred and Imagine yourself holding the people who've hurt you. Tell them you Love them.
Always have hope, I believe that prayer, following God's laws & Love is the answer, and through that, Truly becoming humble, merciful, welcoming, giving, gentle, respectful, compassionate, patient, kind and forgiving, To All.
I’m glad Safiya did this video. I feel like she has a good chance of reaching people who might otherwise get scammed without information like this. Thanks for helping the fans, Saf!
ruclips.net/video/KF2fIVQ0bk8/видео.htmlsi=lbiqYePDCjL1mkGE
A few years ago I repented to God then begged for help, "I was until then an Atheist."
I then had a dream of Jesus coming before God and he spoke of the Tabernacle in perfect context, "A word I didn't know existed.", and what I felt from Jesus when I held him was unlike anything I've ever felt before - A lifetime of Love every second - It brought me to sobbing and it changed my life, forever.
I've had Many experiences since, "Several witnessed", one was seeing a bright orb of light pass across my face in the dark, hours before a major surgery the second I gave up in my heart.
Know that God and Jesus ARE real and that they Love us deeply. Let go of your hatred and Imagine yourself holding the people who've hurt you. Tell them you Love them.
Always have hope, I believe that prayer, following God's laws & Love is the answer, and through that, Truly becoming humble, merciful, welcoming, giving, gentle, respectful, compassionate, patient, kind and forgiving, To All.
i literally sent this to my mom cause she got got at least 3x by websites like this
Honestly, I'll be using this video in a lesson for my high school students to teach them about scamming and its dangers. Safiya's videos and Cristine's podcast "simplypodlogical" can be used nicely to educate my students since they speak clearly, informed, and talk about topics that are very relevant to them.
Thank you so much for this insightful review.
You’ve saved me money and disappointment.
I always review items first, and so glad I did. You now have a new subscriber here.
I subscribed long before the unpacking part for the sheer effort you have put into the research (on top of the actual costs😮). Huge respect!!!
She needs a netflix show for this, the amount of time and effort put into these videos and researching things is unbelivable
Thank you for manifesting this 🙌
Netflix would ruin it
I’d resubscribe to Netflix for this.
You know what, I would watch it.
Adam ruins everything got a show.
Thank you for highlighting this Safiya! I felt so bad this summer for everyone who was buying dresses off of videos using my stolen videos. The more people that know about it the better!
sorry im not on these platforms, does Tik Tok or Instagram not consider your videos as intellectual property? I know RUclips cracks down content stealing or unauthorized usage.
I hope you get loads of followers off this! 💜 Have you ever done a tour of your bookshelf? I see a few books and series I recognize but lots more that I don't!
@@chenisejenkins1786i’m not 100% certain but i think tiktok has it in their terms and conditions that once a video is posted that video is basically no longer the creator’s (i.e. it can be used and the creator doesn’t have to be paid nor can fight it because they agreed to the t&c)
@@chenisejenkins1786they don’t care because they didn’t post it. It’s probably in the terms no one reads, so they’ll use it as a “well we trusted them not to do illegal things” but meanwhile benefiting from ad revenue.
tiktok is owned by a chinese company... they probably support scam websites because they come from chinese factories....
As a cybersecurity professional i really appreciate the depth you went to this is pure digital forensics
I love that you are doing this. It is showing how crappy TikTok is about controlling the copyright infringements WHEN it involves them possible not getting money.
Bernadette Banner did a great breakdown of a scammer who stole her dress design. This was a few years ago- but the scammers just keep spawning in the TikTok swamp.
She roasted the hell out of them.
china has virtually no copyright law. that explains several things in life once you realize
how could the things that people say made the universe get here is there was nothing God made it all so many prophecies are being filled from revelations telling us that Jesus is coming back they are happing right now in the world he loves and cares😊
@@elliot_rat how could the things that people say made the universe get here is there was nothing God made it all so many prophecies are being filled from revelations telling us that Jesus is coming back they are happing right now in the world he loves and cares😊
@@Maob08 how could the things that people say made the universe get here is there was nothing God made it all so many prophecies are being filled from revelations telling us that Jesus is coming back they are happing right now in the world he loves and cares😊
The fact that none of them had the one unique feature and number one selling point of the original dress is WILD!
that functioning corset back is expensive to produce and labor intensive. I thought they would swap in an elastic back but they didn't even do that!
Honestly, I wasn't expecting an actual corset but I was expecting at least a fake one, like a few stuck on straps in a crisscross pattern or whatever. But they didn't even try to do that. 😅
Well also keep in mind that but also even though AliExpress was still lying about the product that listing at least made sure to edit out the corset. Also, yeah I'm sure it's not OVERTLY hard to add a couple straps in a criss cross pattern that's f'ed up
@@lestranged Yes I have one with an elastic back ,I love it so much
@@SeraEMS Aloexpress actually is very strict on sellers
i have to say, with your passion for genuine research and the ability to explain your findings to others, you would be an amazing p0litical journalist!
Amazing work!
the research that has gone into this!! loving it!!
I am a college librarian, and I am 100% saving this video to use as an example in my information literacy courses. So good.
right! The way she cites her sources and incorporates her own critical thinking, she is amazing. I'd love to read her papers that she writes for these videos too! 🧡
Are you also using the ACRL framework? Curious to know how students respond to it.
She said it feels luxury lol it's luxurious . A librarian who didn't. Catch that . 😂
Yay for librarians 👏🏻♥️ bless you for being a hero!
@@gypsyrose-qq9nz whatever?
Saf and her team do better investigative journalism than most mainstream journals
Because she gets paid more than them and is respected.
It’s a good start.
I felt like I was watching an episode of black mirror!
this is a great educational video, but it is very different than investigative journalism! investigative journalists go through multiple rounds of editing and fact checking.
for example, the wall street journal’s most recent investigative story on how instagram and meta are pushing harmful content.
not trying to be a downer, but just trying to educate on the amazing work journalists still do.
are you delusional
Wow this is pure QA work, well done! Very informative
The investigative journalism the world NEEDS! Thank you!
Clicked for the dress, left with admiration for the amazing investigation...Safiya is high quality!
Truly the "House of CB" of tiktok haul youtubers!
Is she preggo?
@@LetsBHonest we don't talk about other people's bodies
I became seriously invested in this video when she got out the board with the strings. Well done, Saf!
it's amazing that one person was able to do such deep investigation but tech companies "can't"
As a small business owner who had content stolen, THANK YOU for making this video
ugh that’s awful, i’m sorry that happened to you. what exactly happened?
So upsetting to read stuff like this. I'm very sorry. ❤
Same here!
Oh no!!! What happened? I'd love to hear your story!
Now I’m curious. What do you sell? It’s okay if you don’t feel comfortable replying
Thank you so much for all of your hard work!❤❤
This is one of my favorite videos you have put up. I love the research put into this. So insightful with receipts.
It’s weird that tiktok isn’t facing legal backlash for this. It’s shady af
It's not. Tiktok is Chinese, in China there are no laws to protect intellectual property.
The models/influencers who’s images and videos are being stolen should bring a class action lawsuit against these platforms and “companies”
Tik Tok is a China owned and operated company, they are fully complicit and supportive of this activity
It's not a US based company, so unfortunately there's nothing anyone here can do about it.
And tiktok won't stop because they're just getting richer and richer off of all these sponsored ads.
@@buxomboba but it is at very high risk of being banned in the US which would negatively effect its profit. So you'd think they'd be extra cautious to do their due diligence because I guarantee if any of the anti-China MAGA reps get told about this vid, it will absolutely be used as fuel to their TT ban crusade.
you are the most excellent dress detective
so real youtube.!!
your shiesty behavior needs to be next
Oh my gosh RUclips! 🎥
hmmmm why are you not working RUclips employee.....
here before this blows up (lol)
I was OBSESSED with this dress last summer and admittedly bought some crappy dupes. Now that I know where the original came from, I'll go there. Appreciate all the work, time, and money that you spent on making this video!
The video I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR!!! GO OFF QUEEN 🙏🏾
One reason I love your videos is you don't just say I bought a dress from 4 sites, you actually do it deep dive into how you did it, why and what the impact can be. Thank you for the time, effort and energy you put into your videos and going as far as to find the people featured in the fake ads who had their legitimate content stolen. You don't just make quick win videos, you put the effort in to make something worth watching
She is one of the most legit when it comes to product testing in this format.
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this whole thing could honestly be a whole paper for a university class
i used to work for House of CB online customer service and THE AMOUNT of people who would accidentally buy from scam websites and then message us complaining they never received their orders was INSANE
this makes me wonder if all the comments i see on house of cb saying they bought from there and the quality was terrible are also people who bought cheap dupes and didn't realise lol
probably! I have a few real House of CB sun dresses and I find the quality excellent. The bust sizing can differ a little from dress to dress, but aside from that they're beautiful and mine have lasted well with being handwashed or dry cleaned only@@hohl_ee
I think what they're really doing is purposely buying from scam websites and hoping if they went to house of cb and complain they'll receive $200, thinking they are being clever
Sounds like house of CB needs to do better at informing their customers to make sure it’s a real company website before they order.
@@hohl_ee if you know anything about sewing, good materials, then you'd know that just because something is expensive, doesnt mean it's good. House of CB selling polyester dresses, doesnt mean that they're good. Especially, that for 'designer ' goods, they're not that expensive, have sales often. The fact that people are buying knock offs of these items is even more ludicrous for me. You can check out wangjennifer she makes content on good fabrics. But she doesn't sew. If you know, then you can see quality with your own eyes. People underestimate the cost of clothes and don't want to pay for labour.
I don't even have TikTok and yet I've seen these corset dress ads all over Instagram last year. Now I get a lot of fleece leggings ones haha. This was fascinating. Thanks for the video Safiya!
I used to watch Safiya’s videos when i was a teenager. This woman has no enemies.💘 i just came across this video and after i heard her voice all those memories came back to me at once. Love from Iran.💖
next up on my channel - I bought the same shark blanket for $4, $30, $60, and $200 🦈
Yo I need this in my life
please review shark blankets so i know which one to get ☝️
Wait you should test different cat costumes. That would be so funny to see Cosmo all dressed up. You could dress them up as an astronaut. 🤣
You better not be kidding Tyler!
Yes! I bought a cheap one. They tried to get me to subscribe and when they finally came, it was kid sized and they refused to exchange. 😭
why is no one talking about how safiya is a literal investigator with finding EVERYTHING about these fake companies. actual icon.
She’s Queen
Better than Sherlock
Can we nominate her for an Oscar somehow
Everyone is saying that
Gotta be a bot becsuse there are dozens and dozens of comments stating her investigation skills are great
Great video, will be using it for a marketing class. This kind of content is really valuable, thank you.
I have been wondering about these ads myself, seeing the same piece of clothing advertised by several different online shopping stores. It makes me feel suspicious but I don't know enough about this sort of thing to know what I'm suspecting. Thanks for researching this and sharing the knowledge! :)
When I first clicked on the video, I thought it was going to be a dress try-on video, and that's it. However, the amount of dedication Saf put into the research and presenting it so clearly in the video is extremely commendable
right? I was so impressed with all the work that went into this video with the cross checking and even the editing style was very smooth
Very entertaining as well. I watched the whole thing because of it. This video was fascinating.
Loved this investigative documentary! Thank you for shedding light on this.
Hello Michael, I apologize for the delay in getting back to you. I'm uncertain if I'll be able to make it tonight, as I've been preoccupied. Thank you for your understanding. I'm eager to catch up with you and Patricia soon.
This is such a great video. You should be really proud of this research, and putting this information out for other shoppers.
This is actually such a good look over of this weird "copy product" phenomena and online "dupe" scamming that is so prevalent on the internet. Like it genuinely boggles my mind that you found THAT MANY COPIES.
As if it's something new, China has been pirating expensive/popular products since forever. I remember several kids in my school had pirated shoes from famous brands
And there’s probably a hundred more too
i love when saf destroys big companies in a cute upbeat 30 minute video
me too
Unfortunately AliExpress is still going strong
TikTok knows who the fleeing companies are because they paid for the ads
She didn't destroy anything. No one cares 😂
big companies lol
the music you choose is genuinely so immersive
Professional level documentary! Fabulous job! Very informative and fun!
I bought the ACTUAL House of CB blue and white floral printed corset dress at the start of the year for the full big price. I love it and the quality is amazing but after I bought the dress, I started getting all the ads for the cheap knock off versions. Once I saw the ad for the same dress at $4, I started freaking out thinking House of CB actually scammed me and sold me an AliExpress dress which I could’ve purchased much cheaper. Seeing this video made me feel much better that I bought the real thing.
do you have the listing link of this dress ? I love it so much !!
House of CB has such amazing quality and they have such good looking pieces I hate that their pieces are stolen like this
It is pretty obvious that the $4 dress is the scam here. The House of CB dress has so much craftsmanship and thought to the design put into it to make the lace-up corset work.
I completely agree with you. I own several pieces from House of CB and I must say, the quality justifies the price. No other “brands”, including Ali, can replicate such amazing products. The level of craftsmanship is truly exceptional.
I didn't know about the House of CB brand until I watched this video, but brand names are easy to search up. If you search a brand name up sometimes you might see this panel that tells you about what the company offers, when it was founded and who it was founded by. If you are seeing it chances are it's most likely legit. Besides, you already felt that the quality is good, high quality garments don't come cheap!
As someone who sews it's been infuriating to see both the quality of fabric and the quality of clothing go downhill so far and so fast. People really don't understand how much work it is to make these dresses and how painful it is to have your hard work stolen - both as a designer and an model. Thanks for doing this dive.
I found an online store that custom makes each item of clothing before they send it to you. I bought two coats which fit perfectly and had gorgeous, thick, beautiful , high quality wool blend fabric , one in dark green, the other in a rich wine color. You just send them your measurements, height, weight, body shape (apple, pear etc). They will last for years.
I began my sewing journey making aprons, baby quilts, curtains, etc. The closest I came to clothes was the occasional costume and some basic tailoring to get something to fit right. This was pre-online shopping and I lived in jeans and tee shirts, so quality was pretty much the same across the board. As my style started to evolve and I was buying more clothes and fast fashion really started taking hold, I watched the quality of workmanship and fabrics (read: cheap AF synthetics) get worse and worse. So, now I sew a LOT of my own clothing (admittedly, this is also due, in part, to the fact that I wear 40s/50s styles, but you can buy reproductions and those can be from the same fast fashion manufacturers and just as bad). The time and effort alone is indicative that nothing should be selling as cheap as most clothing sells for
@@rachelferet3941You sound like a woman after my own heart! I'm trying to pick up some better sewing skills (made myself some PJ pants and do basic alterations) but I've worn and collected vintage for 25 years and the quality drop even since the '90s is ASTOUNDING! Part of the reason I buy vintage is that it's just made better. Even if I have to restitch a brittle seam, or have new heels put on shoes, they're overall made to last much longer than the disposable clothing now.
@@madamedex5989 I think it says a lot that I've got some handmade dresses from the 50s that are holding up better than most modern RTW.
I can't really speak too much on the quality of clothing purchased new in the '90s because I was thrifting then on account of being poor 😂 But I can say that all of my clothes, new or thrifted, would be held on to for years before getting getting misshapen or a seam coming out whereas now, half the stuff new, still on the rack has loose threads, etc.
@@rachelferet3941 Exactly! I have dresses from the early-mid '60s that were very inexpensive "junior modes" you would've found at Sears or Penney's and they are better constructed than most Ralph Lauren, J. Crew, and the like now. One thing I remember fondly from the '90s, and even early 2000s was how you could find natural fabrics even at lower and mid-tier levels. VS had tons of real silk nighties that would go on clearance, Target carried linen, silk, and wool items. Now everything, short of seasonal "luxury" offers is poly/rayon/nylon. I can only imagine what it's doing to the environment.
Holy moly, the research that went into this is mind blowing!
Thank you for this deep dive! Just in general it's great information and what I've always suspected.
As an aside, I bought this same style dress in red 2 years ago after seeing it in different places. Though I never ever buy anything off of Instagram because of drop shippers trying to make 3x profit, I did search it up and bought it for $15 from Amazon. I don't know if that makes it any better. But the dress was pretty nice.
when I was working at Nordstrom I’d often have people who were shocked/angry at the price of House of CB items, because they see ostensibly same items for soooo much less. it’s ruining people’s conception of clothing production and expectations
You can't help the dumb.
This is a different line of work but I work in a pet supply store and we are a small business trying to bring only the best of pet food products to the consumer, such as no additives and reputable sources for (dried) meats.
It makes it so a bag of for example beef skin chewy bones costs quite a bit more than the supermarket or heaven forbid: the dollar store, since we only use reputable sources of producers.
People often come in asking for the best food/snacks for their pets, but then scoff at the price and say "But I can get this at the dollar store for X amount less!" Yeah but that also comes with additives and significantly lower quality of food.. people truly will pay less for an inferior product just to save money, instead of thinking about the quality.
@@mr_selfdestruct I wish I could go to this store you're talking about. I have a dog with allergies to very common ingredients (peas, brewer's yeast, and 15 (yes, actually 15!) other food-related ingredients. It is SO HARD trying to find food or treats or good chews. I've had to change his food three times because the brands keep getting discontinued. It sounds like I might be able to find stuff for him at your store~
@@mistingwolftry looking for raw pet food suppliers in your local area. The ingredients list is very short: human grade muscle and organ meat, ground bones or bone meal and some supplements such as omega3 oil.
Though not cheap, I find the price comparable to the higher end canned food.
@@fredericapanon207 Thanks! I will check around to see if I can find someone in my area (I live in BFNW, lol)
As a seamstress I’ve been seeing variations of this dress for like a year now and I had no idea what was the original dress BUT I knew it had to cost at least 150 bucks. All the videos show that the dress has a pretty decent construction, it has cups on the top, an added corset on the back, an invisible zipper, pockets. The material seems to be a printed lightweighted cotton. There is no way that this, properly made, is a cheap dress so is nice to finally see the comparison😊 and reveal how extensive this scams can go
I believe its the carmen dress from House of CB. They have the dress in different lengths on top of different colors. In my opinion anytime I see a dress like this is immediately makes me think of this company because they do it so well
cool to hear the perspective from someone like you who sews! i dont know anything about seamstressing(?) but i can imagine how all those added elements add a ton of labor, esp the corset part i'm sure must be very finicky to do right, which relates to how all the cheap versions saf bought were corsetless
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Yeah it's actually like 200😅 all stolen footage
@@Ellie-cp2gzYou’re right! House of Cb’s rise in popularity has led to an insane amount of dupes like this thrown out in hoards.
This is such great content! Keep up the great work, Safiya!
Wowwwww. This was eye opening! I see why you have millions of subscribers!!!! You’re GREAT at this! 🔥 I will definitely keep my eyes peeled from now on 😩
Hopefully this will spread more awareness of these scam ads and give House of CB a boost in sales. That dress is adorable
I am looking into getting one, props to Safiya for finding the original and reaching out to the models.
House of CB doesnt need the boost, they're plenty famous already. Plus I always see a lot of comments about their customer and returns service being... not the best. The dresses are gorgeous but it always makes me wary or buying.
It’s really expensive, so I don’t think they need more sales
It reminds me of something by gunne sax, innocent world, Mary Magdalene, Liz Lisa etc
@@zenbdgI know about HouseOfCB, but I never knew they sold the original of this style of dress. I have had these Ads for months and really liked the dress but didn’t want to support an unknown fast fashion shopify site. This video is solely the reason I discovered that this dress is originally from HouseOfCB and I will be driven to make a sale because of this
$19 shipping??? That's a scam. That dress isn't even that heavy.
Edit: I sell clothes online too. Never had to pay more than $10 to ship a 1 lb package within the states 🤷♀️
Shipping actually costs that much sometimes. I sell items online and people get mad, but it can. Especially if it is international or rushed. A woman in front of me yesterday had to pay 70 something to ship a tiny box international. Even the usps large flat rate box (which isn't even that big) is 18.
Often part of a shipping price is hidden in product price - to make the shipping look cheap and more like a good deal. It is a problem as buyers get used to unrealistic prices for shipping.
It's for sure part of the scam, but it's also definitely being shipped from China.
unless it's Australia haha
Probably because they ship it straight from China
Amazing work honestly 👏🏼 Thank you Safiya
This is my most favorite video of yours, ever. It was such a wild ride! You did so much research! Thank you!
I know most of the time we flock to these videos to see "What I paid for vs what I got" funny dress dupes, but this whole video is legitimately an in depth and thorough piece of investigative journalism. Delving to the reality of these scam sites, while also educating people on how to avoid these scams and on the ethics of using creators content unconsentually in ads. Stellar STELLAR job Safiya and Team, this was so well done.
For real, this was basically a short documentary. Very well done.
Modern journalism that we need, consumer and women's rights! Well written
This is legitimate educational material about the internet. They should show this in schools
Well done 👍👍👍
As a high school teacher who recently commenced a module about online scams and disinformation, I’m considering recommending this video to my students. ☺️👌🏼
@@Thislackspurpose you should:) and it would lead them to this whole channel which is filled with other useful learning content :)
what would this teach??? that if you spend 1/10th of the cost you receive 1/10th of the quality??
yes, that is part of it. But it teaches a lot more. What to look out for, how easy it is to make fake accounts, reviews, and ads. It will help the next generation understand some of the environmental consequences to fast Fashion and ordering online.
@@conan4real
@@conan4real if that's all you took from this then you failed to understand the point of this video. It's about scam marketing, doctored and stolen content, lack of regulation and privacy laws to protect your content posted on the internet. The structure behind scam websites (likely one or very few suppliers who will produce items for a variety of websites. However it's more or less the same item just marketed at different prices)
So happy you looked into this dress because I’ve been wanting it !!
always wondered what the quality difference would be - this was so informative 😊
PLEASE PLEASE keep covering this whole tiktok dropshipping store scam stuff, you're the only person i've seen cover it and i think more people should be aware of it!!
After awhile that many videos will be boring
Yeah I don’t trust ANY of these sites, super sus. Only buy from real stores.
I have drifted away from Safiya's content in yhe past fre years, but this is a reminder of WHY she deserves and needed her own channel and platform. Nothing ever done halfway, and actually quite thoughtful and serious about seemingly fun and frivolous topics.
Same! At some point all I seemed to see were those three hour live videos of doing very random stuff and those really just weren’t for me. But this is really amazing and impressive!
Same here! I was telling my sisters how I had not seen her videos in literally years, and this one showed up in my feed.
Same!
Those are her and Tyler's channel, separate from her main but agree great investigative videos!@@MiriINC
Same here!
Real eye opener for online social media shopping.. I always knew there'd be scammers but didn't think about it this far..
Thank you for this you did an amazing job and i wish more influencers did this type of content
Just a note that it's not just clothes. This happens with wigs, with makeup, with manicure/nail polish products, perfume, skincare, and on and on and on. You really have to be careful.
And make up and skincare can be so so dangerous.. at least clothes just look cheap. But i have to spend a good amount of time making sure my products are authentic.
Electronics, etc.
Art supplies
you can tell a website is a scam when they say “24 hours to get 50% off!!!” and then u go on the website 24 hours later and the timer reset lmao
I love how Saf can just casually say she asked Markiplier a random question about an ad. Just pops that in her script like nothing.
what when where I didn't catch that at all
I'd have been surprised to but I do recall she and Mark have a few mutual friends at least. Both her and Mark are good buddies with both Rosanna and MatPat. Mark, Rosanna, and Saf all have been a part of MatPat's Christmas charity streams so it is extremely likely they either know each other personally or at least can be connected by mutual friends if she need to ask him something.
@@neonblkhole28 minutes in
Ikr! I wasn't expecting her to say she contacted him about it, I just thought she was going to say she knows based on everything else she's seen
She's a peer; she has 10 million subs and is verified everywhere, so her DMs probably don't get filtered. Of course she can just ask him something.
Thank you for exposing this scam. I think the only way to stop these scammers is to expose them.
The fact that the whole POINT of this dress is the corseted back and none of the dupes have it is INSANE.
Honestly I love this kind of video wayyy more than the "I melted every x together" videos, this was super well-researched and presented!
agreed!!
Yes. She gives us a full final project research. I understand it is time consuming so she can't release so many, but I love them.
I'm kinda surprised the knockoffs didn't even make a feeble attempt to make a lace-up back or front with three sets of loops instead of a dozen! What they sent looks like cheap nightgowns.
You really didn't need to undermine her other video just because you enjoyed this one better. How about be grateful for the content?
@@alil4586 She seems plenty grateful to me. Nothing wrong with encouraging a youtuber to do more of this sort of investigative reporting, by saying they like it better than some other earlier type of work.
These scams make me so mad, and the fact that the platforms the ads are on just turn a blind eye is awful. Scam stores like infec are awful, and I'm so glad that you're addressing this, and calling them out. You're an internet hero, Saf.💯❤👏
A lot of it is because there are no copyright laws in China and Tik Tok is a Chinese website. What surprised me more was Instagram
Yep! I purchased one thing off an ad from instagram and guess what, scam. It feels like an absolute infestation of dupe and scam ads. Be careful what you purchase i guess. :/
True plus the likelihood of those sites just stealing your card info
The amount of research you did to find not only the original dress but the original content creators is TRULY impressive! Also I'm now saving House of CB to buy from in the future because I really did want that dress
OMG, this was absolutely amazing!!! I wish you could do this for every viral and oft-copied product. You are incredible!
Im an advertising major and this is one of the things that is so huge and nobody knows about. ITS SO CRAZY! The rabbit hole is so big and I THE AMOUNT OF TIMES I tell people and they gasp. So glad Saf is doing this with a bigger platform than I would ever have. She explained it amazingly and better than I could’ve. I can’t wait to find out more about this world and how to really stop ir avoid this scam in my own lifetime.
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I'm also an advertising major. This is the reason I'm never working in advertising again.
@@enamis1 Honestly, same. I worked in marketing but it's so shallow, I'll never go back. It's all about fooling people into buying whatever you're selling, doesn't matter if it's a good product/service or not.
The rabbit hole is going to get even deeper with deep fakes. @footdocdana here on RUclips found out a company made an AI version of her to promote their products....
No fr! I don't even study advertising or anything but like why is it such a pain to find a cute dress? Why are these people's videos stolen to promote a scam? It's so frustrating.
Yup, this is the kind of investigative journalism content I originally signed up for and I'm so glad Safiya's getting back to it! Love her other stuff too but this is where Safiya really makes a difference IMO!
agreed. i noticed the algorithm didn’t grab this one as much as it normally does for her videos. only got suggested to me once and then i had to go track it down myself when i didn’t click it originally. hopefully it still does well. i think this is important to share.
Me too. I've been skipping videos lately, because I'm just not interested in watching another video about mixing 50 lipsticks together or whatever. No offense to anyone intended, btw. People like different kinds of content and that's fine.
But this is the kind of video, that made me personally subscribe to Safiya and I was really excited, when it popped up im my subscription feed.
I really like this kind of videos too. Whatever encourages critical thinking in this era of misinformation is super precious.
@@raraavis7782Same. I've been skipping the Franken-videos for months, but this is right up my alley and I couldn't click on it fast enough!
@@raraavis7782 Ditto. Don't care about mixing lipsticks, perfumes, candy, etc. I like this kind, but I know it is a lot of work, but well worth it!
Great research and comparisons. Subscribed.
I've been wanting this dress for so long! Thank you for doing the work for me!
I'd love to see the amazon dupe though.
Thank you Safiya, you just saved me from the worst boredom of my life.
literally
real as fuck
YES SHE DID!
I know
I wanted to see her to melt the dresses into one
I used to be against spending a lot of money on clothes but this video showed me that it's better to support the original designers because they put a lot of thought and effort into their garments while those that steal ideas don't care about the original designers or the customers. Thanks Safiya.
Always better to buy a few quality items than a buttload of garbage
Quality is always worth paying for.
I thought that way too before my aunt introduced me to some designer brands she liked (NOTE: Not high fashion) and I never wanted to deal with fast fashion again. I now save up for my clothes, patch them and take care of them a million times more than my old fast fashion clothes
@@aliasilver_636 Which one? :)
@@aliasilver_636what brands do you like to shop from? If you don’t mind sharing 💓
I wanted this dress so badly a couple of years ago but i couldnt figure iut where the dress came from! I wanted a reputable shop and glad to see someone put the time and energy into doing this, Safiya you are amazing for showing this. 😊 Also glad to say i never tried to bought any of these dresses or one like the teusted brand one.
This is amazingly thorough and interesting. Thank you for the effort and the stellar content, Safiya
The end message was so important thank you for including that Safiya! Even if you are willing to settle for a lower quality dress for paying less money, since they still did look cute on Safiya, you are also paying these business to continue treating their workers horribly and making products that will likely fall apart, be unwearable, and land up in a landfill for hundreds of years.
The landfill part doesn't apply to burnable products if you live in a place that incinerates trash for the heat generated by turning it into ash and slag . But it's still a waste of material, resources and work hours .
@@johndododoe1411 Most people don't live in an area like that, though.