Do not get bamboozled
Paste a shop address. We read its terms, check the owner, the domain and the payment methods, and tell you whether it is safe to buy there.
- shops checked
- lookups in total
- shops that raised flags*
* We call a shop suspicious when it scored under 70 out of 100. Each shop counts once, however many people looked it up.
Recently checked shops
Nobody reads the terms. We do.
Thirty thousand characters of legalese, written so that nobody finishes them. We go through the lot looking for four sentences that actually matter: do you get fourteen days to return? Who is really selling to you? Where do complaints go? And what happens if the parcel never arrives? If a document won't load, we say so and leave it unjudged.
Ten habits of a careful shopper
If something's off, we say it plainly
A domain two months old. No company number anywhere. Bank transfer up front as the only way to pay. On its own none of that need mean a thing. Together it's a pattern you've read about in the news. Every finding quotes the shop's own page, so you don't have to take our word for it.
Ten habits of a careful shopper
And when it all checks out, we say that too
Most shops are honest, and someone should be willing to say so. A company you can look up, a domain years old, complete terms, card payments accepted. One caveat though: green here doesn't mean “we recommend it”. It means “we found nothing that gave us pause”. That difference matters to us.
Ten habits of a careful shopper
The last word is yours
We're not the friend who decides for you. On a borderline result we'll say straight out that we probably wouldn't buy there ourselves, but that it doesn't look like a scam either. What you do with that is your business. And no shop can buy a better grade here. If one ever tried, you'd hear about it.
Ten habits of a careful shopperWhat Lumir checks
- 1
Terms and conditions
The 14-day right to withdraw, complaints handling, who the seller is and where returns go.
- 2
Who is behind it
Is a real, identifiable trader named on the site — and can that be confirmed anywhere independent?
- 3
Domain age
A domain registered two months ago behind a shop with thousands of products is a warning sign.
- 4
Regulator blocklist
For Czech shops, the list the national consumer authority has already publicly warned about. No equivalent exists in most countries.
- 5
Contact details
Is there a phone number, an email and a real address — or only a form?
- 6
Payment methods
Bank transfer up front only, or also methods that come with buyer protection?
- 7
Security and reputation
HTTPS, links to review platforms, presence on social networks.
- 8
EU VAT registration
We validate any EU VAT number against the European VIES system. Outside the EU this check has no counterpart, and the score leans on the rest.
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Unfair terms
The model reads the whole text looking for clauses that strip your rights: a shortened return window, or fees buried in paragraph twenty.
Why trust this
We do not favour any shop. We work from facts. Whether you buy from a shop we checked is entirely your call.
- 1
We never claim what we haven't read
If we can't fetch a shop's returns policy, we don't say it's missing — we say we couldn't assess it. Every such limit is spelled out in the result.
- 2
The rules are public
The score comes from 38 signals with fixed weights. Not one of them depends on whether we have a commercial relationship with the shop.
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We show our work
Every finding quotes the shop's own page. You don't have to take our word for it — you can check.
- 4
We don't record who asked
No account, no email, no log of who looked up which shop. A result is stored against the shop's domain, never against you.
Frequently asked
- Does a green score mean it's safe to buy there?
- It means we found none of the warning signs we know how to spot. It is not a guarantee. A good score won't update itself the day a shop stops shipping.
- Why did a well-known shop score lower than I expected?
- The score reflects what is findable on the site. A large shop whose documents are rendered by JavaScript can score worse than a small one that serves plain text. The score breakdown shows exactly where the points went.
- Does this work for shops outside Europe?
- Partly, and it is worth knowing where the line is. Reading the terms, domain age, payment methods, contact details and the content checks work for a shop anywhere. EU VAT validation covers the European Union. Company registers and regulator blocklists are national — we query the Czech and Slovak ones — so for a shop in the US or Asia those two signals are simply absent and the score rests on the rest.
- Do you store what I searched for?
- We keep a scan result for 7 days, keyed by the shop's domain, so a repeat lookup doesn't cost anything to run. We don't store who asked.
- What if a shop is fine and scored badly?
- A flaw in the rules is worse news for us than it is for you. Tell us