An anonymous reader writes:
This may be a statement of the bleeding obvious but I have only just realised it.
I was recently dealing with Linux Tech Toys as the shopfront for Lix Systems, ordered a system and paid my money. They answered my emails up until 3 weeks ago. Since then nothing. Emails to both sites go unanswered. Phones calls can't go to voice mail because the voice mailbox is full. They are unreachable.
Upon revisiting the website to see if there was some other means of contact that I had missed I realised that the website could still accept orders (and your money) even though the business is for all intents and purposes not there.
Just a warning to "Consider: is the business behind the website I am dealing with still actually there."