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Is pedalfreunde.de a fake shop?
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This provider should be strictly avoided. The check shows clear signs of a fraudulent shop.
Do not place any orders here and do not enter any payment or contact details. Check the relevant warning lists and report the shop if you suspect fraud.
FakeshopAI automatically checked Pedalfreunde (pedalfreunde.de) on 2026-09-08 for typical fake shop characteristics. 36 check points were evaluated, covering operator details, legal notices, payment methods, technology, domain history and reputation. The individual findings are listed below.
Assessmentdanger
Trust score0/100
Checked on2026-09-08
Shop facts
Hosting countryChicago, US
Web reputation2/5 (15)
On warning lists (hits)2
Who runs this site?
Company per legal noticeRL COMMERCE GmbH
AddressBachlohe 13, 85406 Zolling
Country of registrationDeutschland
Phonenot stated
Commercial registerHRB 244698
Warning signals
- PayPal support PayPal is not mentioned as a payment method on the pages checked; a payment route with buyer protection is therefore not recognisable.
- Fake shop lists The domain is listed on official warning lists for fraudulent shops (2 list hits) - consumer protection bodies or authorities have already recorded it as a fraud site.
- Legal pages Several mandatory legal texts are missing from the site: the terms and conditions, the right of withdrawal and the privacy policy.
- Payment methods Only a single common payment method is recognisable; secured alternatives are missing.
- Social media presence No social media profiles are linked, or the linked profiles are unreachable - there is therefore no independently verifiable trace of the provider online.
- Reputation Web research found confirmed negative reports about this provider - on average 2 out of 5 stars from 15 reviews.
In the shop's favour
- DNS configuration The domain has a complete email configuration with MX and SPF records - the shop can therefore actually send and receive email under its own address.
- Trade register Commercial register number and register court are stated and the entry was confirmed online - there is therefore a genuinely existing, registered company behind the shop.
- External reputation feeds The external security databases queried hold no warning about this domain - neither for malware nor for phishing.
Further checks
- Imprint The legal notice names RL COMMERCE GmbH as the operator, registered under HRB 244698, with reachable contact details. That number can be looked up in the public register - in a dispute there is someone to turn to who demonstrably exists.
- Server location The site's server is located in Chicago, US and therefore within the EU/US area - a legal area in which claims against the operator can be enforced if necessary.
- Trustpilot On Trustpilot the shop only reaches 1,8 out of 5 from 15 reviews - other customers there report problems more often than not.
- SSL certificate The connection is encrypted; the certificate was issued by Let's Encrypt and last renewed on 15 August 2026. Anyone can verify this themselves - via the padlock icon in the browser's address bar. Encryption says nothing about the operator's trustworthiness, though: a fake shop gets it free of charge too.
- Security headers The server sets most of the common protections. Present: enforced encryption (HSTS), protection against embedding in other sites (X-Frame-Options) and protection against file type confusion (X-Content-Type-Options). Not set: a content security policy (CSP). On its own this says nothing about the provider's trustworthiness.
- Redirects The address does not redirect to a third-party domain - the shop is actually operated under the address you opened.
- Contact data plausibility The contact details given are plausible: the email address belongs to the shop domain and the phone number is correctly formatted - fake shops mostly use free webmail addresses here.
- IP neighborhood No known fake shops are recorded in the domain's IP neighbourhood - no fraud network known to us runs on the same server.
- Template/clone fingerprint No known fake shop has the same template fingerprint as this site - a mass-produced kit of the kind fraud networks use is therefore not detectable.
- Text quality The page text is linguistically unremarkable - no leftover placeholder text, no missing umlauts, no machine-like flow.
What we could not verify
These checks returned no result – for example because the site blocked our request or a registry was unreachable. This is explicitly NOT a suspicion: it only means we lack the basis for a statement here.
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- WHOIS
- Domain age
- VAT ID (VIES)
- Hoster reputation
- Content depth
- URL structure clone
- Trust seal check
- Platform origin
- Marken-/Behörden-Impersonation
- Trust-seal image check
- Trusted Shops seal match
All findings come from an automated check of the publicly reachable website as well as public registers, warning lists and security databases. How we check