While I was reluctant to try, I did anyways, and I was pleasantly surprised. At a much better cost did the merchandise arrive and it is the real thing, not an imitation or supstitute. I had to pay an additional small surcharge for money conversion to my Credit card, because my shipment came from the Phillipines. The only thing I am not sure about, I hope I initiated automatic shipping, it keeps telling you to do so, but for that the website is not user friendly enough to explain how exactly you do that.