Superdrug Discovered Selling Fake Pink GHDs

The BBC has reported that Highstreet retailers Superdrug, has had to recall a batch of Fake Pink GHD Hair Straighteners following fears they may not meet minimum electrical safety standards.

Customers who bought Pink GHD IV Stylers with the barcode 5060034524236 between 3 August and 17 September 2008 should return them to their nearest Superdrug store. Using the Fake GHD’s, they risked serious injury and damage to property, the retailer’s spokeswoman said.

Superdrug has apologised to customers and GHD for any inconvenience caused. The hair straighteners had been supplied by a company with no direct relationship to GHD, a Superdrug spokesman said. The retailer had been alerted to the counterfeit batch through a call to customer services, he added. “A customer called in to register her ghds, and the computer wouldn’t recognise her code,” he said.

Superdrug has been selling GHD hair straighteners from the “grey market” for some time and they had no customer complaints, he added. A spokeswoman for ghd said it did not supply the products in question and did not supply unapproved high street retailers. This is a lesson to be learnt, even well kown highstreet retailer can get caught out and just for the record GHD do not supply to the highstreet. So if you see a highstreet retailer selling GHD’s, they did’nt get them directly from GHD. They may not be fake, but you cannot gaurantee they are genuine as this case has proved.

The GHD Spokesperson went on to say that. “The health and safety of our customers is paramount and as such we actively encourage purchase from approved stockists only,” she said.

To ensure you are buying a genuine GHD always buy form a Approved GHD Stockist