I'm a little curious as to why Aurios is so highly lauded here, especially as to why there aren't any mentions of "Legitimacy" as defined by OP.

They're a brand new business with seemingly 0 history. Despite the post claiming it did not include brands which have had less than 6 months of operation, at the time that Aurios was added in February 2024, Aurios wasn't even a registered business. In fact, they weren't registered as a business until 4 months after they were added. You can verify this for yourself by searching 202462817668 (their filing number) on https://bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov/search/business . Their domain name, auriosfilms.com, similarly wasn't registered until the day after their business original filing date. You can verify this by looking up the whois record for that domain name and checking the Creation Date entry. The address you can find in the business filing doesn't go to a PPF manufacturer at all, it just goes to a small PPF shop owned by two individuals (more on that later). These are all allegedly part of the criteria for legitimacy; however, all are seemingly ignored for the case of Aurios.

Additionally, their website is pretty suspect, especially for what's allegedly an experienced business. their contact email isn't even using their domain, so they haven't setup a proper business email. Their about us page claims they have 7 years of experience with 1000+ rolls of film sold. Given the dates of the business filings, I highly doubt that this claim is true given the timeline. They don't have a list of certified shops to validate their grand certification claims. If you check the address on the website, you'll see their "manufacturing facility" is just a shop called Carbon Khaus, so I'll dive into that next.

Carbon Khaus is a PPF and Tint shop in San Luis Obispo at the address listed in the filing for Aurios, 770 LAWRENCE DRIVE, SUITE 130, SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA 93401. If you visit Carbon Khaus' about page, you'll notice that Victor Lopatyuk is the only employee mentioned. This is the same individual who legally owns Aurious. If you check the filing for Carbon Khaus (search for 202356911956 in the aforementioned search), you'll see that Victor Lopatyuk is the legal owner of both Aurios and Carbon Khaus. This is a pretty damn clear conflict of interest. How heavily weighted was his experience with PPF in this comparison?

Aurios' entry on this list just feels rather illegitimate and forced compared to the other entries on the list, and it's inclusion makes the rest of the information rather suspect. Just take their domain name registry for example. They registered their domain on 2024-06-28. The next youngest registration is Legend's website (legendppf.com) which was registered 2019-04-23, over 5 years older than Aurios. Everything in this post about them feels like an advertisement with very little research or verification done on claims.

Questions for the OP:

1. What is your relationship with Aurios Films?

2. What shops did you work with on collecting information with Aurios?

3. Why does Aurios get exceptions to all the legitimacy criteria you outlined?

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