What a scam! I did the 7-day free trial but cancelled it the last day because I didn't want to be charged for the membership. Well, guess what happened after the 7 day "free" trial? I got charged for a year membership. I contacted customer service and after a week I received a response not with a credit but telling me to read their terms attached terms of service! Reached out again and got the same response. I'm out $30 but I can tell everyone possible not to fall for their SCAM!
I worked for this company for 4 years. Worse boss I ever had. Never communicated to see if I needed anything or how things were going. Tried to call and text. She said she don't use work phone on weekends. Buy cards just don't work for them.
American Greeting I believe was once a credible brand. Unfortunately, if my experience with their website is any indication I can say they have surely lost their way. Pages don't load, links don't work it's like the Company simply can't keep up. Someone should buy this Company, invest in its tech, and people, and make it relevant again, It has the potential but severely lacking in its execution, so sad.
Not a good value for subscription membership. You are better off making your own e-card and sending the person an e-gift card via whatever retailer/vendor you choose... When I called to cancel, they stopped the membership but could not refund what I was charged today, for the month ahead. So I am paying for a month's worth of services that I will not utilize. If customers considered returning, this policy (non-refundable subscription) would certainly turn them off not to return.
What a scam! I did the 7-day free trial but two days later I immediately cancelled it because I didn't want to be charged for the membership. Well, guess what happened after the 7 day "free" trial? I got charged for the month. I wrote immediately to the customer service. It has been 4 days and I haven't heard from them. I'll try to call tomorrow but what I've read from other reviews, this company will not do anything to help out. Oh, and during the free-trial I sent a birthday card to my sister and she could not open it. Only on the second try but the surprise was gone!
The functionality of their website for sending
E-cards is extremely poor. It seems as though the site is very poorly developed and maintained. They either need to get some coders in to fix it or close their doors. Customer support is nonexistent — no response to emails and no response to phone calls. If I owned this website, I would be truly embarrassed.
I tried American Greetings.com for the 7 day free trial. I tried the service and tried to cancel the trial and was unable to do so online. No button to cancel--nothing! Then, of course, I was charged the fee anyway. Biggest company scam ever. People need to file a lawsuit against companies like this and their truly awful website. Misleading people like me left and right it looks like from what I've been reading online.
Very difficult to send a card on the App. Most of the time it doesn't work and I have to do it on a computer.
They have cute cards, but the effort isn't worth it. I might as well go to the store or just send best wishes via email. By the time I get done fiddling with this, there is no fun left.
I just cancelled my membership.
I like American greeting cards and have used them for years. I recently purchased two gift cards for two large Canadian grocery stores for my son and employee, a total of $450. Neither worked, and I could not get any customer service. I'm forced to file a dispute through my credit card company. The company that supposedly sources them is called JIFITY. Their reply email stated that it was too bad they were redeemed when they were not.
American Greetings is okay, however, you can have a positive experience as long as you log out after each card you send. DO NOT send more than one card at a time especially the smash-ups. You have to keep logging out after each card or their system will mess it up come delivery day.
I signed up for a supposed "free" 1 week trial. I tried to cancel the next day, but there is no such option. So I emailed them. They took over a week to get back to me and had charged me for a month subscription with a note that they don't give refunds! I had to get my credit card company to force them to refund me. They are actually the company behind several supposed free ecard sites. They fooled me twice but never again!
Have had the service for quite sometime… cards are very cute… however have constant trouble with the website… now there is a whole major problem for iPhone users where it simply doesn't load… American greetings blames apple and say it is not their problem or their responsibility to find a fix… and they are very arrogant about it as well…. Have an iPhone?…
STAY AWAY!
I sent a greeting to a friend today that was awesome--very funny and perfect. However I chose to send it via FB. Once it was read once the ability to view the video disappeared.
So I deleted it. My friend never saw it.
Now I can't get anything to work.
Anything on American Greeting takes forever to load; I think forever because I didn't wait that long.
This really ruined my experience after spending an hour to try to get the card back without success. Then I couldn't send another card even.
I finally joined another greeting card site.
I contacted them 3 times last year to cancel my subscription the latest was 10/5/2023. The email response was it would be canceled in 2024. I re-contacted them today and they said my subscription could not be canceled until 2025
If there was an option to give no stars, I would have chosen it. I signed up for a trial offer and the next day they took money from my account. Took a month to get the money back and when I did I didn't get the same amount. This was due to me being in UK and the exchange rates on the day they shouldn't have taken the money and the day it was refunded being different. The bank also charged for the transaction each time. American Greetings take no responsibility for this and won't offer any further monetary refund even though it was their fault in the first place by taking the money! Avoid, avoid, avoid!
This company has become politically biased in its' e cards. When attempting to voice a complaint, they would not publish either of 2 reviews I attempted to post. When you try to reply to their emails, they go to a "no reply" box. I'm demanding a refund of the balance of time remaining on my contract and will make sure they cannot auto renew by notifying my credit card.
American Greetings, was not at all helpful
And that I will be forced to give them a bad review!
My eCards were NOT in Sent.
ECards, were never sent!.even though I did resend them 2ce!
And this has happened on multiple occasions!
Even though, the email addresses of the recipients are correct... & they are NOT in their Spam or Junk folders...so it is indeed unfortunate that American Greetings refuse to do the right thing & THat that your memberships are nonrefundable...and that I thus will be forced to give you a bad review!
Blue Mntn is much better!
I will return to them!
They renew automatically and when you find out they won't refund.
"We are sorry if your membership renewal has caused you any inconvenience. Our memberships are designed to automatically renew so that you can enjoy continuous, uninterrupted service, as was described in our Terms of Service when you ordered our service."
I think it's a sheer rip off.
I thought I was buying one card. Went to do my taxes and had a good look at the my credit card statements. Looks like they've been charging me for the last year! Called them and they "generously" reimbursed me for six months. Don't do business with this company!
Along the same lines as other reviews, the service appears to work fine, but they definitely trick you into paying for a subscription that is advertised as a "free trial". Upon signing up for the free trial period, they make you select a subscription option for when the trial is over, but apparently selecting one activates your actual membership and closes your free trial period. After sending the card that made me want to start a trial in the first place, I found the rest of their offerings to be lacking and requested a cancelation of my membership prior to the end of my free trial. I did this by email since there is nowhere on their website to cancel the membership (despite a page saying click the button below to cancel your free trial, where their is no button). I did not get a response until after a full week, and the response said they would turn off my auto-renew after my paid year subscription was over. Upon explaining to them I only sent one card during what was supposed to be my trial period, and notified them before the trial period expiration, they refused to refund my annual subscription charge. I find this to be a very dishonest way to do business and highly recommend others do not support this company.
American Greetings has a rating of 1.2 stars from 30 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with American Greetings most frequently mention credit card and free trial. American Greetings ranks 56th among Greeting Cards sites.