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Netherlands
1 review
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I got harassed be someone on Bandcamp for years and no costumer support or whatever. They do nothing and the person in question can do whatever it wants. You get completely ignored. But the homepage is changed 50 times a day so I guess that's priority. Bandcamp is not a musical platform either. It's a political platform where everyone seems to think the exact same, or blindly use discriminating words and nobody's doing anything. The report button is a total joke. Bandcamp does have great music but the costumer lack of support says they only care about the money.

Date of experience: July 31, 2024
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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LENA KRAUSE
February 23, 2024

So getting lied to of rip about funding your own account, and then being called a $#*! who will only work part time jobs the rest of my life, is just absolutely insane! You need to teach your recruiters interpersonal communication asap and you need to fire this woman! I've never been spoken to like this before by a potential employer! I'm floored as someone who works in customer service this is unacceptable! I've now been called a $#*! 3 diff times! So hopefully someone will be contacting me!

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Date of experience: February 23, 2024
France
1 review
0 helpful votes
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No customer support site is not set up to do password changes by yourself need one of their support monkeys to send the link. If I could give everything back and get my money back I would I sincerely hope they go out of business. I think a class action lawsuit against these guys would be a great idea!

Date of experience: August 19, 2022
California
1 review
11 helpful votes
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My incoming paypal payment was planned on Aug 22. But i don't receive anything. Next day also 0 and etc... Now i see my paypal payment planned on Aug 28. Why? Before i always get my payment 48 hours after my digital sales. When i will get my payment? You owe me 700$. Your support never reply... Absolutely scam. I want take legal actions against this company.

Date of experience: August 27, 2021
New Jersey
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Bandcamp don't pay me 180$. I'm waiting my paypal payment more then 12 days already. Impossible to get reply from bandcamp support. Bandcamp do legal fraud now. And nobody can't do anything. They send several payments to your paypal account then stopped to pay you anything. Stay away from this site.

Date of experience: August 31, 2021
GB
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Terrible service. I have artist registration on bandcamp. My paypal payment was planned on August 23 2021. Today August 31 and i still don't get any payment to my paypal account. I tried to solve this issue with Bandcamp support but they never reply... Anybody can help me?

Date of experience: August 31, 2021
GB
2 reviews
10 helpful votes
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Order placed march 2.3 weeks later not arrived so complained to be told that due to VAT new rules they dont know when said package could be Delivered. Surely a warning before I bought would be nice. Ruined wifes 20th wedding anniversary now so wont be buying again from bandcamp

Date of experience: March 23, 2021
Tennessee
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I put my email in and they said I already had an account which wasn't true. Then I tried to get them to send me a reset password link to my email and they said there was no account by that name. How am I supposed to join to buy music? So annoying! The artists should know they are missing sales.

Date of experience: August 29, 2022
Illinois
1 review
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A scam
July 9, 2023

Band camp does not let you sell your music they only have choice people that they claim that they allow them to sell their music. Don't waste your time listening and putting up pictures because they will not allow it to be sold on their site.

Date of experience: July 9, 2023
New York
1 review
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Poor write ups
May 15, 2023

When they did a review on a release i'm involved in, they completely omitted my artist name (while it's the first one on the release). Only wrote about all others involved and dissed a particular aspect of the release.
If you gonna write about people, do it proper!
$#*! these guys!

Date of experience: May 15, 2023
Michigan
1 review
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I had purchased music that was in no way against their terms of service only to find out later down the line that Bandcamp had banned the creator of the music without explanation or reason. I can no longer access the music that I have purchased.

Date of experience: March 24, 2023
New Zealand
1 review
5 helpful votes
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3 months ago I received 2 purchases, I received both emails confirming yet no money has been sent to my Paypal. I have had 2 responses then ghost.

Now I am receiving emails from customers saying they are now unable to buy my music. They are still able to stream and search for my page and music as per normal.

What my $$ was worth yesterday is not what it is worth today. BANDCAMP I WANT MY MONEY!

EDIT EDIT. No idea how I missed this. But I too have been unable to login into my Bandcamp account for sometime now.

Date of experience: August 31, 2021
Pennsylvania
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Was purchasing from them for years. Purchased a gift record for my brother, he had already purchased it from Bandcamp so when he received it he did not open it. I was on the phone with him when he received it and HE DID NOT OPEN IT. I immediately wrote to them and explained the situation. I waited weeks then months for them to reply... NOTHING! I had to bombard them on twitter and finally got a reply saying it was already opened. It was NOT! I then asked to delete my account. No response and there is no way to do it. Nice company, should be called BANDCRAP!

Date of experience: May 9, 2022
Colorado
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I have label signup since July 2021. They payd me 5 times and after that they stopped to send me my payments. You can't contact bandcamp support, because they don't have any support. They don't reply to any tickets. SCAM! Be Aware!

Date of experience: September 23, 2021
Oregon
44 reviews
142 helpful votes
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This website seems to be more oriented towards and filled with indie artists. Electronic/rap seems to garnish more attention on Soundcloud.
Cool that you can set your own pricing, which a site like soundcloud doesn't allow for. So it does have it's pros.

Date of experience: May 8, 2019
California
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Theives
September 23, 2019

Beware anyone using this site. You may have had a recurring monthly payment set up without your knowledge! Swim has had multiple deductions from his bank account unbeknownst to him, cause serious financial issues due to a fixed income. Who's running this site!? This is not at all right!

Date of experience: September 23, 2019
Finland
11 reviews
10 helpful votes
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Handy for buying music and to feel good for support artists. However I do not like the way they add taxes on top of the actual price as you only see the taxes after you've already decided to make the purchase. Works this way in Finland at least. Mostly a good service and does have plenty of free downloads and demo bands too.

Date of experience: November 14, 2016
Illinois
1 review
1 helpful vote
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BandCamp service can be a great option especially if one prefers downloads to physical media. Hat said it can be a rather poor option for physical media as many musicians shift to a pre-order model. Significant delays do occur, damaged media is provided, or none at all. BandCamp does not resolve issues but refers you to the musician's label. For the most part requests to resolve problems are met with total silence. Another side to this is it is rather difficult to contact the record label or musician through the BandCamp website or app. As they say Caveat Emptor. I no longer use or support their service.

Date of experience: March 10, 2021
Ohio
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Garbage.
May 9, 2018

Only giving the second star because support is great. Even after converting my songs many times, I still could not upload them, because they were not 'lossless'. All of that energy to sign up and get started for the last step of the process to not work :)

Date of experience: May 9, 2018
Slovakia
1 review
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Buying music
November 14, 2022

Paid on the site, received the download link via email. The site looks trustworthy but I was doubtful, so I googled it before I proceeded with payment.

Date of experience: November 14, 2022

Overview

Bandcamp has a rating of 1.9 stars from 36 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Bandcamp ranks 99th among Music Promotion sites.

service
19
value
18
shipping
12
returns
14
quality
17