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Bluedolphin Reviews Summary

Bluedolphin has a rating of 1.4 stars from 45 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Bluedolphin most frequently mention customer service, magazine subscription and credit card. Bluedolphin ranks 190th among Magazines sites.

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Minnesota
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ordered in April. Didn't get any confirmation. Ordered again. Had to shore up on my account. ONly offer through chat/emails. Rep was sarcastic... less than helpful. I received a link from a company called Zinio. Didn't recognize that. Well that's the company they use for digital subscriptions. Could have saved an hour by giving me that info up front. Supervisor -they don't talk to us their customer - expect a text. I don't trust the company and don't intend to continue.

Date of experience: July 17, 2025
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Run away or lose money! Never received a thing. Sent cancellation. Again, I haven't heard a thing.
If it sounds too good to be true, its a scam.

Date of experience: August 15, 2024
Nevada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Scammers! Please read
December 21, 2023

Purchased magazine subscription thru Groupon ( 3 magazines for 12 issues each) I only received 1 magazine. After months waiting I contacted customer service many times and still no response. This entire thing is a SCAM. I cancelled all 3 magazines thru website, but it better not Auto- renew and charge my credit card or I will go to the BBB

Date of experience: December 21, 2023
Minnesota
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Very bad company that has different rules for different offers, then when customer service is contacted they claim you didn't follow the rules. I ordered two magazines and one you had to email in order to cancel so it wouldn't renew at full price, the other you could go on the site to cancel. The first they allowed the subscription to run after I emailed cancellation to the end of the term, the second through the site they didn't. I have been back and forth with this painful company and they don't even have a concept that they have different rules. Their emails are also fraudulent about the amount of savings they give you and "best offer ever." Their offers are always the same and they should be reported to the government for making false statements.

Date of experience: September 15, 2023
Utah
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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They subscribed me to a hateful magazine that I did not order. They have a non responsive customer service.

Date of experience: September 12, 2023
Minnesota
1 review
1 helpful vote
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RIPOFF!
March 29, 2023

DO NOT ORDER FROM THIS COMPANY! Still waiting for my order which was placed on 1/10/2023. Contacted company when I got a notice that I was due for renewal. For a magazine that I never received!Contacted company thru a live chat option ( because of course you can not find a number to contact anyone) to be told there is a paper shortage! What a joke! Do not order from them complete scam! Why isn't zero stars an option?

Date of experience: March 29, 2023
Virginia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Zero Stars
February 1, 2023

Ordered two magazines with the $2 each offer. Never received any magazines. Luckily I canceled before auto-renewal, but the $4 I paid is not refundable. Now I have to make sure that they dont go ahead and charge me the renewal fee anyway.
Nice scam they got going, huh? Get a few $$$ from people for a deal on magazines and then give zero magazines and keep the $$$. Oh well, live and learn!

Date of experience: February 1, 2023
Michigan
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Complicated
January 11, 2023

I purchased Groupon for blue dolphin magazine
Completed order and picked my magazines
After 5 weeks I received my fist copy just to realize they sent you old issues
It was from past month.
And it happened again with my other magazines as well.
Horrible

Date of experience: January 11, 2023
South Carolina
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I ordered a magazine through Blue Dolphin via a Groupon voucher. I redeemed the voucher and paid Blue Dolphin a $1.99 processing fee. The confirmation I received indicated I would get my first magazine within 6-10 weeks. It has been 18 and I have received nothing. In addition, despite the fact I keep trying to unsubscribe from their emails, they continue to spam my inbox.

Date of experience: July 17, 2022
Colorado
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Incompetence or Scam or Both
March 2, 2022

I purchased a magazine subscription deal through Groupon. It turns out they use Blue Dolphin magazines as a third party to "fulfill" the subscriptions. I was charged for the subscription the day I signed up and issued a redemption code which didn't work. I contacted Blue Dolphin several times about the faulty code, as instructed by Groupon, without success. After a week of failure, it took publicly complaining about the issue on Groupon's social media to get them involved. Groupon declined my request for a refund. I eventually got a new redemption code from them which appeared to work. Yet its now been 13 weeks since I was charged for my subscription and I've never received it. Groupon keeps referring me back to Blue Dolphin, and Blue Dolphin won't respond to me or just tries to stall. Yet they have no problem spamming me with frequent junk emails trying to get me to buy more magazines. SMH. I know it's not a lot of money, but I've opened a dispute case with my credit card company on principle - I think Blue Dolphin is either in over their heads and can't fulfill their contractual obligation, or they actually count on profiting from people just writing off the money they spent for a product they won't receive.

Date of experience: March 2, 2022
New Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Never came
February 7, 2022

My magazine never arrived. It's two months later and nothing no magazine, just a bunch of promo emails from them.

Date of experience: February 7, 2022
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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- any stars!
My bank refunded over$60! In charges they hacked from my account. Thiefs. Scammers.

Date of experience: September 15, 2021
Georgia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Scammers
August 27, 2021

They are constantly trying to take money out of my PayPal account.
Very shady company.
They lie about the price of the subscriptions. Charge you way more than they advertise.
Stay away from this company.

Date of experience: August 27, 2021
Arizona
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I ordered a subscription for my son for Christmas 2020. Put the order in early November. I contacted them in January and then again in March both times they told me that it takes a while for the publisher to get the magazines out. Here I am, nine months later with no magazines. While the subscription fee was minimal, I have nothing to show for it. Easier to let them keep a few bucks and never do business with them again than to aggravate myself trying to work with their customer support. What a scam they have going!

Date of experience: August 24, 2021
Florida
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Absolutely awful. I ordered an annual magazine subscription back in December. We never received a single copy.

Date of experience: August 23, 2021
Massachusetts
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Lame-O
June 23, 2021

They promise delivery and then don't deliver... customer service says they're sorry. But the truth is they seem powerless to make things happen. Just an extremely frustrating experience dealing with this "company"

Date of experience: June 23, 2021
Connecticut
1 review
1 helpful vote
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@$$holes
June 17, 2021

If only you could give negative stars. Ordered in December. Still haven't gotten the subscription. Customer service is always sorry but offers no hope. MAJOR SCAM! DO NOT BUY FROM THEM

Date of experience: June 17, 2021
Washington
1 review
4 helpful votes
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RIP OFF
June 14, 2021

Ordered and never received. Off groupon coupon. I knew better, but gave them the benefit of doubt, but no!

Date of experience: June 14, 2021
New Jersey
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Rip off
May 17, 2021

If I could rate less than 1 star, I would. I ordered a magazine for a Christmas present. Now, in late May, it still has not been received. They took my $$$ and offered excuse after excuse: MAD Magazine changed publishers, they changed printers, they only publish quarterly and u missed the previous quarter, etc... Don't even bother to give them ur information.

Date of experience: May 17, 2021
Arizona
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I purchased a magazine subscription over 6 months ago and have not seen one issue! They gave me an excuse, but I still have not seen a magazine yet?
Not satisfied at all!

Date of experience: May 12, 2021