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Illinois
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Extremely misleading
November 13, 2018

This company is terrible. As others have done I found them through Shopify. Had them set up V IP site which was supposed to include monthly instagram and Facebook advertising images and help. Never received anything but a cookie cutter site. I quit using them over a year ago yet they keep billing me. When I contact them I get the same old run around about looking into it but nothing is ever done. It costs me $35.00 to stop charges but there's no guarantee via my bank so they can come back the next month and charge me anyway. Making a killing ripping off people what a scam!

Date of experience: November 13, 2018
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I hired Collective Fab through Shopify in May 2018. We are now in October and they still have not completed the basic tasks they have promised to do. Kevin, the person in charge of setting up my store sometimes takes up to 20 days to respond to a simple email. Don't even think about trying to reach him by phone. It's not possible. Ever. I've been calling an emailing and begging literally for a call back and for them to complete the work. This is the worst company I've ever worked with and Shopify should be ashamed to even have them listed as a partner. They are ruining their reputation.

Date of experience: October 19, 2018
Colorado
1 review
2 helpful votes
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False Advertising
July 29, 2019

I purchased a website from Collective Fab at a discount in exchange for participating in a case study. 2 months later, my website still isn't done and I do not have access to work on it myself. However, two weeks after my purchase they began sending out marketing emails called "Case Study Results" that claimed the group I was participating in was already profitable. I ended up in a very lengthy email chain with Kevin, who I believe is the owner, where he talked in circles and tried to blame the misinformation on his "marketing department." When I pressed for more information, he stopped responding to my emails. All further communication was with Emily, who could not answer any questions about the false marketing claims, and really just stalled when asked why my website wasn't ready. After two months I filed a dispute with my credit card and already got my money back. Working with them was a major waste of time, and they are publishing false data of how successful their clients are.

Date of experience: July 29, 2019
Portugal
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Please refund my money
February 12, 2018

Please refund my money. I already sent an email why did you charge my card and I had a trial of 11 days? After all this company seem like a fraud the prices don't add up a small short for the wholesale price of are you kidding? I will call my bank for a chargeback so please make this easier but refunding my money. Check your emails I already send you one. Thank you! Shopify must analysis these apps before they are submitted to because this is totally fraud if you ask me. I am collecting all the fraud reviews am seeing over the internet to send to my bank.

Date of experience: February 12, 2018
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This company is beyond shameful and they are what class action lawsuits are made of. I tried them before when they were Bella something or the other and they were ridiculous, so after a year, I canceled the service. But, then I saw the different name and thought perhaps they've improved along with their name change and the new app. No such luck, previously when they were Bella, they got so much money from me for their subscription, but they won't get it again. I have called my bank and disputed the subscription fees and the payment for the product never shipped. And, they better try to change their name again because I'm going class action with this for breach of implied contract. I have all my documents, screenshots, and emails from the first encounter all the way to current. They are such cowards, they can't even allow responses via their broken zendesk chat system. Then again, they probably have not paid their zendesk monthly subscription, but heck they should, they've ripped enough of us off and should be rolling in the dough.

Date of experience: August 19, 2019
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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SCAM
June 21, 2019

Wish I had read these reviews before I gave them my money. It's a complete scam, been a month and nothing. I don't know if I should mislead or just stupid. Rating is zero by the way

Date of experience: June 21, 2019
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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The theme should have been done in a week. Took my money. Never delivered a finished website after a month. Horrible company. Stay Away.

Date of experience: April 1, 2019
Ukraine
1 review
17 helpful votes
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Terrible support
November 24, 2016

We have several online stores and we have worked with many suppliers, but its the first time we encounter with such an incompetent and unreliable partner.
We have a complete package from them - Premium Turnkey Website in March 2016 for $ 500. We were promised that we would get the stores premium design, the goods, connection to Shopify, high-quality support, and much more.
The website was not set up as fast as it was promised. We also got access to the warehouse with the goods. We manually updated our inventory using a CSV file at any time. However, there were often problems with the items quantity in the file. The amount of goods could change 5 times in 15 minutes. Support could not give us clear answers on this matter. Besides, the file had a lot of shortcomings. Support answered once in a couple of weeks, and advised us to use their partners application that makes automatic update of stock 4 times a day. And when we improved their template and added functionality to it, we were suddenly told that we had to wait for another application.
At this stage promises and transfers of availability time began. During this time, without prior notice, the format of the data in the csv-file changed several times, and we had no other choice but to make amendments in out Shopify file to update the quantity of the goods, which was a very time-consuming process. Supports answer to all our inquiries was that they were still at the stage of Transitions. Then we were offered to use their application for $29, although previously it was promised that it would cost us $10. Support didnt help us on this matter.
But given that a lot of work had already been done, and a lot of goods tagged, we decided not to quit this project. Then they blocked our access to their stock in one-way fashion, until we agreed to pay 29 bucks a month. Its an outrage! It was initially agreed that we had free access to the goods in the warehouse.
Eventually we did pay the $29, but nothing of what they promised actually happened. It still took 12 to 16 days for the goods to get to our customers, which makes us suspect the goods were shipped not from the warehouse in California, but from China or somewhere as far away. The app didnt work for us, and support in the person of Emily and other people proved incompetent. Our direct questions were answered briefly and irrelevantly weeks later. A couple of times they gave us wrong tracking numbers, and then cancelled the orders by themselves, telling it was the shippers fault. They wont respond to our claim to give us a refund for the time, money and nerves wasted.

Have no dealings with these scammers, otherwise negative feedbacks of your customers are guaranteed. Lets give them the bum's rush from the US market!

Date of experience: November 22, 2016