EnvatoMarket

Envato is a scam. They steal money from your wallet and credit card. I have had many bad experience with Envato. Please do not waste your hard earned money.

The scripts in general are good and can help as a starting point for your project. However you have to be extremely careful and ready to tackle two major loopholes.

The first one is to look into the users table and the many bio details injected to collect user identity info. I had to challenge Envato Market and the code seller on different occasions. Make sure you narrow down these to only those your project requires or make optional rather than required as most dodgy code sellers do. I always prefer to do it through the seller to enforce a cleaner and safer code for all buyers.

The second is no less serious and can bring your project to a total stand still. I recently purchased a Laravel Parking app and after installing it it turned out to be missing many of the essential logic such as user permissions, auth, etc. This way the seller forces the buyer to pay extra to have these added which is immoral. Upon reporting this, both the code seller and Envato Market claimed these are extra customisation jobs that I had to pay for! When I proved them wrong, they turned to some cheap tactics like taking too long to respond etc. just to end up taking a seller biased decision.

My experience is that Envato Market is a hit and miss gamble and for those who know their stuff very well and willing to take risks, otherwise stay away.

ENVATO FORCES you to buy a SUBSCRIPTION if you wish to purchase a PowerPoint template (for example). I would GLADLY pay them the $20 for the template, as I use them MAYBE once a year. BUT NO... I MUST BUY A YEAR'S SUBSCRIPTION. Forget it then! Whoever thought up this stupid way of doing business has done ENVATO a big disservice. How many sales are you losing? You'll never know. I along with probably thousands of other will GO ELSEWHERE. You're NOT Adobe, ENVATO. Get over yourself! PS: I'd give you ZERO stars if it was an option.

Item never downloaded. Simply stay away from this site! They have awful response times and when they o get back to you. It's cold and out of touch. Many other FREE sites to use besides this.

Is this possible
Please think twice
If your marketplace is too big in worldwide
Then it's just no matter to solve this

Why you not ban this type of author from your marketplace
Or
You also doing like that

I have paid for the annual subscription to this service, and I am constantly getting errors when trying to download anything, and I always have since inception. It is bogus and not worth your time. Go with ANYTHING ELSE.

Rip off online company. Got a "special deal" from them which was tons of photoshop and website add-ons. Clearly too big to download all at once, would take several weeks to do that. I downloaded what I needed at the time and when I came back to download some more the link was not available. When I enquired about it I was passed around different depts all saying it was nothing to do with them. When I asked for a reinstated link I was told there was not one available. When I asked for a refund I was told no refunds were available. I then asked to see a copy of their terms and conditions, which is a legal requirement in any country, and my email was ignored. This company just cares about taking your money regardless of how good their products might seem. When something goes wrong they don't care. WILL NEVER BUY FROM THIS RIP OFF COMPANY AGAIN AND HOPE THEY GET SHUT DOWN.

This company is a joke. Like many on here I am a legit business person who tried to purchase a few items for my website and was immediately locked out of my account. Not understanding why, I reached out to their customer service. These are responses I received. I'm in shock on how this was handled and still not sure why I was discriminated against and why I am not worthy enough to use their services.

Regrettably, after further investigation, we're using our discretion and will not be re-enabling your account.

Please note, your most recent order has been voided by our payment system, so no funds have been taken from your account.

Unfortunately, like all companies we have a number of internal policies in place which, for business reasons we do not divulge.

We may block you, terminate any of your Envato accounts or refuse to process a payment, including withholding your account balance indefinitely, if we reasonably believe there is a risk associated with you, your Envato account, or that payment, including if it breaches a law or regulation. Examples of where we might do this include transactions where we suspect the payment is from or to a person or country sanctioned by an authority (like the United Nations, the United States government or the Australian government); or where we reasonably believe there is a legal or regulatory risk or a risk of loss being suffered by us or our members.

I will be closing this ticket now.

I understand where you're coming from, but still - we're in no obligation to explain why we don't want to reactivate your account.

Envato uses a customer unfriendly payment system which is rigid and borderline unethical. They require that your payment be processed with additional processing fees unless you buy "credits" which are only purchased in increments of $10. Furthermore all refunds are not refunded to your original payment but into "credits" that must be used at envato. If you choose to buy another item with those refunded credits you must complete the purchase with credits and cannot use PayPal or a credit card to complete the difference. This means in many cases you are forced to buy more credits in increments of $10 ($20) minimum. This forces the customer to waste money amd I consider it a form of legalized theft.

When I confro thier customer service about these issues, which are only reached by email hour later, they had little regard for my concern and offered no resolution.

Overall I would not use envato as a seller nor buyer as this company should not be rewarded for it's unethical and unfriendly business practices.

Shady market practices, they advertise it at 16$ per month but then switch it on the payment page to annual fee of 198$ billed all at once or 33$ per month on a monthly basis only, more than double, it feels very unethical, why is it not listed like that on the price page only comes up at the payment page? Mmmmm... shady shady shady!, Though probably legal, it is MISLEADING in my opinion. I wouln't have wasted my time shopping to see what is available, if I knew it was 33$ per month apposed to 16$ per month- thats a big difference! Other websites may be more expensive but at least you get what you are paying for, ENVATO ELEMENTS is shady in my opinion!