Punchbowl

Punchbowl advertises you can send free ecards with no membership but that is completely false. After you've gone through all of the steps of choosing and creating your card, entering the recipient and your contact info THEN a pop-up appears "your card can't be sent without signing up" (after they get your info of course). This is deceiving and misleading customers so they can just get your information. Their statement on their own site says "Personalize and send beautiful invitations and greeting cards for FREE with Punchbowl®." NOTHING at all about needing a trial or subscription. Be honest and let customers know up front where it can easily be seen that they must sign up before wasting our time. I get enough junk mail and spam texts already. I know customer's contact information are sold to marketing companies without the customer's permission. Your competitors display their subscription notice yet Punchbowl hides it. That is wrong.

I thoroughly read the Help Q and As to find out how to block a sender. It says underneath the invitation it should say, "Don't want invitations from this host? Remove yourself." And that you can click on it. This does NOT exist so I can't remove myself!

When you are setting up your account, be sure to read the fine print. $7.99/month after the free trial is expired actually means Punchbowl will charge your card the full YEARLY amount of $95.

There's nothing special about this bar. They don't have a full bar as you would imagine. The food is basic and you pay the same amount if you were in a restaurant for the same money. Save your cash & go to the Northend

Went to the website, found a nice card for my daughter, was willing to accept an ad in it, and I couldn't send it without joining. Worse, even if I was willing to pay for one month $4.99 as advertised, they would charge me for an entire year. Read about others experiences here--even if I could contest any charges after canceling on my cc, I decided that deception up front often indicates later deception and problems. Not worth trusting this company.

Two years after I cancelled my subscription, they randomly charged me nearlt $60 and not in the month that would have been my renewal month. I emailed to get this corrected and they have said they will refund the money, but they also said in their response they have cancelled my subscription. Ya can't cancel something that doesn't exist. Wish I had never tried this company out. What a pain.

They say you can cancel your membership within 7 days and you won't be charged. So I went ahead with sending my daughter's birthday invite. When I tried to cancel, it said I would no longer be able to manage the rsvp's. So I'm forced to keep the subscription until her party, which means paying for an entire year's membership. What a scam. I will never use Punchbowl again and I hope this review is a warning to everyone else.

I'm not really sure why anyone would love this. I did the free trial and got charged (because I forgot, so that's my fault) $60 annual fee. I decided it would be fine since it had invitations and I could use it for other things. I cannot send out invitations without upgrading for EVEN MORE MONEY. What a joke. It's already digital, meaning it has no real material cost. $60 should be more than enough for what they're offering. I can't stand it. I would not recommend it to anyone.

Pre-Covid I used Punchbowl many times and was pleased. But post-Covid my CC and PW got into the hands of scammers. I received 4 fraudulent charges on my credit card. The scammers even had my password which was unique to Punchbowl. Check your CC statement! I don't know if they were hacked or were involved in the fraud but I will NEVER trust Punchbowl again.

It's honestly not hard. When I sell something, I don't say, "Here's something free" and then, when a customer tries to take it, basically hold them up to extort them for money. Well, Punchbowl has no such moral qualms about treating its customers terribly. They advertise - through THE ENTIRE process - that you can make and send free invites. That's what I searched for in the search engine! Then, AFTER you've put time and work into them, Punchbowl dangles your head in a toilet and rifles you for all your spare change. Despicable. If they believed in their business, they would say, up front, that they charge for their service.

In no real-world situation would this be allowed: can you imagine a restaurant pulling this stunt? A car wash? A movie theater? Nope, there would be immediate backlash.

Despicable.

It's false advertising and they should be fined. They need to change their verbiage when soliciting their product. They completely extort you for money. After creating an invite and you try to send it. Then it says you need to pay even though it says free throughout the whole process. Their cards are less than mediocre so I figured I'd get what I'd get and give it a try. But nobody should pay for their lousy cards when they pigeon hold you.

They string you along with the promise of creating and sending free invites. Then, once you've spent time creating your invite, you literally cannot send it without signing up for a "free trial" which is 1 week. So unless your party is within a week- how is this useful as a free service?! Also, unless you purchase a premium membership, there are ads on your invite, which is why it didn't seem too good to be true. I mean, if I'm sending along ads with my kids' birthday invitations- shouldn't it just be free?

I was very unimpressed that your service, advertised as FREE on google search, required payment of a subscription fee to manage RSVPs!
I was ok with paying one month, at $3.99, if required, but I was extremely UNhappy to discover that the cost of the full annual subscription of $50 had been charged! Additionally, the exchange rate was 30% to my Canadian dollar; they took over $66 out of my bank account!
I cancelled my subscription on April 3rd and I want my refund...

They charged my credit card $98.55 for an annual subscription just to send out birthday invitations for my daughter's birthday. I do not remember agreeing to an annual membership. Membership for what exactly? I'm not a party planner and I only have 1 child what would I possibly need with an annual membership? It's disappointing that this is the way this company chooses make its money. This is a service I will no longer use and will tell everyone I can not to use either! I contacted customer service when I noticed the charge on my PayPal account and all I got was it was my responsibility to cancel and they have no idea when a customer wants to cancel. The problem with that is I never agreed to it! So basically they charge me $98 to send an electronic birthday card for a 7 year old. Shameful!

I was working on invitations and i filled everything out and it gave no indication that i would need to pay for anything, but, after i pressed send and worked on it for a really long time it said i would need to pay for the premium membership! Rude rude rude

Says it's free but it's just a 7-day trial, which it doesn't tell you until after you've spent all your time creating the evite. Total garbage. Sad I'll have to deal with their emails forever now.

I sent out my daughter's birthday invitation using punchbowl last night. For some reasons I can only login to my account through the website but not the app. What is going on? Is it a trick for force me not to be able to cancel the membership until the party is over? I used the exact same login with no problem on the website but it kept on saying trouble logging in when I tried to do it on the app! I feel cheated.

After spending a week setting up the invitations and being promised "free online invitations", we go to complete the process and send our invitations, only to get hit with a paywall. Our "free online invitations" ended up being "free for 7 days", then you have to pay. Classic bait and switch if you ask me! Nowhere during the whole process was a fee or payment ever disclosed until the very end.
Believe me, we are definitely canceling after we receive all of our RSVP's, but I have a feeling it's going to be difficult. The best, is by default, they try to sign you up for a yearly plan instead of a monthly plan (they do this by manipulating the price, the yearly is less per month, and by classic making it the first option), so it seems like they trick people into signing up for more then they need. Here's an idea Punchbowl, don't be deceitful and people would actually value the product you offer!

This web page was not clear on their charges after their free trial. Charged us for the whole year. Giving it my lowest score. Do not recommend.

The "monthly fee" will be charged a yearly amount, right up front, without them clearly marking it so. Then they're still going to include ads and will cap you at 50 people unless you upgrade to a higher amount. Disputing with the bank.

I spent 30 minutes creating and organizing a FREE invitation here. But in order to send and manage I had to PURCHASE an annual membership. No way around it. Slimy, dishonest and exceptionally poor business practices. Never again.

This website markets itself as being fee, then prompts you to pay a monthly fee. If you cancel the membership before the year is up they charge you the entire annual fee. Very misleading. Also I took a membership to be able to send invites for a work party, I'm assuming our firewalls don't allow it. I was charged for a year for a service that essentially useless to me. Do not recommend.

Just to let people know, they show you the monthly price but charge you for a year. Can cancel but you loose your money ney.