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Texas
1 review
8 helpful votes
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First time ordering from them and they send me an empty gift card. $0 and i payed for $100 card. Took 3 months to get refunded after 12! Emails (they literally asked me the same question over and over again, "how much of the balance did you use?") I told them that to keep me as a customer they would have to give me more than purchase price (they used up 2 coupons that were not refundable so i would be losing that value). No reply after that just "we refunded the purchase price. Not even an apology for the time and for holding my money hostage for so long.

Date of experience: November 29, 2016
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I use this app all the time to get gift cards to stores and restaurants I frequent. Savings add up. The customer service is top notch. Had an issue that was resolved quickly and professionally. Thank you.

Date of experience: July 29, 2016
North Dakota
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I ordered a series of gift cards which never arrived. I contacted Raise customer support and Gus was wonderful communicating with me, attempting to reach the seller and helping me obtain a refund when the seller did not respond.

I received a notice from Patty within 24 hours regarding my request for a refund as well.

Based on this experience, I do plan to continue to buy from Raise.com

Date of experience: October 15, 2014
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Informational inquiry
December 10, 2015

Short and direct response to my questions. Happy with quality of the interaction. My only suggestion would be to allow time for more opened ended inquiries and close call with very specific closing statement, I. E. "Did I address your question" or "can I help you understand other aspects of the service".

Date of experience: December 7, 2015
Maryland
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Scam
April 9, 2021

Ordered a bunch of gift cards. The numbers do not work so I asked for a refund and I was told I have to get a letter from the company saying they don't work. I've gotten the runaround from the company and Raise won't lift a finger. I'm out almost $100 and will never bother again. The few dollars I would have saved is wasted chasing a letter to get my money back.

Date of experience: April 9, 2021
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I found Raise at the early stages of their launch and ive been a fan ever since. With over $4000 in purchases and tons of referrals, i love saving money and getting what i need.

I don't tell too many people due to the competition factor... lol

Keep up the great work...

Date of experience: July 30, 2015
Washington
1 review
2 helpful votes
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My elderly mother's account was hijacked by a scammer and more than $16,000.00 of fraudulent purchases were made without her knowledge. Her account normally has little activity so this $16,000 worth of purchases made in 2 days should have been flagged by Raise!
Raise has provided no assistance to help gather information for the police report.
Raise has no evening or weekend support to help for an urgent situation like to Block the account!
Raise only has a online chat availability with a robot program that doesn't know what fraud on my account is!
I could not get into the account once it was hijacked and I could not reset the password and I could not get a human's attention fir 3 days in order to block the account! By that time my poor mother was broke! I cannot even get them to provide a list of purchases made.
I am totally frustrated with this company and their inability and unwillingness to help.

Date of experience: August 30, 2022
North Carolina
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I have been using the web site Raise.com for over 2 years and I've made over 100 purchases from them. They are a stellar company and I've experienced only top notch service with them whether it be selling, purchasing or resolving a dispute. Their support staff is always on top of their game and have never steered me wrong or left me dissatisfied. Definitely one of my go-to web sites for always a great deal and never a bad experience.

Date of experience: March 26, 2017
Massachusetts
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I really liked the idea of buying discounted gift cards, but my experience with Raise was awful. I bought a $150 card to Lowes for $132 and change. It never showed up. I had to contact Raise three times to get my money refunded. Disappointed!

Date of experience: July 1, 2014
Raise S. Raise Rep
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On behalf of our seller and our Member Services team, we’d like to apologize for any inconvenience we may have caused you, Jim. We're glad that we were able to refund you, as your order was covered by our 60-day, 100% money back guarantee. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to support@raise.com if there is anything else we can help you with.

Thank you,
Raise Member Support

Colorado
1 review
14 helpful votes
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My husband and I spent over $6,000 in gift cards through raise... Just to receive over 1/2 of them that were fraudulent. When I received them I called to check the balance on every single card and it had the correct amounts. As soon as the 100 days were over the balances had miraculously disappeared and raise said "there is nothing we can do, it falls outside our 100 day policy". Don't even spend a dollar on these cards... worthless!

Date of experience: June 8, 2016
Georgia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Interesting concept
March 24, 2017

This is certainly a top website for gift cards, but I am hoping to get my listing up a tad bit faster. The items sell pretty fast so you guys have great advertising techniques, so let's hope for a great rest of the year. Thanks

Date of experience: March 22, 2017
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have been using Raise.com for several months now and am really happy with them. I have saved so much money on coffee alone! They absolutely back up their guarantee and the couple of times that there were issues with the cards I purchased, their customer service was quick to respond and resolve the problem.

Date of experience: February 5, 2015
Indiana
1 review
17 helpful votes
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Updated Review
July 18, 2018
Updated review

Raise has recently improved their buying process by showing a timer for how long your purchases will last in your cart. This has been extremely helpful. In the past your cart items would expire without warning but now you can see how long you have to check out before they disappear. It still puts pressure on you to shop quickly or lose your item but it's better than in the past.

Date of experience: July 16, 2018

I have used this site and the deals are great... when they work which is about half the time. If you place an order in your cart, it disappears spontaneously, especially when they offer discount codes, making it impossible to purchase more than one thing without it getting bought out from under you. It's ridiculous that they don't hold it until you can check out. Online chat help was nonexistent.

Date of experience: March 30, 2018
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Sergio is the Best
August 22, 2016

Sergio took the time out of his busy schedule to help me resolved the problem I had with a fraudulent gift card that I purchase. He was very professionally and patiently handled the issues. He represent Raise very well. Thank you!

Date of experience: August 18, 2016
Maine
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This is the BEST site. In 18 months I have purchased almost $20,000 in discounted gift cards, primarily Lowes and Home Depot. This on little one for $40 is the only one I have ever had a problem with. It was fixed and refund to my account within 5 days of my calling. Thanks Raise - I look forward to many more dollars save by using your services!

Date of experience: November 11, 2015
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Awesome customer service
September 7, 2015

I wanted to make sure I could get my cards quickly and go through the verification process in a timely manner. It had said that the process could take 24 hours so I called the support number to see if I could get everything done in one sitting, with card delivery soon after. I worked with Jenny initially and then Heather for the accounts verification portion. Both were extremely friendly and efficient, walking me through the process and offering to verify the account right then and there. I was amazed at how quick and friendly the service was. A++. Raises are in order (pun intended). From the time I first pressed "call" on my phone to the delivery email was 37 minutes! A good deal of the time was from me re-picking my cards as well! So fast. Very likely to buy from here again versus the competition.

Date of experience: September 4, 2015
Texas
10 reviews
10 helpful votes
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Scam. No Consumer Support.
September 17, 2021

Do yourself a favor. Try calling the company, using their chat option, or emailing them. You'll quickly see that it's impossible to reach them. When you get gift cards with a $0 balance, you are out of luck because they won't do anything for you despite their "guarantee policy." Because of defrauding people, the company needs to shut down permanently by the government.

Date of experience: September 17, 2021
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have bought and used many gift cards from Raise over the past several years. Every once in a while, I have had gone to use a card, and the amount has dis-appeared. A phone call, or better yet, the OnLine Chat feature gets the problem resolved easily. Refund back to credit card in less than a week. They are the only service I know of that offers a 100 day guarantee on the cards they sell.

Date of experience: October 25, 2016
Minnesota
1 review
19 helpful votes
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Really Bad
January 17, 2019

I purchased a Caribou Coffee gift card in Oct 2018. Went to use it over Thanksgiving and was told there was no money on the card. Raise initially gave me a refund, then in January they sent me an email saying they were taking the refund back. I talked to two people who pretty much accused me of being dishonest. In the end they can only refund me if I can provide "evidence" that I did not use the card! Closing my account and called my credit card to dispute the charge.

Date of experience: January 17, 2019
South Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Great service
November 16, 2016

Just got help from Raise.com. I know raise.com 100 days policy. Purchased several whole food market's e Gift card last year and forgot to use it until last month. When I went on line and go to store to use, neither of them work. Call raise.com they found out Whole Food Market changed the policy for using all the physical card instead of e-gift since last year of Dec. I lost all my value. But I'm happy that raise.com give me back the credit. Even it's not all of them. But I know I got some great deals all the time, I can get back that small money I lost very soon. Plus when I purchase from them, my whole group get paid also. Just check on their site more often, I can save $ for for my family and friends in no time. Thank you! Jarvis,

Date of experience: November 14, 2016

Overview

Raise has a rating of 2.8 stars from 987 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Raise most frequently mention gift card, business days and next day. Raise ranks 5th among Gift Cards sites.

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value
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quality
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