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Shutterfly Reviews Summary

Shutterfly's reputation reflects a mix of strong product quality and significant customer service challenges. Many users appreciate the quality of photo books and personalized items, often highlighting the durability of products. However, recurring complaints about service delays, order inaccuracies, and inadequate customer support overshadow these positives. Customers frequently report issues with refunds, communication breakdowns, and technical difficulties on the platform. This blend of satisfaction with product quality and frustration over service reliability suggests a need for Shutterfly to enhance its customer service approach to improve overall customer experience and retention.

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quality
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Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Beware USD pricing only
November 19, 2020

If you are a Canadian placing an order, think twice.
I placed an order & no where did it state the prices were in USD, a $279 dollar order ended up being $375 Canadian, order in Canada you will find comparable prices & the same or better quality. We shall see if they actually do something with the feedback that was provided so other Canadian customers don't get the same surprise I did

Date of experience: November 19, 2020
Texas
3 reviews
11 helpful votes
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I'm disappointed. I've been getting emails about Shutterfly's Christmas card promotions for several weeks. I saw that they had a low price guarantee where once you've ordered your cards if a better sale is offered a conversation with customer service will result in a credit for the difference. So I ordered my cards. They arrived yesterday. They look great and I'm happy and today I get an email where my cards are on sale and the difference for the cards with free shipping now would be $42.59. So I contacted customer service and they won't honor the deal because the card guarantee was not part of the promotion I used when I ordered. This feels underhanded and crooked and leaves me feeling taken advantage of. The customer service agent was polite and professional and offered me a $20 voucher for a future purchase. I'm not feeling like I want to be a repeat customer when you pick and choose your low price guarantee. I'm a mom of seven kids and I don't have time to read the fine print. Either offer the guarantee or don't but don't play games with your promotions.

Date of experience: November 19, 2020
Georgia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Honest Review
November 13, 2020

I've been loyal to Shutterfly for many. They used to be great. You used to be able to get a hold of someone for help. This has all changed. I'll be taking my business elsewhere from here on out. Not going to bash them but customer service is poor - like, so poor you can't get help. I'm so angry with my last experience I'm taking my business elsewhere and will be telling friends and family to do the same.

Date of experience: November 13, 2020
New Jersey
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Horrible Work
November 13, 2020

My child took their picture at their school for picture day, and we got the picture today. I was very disappointed at the result. They edited out a lot of my child's hair. My child's head looked like a square. Not looking forward to buying their pictures again.

Date of experience: November 13, 2020
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I had a fleece blanket made with my family photos on it to give to my daughter which is leaving to go into the military. I paid for expedient delivery and the estimated date was 11/14/20. I received and emailed on 11/12/20 stated my package was shipped and should arrive by 11/18/20 which is after my daughter leaves. Customer service said I could not cancel my order since it was already shipped. They ruined a very special occasion and should not have people to pay for expedient delivery if they can't guarantee it!

Date of experience: November 12, 2020
Tennessee
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Awesome
November 13, 2020

The online site was really easy to use, as well as uploading photos and editing them. I recently had a fleece blanket made and it turned out amazing. The site lets you know how the pics will fit in each square. So if you have cropped off heads or something of some sort that's on you. Also let's you know if you photo does not have good resolution for printing. All said and done follow the site and let it help you and your product will turn out great like mine.
Also my blanket arrived on the estimated shipping date no hassle or wondering where my package was.

Date of experience: November 12, 2020
California
4 reviews
9 helpful votes
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Shutterfly orders are taking for ever to arrive and their staff is trying to blame Covid-19 when other retailers have no issues or only minor/acceptable delays.

Here's the reason: Shutterfly thought it was smart to use "USPS Mail Innovations", the cheapest, slowest shipping offer from USPS. So yes... they save $0.50 per order BUT packages take 10+ days to arrive.

Customer service wasn't helpful when I asked for a refund.

Sorry Shutterfly, you won't get my money next time and I'll make sure everyone knows you're not trustworthy from now on.

Date of experience: November 7, 2020
Bahamas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Quality of work
November 8, 2020

I've ordered with them a few times, but this one time I was extremely disappointed. I orders a picture in a frame. The quality of the print was poor! It looked as if it was printed with a cheap machine on cheap paper. Wasn't worth the price at all. Very disappointed.

Date of experience: November 6, 2020
Arizona
4 reviews
27 helpful votes
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I have ordered from these guys. I love the stuff. Good quality and fair pricing with good sales. But after REPEATEDLY having my photos used in ways that are offensive and unfair to me and REPEATEDLY going rounds with customer service to cease and desist, I finally deleted the account. If you procede, DO NOT store pics on their site. DO NOT connect your account to social media or other people's accounts. You will get zinged.

Date of experience: November 6, 2020
Minnesota
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Too many packages
November 5, 2020

Ordered 9 books. It came in 6 or 7 separate deliveries... when it could have come in just 1 or 2... ridiculous. Could have waited and sent in 1 or 2 packages instead if so many. Wasted delivery charges on them. Otherwise happy with books.

Date of experience: November 4, 2020
Utah
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I tried changing my order delivery address before my package was shipped and I contacted the customer support team to help change it and they said they understood my request and wanted to help but ended up having a technical error causing them to not be able to change my delivery address and then I would receive an email stating the error on their side had been fixed so we could change the delivery address. Well a day went by and they still had not notified me that they had fixed the error but I did get the notification that my package shipped so perfect timing on their part, right? I just think it was too convenient that they had an error preventing them to change the delivery address on my package and never followed up on getting the error fixed so it was too late to change it. At the end of the day it was my fault for having the system auto populate my old address but it sucks trying to get a package that was delivered to the wrong address when it would have just been easier to change my delivery address before the package shipped in the first place. Definitely going to reconsider using Shutterfly in the future due to the fact that their customer support team will give you the run around until it's too late to fix the issue.

Date of experience: October 30, 2020
Michigan
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I received my phone case today and it doesn't fit! I though no big deal they will send me a new one, nope they sure wont. They said it was just a small fee of 10.59, and if I would like to pay to return it they can refund my money. How about you send the correct product in the first place.

Date of experience: October 29, 2020
India
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Good service provider
October 29, 2020

Best service provider I think you should also try her service thankyou for your service I recommend you to try her service.

Date of experience: October 28, 2020
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Photo quality has gone down significantly over the years. Wait times are long. Customer service is horrible.

Date of experience: October 23, 2020
Texas
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
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Lost Orders
October 20, 2020

We've used Shutterfly several times in the past without issue. This time, I had several missing packages. After doing some leg work to contact them (they have their chat feature disabled online) they informed me they seemed to have lost them. They don't lose my full confidence because they refunded the price, but I sure which customer service was friendlier. The rep was monotone the entire conversation and didn't appear to enjoy his job at all. And at the end of the day, we are still without our orders and have to restart the waiting period after almost 2 weeks

Date of experience: October 20, 2020
Massachusetts
1 review
2 helpful votes
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"We (wife) ordered prints, they came with mistakes. I (husband) called back on behalf of my wife. I explained that they can just correct and send the order back to the same address. I verified with the address, email, cc # that I was authorized. They would not correct because my wife ordered and I am not her! My wife works extremely long days in the dental field wearing as spacesuit (PAP). Now she has to take time and call these folks, they, who are all about SHUTTERFLY not the customer As usual... these companies are okay with the customer being their quality control department! Find another provider!"

Date of experience: October 6, 2020
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Terrible pictures
September 29, 2020

I have ordered from Shutterfly for years however this last time, the pictures were terrible. The pictures were off center, heads were cut off on many of the pictures and there is no way to contact a person to speak with.
Would not recommend

Date of experience: September 29, 2020
Germany
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I ordered a calander over 2 months ago nothing yet when you write or call all they do is lie about the order oh it's covid oh we don't send to PO box after all this time plus one sales person told me he or she was a manager nope so this is the service you get

Date of experience: August 29, 2020
Canada
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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I ordered 2 albums for my sons high school Grad. The layouts and options are incredible. I am in Canada and I received my albums (from the US) in just 4 days! Incredible quality, shipping, packaging and gift boxing. There was an error on the cover of one album. I did see a warning sign when creating it, but could not see any text it was referring to. Blank text boxes don't print. I guess there was hidden print and in the final project, you could see a very faint name (girl!) on the cover! I was horrified. Sally at customer service was incredible. Despite it technically being my fault, it was a very difficult text box to find. She immediately sent out an entirely new album (with correction) and I just had to pay for shipping! SO appreciate such amazing customer service especially when it is for a special occasion coming up! Advice: don't ever leave a warning sign despite looking blank. Reach out for customer help! Thank you Shutterfly. I will be a repeat customer and spread the great word.

Date of experience: August 12, 2020
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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TERRIBLE SERVICE, BOOK NEVER ARRIVED. DO NOT ORDER FROM THEM.
Below the story.
I have ordered a book for my wife's birthday and it was delayed 2x. I had paid express shipment initially with a date of arrival 1 week before her birthday so I could have time to have it in advance. 2 days before, I checked online and they told me that there was a problem so they would re-order the book with express shipping arrive 1 day before my wife's birthday. I checked again with them to make sure 3 days before and all was good. I checked the day before and boom, again a delay. Now I don't know if I will ever receive it and the quality of it. I am screwed for the surprise to my wife. Thank you shutterly for such a bad service

Date of experience: August 12, 2020

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Create photo books, personalize photo cards & stationery, and share photos with family and friends at Shutterfly.com.


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