BAS B.

This is a disgusting website, because they prey on on some pretty vulnerable people- poor students, many of whom may not qualify for other means of aid (because they have income) or who's aid just doesn't cut it because the cost of tuition and everything else is too much, even with some type of income! Their scholarships are not real and are just a way to get your information and send you trash spam emails. Stay away!

So I read about this site from fastweb.com so I spent like an hour editing and uploading documents to get the $5000 scholarship. They said you had to upload 10 documents. On the 9th document, they suddenly just kept loading and loading and loading... then I started reading and realized that they were going to sell the material I had uploaded. This is so unethical! I didn't know nor had they warned me that they were going to sell my work (my essays and presentations that I worked on for hours and hours and hours on) to people and I would get NOTHING in return for it. Of course I should have known it was too good to be true, but I'm sooo desperate now; I'm a single mom of 2 and full time student and I lost my job but somehow don't qualify for unemployment. I just spent 4 hours I should have been spending with my kids doing stuff for these scammy "scholarships", then something told me to just look up on the BBB "fastweb.com" and "Course Hero" and every other scholarship I had applied to and now I feel stupid and frustrated and angry! I just wasted four hours of my life on this $#*! and gave away my best essays and presentations to an unethical, putrid company. I even tried deleting 2 of them because they were still uploading, but they said "sorry, can't be deleted". How is there no way to delete something if I don't want it out there if I JUST put it up like in the past hour?

SO THEY GET YOU WITH ALL THESE GREAT SOUNDING DEALS AND STUFF, SO I SPENT LITERALLY 3 HOURS THIS MORNING, I TOLD MYSELF I'M GOING TO DEVOTE THESE HOURS TO PICKING OUT PHOTOS OF MY FAMILY TO PRINT AND MAKE SOME MOTHER'S DAY CARDS AND WHILE I'M AT IT, BIRTHDAY CARDS AND FATHER'S DAY CARDS, ETC. AND I DID... THROUGH SHUTTERFLY. WHAT COULD POSSIBLT BE WRONG? I HAD A BRAND NEW CODE FOR 20% OFF AT CHECKOUT AND FREE SHIPPING FOR THE CARDS. IN THE END, NEITHER CODE WOULD APPLY (I HAD JUST RECEIVED THEM TODAY SO IT COULDN'T BE THAT THEY WERE OLD) AND THEY WANTED TO CHARGE $100 TO SHIP. SO THEY REALLY GET YOU. I WAS SO TEMPTED AFTER SPENDING ALL THAT TIME GOING THROUGH THE PHOTOS AND EDITING THEM, ETC. BUT FOR A $75 ORDER YOU ARE GOING TO CHARGE ME $100 TO SHIP, NOT HONOR THE CODE YOU LITERALLY JUST GAVE ME, AND THE CODE FOR 20% FOR SIGNING UP FOR YOUR EMAILS THAT YOU ALSO LITERALLY JUST SENT TO MY EMAIL ACCOUNT FOR SIGNING UP FOR YPUR STIPID EMAILS? I LITERALLY THOUGHT IT WAS A MISTAKE OR I WASN'T TYPING IN THE CODES CORRECTLY, LIKE SPELLING THEM CORRECTLY BUT NO I TRIED OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND NOTHING FOING. NOT JUST THAT BUT THERE'S AN OPTION TO PICK THEM UP AND NOT GET THE PHOTOS SHIPPED SO I TRIED THAT AND GUESS WHAT? IF YOU CHOOSE THAT OPTION, YOU STILL HAVE TO PAY THE $100... FOR WHAT? I DON'T KNOW, BUT THIS SITE IS SHADY. SO DISAPPOINTING... I LITERALLY WASTED 3 HOURS IN MIDDLE OF A SERIOUSLY IMPORTANT PART OF MY ACADEMIC SEMESTER DOING THIS. I UPLOADED THE AD ABOUT THE FREE SHIPPING FOR THE CARDS AND THE FREE 20% COD. NEITHER WERE HONORED. IT JUST KEPT GIVING ME A MESSAGE SAYING "PUT CODE AT THE END OF SOMETHING" AND I PUT THE CODE THERE AND NOTHING HAPPENED. WHATEVER, JUST A HUGE WASTE OF TIME AND IF I COULD HELP SOMEONE ELSE NOT WASTE THEIR TIME (BECAUSE TIME IS PRECIOUS) THEN THAT'S ALL I'M ON HERE TO DO. OH, ALSO IT SAYS 50% ON ALL OTHER ITEMS AND THAT WAS NOT HONORED EITHER. IT'S JUST REDICULOUS, LIKE NOTHING THEY SAID WAS HONORED. AS YOU CAN SEE, THE DATE ON THE AD IS APRIL 5, WHICH IS TODAY. I'M NOT HERE TO BASH SHUTTERFLY OR ANYTHING, BUT I MEAN IF THIS HAPPENED TO ME IT'S PROBABLY HAPPENED TO OTHERS AND IT MIGHT HAPPEN AGAIN, SO I'M JUST PUTTING THIS OUT THERE SO IF SOMEONE SEES THIS IT MIGHT SAVE SOEONE A LOT OF AGGRAVATION AND TIME. THANKS.