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Jack W.

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I'm just an anon helping uplift good sites and warn people about scam sites.

19 Reviews by Jack

  • Venmo

6/13/19

If you use Venmo, be aware of their service and the potential to have your account banned quickly with no explanation.

I just had the most nonsense experience and even questioned if it was a well-designed scam. Venmo sent a series of emails to me saying someone who had transactions with me stole money from them somehow. It was vague and no matter what I said they refused to clarify, which looked really suspicious. They were pretty abrupt and hostile to then say my account was permanently banned, and they act as if it's my problem they had a security breach. I still don't know what "terms of service" I broke. All of my transactions have been just fine and normal, in fact I only used the service for a few months among friends and acquaintances for the usual trades.

I even offered to help, if someone I know stole money I could just confront them. How conveniently, Venmo "couldn't give any info". Funny how they didn't think to tell me the date of the transaction or the number, considering I know my own account and they don't need to give any private info. How convenient for them. I literally did nothing wrong and this popped up in only a few emails.

Feel free to try Venmo for yourself, just be forewarned their customer service can be weird, suspicious and hostile with no explanation.

Tip for consumers:
Look at the terms of service before use, they cited that as reasoning but refused to provide any clarifying info.
Lucky for me, I had a 0 balance when my account was banned. To be careful with possible scams I would be ready for funds immediately, then start a bank transfer right away. Thus, they were mad that I protected myself and they screwed up. Don't trust them to hold your funds for any longer than the bare minimum.

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  • Piktochart

7/16/16

I was able to get a discount through my nonprofit. Piktochart was originally intended for long-form, online infographics and related presentations. However, I've expanded it and used the designs in nearly all of my work. Our visual work and our website would be nothing without the beauty of Piktochart for a crazy low price. Their support to nonprofits and charities has been one of our biggest supports, and it's so straightforward to learn even though none of us are graphic designers.

Tip for consumers:
It's worth checking out the charity/nonprofit discount. If you don't qualify for that it's definitely worthy of business work. It's likely cheaper than hiring an hourly, professional graphic designer.

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  • iTunes

7/16/16

What else would you call it? I write classical music and do a number of other audio related work. ITunes is constantly popping up as a built-in facet of a Mac. They got rid of iMovie and made it impossible to get, also making it cost money. Yet they keep iTunes around like the spammy Nigerian scam repeatedly stuffing your computer with noise and getting in the way of real work. If I could I would delete iTunes- still working on how to do that.

Tip for consumers:
Don't.

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  • Apple

7/16/16

The app store is the worst $#*!ing digital "service" I've ever used, and I'm not picky. I grew up with Mac so I'm not a PC-preferred person either. After this bull$#*! sucking me into a vortex monopoly I'm considering quitting Mac.
I've reset my password over 100 times trying to get into the app store over the years because Apple's $#*!ing $#*!s force you into their monopoly and purchase only from the app store. IMovie used to come on the computer for free, no hassle no problems. Now it's locked up and I will never be able to get to it. It won't let me create a new account and guess what: I never started a $#*!ing account. Those $#*!s screwed me over and I never asked for any of this. One minute I have iMovie, the next minute I don't and I'm verifiably locked out for ever. I got your message loud and clear Apple. You don't want me as your customer, I'm happy to spend my life time elsewhere. Go $#*! yourselves. Monopolies are bull$#*! and we're not putting up with that garbage treatment anymore.

Tip for consumers:
Don't sign up for the app store. Don't use the app store. Don't ever touch it. Chances are they signed you up automatically against your will from some list they bought and you're already screwed over. This is what happens in MONOPOLIES. They get you once and you're $#*!ed. There's no way to have a good relationship with that, for them it's all or nothing.

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  • Coinbase

4/19/16

Coinbase requires users to share their most personal state-regulated information, such as their real world identity via state-regulated ID and their social security number. When I asked them to change this for the privacy and safety of their customers, they declined on the basis of "regulation requirements". A company that cowardly kowtows to the state is a clear sign that when our MONEY and our RESOURCES are at threat, Coinbase will be out to save itself.

Tip for consumers:
Boycott the major BTC wallet providers until they take a stance for the privacy and safety of their customers, and can verify their trustworthiness in this cause.

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  • Ishoeguru.com

4/18/16

HOW TO GET YOUR MONEY BACK IS AT THE BOTTOM

If you get a popup survey even whilst on your internet provider, CLOSE OUT. This site is pretending to be different internet providers that offer free prizes for completing the survey. It was a really quick and easy process to get a free watch or sunglasses, but then 2 weeks later they bill you a recurring $98 for their fashion VIP membership. I have not seen anyone get actual stuff in the mail from them as part of this membership either.

The main phone number is for a third party monkey puppet that reads you the terms and conditions and tries to gaslight you into saying you agreed to them, when the T&C are NEVER showed on the website during purchase and the majority of the time is spent in the survey where you don't even see the iShoeGuru name.

GET YOUR MONEY BACK:
Trying to contact them in anyway leads to a rabbit trail, however, you can get ahold of them through their email *******@ishoeguru.com.
Just keep spam-replying saying you will expose their lies, include information:
- their website is through GoDaddy & they use GoDaddy's affiliate service, DomainsByProxy, to disguise their identity
- Their phone number goes to a "third party company" that takes no responsibility but is likely the scammer. This person will try to gaslight victims into blaming themselves.
- You never agreed to terms and conditions and they were never on the site.
- The address at the bottom of the website is fake, it leads to a strip mall in Bakersfield, CA and the unit number doesn't exist; nor do any signs showing their business.
- There are numerous reports online; Facebook, Scam Advisor, from victims of this scam, all between Feb - April 2016
- Their membership is supposed to send you fashion accessories and clothes, but never mails out anything; they break their own 'terms and conditions' that you never signed

Tip for consumers:
DO NOT TAKE POPUP INTERNET SURVEYS EVEN ON YOUR INTERNET PROVIDER SITE.
If you have been scammed by this company, spam their email *******@ishoeguru.com until they offer a refund.
You can also call the third party phone number and list the facts of this scam as shown above. Be confident. You know they're lying, it's a scam, and they're wrong and you're right.
If this third party phone service is actually innocent, we're gonna call them until they refuse to do business with iShoeGuru anymore.

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  • GamesDeal

3/29/16

I decided not to purchase here after reading other bad reviews. I noticed a few strange details that made me skeptical of the site. For one, it was unclear whether the game was a download or physical CD. At one point it says "free shipping" but when I load the page for the product, it looks like a download.

Also, the game I wanted showed its main picture as a German version, when the rest of the page was in English. Many of the pictures of the game scenes were distorted extreme and bad quality.

Lastly, the whole site is filled with spammy bad quality ads, and looks like a porn site. There are little pictures that look like buttons - one including the symbol for the Origin system. At first I thought it was Steam because it looked familiar, and I tried to click it to see if I could buy it on Steam. That's when I figured out that what looks like buttons actually don't lead anywhere. So the site is pretending that it's offering the game through legit companies and using their logos?

At any rate, it's not trustworthy at all.

  • LinkedIn

3/28/16

I only give this two stars instead of one because it serves some people okay. This site is structured completely opposite to my needs and networking objectives. I dropped out of high school and self-started much of my work. I have a gradient between volunteer work and freelance nonprofit, specifically founding my own. I built a skill set in a holistic way, connecting with community and "the real world". This site does not serve innovators, self-starters or people who reject traditional systems.

It constantly spams me to "add my education", of which I specifically have none and on purpose.

The format is also tailored towards standard and almost stereotypical industry. It also blended together different jobs and activities I've done that don't connect with each other. This is the same problem I had with Facebook, it mixed all my friends up who ended up getting in arguments and being bitter once they realized how diverse my friends community is. The same goes for jobs. I'm NOT going to put some $#*! restaurant job next to the organization I founded and like hell I'm going to network with corporate people from that restaurant who actively made the workplace a living hell.

The site is set up against ethics in favor of a blind-eye networking approach. When I network, it's usually with people I actually care about and we have a sense of interconnected community, for a greater purpose. When people network on Linked In, it's to get to the next level of the suck-up game and climb over the people you're supposedly "colleagues" with to get to the top. I've had some great competition in my life, and LinkedIn brings out the most sickly worst competition. It really is a dog-eat-dog world there.

It's a corporate environment and misrepresents the little guy as if he's corporate. Many of the so-called charities that I would follow or connect with were organized antithetical to my beliefs and I would argue- against integrity. Corporatism is sickly and unhealthy, and when you get too deep into a system like that, you get influenced against seeing the company from a realistic viewpoint. This is why so many reasonable people end up excusing their company's sickly behavior in community.

This website also prevents you from reaching out to new people, therefore it would only reflect people I already knew and worked with- and I had much better connections with them in real life so this site was pointless.

Tip for consumers:
This is only beneficial if you really work hard at being a leader of community-cultivation, i.e. connect with the best people and connect them to each other and work against the standard of the site. OR, if you like corporate environments and that's your thing, you might like it. And break the rule against connecting with new people! That's the most important part.

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  • Fiverr

3/14/16

I've bought many times in different sections. From art to voiceover and web design. The sellers are really professional and have lots of reviews, the community is active and supportive in reviews. I see small sellers get a few reviews and take off like crazy. And the people love their jobs- there's a blog sharing about it. I've never had any issues with Fiverr. I've done freelance work online and Fiverr offers a much easier platform for new beginners than many freelance bidding sites- which are much more competitive and far less personal.

Tip for consumers:
Make sure to check how many revisions you get if that's applicable to the job. If you are unsure about the job, it helps to know there are extra revisions available free. Also make sure you know what you want and articulate it clearly. Many sellers want you to message them first and buy the gig upon agreed details. It's almost impossible to make a custom design from a generic structure.

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  • GoDaddy

3/6/16

GoDaddy is like a glitchy, terribly designed, difficult to use version of Weebly, sadly. And I actually spent money on this. They sold me a package of domains when I only needed one, so I ask what the hell do I do with the other 3 domains?
Their builder is bad and they desperately try to sell design services to you.
GoDaddy is thoroughly terrible.

Tip for consumers:
I would recommend testing out free web builders through WordPress, Weebly, Wix and only pay for a domain if you have someone professionally design your site. I was able to find amazing design services on Fiverr for $350. If you're looking for a good web builder for a business, Square Space is the place to go.

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  • Best Buy

2/18/16

I worked here and will warn customers of the dangers. TL; DR Summary:
1. Employees sound genuine because they believe their own lies.

2. The warranties are scams, HUGE scams. Not just waste of money but "cost you again", lots of money.

3. There have been repeated incidence of police brutality in cohorts with Best Buy security, all defended. Best Buy culture is PRO-POLICE, PRO VIOLENCE, and PRO STATE.

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Posted a review on Glassdoor but of course it was removed. If you look at their "positive reviews", it's pathetic. They can't find people to leave positive reviews.

Please customers, stop being clueless idiots about your shopping. Best Buy is one of the most popular retail companies alongside Macy's and Target right now, but it raises its prices on accessories and medium items about 2200%.

That percentage was calculated based on some of their chords, which cost 70¢ for the company to make but are sold at $16. They don't make money on large items like TVs and computers. Look at the other 90% of their merchandise and realize the price is jacked up 500-2200%.

Many of their returned items and overstock are sold really cheap to Axman. I found $20 dashboard mounts for GPSs that were sold for $1.95 at Axman. A whole bin, brand new.
You can get phone cords, mounts, adapters, DVD players, speakers, all for 5% of the price at most other stores. I cannot articulate enough how shocking the price jump is here. Target prices in electronics have been going up because they can get away with it. With food price inflation, stores like Target with keep their food cheaper by offsetting the cost on other departments. Electronics in all competing companies with Best Buy have been raising in price because customers are ignorant.

This company has been sued for warranty scams, and has since grown the size of their warranty packet to 48 pages in fine print. They want to make it unreadable and confusing so they can trick people into scams. For example, employees say "it's a one time charge" and some of them actually believe this without seeing the double think: If you use the warranty in the 2nd year you get charged $150-$250 dollars.

There is also the recommendation straight from corporate to all training that employees say "we don't get commission" to sound personable and trustworthy. This is a LIE. Employees received bonus checks monthly based on how far above we were in sales goals. Best Buy is all about sales goals and directly tied to it.

Employees lied to themselves about this delusion because sales is pressured 24/7. Best Buy was swimming in success and money and still sales were pushed and goals raised. When I improved dramatically to get managers off my back and to leave me alone, my goals were increased dramatically and my department wasn't even supposed to have sales goals. The employee's job is directly in favor of profit at the expense of the customer and integrity.

  • Sitejabber

2/18/16

The widget that shows the community rating whenever I visit a site has been very revealing. That alone makes it so quick and easy to share info in a community for web review. This is much faster and easier to navigate than a Yelp-style site.

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Jackie V. – Sitejabber Rep

Thanks for your review, Jack!

  • CareerBuilder

2/18/16

I have never used CareerBuilder as a jobseeker or employer. For the last 6 months my phone number has been spammed by "further your education" telemarketers and employment companies trying to set up "Christina" with an interview or job. Some of the actual employers still sound like scammers. A few of them sounded more serious.

Regardless, I made a complaint to them. More than 3 of the spammers that have called have mentioned "finding her resume on CareerBuilder".

  • Movavi Software Inc.

2/13/16

Never responds to emails or complaints. This company is located in India? Because it looks like it is outsourced and behind the facade website never responds to user complaints. I had a really serious one considering a whole 30 seconds of a project had been corrupted. That's over a week's worth of work that had been destroyed and they never responded to me.

This is a really bad "service" that doesn't work. It's like buying a pet rock. It doesn't do anything.

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Movavi S. – Movavi Software Inc. Rep

Hello Jack,

Thank you for taking the time to leave a feedback.

Please contact us again at support@movavi.com or come to our online chat, which can be found here:
http://www.movavi.com/support/

If you haven't received an answer within a week, then either we didn't receive your message, our you didn't receive our reply.

We are looking forward to help you with the issue.

Warmest regards,
Movavi team.

  • Freesound

2/5/16

Lots of people upload high quality sounds that they put effort into creating. The rating system is active- some of the best ones have thousands of downloads. This is an amazing resource for indie creators in film, skit and animation.

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  • AT&T

2/5/16

An acquaintance had paid me cash to pay his phone bill with my card a few times. We had a routine that ensured safety and trustworthiness for both of us. I would not save my card info in the account and left a message with AT&T notes that it should only be used when manually inputted by the customer. Let me just emphasize that we were thorough and we both know for fact that neither of us did anything wrong.

One time after payment I saw on my bank statement that AT&T had double-charged me. I know it was a double charge because it was the exact same amount with change and happened at the same time, 1AM.

I called them only 2 days after the transaction when I had noticed this and explained the situation. They said it should not take more than 48 hours to refund me. I look back a week later and the charge had not returned, so I called again.

This time they said there was nothing to refund because they used the money. I asked them why they would use my money instead of giving it back to me, and they just said "I don't know, it was just used." I insisted to speak to a manager and file a fraud complaint that their company had stole from me, but they kept saying they weren't allowed to speak to a manager. I was passed around to a few low level employees where nobody had any power so they could bull$#*! with me as if they were actually getting me to someone in power.

I could not even have them leave a complaint that I would never shop with them and would recommend everyone against AT&T. I have an amazing phone company with the cheapest most innovative technology and service around called Republic Wireless. I worked at Best Buy for a year. I told AT&T that they would potentially lose HUNDREDS of customers because of me. I routinely told this story in warning to others again and again and it made a real impact.

AT&T stole from me. I could have sued them in small claims court (it was under $250 thankfully). Let that sink into your head real good. A company committed FRAUD and none of their employees cared to have the courage to actually help me. I say courage because I worked in customer service 3 years and I damn well have the courage to do the right thing.

Tip for consumers:
Boycott AT&T. They STOLE FROM A CUSTOMER.

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  • PayPal

2/4/16

Six years ago I tried to open a PayPal account before I knew anything about them. They repeatedly declined the picture of my ID that I took with my HD Canon Camcorder saying it was too blurry, despite being 1080P soon after that first came out. So I closed my account, this was also when I had a different bank.

Recently on Ebay I got screwed over when doing a guest paypal payment after a six year boycott. It declined both of my cards, neither of which had been attached to the account six years ago. I called customer service and they said my account needed to be verified. $#*! please, I closed that 6 years ago, are you serious? This is exactly why I closed it too. After so many attempts to verify ID they refuse to let you keep trying and then try to mail you stuff but it never sends. So they closed my account.

My cards still got declined. I was with customer service for both cards for a while and made sure all billing addresses matched. Still no avail.

I was in communication with the seller and PayPal gave me one other option: get a PayPal invoice. The seller ignored all of this and cancelled our transaction, and Ebay- Paypal's affiliate, made it impossible to give the seller a bad rating, and warn others in the community about the scam.

The community was even badgering other buyers for complaining about bad sellers and mods were removing content that was negative about sellers!

Tip for consumers:
BOYCOT PAYPAL. Ever notice you'll go on a site completely monopolized by their payment program? And you can't buy on that site around PayPal? This is a dictatorship of regulations and manipulation. There are better options. Leave.

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  • eBay

2/4/16

I won a DSLR camera and went to pay immediately. PayPal declined both of my cards multiple times and I've never had problems with payment outside of PayPal. I even paid through the guest PayPal successfully a few times, having made another purchase on Ebay recently.

I called PayPal customer service to find out apparently I had an unverified account from when I boycotted them years ago for refusing to verify. I told them I had closed that SIX YEARS AGO and the one time I come back it's a problem.

They closed the account but I still had problems, so they recommended I request a PayPal invoice from the seller. The whole time this is happening I've been communicating with the seller and it's only been a few minutes. I request the invoice and tell them I have to go to a meeting and will be back within 4 hours. 4 hours later the first thing in my email box is a messaging asking if I was going to pay and threatening to repost.

I told them to have some patience and hold on a second, they need to respond to my communication and send the invoice I requested before they jump to abrupt conclusions. My further messages were ignored and they cancelled and reposted the listing within FIVE MINUTES, only FOUR HOURS after I won. If you don't even give a buyer 24 hours to purchase the item you're a TERRIBLE SELLER. A flake that didn't really want to sell it!

So I left a negative feedback, reported the relisting to Ebay for false listing (he would not sell it, it was a "fishhook" as they call it). Then I posted a warning in the Ebay community. Username is cudenver. He had the nerve to request me alter the Feedback without communicating to resolve the situation whatsoever.

Meanwhile, I'm looking at various community discussions and the top tags are "scam" and "seller", with buyers complaining about terrible things that happened to them and people in the community saying it's their fault! There was NO accountability and NO integrity in the group.

Then I get responses blaming me as well, and saying my post would be removed for "shaming and naming". Because warning people about a bad seller and giving them bad publicity as a consequence of their actions is not allowed. Within minutes of the discussion my voice in the conversation was cut off as the post was removed by a mod.

I responded to the mod about being done with Ebay and PayPal and that I had never had a worse experience in an internet community. 4Chan is better than these two.

Tip for consumers:
Boycott Ebay and boycott PayPal. There's a reason Ebay solely uses paypal for payment. They are affiliate companies owned by the same people. PayPal has a monopolistic dictatorship and uses it to hurt people.

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  • GOG COM

1/12/16

Sadly I didn't find this site and saw other GOG reviews that praised it. I purchased a game described as "download for multiple platforms" and started to download it. I cancelled the download when I found out it was ONLY Windows, and then asked for a refund. Throughout the purchase and all over their site is a "30-Day Money Back" guarantee, but when I contacted the site they only offered store credit under the guise that the game was already downloaded (also a lie). Not only did they lie about the platform of the game but the refund guarantee as well. I refused to take their store credit as I would not be using this scam website again. It looked like a scam for a reason: it IS!

Tip for consumers:
Don't use it! It's a scam!

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Jack W.'s review of GoDaddy earned 2 Very Helpful votes

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Jack W.'s review of Coinbase earned 9 Very Helpful votes

Jack W.'s review of Movavi Software Inc. earned 4 Very Helpful votes

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Jack W.'s review of PayPal earned 5 Very Helpful votes

Jack W.'s review of CareerBuilder earned 9 Very Helpful votes

Jack W.'s review of Best Buy earned 18 Very Helpful votes

Jack W.'s review of LinkedIn earned 19 Very Helpful votes

Jack W.'s review of AT&T earned 4 Very Helpful votes

Jack W.'s review of Venmo earned 2 Very Helpful votes

Jack W.'s review of GOG COM earned 11 Very Helpful votes

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