Complaint Review: Videoblocks - Reston Virginia
- Videoblocks Reston, Virginia United States of America
- Phone: (866) 282-5360
- Web: https://www.videoblocks.com/
- Category: Video & Film Production
Videoblocks Videoblocks Free trial Videoblocks 'free' trial scam - BEWARE - your credit card is not safe! Reston, Virginia
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: VideoBlocks Customer Service
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Watch out for Videoblocks so-called free trial. They will hit your credit card MONTHLY for $79. Yikes! This company starts by spamming your inbox with offer of a 'free' trial. They hide their exuberant fee in very small print, so you think you are just checking out this new company, and what they have to offer. BEWARE - it is not so. We noticed the charge of $79 on our credit card and could not figure out what we purchased for $79. Upon further investigation, and 'chatting' with their customer service online, we were made aware of the 'terms of agreement' of this 'free trail'. The free trail, which we did not even use, was billed at $79, and if we did not immediately cancel our 'free' account with them, it would have cost us a whopping $948 a year for this free trial. We can only wonder how many people who do not check their credit card statements, end up making these crooks rich.
If you are reading this, and also have been a victim of videoblocks, take the time to tell the world to watch out so there so we can together make the Internet a safer place. Also ask your credit card company to refund you the charges, and tell them to read the ripoffreport.
This report was posted on Ripoff Report on 09/08/2011 08:18 AM and is a permanent record located here: https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/videoblocks/reston-virginia-20191/videoblocks-videoblocks-free-trial-videoblocks-free-trial-scam-beware-your-credit-ca-774284. The posting time indicated is Arizona local time. Arizona does not observe daylight savings so the post time may be Mountain or Pacific depending on the time of year. Ripoff Report has an exclusive license to this report. It may not be copied without the written permission of Ripoff Report. READ: Foreign websites steal our content
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#1 REBUTTAL Owner of company
VideoBlocks Customer Service
AUTHOR: NikkiVB - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Hello,
I'm the new head of customer service for VideoBlocks.com, and I want to sincerely apologize for the terrible experience you had with our company, and I would like the opportunity to make it up to you.
For starters, I will make sure all of your payments are fully refunded. You can email me directly: nikki at videoblocks.com
and we can get the refund processed immediately. (Or if you prefer, you can use the contact form on our website--those go directly to me now)
In response to your frustration over the lack of service you received, I again apologize and make no excuses for the way you were treated. Our company is very new, and we were completely unprepared and overwhelmed by the growth that we experienced.
To remedy this problem, I was hired full time to manage customer support to make sure that customers are taken care of promptly and politely. We recently added live chat to our website, and added additional employees to answer the phones. (It is also worth noting that we do not outsource this support--all of our employees are at our office in Virginia). Now that I am in charge, all phone calls and emails are answered within hours, if not immediately.
Finally, thank you for the comments on our free trial terms not being clear enough. We never meant to mislead anyone, and didn't realize there were any problems until we read your post and heard from other customers who were upset that they were not notified about the billing more clearly. We are working to make the free trial terms much more clear, and we have begun emailing users when they sign up so that they know what is going on and who to contact in the event of a problem.
Once again, I apologize for causing you frustration, and I hope that after we connect I can make you a happy customer. Or at least a happy former customer! Thanks ~ Nikki


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