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Texas
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Total Scam...
June 17, 2023

I wish I had seen these reviews before I wasted my time and money. I had money invested to build my website with a baseball glove custom builder. I spoke to them and they promised me they could do it. First it was Alvin Scofield, then passed me to Daniel, whom then build my website on another website building site. How do I know, because I had tried building one myself on that site. I got email that someone attempting to open up a website with same name. Then he proceeds to tell me that I need to change my domain address because it is taken. Uh, yes moron...I bought the domain on the platform you trying to build my site on. I got the sample web pages that were nothing like i was asking for. Then was told my money had run out because of the complexity of the site i wanted. That was after they affirmed me they could do it. Wanted more money, wanted me to host on their site which would cost upwards to $120 a month...Told them I was not going to pay any more because I was not satisfied and qualified for refund under their own policies. Next day, their policies were changed. Does not matter, seeking legal action and have the screenshots to prove it. Bottom line, I lost out on the holiday sales and $1900.00! Now number on site goes to a trucking company in Canada. Losing hard earned money to scammers sucks big time.

Date of experience: June 17, 2023
Nevada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Paid $6500 for a website, they knew i was disabled and a senior citizen and they ripped me off with out even an explanation. The website was for people connecting with other people with terminal illness's. Asked for a refund they just ignored me

Date of experience: April 9, 2023
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Scam company
October 29, 2022

Please stay away at all cost I'm over a year In with them and have never had an experience like this in my life. First off it took them 6 months to build my website due to multiple grammar issues in every single sentence of the website. Once my website was done they said I have to pay a bunch of money to be on their server. And now I can't even post any pictures on my website and they're telling me I have to buy a plug-in but before I was promised they will be doing all the posting for me. Horrible scam company stay far far away for your own good

Date of experience: October 29, 2022
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Scammers! Scammers! Scammers!
October 24, 2022

Dear prospective customer
PLEASE!
Avoid working with this firm.
Not professional. Scammers. Scammers. Scammers.
Your money is being collected, but the services you paid for are not being delivered. The claim of a 100% Money Back Guarantee does not apply to them.
They utilize many names across various platforms. They used the term Design Galaxy. For instance, on the Bark platform,
After being reported as con artists, they changed their identity to Design Gene Pro. Red flagged once more since many individuals had the same experience. For additional information, please, contact Bark's customer service department.
Please exercise caution and due diligence before making any online payments

Date of experience: October 24, 2022

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Canada
1 review
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ABSOLUTE SCAM!
October 19, 2022

They will offer you a special price too good to be true to get whatever amount if $ they can get from you!
Don't be fooled by their website and fake names like Matt Kelly that they use to look professional. They will steal your money and NEVER deliver what they promise! I wish I had red the reviews before dealing with them. It would saved me a lot of time and money! Don't give them any sensitive information as they will never stop scamming you. They called my number a few months later to scam me again with credit card fraud!
THEY ARE PROFESSIONAL SCAMMERS! SCARY!

Date of experience: October 19, 2022
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Run around & change of account manager to pass the buck
October 12, 2022

The sage goes back to February of this year. Initially they appointed somebody called Chris Prez as my account manager. They were quite anxious and communicated very well. After having some communication problems I stopped communicating with them. In May I got a contact from Alvin Scofiled who told me he is managing 58 people under and have terminated Chris Prez and appointed Ben Mark as the new Account manager. This was when I parted with £ 1000. (what a mistake!). After several emails and changes showing me a demo website with some changes in August, suddenly Alvin was managing the project himself. As all the amendments were wiped out by their maintenance people.
Alvin has stopped answering my emails and has just disappeared. How sad. I am now pursuing the legal side.
PLEASE AVOID THESE GUYS!

Date of experience: October 12, 2022
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Just got a call from "Design Gene" informing me my website was down and it would take $700 to bring it back on line within 24 hours; and their fix would be good for only the next five yeas; $900 for the next ten years.

Stay tunes I'll be having a new site designed and back up on line A. S.A. P. Keep your eye peeled for www.estarevents.com.

Date of experience: July 20, 2022
Texas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Absolutely Horrible company.
June 21, 2022

Wish I could give them a ZERO star rating! I have had nothing but horror with this company. They put poronographic images on my site ( which family members and customers saw) then blamed it on a hacker and charged me 1400$ to have it removed. Now the website is not viewable due to them putting a not ADA compliant image over the site and want to charge another 1300$ to add a plugin to remove it. Customer service is nonexistent. The lady I spoke with ( Jennifer) was very rude and condescending, I would wait till she finished speaking and start to explain what I needed and she would cut me off rudely every time. She proceeded to tell me that I am not working with her lol there is customer service for you right there, I thought I called her to help me, guess I was wrong. They have people from a so called legal department that texts you and says you have broken laws and need to talk urgently, don't believe this they are the ones breaking laws. My lawyer will be contacting them very soon. Stay away from this company. SCAM! SCAM! SCAM!

Date of experience: June 21, 2022
Canada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Don't waste your money
May 18, 2022

They will keep asking for
Money and then hold your site hostage claiming you need to
Upgrade to Lifetime hosting. Total scam.

Date of experience: May 18, 2022
Singapore
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Very Bad Service
March 20, 2022

They robbed my website and did not give me back my hosting or i have to develop from begnning robbers robbers

Date of experience: March 20, 2022
California
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Don't buy the positive reviews
February 28, 2022

Don't buy all the 5 Star reviews you see on here. It's easy to see that they're fake reviews written by them to try to increase their ratings.

Date of experience: February 28, 2022
Nevada
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I had a great experience working with them
February 23, 2022

It was one of my great experiences visiting Designs Gene to establish an E-Commerce website for my business. The team is professional and committed to its promises. I had got a well-planned strategy for marketing purposes too! And the team convinced me of their SEO service that optimized my website and ranked on the top pages of Google. Therefore, they brought a practical impact on my business through their work. I am satisfied with all the services they offer. Thank you team Gene for your kindness.

Date of experience: February 23, 2022
Kentucky
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Great Experience With Designs Gene...
February 22, 2022

I needed a professional and well-organized digital agency to meet my web development needs. Therefore, I have met with a great guy at Designs Gene. A very experienced and dedicated manager, he suggested some great ideas to boost my business. It was great to work with the team Gene. They adequately assisted me in fulfilling my web development needs.

Date of experience: February 21, 2022
California
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Fraudsters - Run away
February 17, 2022

These people are the absolute worst, they do actually no work except for asking for more time - no designers and probably a lot of hate mail - they did nothing at all for almost two months except for giving us the round around -

Date of experience: February 17, 2022
New York
1 review
15 helpful votes
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I had an excellent experience visiting Designs Gene for SEO services. The team is highly qualified to generate SEO reports with detailed play-by-play to assist me adequately. In addition, they provide me with monthly rank reports, ranking trends, click rates, conversions, and other relevant metrics.
Thanks, Designs Gene for excellent services

Date of experience: February 17, 2022
Florida
1 review
16 helpful votes
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It was one of my great experiences
February 16, 2022

It was one of my great experiences working with the team of Designs Gene. I was fond of a company to establish a new website services for my brand. Therefore, I have landed in an excellent company Designs Gene. A dedicated team helped me out in the entire process. It was great to work with this company.

Date of experience: February 16, 2022
California
1 review
19 helpful votes
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Excellent services, completely satisfied!
February 16, 2022

I wanted a 3d logo and website for my business, thankfully I got in touch with designs gene, they have an amazing team of designers and developers, I made multiple revisions which were handled really well and they made a complete custom website for my business.

Thankyou designsgene

Date of experience: February 15, 2022
California
1 review
20 helpful votes
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One of the most professional Design Agencies
February 14, 2022

It was a hectic for me to find a company which can be helpful for me while designing the most appropriate website for me while incorporating every product and each aspect of my departmental store in Brooklyn... one of my friends suggested to work with Designs Gene and I must say that these guys are brilliant while understanding your requirements and business needs.

Thanks you guys

Date of experience: February 14, 2022
California
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Shady group, dishonest, harassing
January 26, 2022

I hired this group for a package and they neve delivered the product so many Sam, Mat, Zac, Martin, Sean all said i would get anything I needed in my package and Sam was the most insulting and intimidating he attempted to threaten law suit and didn't know the first thing about lawsuits or violations and how the court systems were working in the USA. I was harassed and as a result my domain name was cyber squatted. The company refuses to release my domain because they bought it but I have the original purchase of the domain. I wouldn't use these e people what so ever Sam is the worst. After he was explained appropriate protocols I never heard from him again because he knew he was wrong

Date of experience: January 26, 2022
Canada
3 reviews
6 helpful votes
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They won't give us a refund! Stay away...
January 19, 2022

Don't believe all the positive reviews on Trustpilot as they're probably all fabricated... Buyer BEWARE! On Dec 1st, my wife ordered a $800 package from those guys and opted to cancel on the very next day which should have been an automatic full refund according to their terms. Fast forward a month and a half, several calls, live chat, false "We'll process it next week" promises, emails and they won't refund us the money. Shady company.

Date of experience: January 19, 2022