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The world's largest provider of online escrow services. Removing the risk from online transactions with our government licensed service since 1999.


escrow.com
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Escrow.com Reviews Summary

Escrow.com garners mixed feedback from customers, highlighting both commendable service and significant concerns. Positive experiences often emphasize the professionalism and helpfulness of customer support, particularly during complex transactions, which many users found reassuring. However, a recurring theme in negative reviews points to frustrating delays in fund transfers and a lack of transparency regarding fees and processes. Customers have expressed dissatisfaction with the handling of refunds and the perceived incompetence in managing transactions. Overall, while some users appreciate the service for its protective measures, others warn of potential complications and inefficiencies.

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1 review
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Purchase
February 1, 2018

What a scam of a company, worst ever experience ever. Rip off merchants working in conjunction with false sellers, what a bad mistake to use this scam merchant, dont use them under any circumstances

Date of experience: February 1, 2018
New Jersey
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Update
January 15, 2018
Updated review

Finally received most of my money. They failed to return $50.00 and claimed my bank charged a fee. My bank clearly showed me that they transferred $50.00 less funds. Not happy with their service and grow so frustrated that i gave up and lost $50.00 on my canceled deal on top of their admin fee.

Date of experience: January 15, 2018

Crazy
November 14, 2017
Previous review

Tried to use escrow.com to complete deal on swap a lease. Deal change and tried to get my money back from escrow.com. What a game? Four weeks later and same story from them wait and check with my bank. Funny how my money was transferred to escrow in under 24 hours to them and I am waiting more then 24 days to get it back. Dont think they are ethical. Stay away!

Date of experience: November 13, 2017
Colorado
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Horrible Experience
December 26, 2017

I sent a wire transfer for a purchase and Escrow.com said they never received the payment even though my bank confirmed it was sent.

They had no ability to search for the deposit with the transaction and wire confirmation numbers and told me it could take a week for the money to be transferred. After a week of not being able to locate the money, they finally told me that they needed a receipt of the transaction. I sent the receipt, but still have not heard a response of where the money is.

Communication with the company is horrible, and I feel that our money is lost.

I would highly suggest using a different company if possible.

Date of experience: December 26, 2017
Israel
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Dont use them
December 21, 2017

The customer support is really a shame. Proccessing paypal payment takes at least 2 day and the team is really not willing to help.
DONT use them

Date of experience: December 21, 2017
AE
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I started the onboarding process for my company and have had to continuously resubmit documents. The customer support is completely clueless and keeps replying automated refusals despite though the documents being exactly as specified by their website. Given other comments on fees and customer support, and the impossibility in signing up if you're from outside of the US I really wouldn't recommend starting the process of signing up - they make it look easy but it is long and painful, and so far for me, impossible to get through. Stick with a traditional legal firm - you can speak to a human and it's not actually that much more expensive after all.

Date of experience: December 18, 2017
Rhode Island
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Manuel Rábade
December 16, 2017

Manuel Rábade is my guy. He's crazy fast at resolving issues and always available. I've had a hard time with escrow.com as a company lately with all this additional verification and it's caused me to lose some deals. However, more recently, Manuel has been awesome in helping assist my clients through this process.

Date of experience: December 15, 2017
GB
1 review
7 helpful votes
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The worst customer support I have ever seen and so slow everything.

Also they charge some hidden fees. Dont waste your time and money with this Escrow.com

Date of experience: December 12, 2017
Switzerland
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Trustworthy & Reliable
November 30, 2017

Especially if Manuel or Mariana are in charge of your transaction. They will make sure to handle it the best possible way!

Date of experience: November 30, 2017
Utah
1 review
1 helpful vote
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We ordered an $8000 coffee roaster and had it shipped from an individual seller who was on the other side of the country. Escrow.com was a perfect solution to safely make the purchase, receive the item and release payment! The only drawback is all of the info needed to set up the account took longer than expected. They make it look easy with their initial "get started now" button, but we had a few hurdles to jump with all of the documents we needed to submit (took over an hour plus a trip to the bank for a wire transfer...) to actually get set up. Also, review the RATES BEFORE you commit. Our transaction fee was $169.00... not $26. Despite these hiccups, we could not have completed this purchase safely, otherwise. Guess it was worth it!

Date of experience: November 28, 2017
Uruguay
1 review
2 helpful votes
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First time purchaser of a Shopify store and user of Escrow. The transaction was processed very professionally. The seller & I as the purchaser, commend the eceptional service given by Marcedric. He kept us both up to date in all stages and helped incredibly wirh a couoke of bumps along the road which helped to complete the transaction smoothly. Will definitely recommend Escrow services.

Date of experience: November 21, 2017
Minnesota
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Escrow.com is Sneaky
November 11, 2017

My CC was charged as a cash advance... My $2,200 charge ended up costing my $150+ more then I expected. I might of missed the small print so ALL PLANNING TO USE ESCROW, COM READ THE SMALL PRINT.

Date of experience: November 10, 2017
Jackson E. Escrow.com Rep
over a year old

Hi Matt, Escrow.com processes all credit card transactions as ordinary purchases, however your bank may incorrectly reassign these transactions to "Cash Advance" due to the word "Escrow" in Escrow.com's merchant name. While this charge is not from our service, our customer support department can be helpful in assisting you to reach out to your bank and have them reset the transaction type to an ordinary purchase.

Florida
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Excellent support
October 19, 2017

My transaction take to much time one month to close the transaction for mistakes of my buyer but escrow excellent team and fast support thanks to Mauli and Stephanie.

Date of experience: October 19, 2017
Pennsylvania
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Highly recommend
October 16, 2017

After my experience with Escrow.com I would never do large transactions again without them. They assisted me at every step, great company

Date of experience: October 15, 2017
Chile
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Good Partners.
October 4, 2017

Dear Sirs:

We really appreciate the help of the Officer Executives in order to resolve Questions and give us the best service in all our Requests.

Thank you personally to Mss. Mariana Horrisberger

Best regards,
Joseline Gonzalez.
Nameaction Inc.

Date of experience: October 3, 2017
Turkiye
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Recently l had the pleasure of working with escrow.com on a seven figure domain sale transaction. Although the transaction started with doubts in my mind and many mistakes made by me due to inexperience on my part in dealing with domain names both Marcedric DeArman and Marianna Horrisberger held me by the hand and walked me the process to a successful completion.
I would also like to thank the disbursement crew on the timely transfer of funds to my account.
All things considered l fount working with escrow.com a very pleasurable and efficent operation.
Thank you guys, a job well done

Date of experience: September 30, 2017
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Great Customer Service
September 28, 2017

This is the first time I use an Escrow Company to complete a transaction. Thanks to the help of Marcedric De Arman he consulted and guided me through the entire process. He maintained email communication with me keeping me apprised of the transaction progress through completion. Very professional.

Date of experience: September 28, 2017
Kansas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Issue taken care of...
September 28, 2017

Had some problems with my transaction (with the sellers). Brian Tharp, one of their reps, took care of it in a timely, professional and friendly fashion. I appreciated his help.

Date of experience: September 27, 2017
Argentina
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Transfer of domain
September 23, 2017

Very professional staff, assisted me all through out my domain name sale. Very pleased with the service.

Date of experience: September 22, 2017
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Great customer service
September 23, 2017

Recently used escrow.com as a seller of a domain.

Domain selling is fairly automated unless using their concierge service. When making a transaction over an automated system, you sometimes wonder how much trouble you will encounter if something doesn't exactly stick to the script.

I ran into an issue with my payment after the transaction completed. I use one of those cheapo banks within a bank and didn't receive my payment when expected.

After calling customer service Marcedric went over the bank details with me and assured me that everything was ok; my payment would be forthcoming. He provided me with a direct # to him as well as his direct email. Marcedric told me that he would stick with the issue until it was resolved and to contact him whenever I wanted. He was true to his word.

After speaking with the support team, my payment was received in 2 days.

This is the 3rd time using escrow.com to sell a domain. Always received my payment, and will use them again in the future.

Date of experience: September 22, 2017
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Domain Transfer a breeze
September 14, 2017

We currently own a domain at Network Solutions and were trying to transfer a new domain to it but we kept getting the run around by Network Solutions. We were told by escrow.com that the domain we had purchased was sitting in a GoDaddy account and suggested that we open a new GoDaddy account to transfer the new domain. I created the GoDaddy account, called escrow.com and spoke with Mariana, and she helped me transfer our new domain to GoDaddy quickly. I couldn't believe how easy it was. We gave Network Solutions over a month to try to transfer this domain and it took them 3 failed attempts before we finally decided to go with escrow.com's advice and use GoDaddy instead. Thank you escrow.com for your efforts. Everything was very quick and easy once we figured out Network Solutions was the problem. Thanks Mariana!

Date of experience: September 14, 2017