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Legacybox

2.5

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Legacybox Reviews Summary

Legacybox has a rating of 2.5 stars from 827 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Legacybox most frequently mention customer service, thumb drive and poor quality. Legacybox ranks 4th among Video Converter sites.

service
191
value
184
shipping
171
returns
93
quality
157
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New York
3 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Not a customer centric company. I ordered a 40 item box. My elderly siblings and I ( all in our senior + years) discussed getting the old movies out of our closets/attics. I told them to get it to me over thanksgiving and I was going to surprise them with the box. I bought the box a few weeks ago. It is a prepaid order of 40 items. You get an empty box. No one found their films, they both assumed they had them but they were not there. So, I want to return "empty box" and get a refund. Spoke with customer service person ( that's a misnomer) and said it will cost me $200 restocking fee to return the "empty" box. Understand they want me to give them $200 for putting an empty box back on the shelf. I complained but told me "sorry our policy is 20% plus additional fees which brings it to almost 30% of my original order. The order is only a few weeks old! His advice was to scrounge around friends and relatives to come up to the 40 items. I then asked to at least be credited back to the current holiday sales pricing we all have seen bombarding our inbox. No. Per "policy" I cannot do that. I complained as I paid twice the current sale price just a few weeks ago and I have a problem. "Nope sorry". Then typical technique he used to get me off the phone was to say he will send my complaint up to the billing department and maybe they can do something for you. He assured me I would hear from them. Really! So billing department is now customer not service as well, never heard from them! Legacy Box is NOT customer centric. Their "policy" is so pre current business environment service levels. I have to report less than 1 star. Since they probably have an elderly customer base, maybe they are able to take advantage of us. Adam Boeselager and Nick Macco I am very disappointed. By the way did either of you ever buy from Amazon and got something you needed to return?...

Date of experience: November 30, 2022
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I'm going to stick to facts. They say 10-12 weeks for delivery. They have NO customer service number anywhere on their site. I had to contact them on a form, and then they gave me their number. I am apparently beyond 10 weeks but less than 12 weeks according to their receipt of my package. But here's the kicker, they are running behind. They might be 14-16 weeks now, and if I'd like to pay a "rush" fee they can get it to me in 10-12 business days for $146. So to get it to me in the time I was GIVEN I have to pay a ransom fee to get it before Christmas. The service rep I finally talked to said they can't "rush" it for free, and I said "I'm not asking you to rush it, I'm asking you to get it to me IN THE PROMISED TIME FRAME". She said she doesn't have the power to do that. So now I have to 'wait' for a manager to call me in the next 24 hours, and hope I don't miss their #800 spam looking call. Worst customer service experience ever. But man, their marketing is incredible. Let's slash prices so that we have TOO MANY orders for our staff, and make less money per transaction, so our service will suck in the end. #1 I had about 200 more items to send but was testing out this process with only 60 for now. So they just lost $1000's on me by giving me a horrible experience in the appetizer. And judging from the 3.6 on here, I'd say I'm not the only disappointed person. I personally have 107 reviews on google all 5.0, and take great pride in my service. This company will eventually lose every single person they do business with by NOT giving service and automated messages that lie profusely.

Date of experience: November 30, 2022
Massachusetts
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Legacybox
November 21, 2022

Legacybox reached out to me by e-mail to let me know that the quality of the videos wasn't the greatest, but they tried their best. I honestly didn't know what to expect because the videos were over twenty years old. I was able to watch the videos in the end, which I'm absolutely grateful for. I'll definitely come back with more videos to be converted.

Date of experience: November 19, 2022
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Cancellations
December 15, 2022

The reproductions were just okay (nothing fancy) but good luck cancelling the subscription. I notified LB that I was purchasing one year of subscription, then low and behold, another charge appeared on my bank card. I then had to go thru a string of emails to get it cancelled.

Date of experience: November 15, 2022
New York
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I received someone else's video and mine is missing. The company has done NOTHING to fix this. No return emails or phone calls. I'm hoping to find the rightful owner of the video I did receive which is footage of a Houston livestock rodeo. I'm also hoping to find my video which is footage from high school days of family and friends around 1995. Do not trust this company with your personal belongings.

Date of experience: November 10, 2022
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Horrible return policy, don't use them
December 9, 2022

I ordered a box and then changed my mind before I used it. Their site says this type of return would cost me the shipping and a restocking fee, which didn't sound too bad. Unfortunately I later found out that they said it would actually cost me 20% of the msrp of the box. Imagine my surprise when I found out that they charged me $140 for the shipping and restocking. They told me I could just throw away the box they sent. This is crazy and would not recommend using these thieves!

Date of experience: November 9, 2022
Tennessee
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I signed up for promotional emails thinking they'd let me know when they had a sale going on. I'm a past customer with more old films to convert someday. Whoa! Bad idea. Beware! Every day I get several promotional emails flooding my inbox. And Unsubscribe doesn't work. Good grief! How many sales do they have going on that they have to email me every single day? Give me a break already. I'm about to block them if they don't respond to my latest request to Unsubscribe.

Date of experience: November 4, 2022
New Mexico
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Took care of my tapes
November 2, 2022

Excellent experience with Legacy taking care of my cassette tapes of my mother reading books to my kids so many years ago. The updates are priceless, received your box, checked in, you are up next, we are working on the poor quality of the audio, and here is your download!
The constant updates are so meaningful with caring concern for my personal memories.

Date of experience: November 1, 2022
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Not what I was promised
December 1, 2022

I would never recommend this company. I have been waiting over three months for my tapes and I keep getting emails telling me they're waiting for a spot to open as they're having help issues? If you're having help issues and can't keep up with the orders you already have, why do you keep advertising on all the local media stations about you current deals? I am presently trying to get my tapes and my money back. They have no problem collecting your payment in full before they do one thing for you. I still have not have one email response, just "We're waiting for a lot to open". BEWARE AND STAY AWAY!

Date of experience: October 31, 2022
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Satisfied
October 29, 2022

Legacy Box was easy to work with. I called Customer Support to make sure I understood what to do. Package arrived sooner than I expected. They kept me informed on the progress like they said they would. Only one small problem when I received the dvd's. I sent in 35mm slides and some of the slides were copied backwards. Since this was not an heirloom, it wasn't that big of a problem. I think a little more attention should be paid when it comes to slides. That's why 4 stars.

Date of experience: October 29, 2022
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Sloppy
November 28, 2022

I had 25 films from 1970's and 1980's and labeled the 1st several by subject (year in Morocco, Europe trip, and home to US) then rubber banded the as so. The rest were labeled by following years. Legacy copied what they could but mingled at random the years and subjects. My dvd was a mess! No apology, no refund, no remake!

Date of experience: October 29, 2022
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Such a great service!
October 29, 2022

What a great company! Beautiful work, excellent customer service, highly recommend them!

Date of experience: October 29, 2022
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Best Communication
October 29, 2022

The media I submitted was over 60 years old and still they were able to convert a small portion of my wedding film so I will be able to share it with my children and grandchildren. Legacy Box was very diligent in keeping me updated on the process. I am very pleased with the results.

Date of experience: October 28, 2022
Georgia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Quality work
October 29, 2022

The transfers they did were of high quality. It just took several months to get everything back. Unless you pay an extra fee to get at the front of the line, expect to wait a long time.

Date of experience: October 28, 2022
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I found it pretty smooth, but it took a lot longer than expected. And I recently found someone else's packaging in my returned box‍

Date of experience: October 28, 2022
Arizona
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I rediscovered four 8mm film canisters from the 40s to the 60s. Legacybox converted everything, understanding that I wanted every inch, even if the lighting wasn't good. They make me so happy and I can now share them with other family members.

Date of experience: October 28, 2022
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I purchased a discounted e-deal, but it was not clear how to use the discount code. Email support helped with the details.

Date of experience: October 28, 2022
Georgia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Old treasures now on a new medium
October 26, 2022

I am thrilled to have my parents' wedding reel-to-reel along with many videos of our family and my own musical experiences over the years transferred to a zip drive that is playable instead of deteriorating away on unplayable tape. One of them did not transfer correctly, and the folks at LegacyBox sent me a label to return it and have it processed at priority speed. It is now functioning just as well as the others.

Date of experience: October 25, 2022
Idaho
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Awesome Customer Service!
October 26, 2022

Legacybox really came through for us! They rushed my order and did a really quality job!

Date of experience: October 25, 2022
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The family experience
October 25, 2022

Great convenient new media opened the door for our spread out family, to share our memories.

Date of experience: October 25, 2022

From the business

Legacybox is an all-in-one, mailed kit to preserve what matters most. It is the easiest, simplest, most beautiful way to preserve your outdated tapes, film, pictures, and audio recordings digitally. Just fill Legacybox with your tapes, film, pictures, and audio. Send it in and we'll send it back with your memories preserved on thumb drive, digital delivery through Legacybox Cloud™ or DVD.


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