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Puregear Reviews Summary

Puregear has a rating of 1.1 stars from 259 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Puregear most frequently mention screen protector, customer service and lifetime warranty. Puregear ranks 193rd among Mobile Accessories sites.

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Rhode Island
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Worst customer service.
January 17, 2019

Supposedly there is a warranty for their screen protector. When you request a replacement, they charge you a $10 shipping fee. I paid $40 for this screen protector which weights nothing to ship. On Amazon I can purchase the same screen protector for $11, so how can you claim that this product is warranty?

Date of experience: January 17, 2019
Ohio
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This over priced garbage was purchased for$49 at at &t to protect my note 9 yet week 1 cracked starting at curved edge, replaced for 9.99 had sure put it on this time glue kept coming loose till it slipped & cracked a 3rd time in month out in pocket took it out &edge had a crack. Reportedly attempted contacting Pure Gear customer story, they never reply! Screw them I hope they go out of business!

Date of experience: January 15, 2019
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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DO NOT total junk breaks and charge for shipping on replacement
AND did not protect my brand new phone from screen being damaged!

Date of experience: December 31, 2018
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Charger for IPhone
December 18, 2018

I bought a charger in October 2018. Just a month after the charger stopped working properly. Since then I've been trying to replace it cause of live time warranty. Paid for delivery that still not happened. Chip stuff for quite expensive price.

Date of experience: December 17, 2018
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I bought 4 Pure Gear HD Tempered Glass from the Bell store when purchasing four new phones. All four cracked in 4 -5 months. I contacted Pure Gear customer service who said it would $9.95 shipping cost for each. I went and replaced mine at Itech (Yorkdale & Fairview who replace on the spot). I replied asking to put three in the same envelope and charge for one shipping $9.95, they refused so everyone needs to know.
Buyer beware of them being inflexible.

Date of experience: December 11, 2018
Connecticut
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Hot garbage.
December 1, 2018

Like another customer said i would give it 0 stars if it was an option. I bought the hd tempered glass per a verizon employees recommendation. Now i see i have to pay 10 bucks to have them honor their warranty. I bought the screen protector because i was told that if the screen cracked i would be refunded up to 100$ to pay for my phone. Read the warranty its in there stated as such

Date of experience: December 1, 2018
Missouri
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Purchased the expensive pure-gear HD tempered glass screen protector for my new Galaxy Note 9. That evening within the hour after installing the glass started cracking both sides. My phone was never dropped and also had outer box case on it. Having trouble getting replaced at no cost to me. A month later still not replaced.

Date of experience: November 14, 2018
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The first one got water under it and cracked when removing the water. Used the warranty and payed shipping and received a complete differant protector but was told by customer service that it was the same. Installed it because I needed to and later the same day dropped my phone in the carpet, and the protector pops off. Smh

Date of experience: October 7, 2018
Indiana
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Don't Buy
October 3, 2018

T- Mobile - buy this one has warranty against cracking - save receipt. Well it's a piece of crap - big crack across the screen - actually numerous cracks. 39.99 plus taxes. Thanks T- Mobile for recommending!

Date of experience: October 3, 2018
Oklahoma
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Don't buy this product.
September 19, 2018

Bought the product because of store rep. Not happy at all didn't even last 6 months and to get it replaced you have to pay 10.00 for S/H and they will only ship one at a time. So if you have multiple phones with them you are out way more than 10.00. The product is not up to par and I don't recommend anyone buy it. Going back to Otter Box my mistake. Wont happen again. As you can see in the photos we had 2 of them so not ever buying a PureGear product again.

Date of experience: September 19, 2018
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Rip-off
September 16, 2018

Purchased a wall charger for $40. Used it for 4 months, then it stopped charging. I took it back to the Verizon store where I purchased it, where they tested the charger with other devices and confirmed it was an issue with the charger itself. They told me I could go online to ask for a new charger. PureGear wants me to pay $10 so they can ship me a replacement charger, which I find ridiculous. That's $50 total for a wall charger that doesn't even have a USB connection. Don't waste your money on this company.

Date of experience: September 15, 2018
New Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Rip Off
September 9, 2018

Rip off

This product is a scam. You pay a premium for a product because of what appears to be a great replacement warranty. Then when you go to replace the product under warranty they hit you with nearly $10 for shipping and handling. What a rip off. You know their cost on the product and shipping is now where close to that $10 price tag. In reality you're paying for the product twice. If they were really standing behind their product it should be more like $3 for postage.

Date of experience: September 9, 2018
Tennessee
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Not worth the expense
August 23, 2018

I only give a 1 since 0 isnt an option
Screen cracked 3 days after placing. All I did is grip phone side ways. It wasn't even dropped. I asked for replace at retail store and was denied with the following explanation:
"Thank you for your follow up. We do apologize for the issues you have experienced. Our policy has recently been revised; therefore it is required for all customers to complete a Warranty Claim Form and pay for shipping. You will find that this policy is standard throughout the industry and with our competitors.
Best Regards"
Well I'm not spending another peny on these screens. I got better results from my Dollar Tree screen protectors in the past.
Learned my lesson.

Date of experience: August 23, 2018
Nebraska
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Both my husband and I bought new samsungs S8 and S9. My screen protector (Steel 360 tempered glass) cracked within the first month. Filed warranty, paid 9.95 and received wrong protector. My husbands cracked and his fell off leaving him to tape it to the phone to have some protection. Filed claim, paid 9.95 and received wrong protector once again. Emailed pure gear two times with no response. Called them 8 times in one day only to sit on hold and never talk to customer service. We paid $60 for each protector thinking they would hold up better because they cost so much and free replacement for life... what we were told. If they send the correct one that would help but so much for free replacement. I am totally fed up with them and not being able to get ahold of anyone. Spending that much on a case that is made of "glass" is not worth it. Duh... glass breaks easily. Just a warning to future screen buyers.

Date of experience: August 14, 2018
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Poor Product
August 1, 2018

I purchase a HD Screen Protector of my new Samsung S9+. The screen protector cracked within a week. It came with a lifetime warranty, Submitted claim along with 6.95 shipping. Received replacement in approx. 3 weeks but was not the same as original and only had a year warranty. Received no response to email about it. Replacement cracked in about 2 weeks and this time when I filled out warranty claim it required 9.50 for shipping. Did not submit claim. Ordered different product (brand) with Amazon.

Date of experience: August 1, 2018
Nebraska
5 reviews
12 helpful votes
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I bought a Pure-gear tempered glass screen protector from Verizon and it was expensive. I had Verizon install it too. The first time I dropped my phone the screen on my Samsung Note 8 cracked and I had to replace it for $360. I also had an expensive case I bought at Verizon on it. I don't recommend Verizon for selling me junk or Pure Gear for their tempered glass screen protectors that do not work.

Date of experience: July 15, 2018
Pennsylvania
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I purchased a Pre Gear Screen protector. It was very expensive, but the warranty seemed worth it. Well... Screen cracked. Called Pure Gear - on hold for 45 minutes! Left numerous messages - NOTHING! No return call NOTHING. Submitted claim on website - STILL NOTHING! Finally someone emailed back - claim approved. Send VENMO details. 3 weeks later still NOTHING! If they are not willing to back their product they should CLOSE!

Date of experience: May 29, 2018
Michigan
2 reviews
16 helpful votes
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I bought a new S8. Stopped and picked up Protect Screen at T-Mobile. They told me Pure-Gear has an awesome guarantee... etc. So I bought it, but before I install it I check them out on YouTube. Out of all the videos I see, not one showing how good it protects with a few unhappy customers that their screen is cracked and does not work and Pure-gear does not respond to warranty etc. I post a few comment about this on Pure-gear YouTube videos... etc. I get a response from all YT videos from Pure-gear stating if I have any warranty issues to contact them through Facebook. Now this just pissed me off! Why do I need to use my social media account for warranty issues? I check them out on the BBB... not one positive review... at the time there are 57 complaints and 1 neutral review and 12 negative reviews. I responded back on 5-6 videos on just how stupid it is for me to use my Facebook account for a warranty issue especially when having to register the product online... etc. I also informed them they need to honor their warranty and stated the BBB problems. My question now is... Why did they disable comments on all the video's I commented on? Anyway, I returned the product for a full refund! Sometimes when you're shopping we know nothing about the product... before you take it out of the box it pays to investigate!

Date of experience: May 28, 2018