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Shutterfly

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Shutterfly Reviews Summary

Shutterfly's reputation reflects a mix of strong product quality and significant customer service challenges. Many users appreciate the quality of photo books and personalized items, often highlighting the durability of products. However, recurring complaints about service delays, order inaccuracies, and inadequate customer support overshadow these positives. Customers frequently report issues with refunds, communication breakdowns, and technical difficulties on the platform. This blend of satisfaction with product quality and frustration over service reliability suggests a need for Shutterfly to enhance its customer service approach to improve overall customer experience and retention.

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service
298
value
280
shipping
287
returns
172
quality
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California
1 review
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Continued rising cost and thanks to the school they get their cut.
Shutterfly and all the names they use rips customers off, cheats them on discount codes and so much more.

Im sick of these idiot compa ies screwing us working families of our money.

I use to love shutterfly but now days its a joke.

The other day i get a code to get something and i set my cart up and it says its expired.

After spending hundreds within 1yr for 1 child they should be helping us.

Date of experience: October 1, 2022
Colorado
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Terrible prints
September 26, 2022

I was using your service for many years now. Prints that I did several times lately where such a bad quality, printed on bad paper, faces almost unrecognizable. I am very disappointed, No one is checking quality, this is last time I used your service, costco will make better prints.

Date of experience: September 26, 2022
Hawaii
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Horrible service
September 24, 2022

Hello my gift was late even after I paid for expedited shipping. When I was chatting with an agent about my problem they ended the chat. This company is a joke that charges too much and does not care about customer satisfaction

Date of experience: September 23, 2022
Delaware
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I will never order from them again. Customer services was terrible. Chatted with 3 reps and still no resolution. I ordered 4x6 photos and they all came back yellow, blurry, dark. I was told the pics resolution was too high, and that I needed to upload alternate pics. What a joke, like I have the same pics in another resolution. Besides, why not set a warning system if the pics resolution will be to high to print a chosen size? Too easy, just print and send customers worthless pics.

Date of experience: September 21, 2022
Illinois
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Family history book
September 11, 2022

Beware! I worked on a family history book for over a year. I ordered 11 books at 2500. 00
There are no page numbers! They wanted to give me a 10.00 credit. Really?
They say they can't do page numbers... I have a table of contents with no page numbers!
The leather option is just crinkled black paper. Awful company

Date of experience: September 11, 2022
Michigan
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Bad service
September 10, 2022

I was a loyal customer of Shutterfly for over 10 years with hundreds of gift projects – but NO MORE. They have always had the most difficult website to operate, but I struggled and fought through it for the products - but NO MORE. Now they LIE about their advertising. I placed an order with 10 magnets for $ 1 each but they charged me full price for each. I reached out to customer service many times and never had any response. I later created an order of about $ 80, and the processing message said to order over $ 100 and get free shipping, so I increased it to over $ 100, and when I checked out they still charged me full shipping. I reached out to customer service many times and finally someone responded and said I had to have the advertising offer code for the order but it was just a processing message when ordering. I asked for refund for over-charges on both orders – but no response. I give up. I have switched to Mpix – a much easier to operate website, more product choices, a customer service that has already responded to me and corrected a problem with a refund, and better prices. Sorry Shutterfly.

Date of experience: September 10, 2022
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Quality Has Fallen Off Significantly
September 3, 2022

I created a cookbook for my family back in 2013. I have ordered the same book, using the same file, from Shutterfly three times. Yes, the price is high, but it has been convenient and the quality has generally been pretty good. Until now. Using the exact same file that has been stored on Shutterfly's website (not a copy of the file) should render the same results. Well, you would think this, but that's not what happened. The left side of every open-book set of pages SHOULD have had the photograph evenly spaced. Not this time! Some pages are higher, some are lower, and it just doesn't look professional this time. Even the cover is printed too high on the book. The previous copies (again, the same file that has been stored on the Shutterfly website) did not appear that way. Shutterfly appears to have fired its entire quality assurance and quality control staff. Sadly, I will have to re-create the file outside of Shutterfly and find another reliable HIGH QUALITY printer in the future. The price came out to about $50 per book this time (for a 38-page book) with their "discounts". (Why not just price the book fairly in the first place?) And I don't have time to reorder, as we are having a family reunion and there are a couple of people who have requested copies.

Date of experience: September 3, 2022
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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You LOST a customer
August 22, 2022

I ordered simple prints on August 10,2022 and today is Aug. 22 and I have not yet received my order. This was for a gift needed by Aug. 26 and after contacting customer service, I won't be getting this order until Aug. 30th.
It is OUTRAGEOUS that it takes more than 3 weeks for simple 5x7 pictures to be produced and delivered to a customer.
Shutterfly, get on with the times. No one has that kind of patience or time to wait for your slow process anymore. You've lost a customer of over 10 years.

Date of experience: August 22, 2022
California
3 reviews
1 helpful vote
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So buggy
August 7, 2022

Nice features and easy to use, but lots of bugs. The editing even froze and never recovered. I had to switch to another photo book company and restart all the photo uploading and editing. Customer service could go either way (defensive or apologetic) but the end result is the same: the reported bugs never got fixed.

Date of experience: August 6, 2022
Arizona
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I selected my photos and put them all in order how I wanted them to be placed, which took me over an hour. I selected for Shutterfly to create my book, which they would add my photos to the book and email me back for my review. Once I received the email that the book was ready for review, all the photos I submitted in order were placed in the book out of order, ugh. I called customer service and was informed she would give me another number to call to see if this could be fixed. Could not transfer me. I do not have the time to be calling all over to fix this, when I submitted the photos in order. Will be using someone else.

Date of experience: July 27, 2022
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Very dissatisfied
July 22, 2022

I used to be a fan of this company and have made several picture books that I was very pleased with. However, my latest experience with this company is my last. I ordered professional prints in multiple sizes. One of the prints in a 5x7 they printed but the prints they sent they had cut out part of the actual picture. The result was what looked like a floating head because they cut out the bottom of the print which was the chest. The worst was the two 8x10 prints they sent me. They put them in a paper envelope with only a very thin piece of cardboard for protection. The envelope is not even marked "pictures - don't bend." So, the envelope was stuck in the mailbox, bent. Reached out to them and they sent out a second order and those were packaged the same way and also arrived damaged. I contacted them again and asked if they could be packaged with more protection and overnighted as these were gifts that were now late. I was told they could not overnight but they would expedite this order. The third order arrived in a week, which was only one day sooner than the last two orders. Guess what? Packaged the same way and arrived once again- damaged! This is totally unacceptable. There are too many other available companies to use. I'm done with Shutterfly. Think twice before you consider them.

Date of experience: July 22, 2022
Missouri
5 reviews
13 helpful votes
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I've used Shutterfly to print hundreds of pictures and dozens of personalized gifts for holidays and birthdays. Uploading pictures to Shutterfly is easy and straightforward. It keeps track of which pictures on my phone are already on the site so I don't upload them twice. Using the app I can get free 4x6 prints. I just pay shipping, which is very reasonable. I think the prices on some of the personalized gifts, like the picture blankets and pillows are a little high, but the quality is better than cheaper sites, like Personalization mall. Not to mention I can always find coupon codes to make it a little cheaper. I always recommend Shutterfly when people ask me where to get pictures put on stuff.

Date of experience: July 16, 2022
Colorado
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I ordered some thank you notes via Shutterfly, paid extra for expedited shipping and never received the order... for the second time! I never have any issue receiving my packages but somehow Shutterfly is never able to deliver them. I will never order through them again!

Date of experience: July 8, 2022
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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In the past, I have completed several puzzles. I received this 520 Fathers Day Puzzle. After I completed the puzzle and sealed and framed it with puzzle glue. Conclusion: The print on the puzzle separates from the thin puzzle paper and the photo picture is full of colored lines where the color is separated from the paper. I called the Shutterfly people because I was not the original purchase but a Father Day Gift they would not honor my complaint. Two days work for a piece of junk. Save your money stay away CUSTOMER SERVICE AWFUL.

Date of experience: July 5, 2022
Washington
1 review
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Long time (15 years) Shutterfly customer NOW website has gotten worse: slow, prints defaults to glossy but menu is elsewhere, easy to miss, does NOT work with Firefox. Can not edit address book. Instructions nowhere on page to pick up in store. Website still adds on shipping with no way to remove the shipping charge... terrible website only good thing is you will get a confirmation email and at the very bottom,,, scroll you can cancel your order in 30 minutes... Not paying for shipping when I am picking up. Shipping charges very steep. Not using this site again.

Date of experience: June 25, 2022
Connecticut
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Very bad service. They gave me an invalid tracking number for USPS, when I complained it was not a USPS NUMBER they said it was a UPS number. It was also a invalid UPS number. They kept insisting the tracking number was valid even as both UPS AND USPS said it was not their number. No order arrived and no way to track it. I will never use them again.

Date of experience: June 2, 2022
New York
1 review
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Disappointed
May 31, 2022

I paid extra money for fast shipping so my order would be delivered within 3-5 days. It wasn't delivered until a week and a half later.
If you can't fulfill a fast delivery, do not make it an option. The extra money paid for fast shipping should be refunded to the customers if you cannot complete their request.

Date of experience: May 31, 2022
Michigan
1 review
1 helpful vote
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My Italy vacation
May 17, 2022

I ordered 6 metal tiles from Shutterfly they were bright pics I took of the wonderful fruit stands and desserts in Italy to put on my wall in my new dining area and they turned out absolutely beautiful. They are colorful and bright just like the originals. To be honest I first ordered the same pictures from snap fish because they were cheaper and I was greatly disappointed they were dull and cheaply made I never put them up so glad I went to Shutterfly Thank you

Date of experience: May 15, 2022
Washington
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Shipping prices ruin the site
May 16, 2022

Shutterfly is amazing, though they could improve their mobile website to be more user friendly, their editing process needs work as it's pretty glitchy. Their prices are very reasonable for their product.
Their only issue is their shipping is INSANE, they are a large enough successful company to lower or do away with their shipping costs all together. At the very least lower the minimum price for free shipping.
The shipping prices is where they get you, they overcharge big time for shipping.

Date of experience: May 15, 2022
Idaho
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Very disappointing
May 1, 2022

I've gotten pictures from Shutterfly before, but ordering graduation announcements, they came wrong, they tried to make it right and fix them by sending more, ended up sending me three orders total with all three having the same exact mistake after reaching out and being told they seen the issue and would be resolved. Just asked for my money back this last time. Started this in March and now I don't have announcements for graduation and I graduate in less than a month.

Date of experience: May 1, 2022

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Create photo books, personalize photo cards & stationery, and share photos with family and friends at Shutterfly.com.


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