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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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value
280
shipping
287
returns
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quality
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Canada
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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I ordered 2 albums for my sons high school Grad. The layouts and options are incredible. I am in Canada and I received my albums (from the US) in just 4 days! Incredible quality, shipping, packaging and gift boxing. There was an error on the cover of one album. I did see a warning sign when creating it, but could not see any text it was referring to. Blank text boxes don't print. I guess there was hidden print and in the final project, you could see a very faint name (girl!) on the cover! I was horrified. Sally at customer service was incredible. Despite it technically being my fault, it was a very difficult text box to find. She immediately sent out an entirely new album (with correction) and I just had to pay for shipping! SO appreciate such amazing customer service especially when it is for a special occasion coming up! Advice: don't ever leave a warning sign despite looking blank. Reach out for customer help! Thank you Shutterfly. I will be a repeat customer and spread the great word.

Date of experience: August 12, 2020
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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TERRIBLE SERVICE, BOOK NEVER ARRIVED. DO NOT ORDER FROM THEM.
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I have ordered a book for my wife's birthday and it was delayed 2x. I had paid express shipment initially with a date of arrival 1 week before her birthday so I could have time to have it in advance. 2 days before, I checked online and they told me that there was a problem so they would re-order the book with express shipping arrive 1 day before my wife's birthday. I checked again with them to make sure 3 days before and all was good. I checked the day before and boom, again a delay. Now I don't know if I will ever receive it and the quality of it. I am screwed for the surprise to my wife. Thank you shutterly for such a bad service

Date of experience: August 12, 2020
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I recently ordered a 16X20 print that turned out gorgeous. The only problem was that it had some noticeable scratches on it. (Maybe from shipping?) I contacted customer service through the chat option and they submitted a rush order to replace it immediately with no hassle! The best experience I've had with any customer service!

Date of experience: August 11, 2020
Georgia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I've been a fan of Shutterfly for four years, and I've never been disappointed in them. My latest order for 4x6 prints was scheduled to arrive on a Wednesday, but it came on a Monday instead. Early shipping every single time I order! The quality of the products is also great and my photos are always sent cropped the way I want them to be. I love printing photos with them, personalizing my own calendar, and the art prints! These guys easily beat any other photo marketer for me, and I will continue to use them for a long time!

Date of experience: August 3, 2020
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Worst company.
August 1, 2020

Terrible. Never will use again. Made two orders one for over $60 and they never were delivered. Second order was ‘lost' and never provided a tracking number.

Date of experience: July 31, 2020
Colorado
1 review
10 helpful votes
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4x4 Prints
August 1, 2020

I ordered 55 4x4 prints and was disappointed to find that 29 of them were cropped wrong or differently than I had arranged them in my order. Heads were cropped off, there were white spaces at the bottom, etc. Thankfully 4x4 prints were free besides shipping and tax so I will be reordering them but was heavily disappointed by this order and am hoping they will be correct the second time.

Date of experience: July 31, 2020
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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We had a photo album made. The digital prints we had made at our local print shop were great. Hood color saturation, proper tone, and very nice. We sent over the same digital information to Shutterfly to have an album made, and the photos were so pale, washed out, and inaccurate. We called Shutterfly, and they reprinted the album, and it came exactly the same way... no changes. We called again, and they said they can't make sny corrections to the digital info given them. That's Bull. The other local printer had no problem color balancing... guess Shutterfly just doesn't have the technicians that know what to do. The people in the photos are Spanish, and they even have deep tans... the Shutterfly pictures are more pale than Shirley Temple, and they look TOTALLY washed out. Now we have 2 inferior quality albums... and they say they can't make them over.

Date of experience: July 30, 2020
North Carolina
1 review
11 helpful votes
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So i ordered 120 4x6 prints from shutterfly to make a collage with for my room. I paid 12 dollars for shipping, and it got here in five days. That's where the good things stop. About 80% of the photos were the wrong direction, horribly cropped, or both. I spent 30 minutes on the app making sure they were cropped how I wanted, and they got it wrong somehow. And they sent me 108 prints. Not 121 like i ordered. Some of my favorite photos were left out for some reason, and i still dont know why. How it got through a quality check is beyond me. I attached some of the photos i ordered, vs what I got, so you can at least get a laugh out of it. DON'T ORDER PRINTS FROM SHUTTERFLY.

Date of experience: July 28, 2020
Michigan
1 review
0 helpful votes
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If i could give a negative review i would... photos say it all. Thank for the fabulous photos for my sons grad party! And these are the good ones!

Date of experience: July 24, 2020
Louisiana
3 reviews
9 helpful votes
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Covid Fee
July 17, 2020

I've used Shutterfly for several years and have been happy with there products until recently. My prints have been sent faded, but now they are adding a Covid Fee?! Really? I'm deleting my account. I'll get prints and mugs from a company that doesn't try and gouge an already struggling country.

Date of experience: July 17, 2020
Canada
1 review
10 helpful votes
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I ordered 130 pictures, 4x6 mate finish, they came really fast and they kept me up to date everyday to see where my order was at. The picture came and the quality is just amazing! I really wanted to write this review because I'm just amazed by this company! I also ordered a key chain it's just perfect! I totally recommend Shutterfly to everyone that want something custom!

Date of experience: July 8, 2020
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Big scammer
July 6, 2020

When you worked on select photo almost two hours then it's code not working. Beware big scammers. Don't use this. Don't waste your money and time on Junk. Biggest scam company. Garbage company of the decade.

Date of experience: July 6, 2020
Wisconsin
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Very pleased!
July 2, 2020

We order our wedding invitations and had them in less than a week! They look beautiful and everything is spelled correctly. I would recommend shutterfly.

Date of experience: July 1, 2020
Texas
1 review
13 helpful votes
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I was optimistic about shutterfly given it's reputation and the deals it had. I used Shutterfly to print small kpop photo cards and some of my prom pictures which were taken by a professional photographer. All of them were not HD. They were poor and undefined and I'm deeply disappointed with my 90 prints that I ordered from Shutterfly. What actually happened? I don't know. I do not recommend Shutterfly if you're looking for high quality prints. They are not it. Please look to other sources. Thank you.

Date of experience: June 27, 2020
Colorado
3 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Disappointed
June 23, 2020

I Ordered a photo book on June 10 and was told it would be delivered on June 19 (Father's Day). It's June 23 and I'm Still waiting.

Date of experience: June 23, 2020
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Late
June 22, 2020

They legit have taken 4 days late and still no updates on my package that I ordered about 2 weeks ago, which was been in my city for days, it's extremely late compared to the projection date that it was suppose to arrive and the no updates gives me more anxiety, because I payed for quicker shipping.

Date of experience: June 22, 2020
Michigan
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Delayed order
June 22, 2020

I paid for expedited shipping for order I placed with Shutterfly as I needed for an event. The order didn't arrive as promised and it arrived the following day. I placed 5 orders transit time 5-7 days the expired transit time didn't change got it on the 6th business day. I tried to get a refund. They are telling me that I paid for standard shipping. If I wanted it standard I would have used the SHIP39 discount and wouldn't pay for standard shipping cost. It would have been free since it was over 39 dollars. Not happy!

Date of experience: June 22, 2020
Virginia
1 review
13 helpful votes
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We ordered a custom order from Shutterfly on the 5th, and a similar one from Zazzle on the 8th. The Zazzle order got to us within 10 days. We still haven't received the item from Shutterfly. Don't waste your time with a company who can't get something to you in a decent amount of time (or leave more than 2 1/2 weeks to order something from them.) But my suggestion is just go somewhere else. Why take a chance?

Date of experience: June 22, 2020
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Appreciate
June 21, 2020

I recently ordered 5 gifts to 5 different people
The prices were great they loved them and I was amazed at how fast they went out
Keep up the great work thank you!

Date of experience: June 19, 2020
Maryland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Bad bad service
June 18, 2020

Very bad service. Super bad customer service. Never received my order, never received my money back, never received answer from customer service. Terrible. Never will order again. Lost time, lost money.The worst experience

Date of experience: June 18, 2020

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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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