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I would call this bank an absolute joke, but it's definitely more nefariously run. Therefore I'm calling it what it is - A legal scam.

I've been sent a lot of CC offers for "spend 1,000 and get 200". I use those cards and get the offer. Done deal, no hassle. Everything is explained properly in the offer letter.
This bank sends you the offer, with wording similar to all the others... HOWEVER, upon receiving the card, you will realize that you probably missed some fine print of having to SET UP A BANK ACCOUNT WITH THEM to even use the card.

There are multiple serious issues with this -

1. The way they set it up, you have to sign up through their app... no website option. The app doesn't work the best so... great approach you stupid bankers.
2. Upon setting up the acct. You will have to do some digging to find their AUTOMATICALLY APPLIED FEES: a "paper statement" fee of $3 for every account, monthly. Automatically turned on... and they like to use double-speak to say they are "green for the planet". If that were the case you would automatically make things electronic with the option to OPT-IN instead... I want to say this is dumb, but they know what they're doing; BOW is owned by BMO, a major player in the 2008 collapse, and one of the top financiers of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme. (watch Madoff on Netflix) The only green the care about is money.

The other fee, which really gets me because of their stupid wording and how they have things set up, makes it really feel scammy - Upon signing up, you will see " $10 service fee waived with ANY deposit of 0.01 or more... So you would think, GREAT! Set up auto-transfers of 0.01 to avoid a $10 "save the planet" (lmao) fee. Again, HOWEVER, when you go to set up any kind of AUTOMATIC transfer, it has to be at least $10. And that's how they get you. The difference in the wording of "any DEPOSIT vs. TRANSFER"...

So, to avoid a "service fee" of 10 bucks, you deposit 10. Great, now, they take that $10, and, thanks to new rules of banks needing 0% reserves (thanks COVID), They get to take your $10 and "invest" it (gamble it away on Wall Street by giving it to hedge funds that bet against American companies, effectively destroying our economy and markets from the inside out.

This kind of nefarious, immoral yet legal, business practices are why we can't have nice things anymore. I hope to god this bank becomes nothing more than a bad memory.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
I'm going to go use MidJourney AI to make pictures of banks on fire now.

Not a fan of having to pay a flat rate annually to keep my music on streaming platforms.
Not just that, but I have found that they don't pay out nearly as many royalties as the competition.
If you want better services from them, you're going to end up paying way more than what you'd expect. And most of their fees are reoccurring. No thanks. There are better options out there.

Upon CC info expiring and visiting the website, the first thing you are met with is a large pop-up urging you to continue payment... OTHERWISE, YOUR MUSIC WILL BE REMOVED FROM STREAMING SERVICES. Then, exit out of that window, navigate to another page, and BOOM! Same, incessant pop-up. Overly-aggressive marketing like that shows this company just wants money.
Compare this approach to a competitor like "CD Baby" that I have used along with DistroKid. They aren't aggressive like that, and also want to help you succeed as a musician and send out important notices and information, tips/tricks in a productive, friendly, non-aggressive manner.

Updated from 2 stars:
The last rep I spoke with was an absolute crouton.

Every time I try and contact them it takes forever to speak to someone. This is after providing the same info multiple times to the IVR system (robot voice).
Once I do, it starts with just an operator who then has to transfer me, causing even more wait time. Been waiting to speak to someone right now for 2 hours. And this isn't the first time.

If you're going to lack in the customer service dept, at least make your app/website more modern and user-friendly.
It shouldn't take a bunch of digging to figure out how do something as simple as edit a 401k contribution... The 'search' field on the website does not help at all.
Whenever I try and log into the retirement section of the website, it again, asks for my login details, then shoots me back to the investor center section of the website. Somehow I was able to access it today and got my issue resolved on my end while still waiting for customer service.

I have always had terrible customer service experiences with Walmart as a store. But since their online shop has been competing with Amazon, I decided to purchase a drone through Walmart.com instead of Amazon.
Huge mistake. 3 week endeavor to never receive my package because the 3rd-party seller shipped my package super slow and once it arrived in my town... someone on their end placed a return order. NOT COOL. VERY NOT COOL.

So then I had to call their customer service again, as I decided to get a refund instead of deal with this unprofessional company anymore. It's been over a week and 3 phone calls and Walmart still has my money and is telling me that a gift card cannot be refunded after purchase. Sooo... I can go and use the gift card to buy stuff and then return it and get a refund, but YOU CANT REFUND THE GIFT CARD DIRECTLY? This is asinine.

Huge headache. Will NEVER shop here again.

When searching for a medical issue. The info was scattered through multiple short pages littered with ads.
Not only that, but you go to click "next" and it doesn't take you to another page, it swaps the "next" button for an ad.

Shady business.

When I first found DBH around 8 years ago, I remember getting high-quality prints on high-quality material T-shirts for an unbeatable price (during sales shirts were only like $17). They won my loyalty, and for years I have continued to order a lot of my shirts from them...

Sadly, over the past 2 years, EVERYTHING, and I mean everything about the company has gone downhill!
As all of these more recent reviews are alluding to, customer service is almost non-existent, and when they are there, they don't communicate clearly or on time... And that's if they end up even replying at all.
The last 2 orders I have placed with them had to be fixed twice, taking each order about 3-4 months to be properly fulfilled.

-They use multiple types of shirts from different parts of the world now, and one brand (next level) is way too small and the shirts shrink so much they end up looking like crop tops (or bibs as another reviewer mentioned lol)
-Prints are often printed on the wrongs side
-Prints are often the wrong size
-Prints are often poor quality (missing ink, wrong colors, etc, etc)

I purchased a Sony a6100 "new - open box".
The description said the box contained all original parts/packaging. New condition.

Waited 8 days after my purchase to receive the device and immediately found that the lens had some kind of residue on it, and worse - at least 4 dead/stuck pixels.
Resetting the device would not fix it. Appears to be a hardware defect or damage... Box flaunts an "inspected by" sticker - Great job team!

After contacting them, the only solution provided was to return it.
I now get to wait another 5 days to simply receive the return shipping label.
Who knows how long it will take to get my money back.
If I wanted to invest in your company, I would have bought stocks, not loaned you $630, interest-free for over 2 weeks.

I am so glad I didn't buy the "15% off, $30 - 3-year warranty" that they were so desperately pushing to me through email. I almost did, and they would have only referred me to Sony if it was within the manufacturer's warranty. (all companies do this, watch out.)

Very unprofessional first experience.
Support was completely automated and the choices provided were limited.
Won't ever buy again, Won't ever recommend.

If it seems too good to be true, it is.

I left Chase years ago because of terrible business practices. And I recently made another mistake -
I signed up for the new amazon card to save $50 on an order. Well, that worked, but I then was left with minimal information on what to do next. There was never any email confirmation follow up.
I tried to log into the chase website but YOU NEED A FREAKIN CARD NUMBER TO SIGN UP/IN WITH. Which took forever to get to me physically via snail mail... Long enough that by the time I had actually received the card and logged in, I had been charged a late fee (charged $28 and it also affects your credit) and interest on a purchase I had made 2 days prior.

I don't understand why anyone would every bank with this company, let alone leave a positive review.

This site used to be pretty straight forward. You always had to watch out for the redirects/pop-ups, but now they are relentless and the converter doesn't even work anymore...

Otherwise I would not have it. I could go into detail, but the one major thing that bothers me is there seems to be more adds than show time. Watch 5 minutes of a show and then you have to watch 90-120 seconds of commercials... And even though they have some content that Netflix doesn't have, this is why most consider Netflix to be better. We don't want to have to pay for a subscription and sit through the same commercials every 5 minutes!
I will not be renewing because I don't see it being work $12 a month...

This website seems to be more oriented towards and filled with indie artists. Electronic/rap seems to garnish more attention on Soundcloud.
Cool that you can set your own pricing, which a site like soundcloud doesn't allow for. So it does have it's pros.

I'm not too big into what you could call "raver gear" or "gamer gear", but I do like artistic/abstract designs. This company has found a fair middle ground and seems to have something for almost everybody at this point.
One thing I really like is their "flash sales" where hats can be swooped up for 15-20 bucks. And they are surprisingly good quality.

Some hat companies like Findlay Force (which I don't recommend.) will push out hats that have "wavy" messed up bills and they blame it on their sublimation process (how they get the design on). Well, this company doesn't have this problem and makes me believe they actually care about the quality of the products they put out.
I have purchased 1 shirt and 3 hats from them and I am 100% satisfied.

The hats fit nicely and their shirts are super comfortable.

Pretentious people giving long-winded answers to silly questions.

Ex- "Why couldn't the Hulk beat Thanos?" and then someone writes a Novel about their opinion on the matter like they wrote the characters and created the MCU.
Why do I need this sent to me in email? I though it was more for deep conversation, but I rarely see any of that anymore.

If you have a real question, it tends to not get answered.
And a lot of questions I have seen that get more volume seem to be regurgitated questions that have been asked before.

Ex - "What was something that happened to you as a kid that made you never look at the world the same?"
Then a month later, "What was a traumatizing experience that happened to you at a young age that made you look at the world differently?"

After using it for a couple years, all I can say is the site is ultimately an echo-chamber filled with a lot of silly conversation when it's supposed to be intellectual. And it's becoming more and more difficult to find those gems of informative conversation.

Update: I bought my Hero4 when they were brand new for $700 when they first came out. I thought it was worth it because of the 4k capabilities. Well... That was the most money I've ever straight-up wasted on a product because after owning it for a few years, it no longer charges or turns on. I have tried multiple batteries and tried to downgrade the firmware as people have mentioned. But I can't even get it to turn on to do that.
I must say, I HATE GoPro now. The company generates profit off of "legal scams". Just like Apple.

Is the fish eye lens the only reason people continue to buy these? GoPro is one of the most profitable companies... Probably because they manufacture a ton of crap products in China and mark them up 100x and just have a name brand that everyone wrongly trusts.
*cough* Apple.
I was included here. I bought the Hero 5 black when it first came out for the ridiculous price of $700 because it had 4k and I thought it would be worth it... I was poorly mistaken. After taking my first video and plugging it directly into my 4k TV (which requires a special, expensive, GoPro exclusive adapter) the 4k was choppy/granular and seemed like the first 15 seconds or so of video every time you press play has to buffer.
Also, after having it for just over a month, I placed it in one of the cases, locked it, opened it later and the housing was cracked... I payed $700 for this fragile POS? God, I'm stupid!
Besides that, the battery life has always been pathetic. But guess what? You can always buy another battery for too much money to have as a backup. Oh, also, how about that little LCD screen that you can add on to it for too much money as well that will make your battery last about 30 minutes when recording 4k?

Their business model takes after that of Apple- Make products that you can monopolize a market with and then make them low-quality, reiterate the same designed year after year and make it seem like a monumental change and charge a fortune for them just because you can. And people keep falling for it because somewhere along the line, they earned the "cream-of-the-crop" title.

.. USED TO. Not too much anymore after periodic overhauls. It seems as though the platform that was once about freedom is now about censorship. A lot of the comment sections (although have always been ridiculous and foremost a center for comedic exchange) now seem to be echo chambers; a bunch of people agreeing with each other with little to no effort put into critical thought. Ex- Sargon of Akkad was recently "quarantined" (censored) and made out to be an alt-right figure. I won't waste time on the details but I used to watch/listen to Sargon and I can't tell you how far from the truth that is. Proof - He has sent gay-interracial porn to Alt-right figureheads for the sake of trolling them. This whole fiasco came about when he declared he was running for office in Britain. Hmmmm.
That's just one example. I could go on for days about issues with the bots, subreddits, reposting, censoring and politics of Reddit. But all I really want to say is, "I used to love it, but barely use it anymore solely because it feels like a platform to push an agenda on, instead of a free and open community.

I mean, really, the title says it all. There are plenty of other font sites that don't charge you anywhere near that price. And there's even free font sites that have the same quality fonts at no cost...
And as L T. Mentioned, there aren't any free one's on the site.

I think they might just be banking on "not-so-savvy" people and owning the domain "fonts.com"

At first I didn't know what exactly to make of this site or how to use it. Now that I am familiar with it I love it. This way I can monitor my SoundCloud followers and see what A-holes follow people just for a follow back and then unfollow expecting them not to see it.
No respect for cheaters and liars. Much respect for this site!

The only problem I really have with it (even though it's free to use) is that the UI seems a little out-dated and if you stay logged in, when I go back to the site it gives an error page so you have to log out and then log back in. No biggie, but still a small annoyance. Which is why I give it a 4-star rating instead of 5-stars*

I hope this website/service/company succeeds. They are providing a very helpful service!

Besides the mass amount of spam email I receive from them, the worst part about this website is how you can't get anywhere without them trying to empty your pockets - Go to upload a song, "file size too big. (greater than 8mb) please upgrade your plan to continue uploading". Or - "we thing your song is worthy of some free promotion, claim it here." Then you proceed to click and fill out pages and pages of garbage, just to get to the last page where you notice that they actually plan to charge you for it. No transparency! It's a setup. Illegitimate. BS.
Side note- I only ever had 1 fan on the platform and I'm pretty sure it was a troll.
I could go on for days about how useless this website is, but everyone else's comments pretty much sum it up. Don't waste your time like I did!

Update: Had to lower it to 4 stars seeing as people will follow you and repost your songs, just to get you to follow them back and then they unfollow you. I slimy tactic to gain followers. Good thing I use "unfollowspy" so I can recognize these people and unfollow them as well. Not necessarily the company/site's fault, but they could implement something to curb people from using these tactics.

The point of this website is to promote your SoundCloud tracks by reposting other people's tracks, which gives you credits. Then, you use those credits to create campaigns for your own songs. Another option is to buy credits to bypass having to repost other people's tunes. It's up to you.

The thing I appreciate the most is the majority of the people that follow you or repost your music tend to be aspiring artists. It's a great way for the underground community to connect. If they're not other artists, they're promoters. Win-win.

Another thing I appreciate, is that it's authentic- you really have to be careful with SoundCloud promotion because a lot of it is illegitimate. These guys are the real deal, and although the plays and followers don't come in by the masses, they are AUTHENTIC.
With illegitimate promotion you can gain 100+ fake followers a day, but they will dissipate by next week. (Which makes you look unprofessional)
The followers/plays/reposts that come from this site are gradual, and they stick around! (You may even end up collaborating with others from here.)

I had an issue where I was charged for a monthly artist plan that I didn't wish to continue for the time being and I emailed them (you can call them as well) and honestly didn't know what to expect from their support. Ed got back to me ASAP and made it all right. Thanks Ed!
I appreciate quality customer service and the type service they provide. So in my books, they get a 5-star review.

A lot of service on her are illegitimate. And there's usually a communication barrier than you have to get through. I would like to be able to update reviews!