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Gumroad

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Overview

Gumroad has a rating of 2.0 stars from 20 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Gumroad ranks 545th among Blog sites.

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    6
  • Quality
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Top Positive Review

“Gumroad is really trustworthy”

Vic A.
12/1/22

From my experience, everything with the website is completely fine. Transactions, encryptions and usability are perfectly functional and I have 0 issues with it. I'm not sure where your worries are coming from, perhaps people buy from untrustworthy sources, without doing their research. Would recommend spending your own time figuring out if something is legit or not and actually find information about the seller. The site itself is great.

Top Critical Review

“Remove paypal payment option, block payment changes! A blatant form of theft”

Cuong L.
10/23/24

Remove paypal payment option, block payment changes! A blatant form of theft.Everything was fine until they didn't deliver on their commitments.

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Thumbnail of user ryonaln
Viet Nam
1 review
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October 23rd, 2024

Remove paypal payment option, block payment changes! A blatant form of theft.Everything was fine until they didn't deliver on their commitments.

Thumbnail of user thomasd1529
Germany
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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October 27th, 2021

This platform is a time waste - be aware that if you start to publish stories there after a while they delete them without notice. Also, the support is very rude and they don't care about your issue. I will be sure that negative feedback will be published on each site where this company is listed. And yes I have proof that this feedback is genuine after a real experience with the gumroad.com site.

Tip for consumers:
This platform is a time waste - be aware that if you start to publish stories there after a while they delete them without notice. Also, the support is very rude and they don't care about your issue. I will be sure that negative feedback will be published on each site where this company is listed. And yes I have proof that this feedback is genuine after a real experience with the gumroad.com site.

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Vatsal K. – Gumroad Rep

Hi Thomas,

I'm sorry that you had a difficult time with our support team. I'm not entirely sure what the situation here is, but if you were posting "stories" or "articles" and your account was suspended, it sounds like we may have suspended you because of concerns that your account was using us to boost your SEO - in other words, spamming. We have a big problem with the posts and bio features being used by spammers and SEO blackhatters, so we have to be quite vigilant - perhaps too vigilant in this case.

Please email support@gumroad.com if you would like us to re-review your case.

Thumbnail of user vica39
Bulgaria
1 review
1 helpful vote
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December 1st, 2022

From my experience, everything with the website is completely fine. Transactions, encryptions and usability are perfectly functional and I have 0 issues with it. I'm not sure where your worries are coming from, perhaps people buy from untrustworthy sources, without doing their research. Would recommend spending your own time figuring out if something is legit or not and actually find information about the seller. The site itself is great.

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Thumbnail of user nathanm437
Massachusetts
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August 20th, 2021

Gumroad makes it much easier to sell digital products online, provides sellers with a lot of features. The previous review states that "Gumroad is a scam" and I disagree, each product can be reviewed by the customer and I think you just need to do some research before making the purchase. If something goes wrong with a purchase you can simply open a dispute. It's the internet, there are going to be scams, but they can be avoided pretty easily.

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Thumbnail of user boshalg
Lithuania
1 review
5 helpful votes
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January 12th, 2022

This is an absolute scam! They blocked my account and confiscated all my earnings ($1000+) for no reason! When I googled them, it turned out they are known for suspending creators' payouts for non-sensical reasons!
I would stay away from such website! There are so many alternatives

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Samuel P.
Indiana
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May 22nd, 2018

I've subscribed to a few services that use Gumroad to handle their payment processing and the experience has been one of the most frustrating experiences ever. First of all, when I try to make a new subscription, the page only lets me register a new account. There is no log-in option. I have to cancel the transaction, log-in on the Gumroad site, then go back to the website of the service provider and then attempt to subscribe.

A password reset can take anywhere from 60 seconds to 2 hours to do because their email system is severely slow.

Their entire interface is a disgusting mess.

Thumbnail of user ashlynl9
New York
5 reviews
35 helpful votes
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April 1st, 2022

Yep. You heard me right. I would appreciate a proper email so i can send them proof that some of the artists they host on their platform as they are creating animated child sexual exploration and getting paid for it.

Despite gumroad being located in US which has laws against deplications of minors in sexual acts. Which extends to animated and computer generated children

I've reported one a good 5 different times a person who animates little girls in sexual acts moaning happily while it goes on. Truly sickening stuff only made worse by the fact gumroad doesn't care.

I'd attach a photo but yah know. Trying to solve a problem not become one.
And no way am i ever gonna support someone like that by giving them money. Thankfully this means these sickos have their credit card tied to their account right? Right? That'll help in getting them arrested for making such content.

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Patreon doesn't allow content like this, i'd say they are far more trust worthy and credible than this provider.

Thumbnail of user jackeda
India
1 review
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July 2nd, 2022

Love you guys at Gumroad!

Thank you for making my dream come true.

I never thought that I would make online money just by working from a small city in India.

Thankyou so much

Your man
Jacked Aecus

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Thumbnail of user rodrigog49
Portugal
1 review
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November 9th, 2021

I having been using Gumroad to sell my digital products for a while now, and I've been having a very positive experience.

The website works properly, the product listings look great, and, most importantly, I get paid for the sales I make – which is the whole point.

Of course, Gumroad isn't perfect. I've had an issue with the automatic workflows (that allow you to send automatic emails to your customers) because my name has accents in it; to be more precise, my name uses "ã" and their platform was choking on those.
I sent a customer service request saying I was having trouble with the workflows, and they immediately responded saying they'd look at it. They always kept me in the loop and told me how things were going, gave me an intermediate fix while they were solving the issue and, finally, solved the issue entirely!

As of today, I still sell my products with them.

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Thumbnail of user milkyn
RU
1 review
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January 25th, 2022

I use Gumroad for almost two years. This service was not so good some time ago, but now it's perfect! It's product-oriented style is very helpful sometimes. Working with text was very bad a year ago, but now it's very comfortable.
Creators know what they are doing:)

MilkyNail (contact me - milkynailmail gmail.com)

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Thumbnail of user kaneeshaa
Florida
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March 6th, 2023

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Thumbnail of user daveb1150
Lithuania
1 review
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February 24th, 2021

This is a complete scam site! BE AWARE!
They let creators sell digital goods, then all of a sudden they confiscate their money and suspend their accounts! BE CAREFUL and avoid using GUMROAD at any cost! It is a scam!

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Vatsal K. – Gumroad Rep

Hi Dave

I'm sorry that your account was suspended and sales refunded, but this comment doesn't appear to tell the full story of why your account was suspended, so I'll leave these here for readers to learn more about our processes:
1) https://help.gumroad.com/article/160-suspension
2) https://help.gumroad.com/article/155-things-you-cant-sell-on-gumroad
3) https://gumroad.com/terms/prohibited
4) www.gumroad.com/terms

Thumbnail of user carmenk105
Peru
1 review
2 helpful votes
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October 8th, 2022

It is an unfriendly platform for the consumer. My experience as a buyer has been terrible. Not very intuitive platform, it has difficulties in the affiliation of FOREIGN BANK ACCOUNTS and PAYPAL as well as PAYMENT.
It is URGENT that they improve the USER experience, BECAUSE there are true JEWELS hidden in the PLATFORM.

Thumbnail of user jiml1518
Morocco
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December 7th, 2023

Bad service, the fees are High and They steal data then re-send them their offers...and not withdraw the money

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Thumbnail of user lilaca1
Alabama
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April 10th, 2022

I don't have any issues with gumroad, and their discovery system has made my products rise from nothing to known. Thank you Gumroad

Thumbnail of user benk235
Algeria
1 review
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June 29th, 2020

Scam, after making purchased they suspend my account and no money. Avoid them use other services to sell your products

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Vatsal K. – Gumroad Rep

Hi Ben

I'm sorry that your account was suspended and sales refunded, but this comment doesn't appear to tell the full story of why your account was suspended, so I'll leave these here for readers to learn more about our processes:

1) https://help.gumroad.com/article/160-suspension
2) https://help.gumroad.com/article/155-things-you-cant-sell-on-gumroad
3) https://gumroad.com/terms/prohibited
4) www.gumroad.com/terms

Thumbnail of user alaiyo98a
Malaysia
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July 5th, 2023

Full of scam refund money to customer with no reason and now susponded my account.
Gumroad stupid team if you see my review come and talk to me asap

Thumbnail of user veronicam147
Italy
2 reviews
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August 24th, 2019

If you are trying to sell something on Gumroad, as good it might be for some, don't trust it. I got my very first sale last month (a small one, but still a sale) and I was planning to improve the page with more content people could enjoy, but then a few days ago out of nowhere, I received an email from the Gumroad team which notified me there was a dispute related to the purchase/payment and my account has been suspended. Now, while the FAQ page mentions you may experience this issue related to chargebacks, they also state you are free to contact them and complain about it, so that they can help you through it and eventually fix it. However, this isn't what I got when I expressed my disappointment, after reading the buyer could maybe message me and I no longer have an active profile for that. This person from the support basically brushed me off and treated me with superiority even if I was simply trying to understand what happened, the overall explanation has been extremely brief, I've been instructed to check the FAQ (which I did, and there is a clear mismatch between the provided informations) and in the end all I got was "go find another place, good luck".

This is no way to deal with disappointed customers, especially considering that the money they earn from those purchases is LOST. I have been lucky my sale was super cheap, because I read about people losing hundreds of dollars and Gumroad never gave it back despite what their site states.

Maybe you are lucky and the same problem will not happen to you, but considering how many users have been affected I honestly wouldn't bother trying. The customer support is terribly unprofessional and clearly useless when you want your account and money back. Terrible experience.

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