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Maine
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Had to chase my Christmas card order down. Already 4 days late. Now promise to deliver 5 days from now - should not take 18 days to get Christmas cards. Shutterfly is unwilling to give me a full refund. Will never use them again. They charged my credit card $120 and I still have not Christmas cards. They have lost a customer in me.

Date of experience: December 10, 2021
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Order never received
December 18, 2020

I ordered my Christmas Cards from Shutterfly on November 28th, 2020. I received an email on 11-30 that the shipping label had been created and the package would be delivered between 12-3 and 12-7. The next update was from 12-4 saying that USPS was still waiting to receive the item from Shutterfly. That was the last update that was received. 2 weeks have passed (today is now 12-18), I have not received my order and am not able to log a complaint or seek a refund with Shutterfly because their wait times online and by phone always number greater than 100 people waiting.

Date of experience: December 18, 2020
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Promo Code Fraud
November 25, 2022

If you receive a promo code for a "free" anything from Shutterfly, beware that the promo code will likely not work and when you spend all your time uploading and cropping photos for the new free calendar before you realize that once in your Cart, it will say the promo code has expired, prior to the actual given expiration date. And, after more time spent with the online assistant, who said to try the promo code and it would work, it still did not work, after several tries and closing the Cart and trying again several times. FYI shipping and handling is not included with the "free" calendar regardless, so you pay over $8 for the free calendar if you are fortunate enough to get the promo code to deliver the promised free item.

Date of experience: November 25, 2022
Maryland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Print quality is horrendous!
December 30, 2021

I uploaded 5 X 7 and 8 X 10 scanned photos at high resolution of 1600dpi. I purchased ten 11 X 14 prints. I threw every last one out. All of the prints looked like I was looking through a fish tank of water. Totally useless prints and a waste of $100. I cannot believe a company like this could stay in business with such horrible quality prints. This was my first purchase from them and now it is my last.

Date of experience: December 30, 2021
Minnesota
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Order taken and $$ paid on November 29,2020. Order in system December 3,2020. After that, radio silence and no viable or reasonable way to contact them. Emails and phone calls have not been addressed. It is December 22,2020 and I am asking for a full refund. It was declined as the cards are in the system - I might get the cards by December 24th. Not reasonable and actually shameful in 2020. They are keeping my funds and think that is okay.

Date of experience: December 22, 2020
Virginia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I am EXTREMELY upset with my photo book. First of all I ordered this book as a gift and it came in a Shutterfly box which gave away the gift when my husband checked the mail! Couldnt you be a little more discreet? Secondly when my children gave my husband his Fathers Day present, as he opened it, the pages were coming out of the binding! Not only was this embarrassing but it was upsetting as well to all of us. Now I have to tape it or something. And not to mention that their site is so bad to use! Its not user friendly and their tools are so outdated. I spent an entire day and night making this book and it arrived as trash. This is completely unacceptable!

Date of experience: June 17, 2018
Arizona
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The price advertised for is generally not the price you'll be paying. Then they don't let you combine discounts like 40%off a regular item and free shipping when you reach a certain price. Total scam.

Date of experience: November 30, 2020
South Carolina
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Very poor quality
May 22, 2023

CAVEAT EMPTOR (BUYER BEWARE)...Costco should be ashamed to joint venture with these people. I blew $40 on prints that were so blurred, they were unusable. After 45 mins on the phone, the "hard to understand" foreign representative, informed me that they could only give me a credit for the prints...not the expensive shipping. If there was a 0 star review, it would be my score.

Date of experience: May 22, 2023
Oregon
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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No help from Support
December 11, 2022

Customer service is awful! Placed an order, noticed something was off with the order after receiving the confirmation email. Messages through the chat option and asked if they could check if my image actually loaded. With no given reason my order was cancelled. The chat was ended immediately with no response as to why. I entered the chat again and let the next agent know what just happened and they ended the chat abruptly. They stink, will never use Shutterfly again.

Date of experience: December 11, 2022
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I use to use Shutterfly for Christmas cards, photos, & calendars every year and loved them. Since December of 2020 they SUCK! I use to have no problems making calendars for x-mas gifts and now it is impossible. I spend hours making it & it won't save or it is added to the cart and then vanishes. So sick of this crap & now done with this website. SAD... don't know what happened!

Date of experience: April 24, 2021
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
Illinois
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Terrible quality of acrylic prints and even worse customer service! It takes forever to return and get money back! Numerous calls and time on hold. Still haven't gotten my money back

Date of experience: January 17, 2024
Canada
1 review
13 helpful votes
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The website and app did not state anywhere the currency. I assumed it was in my currency which is cad. I also noticed that my shutterfly order was about $5 more than my local Walmart but I decided to order anyways. I got an email confirmation after paying that also did not show the currency. I paid $18. Days later, I check my credit card statement and I was charged $28 for a few prints that were already overpriced to begin with. I probably paid $15 more than I needed to for. Waste of money.

Date of experience: May 23, 2020
Iowa
1 review
1 helpful vote
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All the prices have increased during Black Friday sale of their products and they are giving 50% off everything.

The cost of hard cover for photo book usually $10 is now $20. Cost of standard lay flat usually $25 is $30. Even cost of additional pages for photo book is doubled f and they claim to offer a 50% off Black Friday deal.

They cheat customers. Watch out.

Date of experience: November 22, 2017
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Beautiful pic of my wife and new granddaughter, no grand daughter.
Good shot of whole family on first page was repeated in pixelated mush on last page. Ordered soft cover, came as hard cover.
Not using this ever and not reccomending to anyone.

Date of experience: January 27, 2022
California
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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I ordered 80 holiday cards and envelopes from Shutterfly. I intended to have both addressees and the return address shown on the envelopes but made a mistake. I spent 39 minutes on the phone with a Shutterfly rep and she refused to let me order corrected envelopes. Shutterfly insisted that I spend another $200 for new cards in order to get corrected envelopes. I will never do business with them again.

A terrible terrible company.

Date of experience: November 3, 2018
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Terrible pictures
September 29, 2020

I have ordered from Shutterfly for years however this last time, the pictures were terrible. The pictures were off center, heads were cut off on many of the pictures and there is no way to contact a person to speak with.
Would not recommend

Date of experience: September 29, 2020
Pennsylvania
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I ordered an apron for my wife's birthday. I paid extra for shipping so it would arrive on time. The website stated the delivery date was "guaranteed". It did not even ship by that date. I told them if it didn't arrive by that date to cancel the order. Instead they shipped it late. They said they would refund the extra shipping charges which they did not. The customer service rep didn't even address my questions but instead responded to something else that I didn't even ask. Please DO NOT purchase from Shutterfly, go somewhere else.

Date of experience: July 29, 2015
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Decided to try Shutterfly this year for my holiday cards. After 4 days of trying to complete a photo card because the site kept freezing then NOT saving my project, I decided to go back to my reliable Vistaprint and completed my card in 20 minutes. Shutterfly waisted my precious time and my time is too valuable. I even reach out to customer service and they were absolutely no help.

Date of experience: January 2, 2022
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Total fail
December 21, 2023

Placed a large order with Shutterfly for Christmas. Received a partial order of ornaments. The partial order was missing four identical ornaments. Contacted Shutterfly and was informed the missing four ornaments would be included in the next two shipments. A few days later, received the second partial shipment which contained two of the missing ornaments. I did not receive word on the third partial shipment. When checked the status online on the estimated arrival date, it showed not shipped. Contacted Shutterfly again and was told it was shipped with an arrival date of December 26 using UPS smartmail. After getting unacceptable answers from a customer service representative, asked to speak with a supervisor. The supervisor stated since the order had already shipped, the best he could do was to refund the shipping fees. ( It was free shipping due to the order amount.) So now we have just a little over half the ornaments that were ordered.

Date of experience: December 21, 2023

Overview

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.

This summary is generated by AI, based on text from customer reviews

service
295
value
277
shipping
284
returns
169
quality
246
This company does not typically respond to reviews
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