Maren K.
Quality + responsiveness
I've enjoyed working with a variety of people from Magic over the last 9 months, the vetting of assistants and customer support has improved as well.

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Maren K.
I've enjoyed working with a variety of people from Magic over the last 9 months, the vetting of assistants and customer support has improved as well.
Fran
More of the same of all of the other bad reviews. I'm now wondering if the good reviews were planted by Magic employees to try to avoid having their rating be a flat 1 star. Started with an assistant 2 weeks ago. She is AMAZING. I feel like I lucked out with the match - but the company the 2nd week in said that my payment couldn't be processed. The card I had on file I know works, but I added a different card just to be sure. Got the same email said the payment couldn't be processed. I tried to reach out to them several times with no response. Then I got a message from my VA saying she had been taking off of my assignment - and on my dashboard she had also been removed. The company hasn't gotten back to either of us on why this happened. I really like the assistant, but I don't want to be associated with a company that goes MIA two weeks into working with them. If you sign up, BEWARE! And just be ready that two weeks in, they'll disappear. Get the contact info of your assistant if you like working with them and maybe you can retain their services outside of this ghost company.
Response from MagicSep 1, 2022
Hello Fran, First off let me say that I am so sorry about the payment issues and no response from Magic, especially after finding an assistant that you found so amazing. I can imagine this was very frustrating. I can assure you we never ghost or stop responding. Each and every client matters to us. I looked into your account and spoke to the departments involved. It turns out there was a bug on the backend of our system due to the use of multiple email addresses for your account. It should have been easily diagnosed and solved, but unfortunately we caught the bug too late. We are so sorry for how this affected you. It doesn't change what happened in your case, but I would like you to know that we have since taken care of the glitch. More importantly, you matter to us and we want to make things right. If you ever do want to try us again we will find you a new assistant, all your questions will be answered in a timely manner, and we’d like to offer a month of a Magic assistant free of charge. If interested please reach out to us at [email protected] and reference this comment.
SDev
Wish I had read the other reviews here before wasting my time reaching out to these folks. I've sent the same inquiry via chat, email & more and yet to receive a reply from the customer service team after multiple business days. Meanwhile they keep spamming with emails to schedule a call with them. Nobody wants to schedule an onboarding call just to use a VA service — that totally defeats the purpose of hiring VAs (to save time). Don't waste your time on this company, which clearly operates as some sort of "fly-by-night" business.
Response from MagicSep 1, 2022
We are so sorry to hear you haven’t received chat and email replies. This is very frustrating for me to hear as we pride ourselves on taking care of each customer query. I have personally taken action to ensure this never happens again. We don’t know your name and respect your privacy. But please feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] and reference this comment. The team is waiting to hear from you and make things right. I would personally like to put a stop to the emails you mentioned, but since we don’t know your name I can only offer to ask you to kindly click the unsubscribe link in the footer. Should we hear from you we’ll ensure that’s taken care of as well. I can assure you that we do not operate as a “fly-by-night” business. We have over 1100 satisfied customers, so I am very saddened to hear that somehow you have fallen through the cracks. You matter to us and we really want to make things right. Regarding onboarding calls, yes we do understand that some customers don’t want to be handheld through the process, so we tested a “pick your own assistant” option but found most of our customers preferred the onboarding process. Please feel free to reach out if there’s any interest at any time.
Hayley S.
Downloaded app. Did all the start up process. Sent tasks needed. Then no response for a week. The format is a chat. No response for a week. No phone number to call. I sent an email to support. No email a week later. Months ago, I went another route with same company, requested and Booked a meeting with a virtual assistant coordinator via the website. She canceled the meeting last minute.
Response from MagicSep 1, 2022
Hello Hayley, I’m a member of the product team writing you to let you know that I hear you, and no replies for a week is not at all acceptable. Our assistants are very well trained by their leads to ensure every customer gets a reply in a timely manner, so it’s frustrating for me to hear that your requests were missed. Looking into your history I see both of the sign-up attempts over that 3-month span. I’ve talked to the teams in charge and it appears there was a major technical issue in regards to assistant allocation at that time, which has since been resolved. I am so sorry you’ve had such an experience. I’d understand if you have lost faith in us, but for what it’s worth if you do ever do want to try us again we would love to make things right. We’ll own our mistakes, find you a new assistant, all your questions will be answered in a timely manner, and offer a month of a Magic assistant free of charge. If interested please reach out to us at [email protected] and reference this comment.
Amanda M.
Was told would not have to pay if they did not close any sales deals. Now they are asking for $ with no closed sales. Scam. It's unfortunate because the actual people that are hired are nice people.
Response from MagicSep 1, 2022
Hello Amanda, I am so sorry to hear you were told you wouldn’t need to pay if sales deals weren’t closed, and then asked for payment regardless. That must’ve been very frustrating. I reviewed your communications with our team and the way we handled your situation is frankly embarrassing. Again, I'm so sorry for the way things were handled. It was confusing and unfair to you. There was a miscommunication about our billing and it simply should have been clear from the outset what your bills would look like. I hate that you feel like you were scammed. It was never meant to feel like a bait and switch. I know it's been quite a long time since this happened, but I'd like to make this right. I'm sending you an email to follow up on the details.
Jared L.
Challenges on every front. It took weeks to get the magic portal working well, the VA assigned was not as skilled as initially represented, no meaningful way to monitor VA productivity via Magic.
Response from MagicSep 1, 2022
Hello Jared, Not having a working portal, as well as an unskilled VA with no way to track their performance is very frustrating. We are so sorry this was your experience. We were in a transition period with the portal around the time you sent this review and the portal has improved significantly since then, including complete time tracking and daily summaries of your assistant's work. As well, our virtual assistant screening process has become far more rigorous than ever before. If you’d like to re-explore Magic at any time we’d love to offer a month with a better-skilled Magic assistant free of charge. If interested please reach out to us at [email protected] and reference this comment.
Jeffrey
Very happy so far with the dedicated team.
QB
I love the concept. I had a recent issue where I had them reformat a spreadsheet and it took my assistant 25 hours and in the end it was unusable. I had to redo it myself and it literally only took 1 hour to do the entire thing from the beginnging. I am no Excel expert. I have written 4 emails over 3 weeks to 2 email addresses and haven’t heard a thing. Of course they don’t have a phone number anywhere. I’ve used them a handful of times with varying results. Sometimes I end up having to redo it, but not a big deal when it’s something small. This was supposed to be small and ended up being hundreds of dollars for something that should have only taken an hour or two and I cannot get any customer service
Response from MagicSep 1, 2022
Hello QB, I am so sorry to hear that your assistant took 25 hours to do something that only took you one hour. As well, not getting a reply on 4 emails is completely unacceptable. I will say that our virtual assistant screening process has become far more rigorous than before. If you’d like to give us a second chance we’d love to find you an assistant who’s adept in excel (or whatever needs you may have provided they fit our expertise), and offer you the first month at no charge. As well, our customer support team is well trained to ensure all emails are replied to in a timely manner. We don’t know your name and respect your privacy. But please feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] and reference this comment. The team is waiting to hear from you and make things right.