SchoolStoreReviews of schoolstore.com

I started getting email messages that looked very personal from our grandson who is in second grade and doesn't have an email account. He pleaded for me to help him earn points towards a toy, a bubble blaster that looked like the kind of party favor given to little kids at a friend's birthday party, cheap. So I looked at the website. I just love cheddar cheese popcorn and for only $29.95 I can get a 9.5 ounce bag! Must be some pretty good popcorn at $3.15 per ounce! So I thought, maybe a nice insulated mug for the car. They have a Yukon Outfitters 20 oz Camo mug for only $54.95. I looked at the Yukon Outfitters website, currently out of stock on the Camo mug but when in stock it is priced there at $15.99 and ones in stock are as low as $8.99 for other colors. That's a 3.4 to 6.11 markup depending on the mug. Now I know a company has to make a profit but this is CRAZY. I'm a grandfather and great grandfather who raised 8 kids with my wife. We were PTA leaders back in the day so we had direct dealings with fundraising companies over the years. They all had some markup on their products but I've never seen anything like this. The sad thing is, I know how these things usually work. The school lets a fundraising representative into the school for an assembly, these folks are good at what they do, like old fashioned used car salesmen; they get the kids all excited with promises of how great the prizes are and how easy getting sales will be. Reminds me of the Music Man: "Seventy-six trombones led the big parade With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand. They were followed by rows and rows of the finest virtuoso, the cream of every famous band."

Items are overpriced and there is a very limited selection in each category. Should you choose to do a donation to the classroom instead, the minimum donation is $30! That can get costly if you have more than one grandchild in school. And there is a processing fee. You cannot do one checkout for all the students you're supporting. So you have to purchase/donate once per child. This is also hard on whoever is supporting the students. The only reason I participate is to not disappoint my grandkids as they receive "prize points" for purchases and donations. I also saw one review from a teacher complaining about poor quality items to purchase with the gift card donations they receive. That is sorry. Every year I hope their school will have a different fundraiser because this one is so bad. I would rather write a check to the school. How about candy bars? Donuts? There are lots of great fundraisers I have participated in over the years. To the schools considering Schoolstore: PLEASE choose another one.

I am a teacher and love to see support from our families, but this is not the way to raise money. The prizes students receive are a bunch of junk. The store teachers use the gift cards in are filled with overpriced items. It makes me curious, how much is this company profiting from their business disguised as a fundraiser for schools?

Unbelievably scammy. They send out emails IN THE KIDS' NAMES to the parents, pretending like the email came from the kid. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW ALARMING IT IS TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL FROM YOUR SECOND GRADER AT 8:42 AM WHEN YOU KNOW THE KID HAS NO ACCESS TO EMAIL AT SCHOOL????? Update: The braindead response from the company tells you everything you need to know about them. I complained that they sent an email to me in my kid's name. They responded saying that they allow parents to send emails in their kids' names. I pretty obviously didn't send that email to myself.

Hi I think this is a scam the prices are so outrageous and I so some reviews and school store had made 250,000000 in 40 years and had helped 40,000 that give us a grand total of 156.25 per year per school

I would rather give money straight to the teachers. The pricing of items and money to points ratio is ABSOLUTELY ridiculous! Sure I’ll send emails for the cheap prize but I don’t expect anyone to purchase from the store.

Last year I spent an obscene amount of money trying to help my granddaughter get points, but it’s a scam. The point don’t reference the amount of money that you have to spend and the things that they receive are cheap in Gotti this company is worthless and school shouldn’t use them. I’d spend $100 on my grandkids school if it was something worthwhile not a big scam. It’s only been three days and I have received three emails since Friday.

If this is truly a fundraiser to support teachers, it’s a GIANT SCAM. Sure it’s nice getting the email with all of your class gift cards. However, you can ONLY use the gift cards at their company store. The store is full of OVERPRICED, useless junk that we (teachers) don’t want or need. A 2 pack of sticky notes cost $33. Everything cost 3 or 4 times what it cost at a store. Even Office Depot gives us better discounts. It would’ve been more beneficial for parents to buy what we actually want and need from our Amazon wishlist. As a teacher, this is a huge fail.