Contirbutor Experience: Refund, Payout and Terrible Service :(
I was a featured seller on ui8.net and had a partnership with Dash(CEO - Ui8). I sold illustration packs for them for more than 2years and had a good partnership too.
After I wasn't happy with the amount of sales generated and recent restrictions with the Payoneer, I asked them to make some of my products for free. They didn't. So, I tried several times to payout my sales balance that was open before closing the account. But I'm banned for the truth and won't even get that balance.
Please Note : After you stop partnering with them, they keep your money.
I don't really care about my several bucks. But they do :D
I'm not recommend this platform for contributers.
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Teef E.
AVOID AVOID AVOID (Real Buyer Review)
I ordered a Full App XD Design, it was mentioned that i should receive 52 slides, i only received a XD file with 47 slider, not complete .. Missing the User Profile Page and all its subsidiaries. i tried to reach out to the support team that is supposed to respond within few hours.. 3 days !! not a single response.. i talked to the seller, he responded in few hours and he asked me for extra money out of UI8 to send me the complete version, absolutely misleading and no support from their team whatsoever.... this is a rip off. please avoid this website.. do not buy anything from them.. AVOID AVOID AVOID
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Emilie
Dark Patterns - being charged for something that I never subscribed to
I initially bought one of the all-access pass from Sep which lasted for 3 months. The product description made it sound like it was a one-off purchase. And then out of nowhere in Dec I was emailed an invoice saying that they charged me for another one of the exact same pass which I do not need nor purchased. To this day I still don't know whether it was on auto-renew by mistake or they charged my credit card accidentally. I tried writing to the support team to delete my credit card details and get a refund but all I got was useless instructions to ask me to go to the billing page. This really feels like a dark pattern to me if they only make it easy for you to purchase but not to opt out or cancel. And these auto-renew options really was not apparent when I made the purchase initially. It is extremely frustrating being charge $150+ for something you don't want / are not using.
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Ariel B.
An insult to sellers and creators. Only 2%?
Hello I am both a pass holder and a seller on UI8
My product has 8 pass downloads of which I have made $3.84 from
That’s 0.48c per download for something I have listed for $24
Paying the creators only a mere insignificant 2% for all is absolutely unethical and a joke - they are basically giving away their work for nothing.
Having paid a whopping $523.56 AUD for my year pass I know you can afford to pay the creators more for their work and still profit off the pass.
I am sure the data will back that pass holders do not download products to the full extent of the pass. They do not need or use 40 downloads a day, most pass holders would have around 60 downloads for the whole year - though I am sure you have the data on the average. It’s like a gym membership, some members go every day, some members go once a month. Or insurance, some people make claims, some don’t, they profit from those who make no claims and can be at a loss for those who do but as a whole, they are in profit as more people don’t make claims.
the % payout for pass downloads to the creators should be AT LEAST 10% - ideally at least 20%. 2% is insulting. a $24 product deserves at least $2.40c which is still incredibly insignificant.
People are basically getting 30 hours of my work, for free, at my hourly rate of $100 an hour, I would need to make $3000 in sales to cover the efforts.
At 0.48c per download for pass holders
that’s 6,250 downloads to cover the costs.
My pass is AUD 523.56 a year
Let’s say I downloaded 60 assets for that entire year as a freelance designer
on average the creator gets 50c
Out of my $523.56 pass, the total $ gone to the creators of those downloads is… $30 … what the...
The creators get $30and you get $493.56 for all their hard work. that does not sound right, does it?
So please increase the % payout to creators for pass downloads or give the creators the option to turn pass downloads off.
As a pass holder, I now feel unethical taking creator's hard work when they get nothing in return.
Thank-you
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Joe B.
Seller only get 2% of the product price…
Seller only get 2% of the product price from the subscription That's disgusting
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Mihail P.
The UI8 company does not write on its website the whole truth about the terms of cooperation with content authors.
The UI8 company does not write on its website the whole truth about the terms of cooperation with content authors.
Last month I developed a pack of 3D icons and try to sell it using the website UI8. The website clearly states that authors receive 70% or more of all sales. The author registration page also says: get 70% on every individual sale and 90% on exclusive sales. In fact, it turned out that everything was wrong.
As it turned out, UI8 users with an unlimited subscription can download your file and you will receive 2% of the product price for this. And since most of the UI8 users have this subscription, then most likely you will share your work for virtually free. The most interesting thing is that tech support was never able to provide me with a page on their website with information about these conditions. Instead, in response to my proposal to write on my own about these rules on popular design sites, my account was blocked and they said that I threaten them :) Also, it seems, they decided to insult me for being from Russia. Dear UI8, I, like the absolute majority of Russians, are peace-loving people who want to earn by honest work. I'm not responsible for someone's actions, but I don't want to be deceived by respected resources for designers.
My work was exhibited for $ 36, and in the end it was downloaded by 5 people by subscription, which brought me $3. But I'm banned for the truth and won't even get that.
UI8 claims that 85% of revenue comes from personal sales and only 15% is from subscription downloads. It turns out that in order to get $100 (the minimum amount available for withdrawal), you need 3 people to pay the real amount ($36 (the author's income is 70%)) and about 20 people got this job actually for free.
I do not dissuade anyone from working with this service, but I believe that the truth should not be hidden from the authors, especially this information is very important. Good luck to all!
Response from UI8Jan 8, 2021
Hi Mihail,
We're sorry to hear about your experience while selling products on our platform. Immediately after becoming an author, we sent you an email with all the details about how the All-Access pass works, this would be the 3rd email you get from us with the subject "Welcome to UI8", please check your spam folder.
Please note, more than half of our team works remotely from Russia and our COO is a Russian native which leads us to believe this was some sort of miscommunication.
If you have a balance due on your account, please reach out to [email protected] with your payment request.
Thanks!
AI
Alexey I.
Lawlessness on the part of the company
Lawlessness on the part of the company! Beware of deception! They deleted me without my consent and reasons without paying money and completely hide their contact information! See you in court!
UI8.net answered but it's not a true. I did't asked to delete my account. I asked how i can delete my account. To know how i do that if i go to other platform. And UI8.net just deleted me. But i received Payment already.
Response from UI8Dec 14, 2020
Hi Alexey,
We're sorry about your experience in our platform but your statement is completely false. You did in fact request to delete your account as well as all products. Your account was also paid immediately after being deleted and we have proof readily available.
Thank you for being part of UI8.
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Terrible service
I bought one unlimited pass in 2017. I discovered that my account cannot be used normally last week. I have tried to contact online customer service many times. Finally, a customer service called Eli blocked my account directly. So terrible! This account has always been my personal use. I paid money for you! Why you blocked my account! I
Response from UI8May 20, 2020
Your account was permanently banned due to being linked to a site or group that is illegally distributing products from our platform.
Copyright infringement is illegal, we suggest to contact our legal counsel if you need further clarifications: legal(at)ui8.net