Buy Me a Coffee Reviews

Summary: Even though I've been with them for just about a year, I've suddenly got a hold on my account for no apparent reason and there seems to be no way to get the money that I earned from my supporters. They are making me feel like I'm illegitimate and not good enough to use their service even though I've got a good product that I've been offering for a long time. So I guess that means they're just going to keep my money? I've read other reviews and obviously many other people are not able to get their money either. But this seems very new, like the past couple of months only. I would not recommend. It's a waste of time.

Positive: At first, it seemed pretty easy to set up, and aesthetically it looks good. They have a decent FAQ, it's just not all that accurate, turns out.

Negative: It's kinda difficult for payers to understand how to give which amounts. Also, we cannot get the money we earned.

Summary: I have $60 in my buymeacoffee account. It’s not much but someone paid me for an art commission through there and I really need to have that money to complete the commission otherwise the commission was free! I had to have my account verified which took several days and now I’m trying to get the money sent to my bank. It’s currently pending and I can’t tell if it’s saying it’ll be deposited this Wednesday or next Wednesday. Apparently they only send you money on Wednesday’s! I’m not confident they will send it to me though. They seem fishy. Especially with all the other bad reviews here. I hope I get my money and when I do, I’m disabling my buymeacoffee account. It really shouldn’t be that hard or have to wait this long to be paid. Paypal gives you funds instantly.

Positive: None.
They happily take money from you and that’s all I have to say about it.

Negative: Don’t know if I’ll get my money.

Summary: Overall experience was not bad, in the beginning, until I meet misunderstanding with content rules and got banned forever at once, with out any warnings. All my attempts to explain my situation and correct my content to meet their requirements were neglected by their support team in highly disrespectful form.

Use it for your own risk.

Positive: Not bad features as: people can buy your products without registration, possibility to take donations, also supports Payoneer for payouts.

Negative: They can ban your account forever without any explanations and investigation, also can hold all your earnings, disaster support, full negligence and disrespect to creators rights. At some point support just will stop answering your emails...
My creators page still banned, already 3 month passed.

Summary: Terrible, big scam scheme, do not bring your fan base to this website! Terrible support, they will ban you and keep the donations.

Positive: Do not bring your fan base to this website, they will ban you and not repass the money that was donated to you.
If you don't want to have a big headache, don't fall for it. It's a big scam scheme.

Negative: Scam Alert!
Big scam scheme, do not bring your fan base to this website.

Summary: This company should be avoided at all costs for both creators and supporters. As a long distance hiker, I created a page two weeks ago to allow my supports to give donations and encouragement as I walk 1470km in 80 days. Firstly, Buy Me a Coffee allowed me to create an account and my followers to send donations before suddenly blocking my account with a vague excuse of “violating terms and services”. Very convenient for them now $250 USD is in their account which I cannot access. There is no one to speak with or contact to resolve this issue directly and it seriously feels like a scam for myself and my supporters who are very distressed their donations didn’t go to myself and are being held by this renegade company. How is a wholesome activity like hiking that promotes health, connection to nature and fitness a violation of anything? It’s completely unfounded and offensive behaviour by an unprofessional company that doesn’t even have one single named customer representative to deal with grievances. Please don’t use their services to avoid this highly disappointing and cynical experience.

Positive: None so far unless they rectify their mistakes. Perhaps the only good point is learning to avoid such companies that appear to extort money from legitimate supporters while not allowing creators to receive these funds.

Negative: Please read below in the overall section for a detailed account of the horrible experience I am currently having with Buy Me a Coffee.

Summary: I really hoped everyone would be wrong and it would work out well. It didn't. My money is lost, I got absolutely dragged. Kind of funny now that I think about it... Kind advice: don't use them and spar yourself the troubles I had.:)

Positive: Interactive and creative tools, but they ban people with no warning, and for no reason. BEWARE. Your month's work is in jeopardy with them.

Negative: Should have listened to all those who advised me... Least I can do is write my experience here, so hopefully other people won't make the mistakes I did. This website is not cooperative at all, so disappointing.

Summary: Please someone sue them and remove them from existence. Please remove them someone, they should not be doing what they are doing, running professional scam business.

Positive: Nothing, they are scammers. They are stealing your funds and are truly inconsistent when they are promoting, so they are liars.

Negative: "Hi there! Thanks for your patience. I just heard back from our team and unfortunately, the decision to ban your account is permanent due to high-risk concerns about multiple failed transaction reports from our payment processor. I hope you understand, and super sorry about all of this.

Unfortunately, our team was unable to payout your balance as this will be against the Terms of Use. Our payment processor will be initiating a refund of your outstanding balance and payments back to your supporters after 30 days from account deactivation. Alternatively, you can refund the payments back to your supporters and afterward, this should take 5-10 business days to reach their respective balances."

This is the final verdict as trusted people wanted to fund me, please remove this company from reality, I had shared everything and complied with everything, and gave all the details they requested. They collected the rest of my supporter's money and decided to steal them. This company should be sued for its expertise in stealing people's funds. All they conclude is super sorry that they are stealing my faithful supporter's fund. Please someone bring them to the court and remove them from existence. They do not allow you to explain the suspicious failed payments, etc... They are the ones who did not allow the payment to go through.

Summary: Worst of the worst. Strongly recommend to avoid Buy Me a Coffee at all cost! They will let your supporters send money and they will cut their fees but won't let you withdraw your own money!

Positive: No pros, they are scammers that stole my money. They will let your supporters send money to you and then they won't let you withdraw them.

Negative: Scammers that will let your supporters send you money but won't let you withdraw your money.

Summary: The Buy Me A Coffee entity actively censors and CANCELS Americans making an honest living. This is happening now, in May 2023.

Positive: Nothing. Buy Me A Coffee censors and cancels Americans without recourse. This occurred this week, in May of 2023.

Negative: Actively censors and cancels Americans without recourse in 2023.