Reply from Cyberlab PC CleanerAug 14, 2021
Hi Jim Snell,
Thanks for being a customer since 2012!
And thanks for the most interesting review I've read to date about our company! It's the first time I woke up with 14 emails from Trustpilot from the 14 times your review was edited over the period of 7 hours last Friday night. I especially thought it was odd because our support team answered all your questions in less than one hour and most within a few minutes. You were well informed multiple times prior to posting this review that what you posted is false.
Like most software companies (even large ones like Microsoft and Adobe), we use resellers to sell our software online. Each reseller provides us the order form to use on our website and they each have their own compliance departments and legal team to ensure they follow Visa/Mastercard rules plus all government laws and tax regulations worldwide. We have accounts with currently or are approved to sell our software through all the major resellers, including two in Canada.
Jim, I believe this one star review is solely because you misinterpret a law in Canada and because our reseller, Paddle, has different features than our reseller, 2Checkout and for personal reasons you don't like the change to Paddle, which is fine, you can switch back to 2Checkout, we use them as one of our resellers as you know.
I was delighted to spend over one hour on Saturday writing in detail via email to you how things work at our company, how software resellers work, what the laws are and explain that the law you are reading is being misinterpreted, to assure you everything is being done legally and ethically. I've owned the company since 2004, so I believe I know what I'm talking about, how subscriptions work and how software resellers work. I hoped you could have a better understanding of our industry and how it all works in relation to what the stated concerns were.
Jim, your previous ZookaWare/Cyberlab subscription through 2Checkout was partially refunded at your request in 2019 which cancelled the subscription (that's simply what 2Checkout does, it's not our policy) and due to a mistake on our side you got a free year of our software. Then you switched to a different reseller, Paddle, who handles subscriptions differently, and better in our opinion. If you want a subscription through your original reseller, 2Checkout, all you have to do is ask us because we'd be happy to send you the order link to sign up with 2checkout again!
Over 90% of our comments about switching to our reseller Paddle have been overwhelmingly positive, but I understand sometimes people don't like change or they like different features or the way one thing looks over another and that's why you were welcome to keep your original 2Checkout subscription or sign up for a new Cyberlab Ultimate subscription through 2checkout!
Our company sold our software as a yearly auto renewal subscription since 2004. We have not changed anything about how we handle yearly subscriptions. You are emailed at least one week prior to billing any subscription and you can cancel any time (including on the thank you page you'll see a couple seconds after your initial purchase). Some of our resellers allow you to cancel in the emails too, each one has different features.
All purchases, including yearly subscription renewals, always have a 60 day money back guarantee.
I reviewed the 14 emails you sent to our support department over a 6 hour period last Friday. Considering how rude many were, accusing us of criminal activity, credit card fraud, illegally storing your credit card (we don't), telling our support they took 6 days to respond to you (it was less than one hour), I feel our support handled your emails in a professional manner.
We don't handle any credit card data, we don't store credit cards, we don't charge credit cards, or manage subscriptions, thus it's impossible for us to even commit the crimes you accuse us of. This was all explained in incredible detail by me and I hoped since you've been a subscriber for 9 years we could reach a mutual understanding. It seems I failed at explaining things well enough, maybe the wildfire smoke is starting to effect us all.
I believe your original complaint regarding support is because you contacted Paddle, our reseller, who is based in London England. Our reseller does not provide support for our product as they stated to you and told you to contact our company. Our reseller does handle billing, charging your credit card, PCI Compliance, subscription billing, storing payment information, legally selling you the software and collecting/paying sales tax. They ensure everything is done legally in every country worldwide and they are very good at it.
Jim, I personally reviewed your support requests in the past 18 months, I see one time you waited 12 hours for a response because tech support had to look into a technical issue to see what was causing your issue and it was solved within that time. I see one email last month that took 3 days to respond to because we had a couple emails go into the wrong folder in our support center and didn't see them because they are not supposed to be in that folder. We contacted our support center company about the folder bug and are watching so it doesn't happen again. Other than that, I see that we always responded quickly to your requests, always the same day, sometimes within the hour and sometimes in real time.
Plus, I doubt you will find any competitor of ours whose owner or CEO will personally email you on a Saturday.
Our support team deserves to be treated in a professional manner. Our support team does not deserve these false accusations posted about them in this false Trustpilot review or what was said to them. Our support team is an incredible group that gets high marks from almost everyone.
I like to say that support is a two way street, the better you can describe your issue or question, the better and faster we can solve your issue!
Carl Haugen
CEO/Founder
Cyberlab Technologies