Excellent
Based on 59 reviews
Giverrang4.5Honesty, pricing, process and quality scores appear once 5 customers have rated them.
Giverrang makes Community Gift Cards for communities across the U.S. Our cards are Mastercard prepaid cards and we have developed a special technology that allows us to lock each card so that it can only be spent at a curated set of merchants in an area (e.g. chamber of commerce) or geo-lock it to work at all businesses in a specific town or county. Our tech allows us to launch tailor made card programs for economic developers or self-launch programs at scale.
Giverrang (giverrang.com) has 59 customer reviews on Folks Told, with an average rating of 4.5 out of 5.
59 approved reviews, newest moderated first
John
This is the perfect gift for our daughter who lives just next to one of the highlighted businesses. We didn't receive the electronic card immediately so I followed up with customer service. They responded quickly and took care of everything. Great service !
Kimberly B.
Quick to respond and help! Everything went smoothly. Mark was willing to help and do everything possible to make me satisfied. Thank you Mark!
Carole S.
Bought a gift card on line from Giverrang as a Xmas gift and it couldn't be used at the store that I wanted it for. This company was so nice to work with and always contacted me until we got our problem solved. They were great, returned the money for the card.
Michael F.
Giverrang always follows through with their promises and their commitment to customer service is unparalleled. Couple this with an incredible product and you have a company that stands above the rest!
Erika
I’m the owner of Hair by Erika Passey…..I have NEVER given this company or any affiliates rights to sell gift cards on my behalf. WHAT A SCAM
Reply from GiverrangNov 15, 2022
Hello Erika, we can understand how there can be confusion if you simply came across your listing online and did not have the proper context around our "Indie Community Gift Card" product or mission. Hair by Erika was listed as we are actually suggesting that people spend our San Antonio TX Community Gift Card at your business, which is a prepaid Mastercard you accept and are paid like any other Mastercard. Our card is specially geo-locked to only be spent at small businesses in San Antonio (and excludes the big chains) to help bring more money and attention your way. Plus, we thought you would be a great local business to promote! We apologize if we mistakenly thought you accepted Mastercard and were in the Mastercard program. Please let us know if this is the case. Ultimately, our mission is to help independent businesses across the country like yours by raising the profile of small businesses and redirecting consumer behavior away from the likes of Amazon and Wall Street back to Main Street. To avoid this kind of confusion, we host a Merchant Listings explanation page (https://giverrang.com/merchant-listing) to explain to merchants the purpose of the listing and our mission, or you can always contact us directly so that we have a chance to explain. And if a business still does not want to be listed in the "suggested businesses" listings, that is no problem at all, we always act fast to remove any unwanted listings. In any event, we have gone ahead and removed your listing. We are only trying to help small businesses, and certainly never want to upset the very merchants we are working so hard to help succeed. We hope this helps clarify matters and that you can appreciate our attempt to help and do good in this world. Thank you and all the best to you. P.S. We are open to your feedback should you like to reach out to our team directly ([email protected])
Michelle H.
Prompt and friendly service! Would totally recommend to others.
An Ohio Licensed C.
As the owner of The Look in Ohio; I did not know who Giverrang was. I found my business presence unknowingly, unsolicited on their website. I’ve never been contacted by them nor have I ever given them permission to use my business for gain and I do not accept their Gift Cards. Please remove my business from the Giverrang website that is NOT locally based in Ohio. Giverrang's business practice / behavior is unacceptable and untrustworthy due to the back door, inappropriate manner of business exploitation and extortion. Unethical, not intended to assist local businesses they’ve not solicited to ask permission to promote their own brand/company. Giverrang is not listed with the Better Business Bureau but you can report their unsolicited business practice by filing a complaint at https :// www .ic3.gov / the select submit an Internet crime complaint with the IC3 THIS IS A CRIME it is misleading & unsolicited! or by doing a Google search "How to Report Scam Websites" UPDATE REPLY TO GIVERANG RESPONSE: What Giverrang is doing is dangerous, causing grief to the business owners they violate which can result in serious health effects to those they violate. Giverang responded to my review thanking me for hurting their business; they are doing that themselves because they are attempting to gain from posting business to their website for profit without the businesses permission causing grief. Maybe Giverrang should not add businesses to their website for profit unknowingly WITHOUT their permission and they would not have this problem, It's just as simple as that. If their intent was good and legit there wouldn't be SO MANY reviews such as mine. They would’ve sought out the permission of the business owner with respect to obtaining their permission while explaining their purpose. Evidently they must’ve known that it wouldn’t be accepted because they did it unethically and without permission. When a business owner discovers Giverang is using their business for profit without their permission and gives Giverrang a negative review / response; expressing being taken advantage of or violated, Giverrang comes with an attempt to explain their business ONLY after that business has discovered / reviewed Giverangs scamming, unsolicited behavior. Giverrang again insults that business, uses their review in an attempt for advertising gain, all around unethical. If Giverrang is reading between the lines of reviews of their company’s behavior and detects anger from these reviews by businesses that they’ve violated for profit, then they must know their business practices are unethical and unwanted. Unsolicited using business without permission for profit that is unwanted is not helping the business owner nor doing them any good at all. Now Giverrang is here seeking sympathy, speaking about being a small business attempting to have an impact on communities THEY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT NOR CARE ABOUTt while insulting the business owner they violated in responses of reviews such as this. Many business owners are small startups as well, running their business alone; some business owners are disabled with sensitive, severe health issues running their business to pay their medical bills. They have health issues that can be triggered and possibly cause death from the stress of dealing with unwanted issues of unethical business practices from businesses like Giverang who profit from them without permission. Giverrang makes excuses about not being able to reach out to every business owner to ask for permission to promote / profit their own business on their website, because they say they don’t have the help. Giverrang CONTRADICTS themselves here because they have the time to post lengthy responses to reviews of those they violate as if they are the victim. Giverrang’s business behavior is costing & forcing these businesses to defend the integrity of their business from this un-permissible association & backdoor profit; but don't have time to email/call them to ask for permission to post/profit from them. Giverrangs sounds like they have a grudge against Amazon. I don't see Amazon on the Giverrang website because they would sue Giverrang. Giverang claims to be helping business owners in disenfranchised communities via The Chamber of Commerce but The Chamber of Commerce does not condone this type of business practice Giverrang uses as an excuse. Giverrang wants to force me to contact them to be removed when I NEVER contacted, called, text, emailed, or asked for their help in the first place. After discovering how they conduct business which is a contradictory lie about what they claim their business is about, AGAIN, please remove my business The Look from your website Giverrang. I am not interested. Thank You
Reply from GiverrangNov 8, 2022
We have removed The Look in Dayton, OH from our website. Giverrang's product is a gift card that can be spent at any local independent business in a community. We list local businesses to suggest some places the cards can be spent, but if a business prefers not to be listed we are happy to remove them.
Yavon B.
I am the owner of Family First Cleaning & Handyman Solutions, LLC. We have never given GIVERRANG permission to use our business name or to present themselves as an affiliate to our company. Please do not buy any gift cards from them for the use of our services. If you would utilize our services from our company, please go directly to our website or call us directly at 214 430 1134. Thank you, Yavon Brewster
Reply from GiverrangOct 5, 2022
Hi Yavon, our company co-founder had an extensive conversation with you over the phone yesterday after you left this review and we appreciated that you took the time to give us a call to speak with us. We were able to explain what our product actually was, why there are merchant listings, and our mission to help small businesses across the US through our Community Gift Cards. Yavon, we hope the conversation helped shine light and addressed some of what you wrote here too. Yavon offered some suggestions on how to cause less alarm to small businesses and recommended we reach out as much as we can to business owners to make them aware of Giverrang and our Community Gift Cards. We certainly would love to reach out to every small business owner, but as a small team there are practical limitations to being able to reach out to millions of businesses especially when your goal is to have the widest impact possible. For example, the difficult question we ask ourselves is do we cut off our ability to bring many more dollars to small businesses across the country just to ask permission to businesses whether it is OK that we tell our customers to go spend at their business? Perhaps from this perspective, the challenge for our team becomes more clear. That said, we are working hard internally on how we can make the purpose of the listings more clear as well as what else we can do to share our service with merchants and others to raise awareness and eliminate confusion. Suggestions from businesses on how to accomplish this feat are always appreciated since we are working to positively impact you so we want to listen intently to better service our mission of boosting communities/local economies by promoting small businesses. Also our listings never claim that Giverrang is an affiliate of any business. To business owners, businesses are only listed as we are merely suggesting that people spend our Community Gift Card at your business, which is a prepaid Mastercard you accept and are paid like any other Mastercard. Our card is specially geo-locked to only be spent at small businesses in your town (and excludes the big chains) to help bring more money and attention your way. Plus, we thought you would be a great local business to promote! We apologize if we mistakenly thought you accept Mastercard and were in the Mastercard program. Please let us know if this is the case. Ultimately, our mission is to help independent businesses across the country like yours by raising the profile of small businesses and redirecting consumer behavior away from the likes of Amazon and Wall Street back to Main Street. To avoid this kind of confusion, we host a Merchant Listings explanation page (https://giverrang.com/merchant-listing) to explain to merchants the purpose of the listing and our mission, or you can always came to us directly so that we have a chance to explain. And if a business still does not want to be listed in the "suggested businesses" listings, that is no problem at all, we always act fast to remove any unwanted listings. We are only trying to help small businesses, and certainly never want to upset the very merchants we are working so hard to help succeed. We hope this helps clarify matters and that you can appreciate our attempt to help and do good in this world. Thank you and all the best to you. P.S. We are open to feedback from businesses should you like to reach out to our team directly ([email protected])
