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  GlossGenius, Inc.

  579 Broadway Apt 2C New York, NY 10012-5414

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  GlossGenius, Inc.

  199 Prince St Apt 12 New York, NY 10012-2975

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• Initial Complaint

  Date:03/21/2025

  Type:Billing Issues
  Status:

  UnansweredMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  My experience with Gloss has been nothing short of a nightmare. My account was compromised, resulting in my clients being charged a collective $1,427.37 without authorization. Despite my repeated attempts to contact supportthrough emails, texts, and over two hours on holdI received no response. When my business partner reached out on my behalf, Gloss refused to communicate through her, further delaying any resolution.After my clients were refunded, I was left with a negative balance on my account. Instead of addressing the situation with professionalism or accountability, Gloss Genius seemed primarily concerned with pressuring me to add a bank account back onto my profile so they could charge me for the fraudulent transactions. Their response made it clear: I was essentially on my own in dealing with the financial fallout.This level of negligence and disregard for their users is completely unacceptable. As a business owner, I cannot trust a platform that fails to protect its users from fraud and then refuses to provide adequate support. This started on Wednesday march 12th, they did finally respond to an email on the 13th asking me to confirm my information and I thought we were finally getting somewhere. However all they responded was that my clients had now been signed up for marketing campaign messages. I was finally contacted about the issue at hand Friday march 14th and this is when they tried to get me to put a bank account on file to charge me the outstanding balance. I was then told I would be promptly called back by a supervisor. I still have not been contacted as of Friday march 28th. They seem to have no intention of solving the issue.

• Initial Complaint

  Date:11/08/2024

  Type:Billing Issues
  Status:

  ResolvedMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  I had a hack into my booking software, Gloss Genius. The hacker was able to bypass the 2step verification, get access internally and charge different clients for multiple services and do instant pay out on the charges. They changed my email, phone number, and password as well as deleted my bank information and entered a different debit card. I had $2393 in transactions charged on individual clients cards within minutes. Gloss Genius website states Advanced algorithms monitor for suspicious behavior, stopping malicious activities before they can cause harm. Someone was able to change my email, phone number, password and bank info and charge multiple services on different cards. Their advanced algorithms didnt catch that. Not only did Gloss Genius not cancel the transactions on their end, through merchant services, I had to manually refund each charge, and recieve an email 48 hours later stating Please note that GlossGenius is unable to cover the negative balance on your account resulting from these refunds. Instead of withdrawing the negative balance from my bank account, they left a negative balance in my pay out. This way I cannot dispute their withdrawal from my bank account and credit card transactions will be reflected to the compensation of the refunds. I have to file a police report, file an insurance claim and do all the dirty work on my own. My claims adjuster had asked for any contact info that I have that may escalate the urgency of the situation. I called them and recieved a TEXT MESSAGE, not email, giving their legal teams email. This is not only beyond stressful but the lack of guidance, the lack of urgency &overall lack of information they have regarding the security of different service providers BUSINESSES AND LIVELIHOODS is distasteful and disrespectful considering Ive been a long time client of this company. *** had thousands of dollars in transactions with this company. This is so unsettling and disturbing.

  Customer Answer

  Date: 12/03/2024

  Better Business Bureau:
  
  At this time, my complaint, ID ******** regarding GlossGenius, Inc. has been resolved.
  

  (By clicking "OK", your complaint will be closed as Resolved.)

  
  Sincerely,
  
  ******** ******

• Initial Complaint

  Date:10/30/2024

  Type:Service or Repair Issues
  Status:

  ResolvedMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  Gloss Genius charged me $51.75 for a service I did not recieve. I used to get lash extentions from a woman who used this business as her 3rd party payment. I received a broadcast message on ******** that her account had been hacked and I needed to reach out to my bank and ask for it to be counted as fraud. The charge from the hacked account happened on 10/27/2024. I write this as frustrated that there is no support option on the website besides talking to their Chat AI that says it will send an email, you cannot find a number on their website to reach out to anyone.

  Customer Answer

  Date: 10/30/2024

  Better Business Bureau:
  
  I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID ********, and find that this resolution is satisfactory to me and the matter has been resolved.
  
  Sincerely,
  
  ******** ****
  
  
  
   
  
  

• Initial Complaint

  Date:09/11/2024

  Type:Service or Repair Issues
  Status:

  UnansweredMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  My account was closed by ********************** with absolutely no transparency as to why. They are also holding my financial statements, my client list (over 400 clients, all accumulated in a my 1.5 years with Gloss Genius), and my service list ********** account shut down abruptly on August 30th, 2024.When I was shut out of my account, I wasn't given a reason as to why I was shut out. I was asked, by Gloss Genuis, to verify myself, so I sent all the information requested of me to authenticate myself. My ID, a selfie with my ID, and I explained to a Gloss Genius team member that I could not provide my professional license because I didn't need one to braid in the state of *****. I only provide braiding services to my clients and I practice legally. Not to mention, my clients are very happy with my services. I've been braiding for over 25 years.Days after submitting everything, I got an email stating that my account was closed and they could not support me any further. I understand that Gloss Genius can let any member go for any reason, but I would have really liked to know why. Especially since I was authenticated twice before, with no issues. Gloss Genius already knew that I did not need a professional license to braid in *****, because I relayed that information to them before, and they had no issue with it in the ******* my account closure came as a shock to me, but I wanted to know what part of the authentication process failed. I was stonewalled with every question I had.They blocked my calls and ignored my emails.I honestly feel that the amount of money that I processed, over $11k, was too much for Gloss Genius to assume the burden of, just in case there was a credit card dispute in the future, and I was no longer with them. I feel they are scared of a large charge back.But, there wasn't going to be a charge back! The funds came directly from my sister. I will never process that large of a transaction on a credit card with a regular client. Ever!!!!!!!!!!

• Initial Complaint

  Date:09/09/2024

  Type:Product Issues
  Status:

  UnansweredMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  I pay monthly and extra for their marketing services and found out that they have been stealing my money for several months and not sending out the marketing messages. Their system allows you to send out marketing messages that you have to pay monthly for and also have to pay extra for if you have over a certain amount of clients, which I do. Some of my clients I have, you can choose to ban them so they cannot book with you, as well as clients can opt out of these messages and yet gloss genius does not filter out those contacts nor the duplicates, so Ive been paying for marketing thats not being actually being done and gloss genius is just pocketing my money. I tried communicating to them this issue and asked for a refund to those contacts that I paid extra for that have never gotten the marketing sent out due to being banned or opted out and they told me no and to be more careful and to manually select my clients I have 700 clients, so thats near impossible, also their program makes it impossible when it doesnt tell you which are banned, have opted out, or duplicated. I explained this as well and they just said their program is faulty and to deal with it. I again asked for a refund for the misused marketing funds as I paid for a service and not receiving it, and theyre refusing and acknowledging that their program is stealing peoples money. I pay $50 a month for this program plus additional $12 for the extra marketing for the past 10 months.

  Customer Answer

  Date: 10/04/2024

  Better Business Bureau:
  
  At this time, I have not been contacted by GlossGenius, Inc. regarding complaint ID ********.
  
  Sincerely,
  
  **** ****
  

• Initial Complaint

  Date:09/04/2024

  Type:Service or Repair Issues
  Status:

  UnansweredMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  This is rediculous. When you sign up with the company you turn in all required documents. It is now the weekend and my account is frozen. I have a full book and I am unable to check my clients out. They have left on good will. ***** claims the process servers do random federal confirmation screenings. Which need to be addressed with people without halting the business. On top of that! Once you quickly supply the documents! They say it will be 3-4 days before they will even review the matter. To randomly effect the quality of a successful business is beyond embarrassing! I pray everyone is understanding and I dont receive reviews. Not to mention I have over 600$ that has yet to be paid and rent is due on the 1st.

• Initial Complaint

  Date:08/21/2024

  Type:Service or Repair Issues
  Status:

  UnansweredMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  I pay monthly for this business platform that I have ongoing issues with. They never ever answer the phone but will text (never immediately). I have been begging for help for their IT department to do something about an ongoing problem I have been having. They make lots of empty promises that they are working on the issue but nothing ever changes. I am now completely locked out of my business app and my business has come to a complete and total halt. I can not schedule appointments, I can not take it any money, and it is very embarrassing. This happened in front of one of my clients this afternoon and she left my office without the ability to pay me for my services. This is my last desperate resort to report them to the BBB but I have no choice.

• Initial Complaint

  Date:06/12/2024

  Type:Product Issues
  Status:

  UnansweredMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  I own a small business (******* ******** ) and have been using Gloss Genius for over a year now for my salon. Randomly this past weekend they put a hold on my account saying I needed to verify my identity with my Drivers License, photo ID, and my business credentials and that I could not get my funds until this was done. I provided the information they asked for and they still will not release the funds to me. I keep getting the run around between multiple people as to why Im not getting my funds. When I spoke with someone yesterday (June 10th) they said I would get my funds of $612.46 today (June 11th) then I was emailed again before the close of their business day saying my verification needed to be looked into further. When I called again this morning (June 11th) they couldnt give me a reason and blamed their payment processor. I had also received an email from their support team saying my situation was being looked into. GlossGenius emailed me then saying everything was verified and no further action was needed. I responded back to the support team of the GlossGenius email I had received and asked if that email ment I would receive my payment tonight to which, they once again blamed their payment processor and now I would need to wait an additional 72hrs for a possible solution! Meaning if Im lucky I might receive my payment by next Monday (June 17th). My last payout was on Thursday June 6th and I stated I never had to go through all these loops when I originally signed up for this booking app over a year and a half ago as I had explained to them. Nothing on my end (routing number, bank, debit card) had changed on my end from my last payout and now no one is answering me back and my funds are just sitting there from this past weekend. Clearly my business is how I feed my family and pay my bills. Being that every time I call Im given someone new no one can give me a direct solution or answer and Im starting to feel scammed out of my money now.

• Initial Complaint

  Date:06/07/2024

  Type:Order Issues
  Status:

  UnansweredMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  Beware of this fraud company. They will sell your information. I have been missing my payout for two weeks, they stated they needed my license and tax documents no problem. I sent them everything, then they stated wait 3 days, two weeks pass!! Other people having the same issue of them holding there payout. And then they will sell your information which will cause identity theft. Beware of this fraud company!! I wish I saw there F rating before I signed up!!!

  Customer Answer

  Date: 07/01/2024

  Better Business Bureau:
  
  At this time, I have not been contacted by GlossGenius, Inc. regarding complaint ID ********.
  
  Sincerely,
  
  *****************
  

• Initial Complaint

  Date:08/22/2023

  Type:Product Issues
  Status:

  UnansweredMore info

  Complaint statuses

  Resolved:

  The complainant verified the issue was resolved to their satisfaction.

  Unresolved:

  The business responded to the dispute but failed to make a good faith effort to resolve it.

  Answered:

  The business addressed the issues within the complaint, but the consumer either a) did not accept the response, OR b) did not notify BBB as to their satisfaction.

  Unanswered:

  The business failed to respond to the dispute.

  Unpursuable:

  BBB is unable to locate the business.

  This company has refused to pay the money charged from a client. After your account has already been verified and you receive a sale, they request a picture of your driver's license, a selfie and your license information before you can receive your money. Unfortunately, you never receive your money and you will not reach a person on the phone or via email. You are simply without your money with no-one to contact. THIS IS CRIMINAL.