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    • Literati

      1145 W 5th St Austin, TX 78703-5370

    Business ProfileforLiterati

    Book Sales

    At-a-glance

    Customer Reviews

    1.53/5stars

    Average of 19 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    20 complaints closed in last 3 years

    4 complaints closed in last 12 months

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    Business Details

    Location of This Business
    1145 W 5th St, Austin, TX 78703-5370
    BBB File Opened:
    1/24/2019
    Years in Business:
    7
    Business Started:
    9/1/2016
    Business Incorporated:
    10/19/2017
    Type of Entity:
    Corporation
    Alternate Business Name
    • Literati Inc.
    Business Management
    • Ms. Laura Fenelon, Director of Finance and Administration
    • Ms. Jessica Ewing, Owner
    • Ms. Ashely Horton, Manager
    Contact Information

    Principal

    • Ms. Laura Fenelon, Director of Finance and Administration
    • Ms. Jessica Ewing, Owner
    • Ms. Ashely Horton, Manager

    Customer Contact

    • Ms. Ashely Horton, Manager
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    Customer Complaints

    20 Customer Complaints

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    Most Recent Customer Complaint

    10/31/2023

    Complaint Type:
    Product Issues
    Status:
    Unanswered
    On September 29 I ordered two annual literati subscriptions for $119.40. This was for a yearly subscription. The morning of October 30 I received notifications that I was going to be charged for two $119.40 subscriptions. I emailed the company immediately because if these charges went through I would be facing a domino effect of withdrawl fees from my bank. So far I have one bill that I haven't been able to pay. I received a response on October 30 confirming that I had wrongly been charged and will hear back once the tech team has responded to the customer service rep I have been working with. Last night both charges went through and received two $30 withdrawl fees from my bank. My monthly payment to the company chatbooks is going through now and I will not only not be able to pay I will be getting a third $30 withdrawl fee. This company has now cost me $90 on top of the $238.80 they wrongly charged me. On top of this I have a bill coming up on Friday that I'm worried I won't be able to pay.

    Customer Reviews

    19 Customer Reviews

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    Most Recent Customer Review

    Gena C

    1 star

    04/29/2024

    Zero stars.Purchased a monthly book subscription for my child.Returned the books at *** that I did not want from the subscription box per Literati protocol. The books I did not want were sent back to me.They proceeded to charge my card different amounts multiple times within multiple days.They stated a mess up with the return label that they sent me caused the books to return to me. At this point Im confused why they would think its ok to proceed to charge me for the unwanted books. Their response is to probe about buying from them again. At this point, naturally Im feeling nervous about this online business, Im not sure if they are even a real company or scamming me of my time and money and who know what else. I had to pay $17 to send the books back because a return label was not supplied to me. After I told them I had to spend $17 for a label to return the returned box at **** for a second time, they told me a label was supplied either with the returned box or by email. The same label that did not work the first time. They are not helpful at fulfilling complaints as they **** out the email responses in short answers that they knew would have another question on my end -instead of resolving a situation in an appropriate quick professional manner like you expect from any real online business. They would respond when its time for the customer service to close. One email ending Have a good weekend. -Theres no customer service on the weekend. Knowing I would still need help. Its been over a week now trying to resolve.Now they are telling me I have a $17 credit on the account.My options:Continue a subscription with them or spend $50-75 on a single box. 1) Why would I want to subscribe again?2) Why would I want to spend that much?How does this equate resolving the situation? Help me Reading the same complaints on this BBB website about this company is upsetting bc they get to continue doing this to people and nothing is being done about it.

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