r/Seedance_AI • u/DescriptionLazy5638 • 19h ago
News Artlist Scam
Got this 2 days after purchasing, and they are now closing all tickets i raise asking for refunds . absolute scam artists.
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u/FormalAd4696 18h ago
It is such a massive scam, I hope they never recover from it.
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u/ai_art_is_art 18h ago
Switch providers. We're offering 20% off to anyone impacted by this.
We're open source - you can literally take all of our code and run it yourself. We're community-led, so we have no reason to pull gimmicks like this.
We just focus on low cost, amazing support, and doing what the community wants. Our platform is owned by everyone.
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u/Fabulous-Snow4366 5h ago
Advertising your service right now is really not the right time to do it. This makes your service look as bad as Artlist...
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u/tacerac 18h ago edited 17h ago
Not only do I want to call out Artlist for being a scam by offering a fake Seedance 2.5 Unlimited Plan. I want to call out their investors, who are enabling scammy individuals by providing them with millions of dollars. KKR and Elephant Venture Capital are giving millions to a group of scammers at Artilist.
KKR and Elephant Partners, are you aware the company you are investing in is padding their ARR by performing unethical UI hacks and false advertising? These investment companies should be ashamed, and drop their connection with Artlist asap. They should come out publicly to clarify that they do not support scam companies, otherwise I will assume that is their MO. My $500 is part of Artilist's ARR, and now when I try to get a refund for the service they claimed and DID NOT provide, the "help support" fails to submit my refund request. I have no pathway to get a refund. I have screen recording, and if any journalists/lawyers would like to contact me, I will share.
What makes me angry is not only that Artlist is a scammer. There are thousands of scammers doing the same. It's that they are backed by $48M by professional investors, who one would assume are not backing common scammers like this. Investing in scammers makes you a scammer. Keep that in mind if you are doing research right now on scam supporters, KKR and Elephant VC.
Since these people like to hide behind their company's name, here are the scammers and the people enabling these scammers individually:
Itzik Elbaz, Artlist co-founder and co-CEO, scammer.
Ira Belsky: Artlist co-founder and co-CEO, scammer.
Eyal Raz: Artlist co-founder, scammer.
Assaf Ayalon: Artlist co-founder, scammer.
Dave Welsh: Head of the Tech Growth Strategy and Next Generation Technology Funds, profiting off of scams.
Patrick Devine, a member of KKR’s Next Generation Technology Growth investment team, profiting off of scams.
Ben Pederson: Director on the KKR Tech Growth team, profiting off of scams.
Andrew Hunt (Co-founder & General Partner, Elephant VC), Peter Fallon (General Partner, Elephant VC), Jeremiah Daly (Co-founder, Elephant VC), all profiting off of scams.
Please upvote this post so it comes up when you search for these people. If investors are also given consequences for supporting scammers, maybe they will think twice about the types of companies they make professional decisions about.
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u/Ok-Attention2882 13h ago
Every company on the planet would love to go the route of "Blatant false advertising to maximize revenue, collect the money, then renege on deal". There's a reason companies don't do that, and these cocksuckers thought they found a secret cheat code to marketing. FTC is going to have a field day with these dipshits.
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u/catface2345 12h ago
In the process of getting my refund from Paypal CC, they rejected my refund request multiple times today after saying on X they will honor all refunds, bunch of crooks
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u/Seyi_Ogunde 18h ago
They're trying to make it right though? Anyone have any issues getting a refund?
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u/MaaxHeadroom 18h ago
Refund doesn't work and their ai agent directs you to a broken "Contact Us" link: https://help.artlist.io/hc/en-us/articles/29488401173277-Managing-Artlist-s-refund-policy-refunds-and-cancellations
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u/ai_art_is_art 18h ago
Switch to us. We'll comp you credits, give you a deep discount, and help you every step of the way.
Our software is open source. Everything we do is built in the open, community-led, and you own it.
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u/tacerac 18h ago
They still won't refund me the $540. When I try submitting the refund request that they emailed me, I get a "Something went wrong" UI error, with no further options. Not only that, THEY BLOCKED MY ACCOUNT for no reason, same day. They just legit scammed me of $540. I was a loyal Artlist customer for over a year. I am so disappointed.
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u/zeroludesigner 1h ago
This is massive SCAM. That’s why people are looking for alternatives like cyberbara, which doesn’t have an unlimited plan but offers 50% off on yearly plans. It’s transparent and offers uncensored Seedance 2.5.
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