StudentBackup.com

Revdex.com: At this time, I have not been contacted by StudentBackup.com regarding complaint ID [redacted] The website continues to be down and the phone number continues to be none responsiveMy investigation on the internet comes up with even more similar complaints by other parents and studentsNot only the company should be shamed, but the fonder as well, as I suspect he knew what he was doingI am suspect of the whole solutionAt best it was simply a faulty application and did not backup anything, at worst it was a malicious application designed to browse the students' computers for personal financial information Sincerely, [redacted]

Revdex.com: At this time, I have not been contacted by StudentBackup.com regarding complaint ID [redacted] Sincerely, [redacted] ***

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At this time, I have not been contacted by StudentBackup.com regarding complaint ID ***
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Revdex.com:
At this time, I have not been contacted by StudentBackup.com regarding complaint ID [redacted].
Sincerely,
[redacted]

Revdex.com:
At this time, I have not been contacted by StudentBackup.com regarding complaint ID [redacted].
The website continues to be down and the phone number continues to be none responsive. My investigation on the...

internet comes up with even more similar complaints by other parents and students. Not only the company should be shamed, but the fonder as well, as I suspect he knew what he was doing. I am suspect of the whole solution. At best it was simply a faulty application and did not backup anything, at worst it was a malicious application designed to browse the students' computers for personal financial information.
Sincerely,
[redacted]

Revdex.com:
At this time, I have not been contacted by StudentBackup.com regarding complaint ID [redacted].
Sincerely,
[redacted]

Review: I purchased a 4 year subscription to student backup services provided by this company. When my daughters Mac crashed this spring (her sophmore year) she lost all her data. We tried to restore from the cloud backup supposedly provided by her subscription. Initially we were able to see a directory of all the files that were backed up to this company's server(s) but none were more recent than 1 month old. We were not able to restore even one file successfully. When we called the contact number we received only a voice mail system with telling us to go to their website. We sent several email messages which we did get responses to telling us that they were experiencing technical problems and were working to resolve them. Eventually the web site itself was taken down. When we go to [redacted] we get a page saying the site is unavailable and appologizing for the "inconvenience". This has now been almost a month. She eventually had to rewrite all the papers and assignments that she currently had due. We have had no further contact or resolution from the company.Desired Settlement: Ideally I'd like to get her files back!! Short of that then I'd better be refunded my $150.

Consumer

Response:

At this time, I have not been contacted by StudentBackup.com regarding complaint ID [redacted].

Sincerely,

Review: Two years ago, I purchased the four-year backup plan. It worked fine for the first year and a few months, and then backups started failing. When I emailed for support, I received this: "Due to Student Backup system issues, we are temporarily out of service. We will contact you as soon as we have further information." There was no follow up. A few weeks later, the service started working again. Now, for a few months, the backup has been unable to connect. When I tried to check the website, it no longer existed. None of the backup functions, including backup, help, and restore, work. When I emailed the support address, the email was returned and was not received.Desired Settlement: I would like a full refund of the approximate $150 spent on this subscription. A full refund seems appropriate as I am unable to access any files, or contact the company. I would also like confirmation that all of my personal files have been deleted.

Consumer

Response:

At this time, I have not been contacted by StudentBackup.com regarding complaint ID [redacted].

Sincerely,

Review: I purchased Student Backup as a backup service my freshman year at Tufts University. The backup service was listed on the Tufts Student Resources website as recommended for students. It cost approximately $150 for a 4-year subscription, which included nightly backups of my data (documents, files, etc.). An application on my MacBook Pro alerted me every night that the backup was being completed. Several weeks ago, towards the end of my first semester of junior year, my MacBook crashed, and Apple replaced my hard-drive. This meant that all of my files, which I had been led to believe were being backed up by StudentBackup, were lost. When I attempted to run a backup from the StudentBackup application, I received an error message after several hours of "loading." I attempted this several more times, receiving the same error message. I then brought my laptop into Tufts Information Technology Services, to see if they could fix the backup issue. After two days, they couldn't manage to get the application to back up either. The IT technicians listed several major issues they found with the program's computer coding, which are summarized below:

1. It's unfathomably slow. IPoAC would be faster. It took 90 minutes to transfer ~35 documents (they weren't large documents either). We were hoping to get all of the 2825 documents the student has on your servers. It takes about 4 hours to list the documents through a "search all" on the application

2. It's an unreliable connection. Even though the connection should be secure and reliable, our only somewhat successful. Because the transfers take so long, we left the application to run overnight. Twice now, the transfer has failed during the night with no explanation.

3. Not all of your servers are up (several more technical issues were reported specific to the program's code).

Tufts IT services told me that several other students had come in with similar issues, and that in all of the other cases they also could not figure out what the problem was. The technician that handled my case sent an email to Student Backup, and I also filled out a request for help form their website. Neither of us have heard a reply in the past several weeks. The [redacted] at Tufts ITS wrote a letter to Student Resources, so that they would take StudentBackup off their list of recommended backup services by Tufts.

Student Backup advertises themselves as a product that will be crucial when "disaster strikes," but it was completely unhelpful when I needed it the most. I feel completely taken advantage of. Not only did the software not work, it was expensive to purchase in the first place, and they were not available to help when I needed them.Desired Settlement: I would like a complete refund from the company for the full price of the software.

Business

Response:

Thank you for bringing some of the issues attached to our attention. Student Backup strives to provide rapid customers support and resolution.

We have provided this customer with refund instructions. We are researching any other issues you have highlighted and addressing these issues. Thank you.

Review: I paid for a 4 year subscription to studentbackup.com for my daughter's laptop at Michigan State University. I was told that I could transfer this to a new laptop should the need arise. However, now I go to logon to the web site and use www.studentbackup.com to logon, but that site is no longer available.

Now I have no idea how to either get my money back or change to new laptop.

I have the serial number, user ID and pw, but have no where to use it.

I made the purchase in august ** 2013 for $164.30Desired Settlement: either tell me a new url to use to get to my account or refund my purchase price.

I made the purchase in august ** 2013 for $164.30

Consumer

Response:

At this time, I have not been contacted by StudentBackup.com regarding complaint ID [redacted].

Sincerely,

Review: I purchased an online backup service from studentbackup.com to protect my son’s laptop if he were to lose his data. My son had to leave his computer connected to the internet each night and studentbackup.com automatically made a copy of his files to a secure offsite location. Studentbackup.com states “If a crash occurs, simply log on to the website, enter your user name and password, and in 5-10 minutes your word processing, spread-sheet, PowerPoint and PDF files are identical to the night before. The files can even be restored to a friend’s computer if the entire computer is damaged, lost, or stolen.”

We believed that to be true until my son had a computer problem last Thursday night (Apr *). Lenovo Technical Support was on the phone with me and asked if they could reload my son’s system. My son said that he had backed up his system the night before using studentbackup.com so we told Lenovo to proceed. That was 6 days ago and I have yet to be able to restore my son’s computer files from studentbackup.com. The first few days (Apr *, * and *), studentbackup.com replied to my email inquiries, apologized, and told me they were working on the problem. On Apr *, I received this message from studentbackup.com and have not gotten a reply or a return call from them since:

“We fully understand the frustration of not being able to restore your Student’s documents.

We regret we haven’t completed repairing the Student Backup system. We are working in earnest to restore Student Backup to its fully functional state. We will let you know immediately when we have a favorable status for you.

Campus Backup will not be able to assist you in this matter.

We hope this is helpful.”

Today is Apr *. That message was received 3 days ago. After not being able to restore my son’s data for six days, I have concluded that this company is not qualified to be in the backup service business.Desired Settlement: Restore my son's files.

Consumer

Response:

At this time, I have not been contacted by StudentBackup.com regarding complaint ID [redacted].

Sincerely,

Review: I purchased an on-line back up from Student back up to protect my sons laptop should it fail. He had a hard drive failure and we lost everything. I could not remember my password and asked for a new one. I never received any response. I asked for a new password at least 5 times and was ignored. I tried to call and all you get is an answering maching. This company is really just a scam, I paid money for a service and you can't speak to anyone or ever get any help. I finally gave up and had to start from scratch and rebuild his computer. Something needs to be done before others get taken and think they are proteced only to have to spend hours rebuilding their harddrives

Business

Response:

We have received a complaint from the Revdex.com regarding a subscription you or your student has with Student Backup. The complaint states you never received support to restore your documents after a hard drive failure. You had not remembered your password and were not able to retrieve your documents. We regret you were not able to receive support to find your password and access your account. We will gladly refund your purchase, but please understand we never received any emails for voice messages regarding your issue. It appears they were sent to the company you purchased the Student Backup program from, OCM. We were never aware of your issue. It was unfortunate that this happened For your refund, please provide your packing slip information or your name and billing address, any materials previously sent to you, and reason for returning the Student Backup program, and send them to: StudentBackup/[redacted]

Consumer

Response:

I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID# [redacted], and have determined that my complaint has NOT been resolved because:

[Your Answer Here]I cannot find all the items they require to get a refund. I downloaded what was needed and did not think I needed them anymore. I found some and sent an e-mail asking if it was too late but never heard back. Also why should I have to pay to send stuff back?

In order for the Revdex.com to appropriately process your response, you MUST answer the question above.

Sincerely,

Business

Response:

I do not know what the client wants beyond a refund. Send this to OCM. The issue is with them.

Thanks,

Review: In 2012, I purchased a 4-year contract with Student Backup for $150. After getting a new computer, the service is not available to install. The website no longer exists, and the software no longer works. I paid for a service that was and is not being delivered. I am asking for a refund of the purchase price.Desired Settlement: I would like a refund of the purchase price of $150 and also verification that the information that was backed up has been deleted from the server that is used by this company.

Review: My freshman year, I purchased four years worth of service through studentbackup.com in order to back up my computer during college. Now the "service" has completely disappeared, even though there should be over a year left on what I paid for. Their website and email are gone, and it is impossible to contact anyone in the company. This awful company has completely disappeared from the face of the earth with my money and all of my backup information, which I also cannot access right now. It makes me worried that they have my information, which I cannot access, delete, anything. It also infuriates me that they simply took my money for the final year, and disappeared without any notification. Now it is impossible to backup my computer and also impossible to view any of my prior backups. It is just impossible to access the service or even contact anyone associated with it; this whole thing was a scam from the start.Desired Settlement: I need to be refunded for the awful, useless service that this terrible company has scammed from me (not just for the final year, but for all four years, as the entire thing was just a scam). I also need access to my prior backups, as I had paid for, and to make sure my information from my backup is not in the hands of criminals who are going to steal my identity or payment information or something like that. This was never a service to me, I never was able to access my backups, I basically just paid to give some sg company all of my backup information so they could run off with it before I had even finished the four year service I initially paid for. Please bring this company down, and get me back my money and information.

Review: I purchased the Student Backup 4 year plan during Fall 2013. I paid fort the 4 year plan in order to ensure I had backup for my academic files for my full duration as a student. The backup service functioned properly up until May of 2013, and now the backup services that I paid for do not work. I researched StudentBackup.com, and it appears that they filed for bankruptcy and did not give their customers any sort of warning or compensation.Desired Settlement: Being that I paid for the 4 year service and only used one years worth, I would like compensation for the remaining three years of service that I invested in. I was guaranteed a full four years of backup when I purchased the plan, and I expect to be compensated for the services that I have not, and will not ever, receive. StudentBackup.com, or [redacted], owes their customers compensation for the remaining services they will not be able to provide post-bankruptcy.

Consumer

Response:

At this time, I have not been contacted by StudentBackup.com regarding complaint ID [redacted].

Sincerely,

Review: purchased a 4 year subscription for $150 as per instructions from my daughter's college, Florida Southern College. During the second semester while on her internship the application stopped backing up. Emailed support and they stated that they knew of an issue and will be rectifying it shortly. Being away for internship I was unable to verify that it started working. Upon her return to home fo rthe summer (5/*/2014) I started to review the application and found that nothing is working. The Test Connection fails, the Backup fails, Help fails, and going to the website fails.

It appears that their website is down, their phone number is out of service, etc. It appears to me that either they went out business with no warning or were originally a scam and several colleges around the country got duped into recommending studentbackup.comDesired Settlement: I desire a complete refund for an under performing product/solution.

Consumer

Response:

At this time, I have not been contacted by StudentBackup.com regarding complaint ID [redacted].

The website continues to be down and the phone number continues to be none responsive. My investigation on the internet comes up with even more similar complaints by other parents and students. Not only the company should be shamed, but the fonder as well, as I suspect he knew what he was doing. I am suspect of the whole solution. At best it was simply a faulty application and did not backup anything, at worst it was a malicious application designed to browse the students' computers for personal financial information.

Sincerely,