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    Business ProfileforSoundBetter, Inc.

    Music Composer

    At-a-glance

    Customer Reviews

    1/5stars

    Average of 1 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    9 complaints closed in last 3 years

    3 complaints closed in last 12 months

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    Business Details

    Location of This Business
    232 3rd St Suite E302A, Brooklyn, NY 11215
    BBB File Opened:
    10/24/2019

    Customer Complaints

    9 Customer Complaints

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    Most Recent Customer Complaint

    10/31/2023

    Complaint Type:
    Billing Issues
    Status:
    Resolved
    I am a service provider on SoundBetter. SoundBetter is a freelance platform for people selling music services. Clients book through SoundBetter and the platform holds the funds in escrow until the job is completed. SoundBetter pays the agreed amount to service provider on successful completion of a project.As a provider, I successfully completed a job on the SoundBetter platform on October 8th 2023. SoundBetter wrote to me on this date to confirm the job had been successfully completed. The amount due to me from SoundBetter is $44 less their commission at 7%, so a total of $40.92. In their email of October 8th 2023, SoundBetter told me that the funds will be paid into my PayPal account within 48 hours.Despite sending numerous emails chasing this, and lodging a formal complaint, at time of writing (October 31st 2023) funds still have not been received. They tell me they are having problems sending over the funds to my PayPal account, though this PayPal account is active and working and has previously accepted numerous payments from SoundBetter. No other forms of payment have been offered (e.g. bank transfer).I am making this complaint to request full payment of the amount of $40.92 due to me from SoundBetter.
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    1 Customer Reviews

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    Most Recent Customer Review

    Brandon C.

    1 star

    03/16/2022

    DO NOT USE SOUNDBETTER LIKE I NEVER WILL AGAIN. If I could give Soundbetter less than 1 star I would. As far as booking a musician or professional, I had great experiences and would support the freelancers using the site. However, this platform has the worst management, back end, and customer service I have ever experienced. I put in a request to upgrade my account to premium sometime in the fall of 2021, and waited a long period before hearing back. Towards the end of February (2022), ****** from Soundbetter reached back out to me, informing me that Soundbetter was considering to upgrade my account to premium and that my account needed several adjustments before upgrading. If you didn't know, upgrading to premium means you can respond to jobs posted and find more work, as well as show up better in the platform's search engine. Nevertheless, I told him doing that was okay, but asked if I can use another account I had with them which was already updated and had three great reviews. When I finally heard back, he completely ignored my mention of the other account and reminded me to upgrade the account he reached out about. So, like any person I did as he asked and completed it to its fullest. This time, after waiting for a reply, he emailed me and informed me that I was not upgraded to a premium account and it was on a "rolling basis" and I should wait for another time in the future. THIS IS NOT PROFESSIONAL, AND I FEEL TOTALLY LED ON. Times are hard right now especially for musicians, and for ****** to lead me to believe I will finally start making money while doing what I love most, only to tell me after doing everything he said, you are not considered any more and have to wait... what the ****? Very disappointing and I just say to anyone reading this and considering using Soundbetter, the artists and engineers are awesome, wish I could say the same for the idiots running it.

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