Auto DS: AI Dropshipping & POD

Yvonne did a very good job of answering my questions and pointing me in the right direction for training since I am brand new to AutoDS and drop shipping. I still have a question that she forwar to billing that is yet to be answered. that's the reason to a 4 star review.
I hope that the rest of my time with AutoDS and their customer support will be the same experience.
We'll that didn't work out well. I canceled my subscription less than 1 hour after viewing the site and I am in limbo at this point. I paid a full year and did not receive the discount that was advertised and now not getting a response for a full refund. I had a 14 day free trial so we shall see!!
I lowered my rating due to the issues. Also got up sells once inside the app. I thought I had paid for them, but they were blocked out!

1. Charged $390.16 for usage during FREE trial period
2. Possibly some FAKE 5-star Auto-DS reviews: after writing this review, we noticed lots of short, 5-star reviews, claiming complete satisfaction and ease of use.
3. MONTHLY plan billed annually so we were told that meant no refund for unused months or login capability if cancelled. That's unlawful unjust enrichment.
4. Only got 14 products to sell: claimed variations of the 14 products counted towards 500-product plan limit. Unlawful bait and switch.
5. Fake or inaccurate product supply numbers. Most products were out of stock right after being listed, requiring daily inventory management and daily new product searching. Time wasted.
6. Made $0.00 the entire time from 9/13/24 to 11/29/24.
7. High-priced shipping for even lightweight items the entire time we were using the platform so prices weren't impacted by recent strikes, new tariffs, etc.
8. Low inventory and miminal listing-worthy options from U.S. Suppliers in our niche. Mainly China-based suppliers so most had 14 to 21 day shipping times. Auto-DS ad said differently.
9. Lots of non-wholesale prices
10. 1,000 (and counting) emails re: out of stock/price changes.
11. Inability to unsubscribe from emails once canceled.
12. Had to agree to a new plan for same time frame to access app again once we canceled.
13. Repeated login issues before the cancelation.
14. Confusing pricing tools: Lots of pricing errors that would've sold trending products at a loss had we had a sale from allegedly trending products.
15. No unique or "scroll-stopping" products in niche.
16. Hidden fees (i.e.the need for additional "credits" on top of in-app charges and monthly subscription) to fulfill the orders.
17. App was hard to use.
18. Still required more apps to compete.
19. Shall I repeat: we made no sales from 9/13/24 through 11/29/24.
20. Pricing analysis and strategies for individual products were hard to find. 21. Limited, argumentative, and/or belligerent support re: a refund until their manager saw this app review.
22. Lots of known issues
23. There were OUTDATED help topics and tutorials.

There are more issues that we encountered but we can't list them all. We tried to stick it out as long as we could to make our money back and to see if the advertised hype and ads by affiliates were accurate. We just couldn't take these issues anymore.

Business to business, we tried to discuss some of these issues BEFORE writing this awfully negative review.

Update: After declining a partial refund or months "free" (we had already paid for a whole year) and mentorship, they initially refused to refund us fully until this review. We have since received all of our money back. Previously, one support person had also threatened to charge more if we didn't uninstall the app. Rest assured, uninstalling the app was ONE thing that worked except for the emailing issues listing above. We decline their offer for free months and mentorship because this app isn't cost-effective, intuitive, limited-staff friendly, niche-rich in products, or customer-support friendly.

DO NOT USE THIS. USE "DSERS" INSTEAD FOR FULFILLMENT.

1. They charge you a 5% "credit card fee" every-time you top you your account to pay.
2. They charge you like $0.6 every order.
3. They STILL charge you 5-10% extra for the product vs if you were to purchase it yourself on Aliexpress.

Im not done yet.

I had to REFUND 100+ orders on Black Friday because AUTODS provided me with faulty tracking numbers which showed "Abnormal" status so I assumed they weren't getting shipped out. They were... but it was too late because I had already refunded the customers since it has been 20+ days since when I ordered.

AGAIN. DO. NOT. USE. THEM. USE "DSERS"

To edit a product, you must do everything on the autods. If you're unaware of this, you'll be surprised when your product titles and prices suddenly change automatically. Unfortunately, you can't disable this feature, and customer support is unhelpful when it comes to resolving such issues.

"Edit everything on the autods platform" fine, I’ll do that. Then I thought, what about images? I had uploaded them through Shopify. Would they revert to the original ones from autods? Customer support couldn’t answer this question. So, I decided to upload the images directly on autods, wasting additional time. Guess what? If you're serious about improving your website speed, their platform doesn't allow you to upload images in webp format.

Oh, and let’s say you're running a discount offer and want to add a "compare to" price. Yes, you can do this but only if your store currency is set to USD. For stores using other currencies, you have to manually convert prices in their platform from your currency to USD. And the conversion? It doesn’t work correctly. For example, my product price without a discount is £68. Technically, that should convert to $85. I entered this USD price into the autods platform so it would reflect correctly in GBP. Instead, it converted to £112.

No words.

I am rating this experience with Auto DS: AI Dropshipping & POD a 1 star and if I could have done 0 I would've. This app is a complete scam, its says on the shopify webstore that the app is free in order to get people to download it and then it charges you. Im sure this has happened to a bunch of people from this app and I am completely against the owner. Do not use or even download this app, the software in general is not good.

Listen. If you're serious about ecom, find a private supplier. These people over charge on everything. They cant bundle orders so you'll be charged 2x shipping for 1 customer that ordered 2 items. They're constantly changing their prices and shipping takes forever. I was using them for testing so I don't waste my suppliers time but I cannot with this company. FIND A GOOD SUPPLIER! YOUR MARGINS WILL THANK YOU

EDIT::

I had the pleasure of speaking with Dorina, a wonderful quality control manager. Dorina helped with with all my problems. Dorina refunded me on shipping and even gave me a month free. AutoDS is working on their platform to make it better and reviews like mine help them see what needs to be fixed. I may have been a little harsh but Dorina has helped me!

NEWEST EDIT:

This company is charging their customers for order fulfilment but is not actually shipping out their orders. You have to load a balance in their website which is a loophole so the banks can't actually dispute these transactions when the company doesn't fulfil on their obligations. They also increase their prices on products without notice. I have multiple orders where I paid for product and shipping yet these orders were never shipped. They included a tracking number and thats it. After tracking was provided, the products never actually got shipped. I asked for a refund on my remaining balance and they fully refuse to even return the money I loaded into their platform. I have customers contacting me daily asking why there is no movement on their tracking, this is the only way I was able to find out most of these orders were never actually shipped. I had help from a nice service rep previously but this overall experience is horrible. Stay far away.

I was misled by a youtube "guru" to believe that this would be a free, 30 day trial. This was a lie. You will be charged 1.00 despite "free 14 day trial" being clearly visible in the pricing section above.

Despite paying for the higher cost option, I do not have access to the ad spy tool that is widely promoted by youtube gurus, who fail to mention that there is an additional charge of $15.00 if you want access to the ad spy. This would be on top of the $40.00 I am paying for what DSERS offers for only $20.00. Overall very scammy and all about upselling you, despite how costly this can be for small business owners.

The first month is works good. But when you cancel something and want to undo that. The software can't handle it. Also the stock automatically changed so somehtime the product is out of the when it is live. The last thing is that the software can't handle change of sizes when you have set it like a certain way. And Now I have $100 balance on my account, but didn't get it back!

just a piece of shit.This guys are crazy i already canceled my plan and its still billing a big amount for no use i cant even stop its no way to stop i really fed up with this piece of shit worst thing i ever used in my life dont ever even think of trying this shit

Before I begin this review, let me make this categorically clear. I am not usually the kind of person who goes online to write bad reviews about businesses because I believe in fair play and live and let live, but my hand has been forced by the underhand way in which AUTODS has chosen to address (or not address) my case.

If you are considering using AUTODS...DON'T! Let me tell you what happened to me. I signed up for their free trial, and after that, I signed up for another month at 7,99 because my store was not ready and I needed to use the service in an actual working store. Before it expired, I was sent a notification to renew. I responded that I had no workable store as yet. You can imagine how shocked I was when a bill from AUTODS appeared on my PayPal account: 368 euros for a one-year bill. This was where the horror started because, despite repeated shows of evidence, PayPal judged the case in Autod's favour. When I saw that I could not get a refund I asked AUTODS to connect my Shopify account, which I had put on pause to build, they refused after tens and tens of communication back and forth. The last straw was when i received the following message from an AUTODS's staff called Kristine and I quote ‘I am sorry if this is not the outcome you expected. Unfortunately, since you lost the dispute, the transaction has been deemed ineligible, and the amount in question will remain in our account.’

I am a one-woman business owner who is going into dropshipping to try and make life a little easier for my family. 368 euros is a lot of money to lose, first of all. Losing it without any service is even more appalling. I find this incredible, not to mention unethical. That a company that took money from my account, unauthorised, refuses to refund that money. Even worse, it is refusing to provide the service for which they took the money despite offering to forego the refund instead of reinstating my account, giving me access to the product they have billed me for a whole year. I cannot access the account or use the service, yet I have been billed 368 euros! How is this ethical? Businesses like this hide behind the advantage of being online, with no knowable physical office to go to in situations like this, to dupe people of their hard-earned money. I guess daylight robbery is how they make money and remain in business.