Take CAUTION when doing business with PBHS! Because we had been doing business with PBHS for years, they were the obvious choice when we decided it was time to update our website and add additional online services to it. We contacted them and received a QUOTE (not a contract!) for the items in which we were interested. We signed the QUOTE (not a contract!) and provided a credit card for the charges they verbally told us would be charged "upfront." Well, PBHS charged more upfront than they said they would be charging. They charged 100% of the cost of the website redesign (we had agreed to that), setup fees for SEO and Social Media Marketing programs (we had NOT agreed to that), and 100% of charges for MODIFICATION of our EXISTING logo (we did not agree to that!). They asked us (despite the fact that we had been customers for many years) to fill out a Questionnaire that was better suited for a new customers. Even so, when they provided the shell of a website (not the template we had chosen!) with only basic information and for US - not they - to design and develop, they made 4 or 5 basic mistakes including the fact they entered our telephone number incorrectly...a pretty important piece of any company's website!
We called and got voicemails and left messages that were ignored for about one week. We had to threaten to request our money back before any one called us at all! Their excuse - they were at a convention where they were attempting to convince yet more dentists to work with them. After about a week, they finally fixed the mistakes and provided us the correct template and indicated in their WRITTEN communication that they still had more to do, but wanted us to review what they had done so far. We did. We said it was "better" and they took that as us saying it was great work! Guess what, they never did anything further! They never even once attempted to modify our logo; in fact, they continually promoted ideas that we specifically told them we did not like and did not want. Eventually, we decided we would not move forward with our project with PBHS. The president of the company - Mr. Jay Levine - wrote us an email dated September 24, 2019 in which he said that they would refund the $1,250.00 they charged us for the SEO and Social Media setup fees. He never refunded anything. He took all of our money and provided no services whatsoever. When our credit card company contacted him, he refused to refund the money for the services even he admitted he had not provided at all. See a copy of Mr. Levine's email above.
According to our credit card company, a merchant has the right to refuse a refund when a customer disputes bogus charges even when, as here, there is clear, written proof that PBHS did not provide $1,250.00 of the services they charged to our credit card when they knew they had provided none of those services.
We hired another company and now have a beautiful website. When the new website went live in December 2019, we contacted PBHS to notify them we would not be needing website hosting from them any longer. They provided us a form to complete and fax back to them. We did - on December 4th. PBHS, without any authorization to do so and specific notification not to do so, charged our credit card $195.00 for hosting a website that doesn't exist. They ignore the voicemails we left and will not return our calls, respond to our emails, or return the money they took from us while providing no services at all.
We paid PBHS for doing nothing and paid for our new website too. Whether we ever get any of the money back that PBHS took from us while providing us no services, it was worth cutting off our business relationship with PBHS. Compare the websites PBHS (really it's their customers who design them, not PBHS) offers and the websites designed by professionals who provide the services they get paid for before you sign PBHS's QUOTE and/or listen to their empty promises and representations. It makes the old saying that, "you get what you pay for" ring true. Just because PBHS's website templates are cheap doesn't make their "designs" and their "services" worth having! read more