Lydia Vaughan
GBNot at all what I wanted and still waiting for refund! Not at all what I wanted even after a few revisions. He didn't listen to all that I was looking for in my illustration. I would give one more star because he was nice, but revisions took too long and I'M STILL WAITING FOR MY REFUND! They had no problem quickly taking my money but after a few emails I am still waiting for my money back. I ended up getting my book cover from a totally free site.
Alexandria's World
GBDO NOT SPEND YOUR MONEY! DO NOT SPEND YOUR MONEY! I am also, like others trying to receive a refund for my payment. I have been trying to gain my refund since December. Ben Rogers is no longer at the company...some woman who uses Ben Roger's email is with the company. We did a multibook deal to try and get the best price as well as typesetting. I have been trying to work with the company for over a year. I saved up money for over years to try and put together my series of children's books. I have an illustrator who is going in with me for a portion of the proceeds after sale. She was moving slowly and asked for help with the fills and details. We called and made a deal with VOX stating that they could do 1 book a month. My illustrator would sketch, they would do the fills and typeset. My illustrator even made color pallets for each sketch. She gave very specific details as to how to do each drawing. Four months later, she finished just 4 pages of one book. We figured that maybe they needed to get with the revisions process because they say that they will make unlimited revisions and if the customer asks for more and more revisions, then it will take them longer. My illustrator is very detailed, thorough, and places very detailed notes as to what needed to be exchanged. We also work with our illustrator in our other business and she does GREAT work, but would have easily updated any small mistakes. Which she did. The next book, she tried to be even more detailed. They specifically did not follow any of her instructions. They literally took her samples, copied and pasted her sample work into the drawing WITHOUT drawing anything. Again, her notes super detailed for revisions. They would send the work back without doing any of the revisions. We sat together as a team and reviewed all of the illustrators work. The work was so subpar...it was very obvious on the mistakes. It was obvious how the artists simply copy and pasted the sample pictures she had. We had an artist prior to our illustrator who simply charged to take the photos, copy and paste for $50 per book. This was way more money being paid...years of savings. In December, I called and was transferred to the "new Ben". She and I got into it because she asked to please give them another try and it was a fail. They couldn't meet deadlines. I told them that it was Christmas and I would have loved to have had something ready for Christmas and I missed an opportunity. I asked to speak to a manager so I could ask for a refund. She sent me "Mike". He has called, made deadlines, asked for more time, set times for reviews, give us one more chance, avoided calls since January. They have turned in one page...and STILL did the drawing the same way. They didn't make any revisions from what they had before. Again, I am not a rich woman...I just wanted to do something nice for children. DO NOT GIVE ONE DIME TO THIS COMPANY. In the past couple of weeks, I've asked for just a call. Excuses and call avoidance. My father passed away last month. I would have loved to have showed him more than 1 book. We were supposed to have at least a set of books by now. Unfortunately, I have nothing. The company is a scam and I will spend my time going on each website and BBB to complain about this company. I'm sure the positive reviews are simply them, posting creating fake emails and posting positive emails for themselves. Shame on you doing this to people who are spending their hard earned money on your service. You always ask for a service number: (#45577098) Refund my money now!!!
Upset Customer
GBSTAY AWAY FROM VOX ILLUSTRATION!! Wow, if this doesn’t say it all!! Notice how ALL of the ones that wrote reviews for this place with bad reviews, which are ALOT of them, VOX Illustration reported them to trustpilot. Vox wants you to think they only get 5 (or 4 stars) and their company is great which I can tell you from first hand experience is quite the opposite. This is a shady company that takes your money and runs. They produce stock images NOT custom designs and asking for a 100% money back guarantee which they promise is FALSE advertising. I’m STILL waiting for my money back. DO NOT USE VOX ILLUSTRATION!!!! This is the message for everyone that gave them bad reviews. Guess it is a matter of time until VOX tries to hide this from the public??? “Voxillustration reported this review for breaching of Trustpilot guidelines. We are currently assessing the review in accordance with our reporting processes.“
Valerie
GBDO NOT USE THIS COMPANY!!! DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY!!! I used Vox Illustration back in 2020 to do my children's book as they came highly recommended by a friend who had a good experience. They were doing so well with my book that I hired them to do another book. The deal included illustrations, formatting & creating a book file for both eBook & print. The first book got done in about a year and a half, and we began creating the second book around May 2020. I STILL DO NOT HAVE THE SECOND BOOK!! I only have the illustrations Thank God so I'm able to take this to another designer but I'll have to pay out of my pocket! The project manager has changed numerous times. I think the persons answering the phones are worthless with false promises & give you the runaround on messages and emails. I had a sliver of hope that something might've gotten done as my most recent PM made a slight effort but nothing has been done AT ALL to complete this project. I honestly don't think whoever took this company over in the past year or so KNOWS ANYTHING WHEN IT COMES TO CREATING A FILE. The most recent file I received looked like someone in elementary school was learning how to do this, and someone from elementary school could probably do a better job because it was that bad. DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY! The only thing I can say is DO NOT! It's a waste of your money. I was hoping to sue for Breech of Contract because that's what they've done. It's VERY DISAPPOINTING to see my hard earned money & time invested wasted on this company. WHAT A JOKE!
G Jackson
GBWho is Ben Rogers Who is Ben Rogers? I'm not sure if her is a true person or part of the company. I've been asking for a refund for a while now. No response. Just promises to call. The promises are unreasonable. I would ask for a finish date, they would say 4 days for one page. I would give them 5, on day 6 I would call and there would be an excuse. It was a huge mistake to use this company.