eFax

Their user interface is awful but the real issue is that when attempting to cancel the service, they deliberately make it unreasonably difficult. You cannot cancel through the account interface, nor can you cancel through the email they provide. They have a narrow window of cancellation that requires talking to a salesperson. Despite repeated requests for cancellation, they still have not canceled my account.

I have been an eFax subscriber for about 8 years and am happy with the product, but their customer service is from outside the country (India?) and I just got off the phone with someone who could not understand me, nor could I understand them, even asking him politely to repeat himself or speak more slowly. He was impatient and a bit irritable, despite me being quite patient.

I have been using the eFax product successfully for over 2 years now. My last successful transmission was June 21st. After an unsuccessful attempt today I contacted the company 3x by phone and once via their live chat room. I explained that I was unable to login using the security pin eFax had given to me. The response was "account not found". I was told by the reps I must provide them with the last 4 digits on the charge card used. I explained that I had no idea what card or when the card was used for billing.

I signed up for eFax in January 2018. I thought I would use the service enough to justify paying the monthly fee. Well, I realized I do not really need the service as often as I thought, so I wanted to cancel the service. eFax's own website states that the subscription can be canceled anytime without any hassle. Well, that was not my experience. I called in February 2018 to cancel. The rep was adamant about me keeping the service and offered to lower the monthly fee. I caved and agreed. But then in May 2018 when I realized that I have only sent three faxes in five months so I called eFax again to cancel because I could not justify paying for a service monthly that I do not use monthly. The rep was super nice and the entire process took less than three minutes. I asked for the cancellation confirmation number and the rep gave me it, which I wrote down as I am very diligent about keeping records.

I requested cancellation of my eFax free trial 2 days before the end of the free trial. It was 7 days later before I received an email with the information that I could not cancel through email. In the meantime, my credit card had been charged. I called the number in the email to request a refund and cancellation. They refused to refund the money.

I just received a billing from eFax today, they had charged my card 3 days ago. I asked them to please cancel, and give me a refund, they said no. So no refunds even though I am not using the service! Interesting how they didn't send me a billing statement before they billed me, no way to cancel online - you have to cancel by phone. Getting through to them is not simple and they try to sell me on something else! Not interested in the customer, only themselves! Very disappointed. If I need a fax service again, I will be shopping somewhere else! It was simple they could have refunded for the month and the next time I need fax capabilities, I would have joined right back up!

Like many of the other reviews, I signed up for a "Free Trial." I sent them TWO emails to request my account be canceled which were ignored. Then they charged my credit card - now they are saying they may be "unable to refund" my money and even if they do, it will take 7-10 business days. Crooks. Any company that has to resort to stealing people's money is not worth doing business with.

I originally signed up with eFax because I thought I needed to send a fax for a specific situation and I didn't have a fax machine. For a number of reasons, I would have been willing to pay for a month's subscription, but planned to use the free trial for this purpose. I was never able to send the fax because you need to install software to use the service (at least you did in 2016) and that wasn't disclosed during the purchase process. I couldn't install the software due to using a company laptop. I immediately tried to cancel the service, well before the end of the trial period. There was no way to do that on-line. I called and was on hold for more than 15 minutes, and finally had to hang up. I called a few days later with time to kill and waited, again for entirely too long, until I finally talked to someone. I was told my account was canceled.

I subscribed for eFax but since I didn't have any use for it, tried to terminate it, but the termination is hard (I think by purpose!). There is no single button that you can click to unsubscribe, you have to call or chat with someone for 15 mins! So, it passed and eFax charged me for a month for a service I didn't use even once, finally, I tried one more time and unsubscribed after 20 min chats. I asked for a refund for the service that I didn't touch once but they refused and said it's in our Term and Condition that if you pay we cannot refund! And now that I am here and seeing many reviews related to unsubscription I am thinking about maybe that's the largest source of income for eFax! :)

I needed a fax. eFax seemed to be good one. Till I wanted to cancel subscription. I found out there is NO WAY for a person not able to speak on the phone to cancel subscription. Sent them emails. They never give response. Finally cancelled the credit card.

When I started with Ufax I realized that the service was not going to work for me and canceled the service. Apparently eFax bought Ufax and reactivated my service and charged me over $100.00 for something I never used or knew it was active. I tried to explain how rotten their company is but they didn't care. What a rip off.

If you do choose to sign up to send a free fax you will be unable to do so. There are 'errors' that cannot be fixed and whatever you are trying to send will never get sent. Then! They will sell your 'fax' number to whatever list they have and you will get spammed with fax delivery emails from solicitors. When trying to cancel this service I had nothing but issues with customer service, you cannot cancel on the website, you cannot remove your email address from your account. They have your information locked down and you can't even unsubscribe to the emails. After a very unproductive hour, I have them going to spam but will take greater lengths to get my data out of their system.

eFax is awful. TOTAL and COMPLETE SCAM. You have to literally wait on line for twenty minutes or more to cancel a trial subscription, after which they REPEATEDLY try to keep you and even upsell you. Lol. It's unreal. It is awkward and time-consuming. Stick with the free or one-dollar, pay-as-you-go fax services rather than joining this J2 Global eFax scam.

The IRS of all places suggested this vendor for a one-time tax document and I have not been able to cancel for months. They put you on hold forever and do not answer emails. Buyer beware! Horrible customer service.

Don't EVER start a free trial with EFAX. The service is good BUT if you want to stop the subscription this is NOT possible. They tell you you have to call, but when you call you NEVER get the right person. When you email they tell you you have to call. The only way to stop them is to change the number of your credit card! SCAMMERS!!!

*FREE TRIAL IMPRISONMENT* I signed up for a free trial, sent one fax page, which was barbarically difficult and promptly canceled the service. Or so I thought. I have email proof and correspondence from them, as well as their Facebook team. For over ten months now I’ve been billed $16.95 a month, and due to the amount didn’t notice it was still coming out until today. I spent two phone calls holding over 1.5 hours only to be told that, "Ohhhh no you have to call to cancel." They verified and read verbatim the emails so they have record of it, but since I didn’t back up my cancelation through a lengthy phone call this is all my fault and they refuse to credit the months - about $170 back to me.

We tried eFax for 3 months. We found the service to be more time consuming than just faxing via our fax machine. I have been trying to cancel my service back to my original phone service for 3 weeks. I called eFax per instructions via email from them. I was told to ask for the porting department. I was told by the person who answered the phone I could not talk to the porting department. I was put on hold, she came back to phone and told me they had received the request from my prior carrier and it was rejected. I asked why rejected, she told me they do that automatically on the first request. RUN, do not walk away from doing business with this company. Wish there was a way to give them negative stars!

I was subscribed with OnlineFaxes. They charged 2.50 a month and since I use a fax maybe once a year that was the limit of what I was going to spend. eFax bought the company and relied on email to notify people that they were increasing the rate to 9.99. I don't watch my credit card every month other than to pay the balance. I know I should but I don't. So I didn't notice. They never got a positive response that I was ok with 9.99. I have send ZERO faxes for the last many months with OnlineFaxes so I didn't know that way either.

I tried to cancel my account within the first month of the so called free trial. I received a reply stating that my account was being refunded and would take about a week. That was in February. In April I noticed that I had been charged again then looked back and the same was true for March. Customer service as well as the supervisor were useless. They had my email from February but SAID they emailed that I had to CALL to cancel. This was NEVER received though I did receive other promotional emails from them. They have now SUPPOSEDLY canceled the account but will not refund any monies even though I only used their product once during the free trial.

I had an account with Onlinefaxes.com for over a year and right before they were bought out by eFax.com they overcharged my credit card $99.09. I didn't catch it till this year. Now no one can help me since the account was transferred after the charge. The biggest problem is that there is no one that you can talk to if you do have a problem and no one that can help you. I canceled my subscription and filled a complaint with the BBB.

I switched to eFax looking for a reliable service for my mission-critical incoming fax service. The next day that my number ported over to eFax I noticed an email stating that my account is suspended until I can email them a picture of the Credit Card on file. My fax number in the meantime STOPPED working. This is absolutely ridiculous. My whole incoming fax operation completely came to a halt. Instead of having reliable fax service it completely STOPPED. Calling their main number to get assistance was the other part of the nightmare. After being on hold for 20 minutes an underpaid Pakistani or Indian answered my call. Communicating with him was an absolute nightmare because of the obvious language barriers. At the end after asking for a supervisor someone with a little more decency answered my call but still stated that I need to email a copy of the credit card and that it would take up to 24 hours to re-enable.

I needed a fax service and made the mistake of choosing eFax, why? I have been attempting to cancel for over a year, emails sent, over and over, they then say I have to call. I now know why, it takes the most ardent, hard-nosed individual to go through the repeated people then long wait times (over 15 minutes now). A class action suit must happen. I am taking this up with the NYS Attorney General’s office, and FTC. I am writing this while on hold. I'm not going anywhere and if this takes an hour, I will have documentation of the call and length!

Signed up for the trial thinking it would be easy to cancel (you know it's 2018), after no response on either email or phone I just cancelled the card I used to sign up. Today I got an email from them saying they would cancel my eFax account if they didn't get paid and I should contact them to sort it out. That's not happening though, so if you have a hard time cancelling your eFax account just cancel your credit card and order a new one from your bank.

They do not require verification to activate your account and take your credit card online. But then they do not accept cancellation online. I emailed asking for cancellation, waited two days and did not receive a response. Called to cancel and required my credit card to cancel. So they make opening an acct easy but closing it difficult.

For us, Vitelity has turned out to be cheaper, better and having good customer service. eFax: Their TOS forbids you to move your number to another carrier, in spite of the federal number portability act. If someone tries to move your number, eFax will shut it down. They're trying to hold your fax number prisoner. eFax is 8 times more expensive than Vitelity. eFax makes random extra charges. eFax allows only 5 people in my company to send faxes. We have more employees than that. Customer service is terrible, if you can ever get through. When I took over here, the company had 14 eFax numbers costing over $250/mo. I've reduced that to 6 eFax numbers, and I'm looking forward to the day when we're off of eFax.

DON'T BOTHER WORKING WITH EFAX. I DID FOR MANY YEARS AND THE PRODUCT IS BAD AND THE CUSTOMER SERVICE IS HORRIBLE. Believe it or not I have been a customer of eFax for over 15 years. For the last 12 months (or more) the service has not been working correctly. I was not able to send outgoing faxes using the service. About two months ago I contacted eFax to let them know about the technical issues and asked for a refund for the last 12 months of service. They verified in my Efax log that I did have a number of failed attempts over the last 12 months trying to send faxes. Therefore, the representative told me he would provide me with 6 months refund and 6 months credit for future service (12 months total). I was happy with this solution. Three weeks later a refund still had not appeared on my account. I called back.

Needed to send a fax to my doctor and didn't have a fax machine available so decided to get a subscription. eFax was advertising a first month free deal so I entered my details for that with the intention of cancelling the subscription as soon as I had sent the one fax to my doctor. Once so I realised that their website did not actually have a page for unsubscribing from their service, however, they did have a contact address which I sent an email to explaining that I wanted my subscription cancelled before the next month began and therefore I would be charged. I had no reply and so sent more emails requesting my subscription be cancelled. Months went on and for each month I was charged for the monthly rate and still didn't get a reply from their contacts team. Eventually I called a contact number on their website, where I explained this situation to the man on the other end who then agreed to cancel my subscription, this was 2 weeks ago.

On December 4th 2017 I found myself in need of sending a fax. I no longer have a fax machine. Go figure. So I set off to try to find a service that I had heard existed an automated email service. That day I found 2 such services. Now because of the nature and urgency of my emails I used both services. eFax and another one, in which 1 worked and the other did not. The one that did not was obviously eFax. Now several days later I found myself in need of sending another fax with the same urgency. In which case again I used both services again. And again the eFax service did not function, but the other did. I then called eFax and asked them to cancel my account where I was attended to by a very rude customer service rep that effectively informed me that I would be billed regardless what I did to cancel the service. Then to back up my attempt to cancel my account I sent emails to the company asking them to cancel the account.

I had an account with OnlineFaxes.com, which was acquired by eFax. I paid $59.40 for an annual service with OnlineFaxes.com. I recently logged into my new Efax account and the annual renewal was at $359.99! What??? I did the online chat with customer service to cancel it and then they offered a plan for $9.95 a month for 150 pages incoming and 150 pages outgoing or $50 annual that included 30 pages incoming and 10 cents a page for each outgoing. I asked him/her if they have these options to tell me WHY I was put into a $359.99 annual account then instead of one of the lower cost plans. They informed me it was an error during the migration process. When I stated that I now did not trust them and was disgusted with their business practices, he/she then stated that I should've received an email with the new pricing from OnlineFaxes.com (which I did not!).

I used the service for several years and never had any issues. I last used eFax in March 2016. I canceled on April 12, 2016. The cancellation was confirmed via email from them. In January 2018 I noticed a charge by eFax.com, I telephoned them and again cancelled the service. It was charged again in February 2018 and I again called canceling my service and requesting reimbursement. I was able to locate $233.00 in fraudulent charges by the service and brought this to their attention. eFax informed me they would credit my account $49.99 on March 2, 2018. On March 5, 2018 they credited me $9.99 and not the $49.99 they told me they would refund. I also pointed out several months where I had been charged multiple times for the same monthly service.