Subliminator: Print on Demand
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It is very difficult to try to cancel this subscription.
I have been using Subliminator for my POD store for awhile now and it has been outstanding. The couple of issues I did have were corrected quickly by support. I highly recommend!
how can i decline my free trial ????
Hi Leomeos, Thank you for your feedback. We’re sorry to hear about your experience. It seems there might have been some confusion about how to manage your free trial. We’re here to help! You can always reach us directly via the 24/7 chat widget located in the bottom right corner of the app, or by emailing us at [email protected]. Our support team is always happy to assist with any questions or concerns you may have. We’d appreciate it if you could update your review after we’ve resolved your issue, as it helps us maintain an accurate reflection of our app. Looking forward to helping you! Best regards, The Subliminator Team
Can't even make an account I have been waiting for over five minutes for the page to load so I can even attempt to make a product. Guess they will be losing out on my money.
Hello, We are sorry to hear about your experience with creating an account on our platform. We understand how frustrating this can be. Please try visiting our sign-up page again at https://app.subliminator.com/sign-up. If you still experience any issues, please use the chat button on our website located at the bottom right corner. Our team is ready to assist you promptly. Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and we hope to resolve this for you quickly. Best regards, The Subliminator Team
Subliminator is without a doubt the most reliable and communicative provider out of all the providers I have been using and provides a consistently high-quality product that I have never had a complaint about. Don't listen, or even believe, a lot of these negative reviews. I am a member of the Facebook group of users of Subliminator and the owner of the business is very communicative and helpful, as are the other users (of which there are hundreds or maybe thousands), but we see these people complaining all the time and it's always the same thing: 1. They expect the product to be shipped in 2 days. Subliminator may occasionally take a little longer than other providers, but not by that much. As long as you are transparent about the timeframe, customers are only too happy to wait. 2. People are talking about using other apps like Printify. They absolutely can't compete unless they resell Subliminators hoodies. 3. Many of these people never place an order and complain because they want someone to hold their hand and walk them through it. It's their own incompetence they should be annoyed at. These same people come into the groups and ask everyone for designs, niches, software, providers, "whats the best product". They don't do any research, have no idea, and just want to make money quick and get annoyed when they realise it might take a little effort. Every single product I have sent out has been given rave reviews, with people coming back to buy 5 or more. Customer service is always available during extended working hours (though they aren't 24/7 but that's fine), and they always action a request and get back to you via email if they have to. Most reliable and consistent POD supplier out there
The quality of the product was decent and the print was clear and vibrant, but the customer service was nonexistent and they took forever to even send my product out to me. Even when they did ship the product, they didn't even notify me when my order was sent. I didn't know when to expect the product and I couldn't track it. I don't see myself using this service in the future.
Dear Kintsugi Apparel, Thank you for taking the time to review our services. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience you have experienced. Our goal at Subliminator is to ensure that our products not only meet but exceed your expectations, and it appears we have fallen short. We acknowledge that despite our quick response to your initial query on February 14th, we did not adequately communicate the delay in production due to the Chinese New Year holiday, which impacted our factory operations. We understand that waiting for your product and lacking information on its shipment can be frustrating, and we regret any oversight on our part in keeping you informed. We want to reassure you that within your Subliminator account, there is a feature that allows you to track all your orders. By visiting the order section and clicking on the relevant order, you can access up-to-date tracking information. This is a standard part of our service designed to provide transparency and control over your order fulfillment process. We are taking steps to improve our communication protocols to ensure that all our customers are fully aware of any delays and the status of their orders, especially during peak holiday seasons. Your feedback is invaluable in helping us enhance our customer service experience. We hope you will consider giving us another chance to prove the quality of our service. We are committed to earning back your trust and would be grateful for the opportunity to discuss how we can make this right for you. Best regards, Team Subliminator
I recommend Suliminator. My Shopify store has yet to be launched, but I'm happy with the product selection and the ease of the design process. I can't offer any more details...my journey is just beginning.
I just LOVE the way my high school alumni jerseys turned out that I had printed and fulfilled by Subliminator! Everything about my experience with them from mocking up on the website, to ordering, the quality and customer service has been the best. This most recent time, I had a pretty huge order and everything went so smoothly and I’m so thankful. Everything was right on time and the jerseys look amazing.
Hope you improved your shipping, I had seen your product in one of the youtube it looks great but your shipping very very very very very terrible!!! it takes FOREVER for the test order we made. You gave us tracking number which is nowhere to trace. Very very Disappointed.
Hey there, Ah, that shipping ordeal sounds like a real pain - we're genuinely sorry for the frustration it's caused. When it comes to some places around the globe, like Singapore where your order was heading, we have to admit, the shipping options can be a bit tricky. It's sort of like we're stuck playing a game with some unpredictable rules. Definitely, this can mean the journey of a package might take a bit longer compared to popular destinations like the USA or France. Yet, it's no excuse for keeping you in the dark. Our support team has been on it, doing their best to keep you in the loop with updates on your parcel's journey. We really hope you can see that we're doing our best amidst these challenges. And hey, here's to hoping that next time, we can make that shipping experience way smoother and score a better review from you!
customer service is non existent I HATE when you can not get help form a person, no response to emails, also do not like that they offer "Free shipping" its just padded into the cost of the item, and you pay more for shipping for multiple items in the long run, making it more expensive and making it less profitable. its not a bad app but it could be better. Depends on what selection you are looking for .
Hi Haydee, Looked up your account a bit, and I can't seem to find any communication from your side inside our support channels. No email (based on the email you used on the single order you created and cancelled), and no chats on your name either. So I'm not entirely sure what went wrong there, but I would love to find out! We actually have a very active support team, that's available through live chat 24/7 or that can be reached through our email [email protected] Also please note that our products are always mentioned as "including shipping" and not "free shipping". Shipping is indeed added together with the product cost, and we're quite transparent about this. So we're not trying to call it "free shipping either". So perhaps we missed a step somewhere and used the wrong word, and if that's the case our sincere apologies. Would love it if you could still give us a chance, and order a sample for yourself. I'm sure you'll be pleased with the quality we provide. Our support team has been notified as well to pay extra attention if a message comes in from you, which we can't seem to find until now. If you're in doubt, you can always use the chat widget on our website www.subliminator.com which appears at the right bottom corner. Have a great day!
Great community! Even better quality! Very helpful and responsive support department. No issues to speak of.
Hello there! A huge thanks for your rave review! It's music to our ears that our community, quality, and support have hit all the right notes. We promise to keep this rollercoaster of awesome service thrilling, and if you need us, we're just a hop, skip, and a witty remark away. Best regards, Subliminator
I use subliminator for one year now with over 100 orders until now and I have to say is the best app for my business. I use others too, but the price, quality of products, mock-ups they provide, and of course the support until now is the best that I have experienced out there.
Hey there], Thanks for your glowing review—it's like we just won the Subliminator Oscars for Best App, Best Prices, and Best Support! And the crowd goes wild! 🏆 With over 100 orders under our belt, we're thrilled to be the Print-on-Demand partner that brings the sparkle to your business. Here's to many more top-quality orders, snazzy mock-ups, and good times together. Stay fabulous, and remember, we're just a quick chat away if you ever need assistance. Best regards, Subliminator
I've been using Subliminator for nearly 5 years now. Their product quality is superb -- arguably the best in the business -- and their customer service is easily the best of any POD platform. Their range of products keeps getting bigger, their pricing is very competitive, and after selling literally THOUSANDS of products through them, I have no plans to go elsewhere. HIGHLY recommended if you're new OR experienced with Print On Demand.
Hi there, Your review's got us feeling like the life of the POD party—confetti, balloons, and all! 🎉 Five years of Subliminator magic, thousands of products, and countless happy customers. You know what they say: time flies when you're having a blast with the best in the biz! Here's to more amazing years, belly laughs, and Print-on-Demand adventures together. Buckle up, we're just getting started! Best regards, Subliminator
I first want to say the sample I received was excellently sewn and of great quality, outside color issues not due to the image file I uploaded and rgb to cmyk colors but their background color options they give customers to use in customization. I dislike giving bad reviews, but I believe in helping others avoid complications and especially upset customers who expect one thing but receive a totally different other. It is important for the mockups companies provide to reflect as accurately as possible the finished product to a slight degree of error. I provided pictures and even video to detail to the rep what the issue was. The following is my conversation with one of the reps which I feel gave run around responses and then at one point admitting they know of the issue and saying a fix was in the works for future products: Hello, I hope this message finds you well. I ordered a sample from you guys and I loved the quality, but the color was remarkably different than the mockup and shipping was long. Not sure if its faster with express. I have a order i just paid for TFCH1112 from Shopify (tie-fly.myshopify.com) for a customer and I would love if it was true to color on this and future orders. That is an issue that can make or break future orders and growing my business. Again I loved the quality but i need for the colors i pick in your mockup designer to be as true to color as possible please I beg. kindly [email protected] the mockup produced the colors correctly the product that came is as follows (image) Please for order TFCH1112 and future orders please I beg be true to colors in mockups please. Operator profile You’ll get replies here and in your email: [email protected] Our usual reply time under 10 minutes ***S Hello Tieasha. Thank you for contacting Subliminator support Can you please let me know the SBL number of this order please? Thank you SBL7796139 sku# SBHDJGF-287379-L-L my newest order that I am begging to be more true to color on is SBL2667070 ***S Hello Tieasha, Thank you, All designs created and uploaded are in the **RGB** color format. Our software automatically converts the **RGB** file to a **CMYK** file, as that's the format that the printing is done in. The best practice to see if certain colors change a lot is to convert your **RGB** file to **CMYK** in Adobe Photoshop, and analyse if there are some major color differences. After which you can make adjustments to your print colors if needed. yea thank you however on my first order I used your color picker SBL7796139 i pick the colors from (image) ***S Please also note that the fabric affect the color: https://help.subliminator.com/en/articles/4874954-how-does-fabric-blend-affect-print-quality ok thank you so how do we know what colors we are choosing and how they will look? if we are using colors from the color picker on your website ***S Please try photoshop, RGB is the default color profile in RGB color space and we require sRGB to be uploaded. The final version of your print file should be saved in the sRGB color profile because sRGB has a wider, more vibrant color range compared to CMYK. This is to generate good mockups. However, our printers work with a CMYK color space which is why the sRGB will be converted to CMYK during printing. To know if the sRGB file will convert to the correct colors that you want, it's best to test it yourself first and convert the image to CMYK and see how that looks in Photoshop. Dark colors change drastically when converted to CMYK. We're currently working on setting a standard for CMYK and will also start allowing sellers to upload CMYK design files. ok but it wasnt a file that i used it was (image) on your website i used the print area background color chooser on your website ***S Hello Tieasha, I see order SBL7796139 DELIVERED06 August 2022 yes that is the order where i used the print area background color picker on your website the print file only was the heart portion i used the print area background color picker for all other areas sleeve pants back hood etc; ***S Sorry im not sure i understand your question please, can you explain? how can i be sure of the colors im picking from i used the colors from (image) which show as in the mockups show hot pink and a purple but printed as (image) the heart in the picture is the print file i used that was fine and true to color but the sleeves pants and back colors i chose from show totally different ***S We are planning to make color swatches available to you. But we are not sure when this will be available yet as we are still focusing on bettering the app so we can provide more quality services to you. For now, I hope you can continue to use the photoshop swatches or any other method which can be helpful. so if i choose a color from (image) there is no way to accurately reflect to my customer that it will be the color that arrives to them that i show in the mockup picked from your (image) *** S Please read this article: https://help.subliminator.com/en/articles/4874954-how-does-fabric-blend-affect-print-quality I will get more info regarding this and get back to you ASAP ok Thank you bc it's not a file issue more specifically i chose these two colors (image) from your (image) and in mockup show as (image) but print like (image) just to clarify what worries me and will probably cause refund issues ***S I see. Please let me check about that and i will get back to you ASAP Sincerely thank you much ***S You are welcome Help Siham understand how they’re doing: Operator profile Rate your conversation Terrible Bad OK Great Amazing October 11 ***S Hello Tieasha, Hope you are well, Regarding the color difference, we can't guarantee print colors since RGB is uploaded, and then on our end the RGB is then again converted to CMYK according to a color profile we use. In such cases it's best to test yourself first and convert the image to CMYK and see how that looks in Photoshop. Some colors change drastically when converted to CMYK. Please also be advised that the fabric of the product can also affect the print colors. For more information, please check here: https://help.subliminator.com/en/articles/4874954-how-does-fabric-blend-affect-print-quality Sincerely so even using subliminators background color picker those colors will not show correctly for some fabrics so the mockups are useless Again my concern is not the image file I upload there seems to be no problem there but the problem is subliminators background color picker and the fabrics you use not being able to accurately display the colors chose from (image) according to your article Fabric composition: 20% Cotton / 75% Polyester / 5% Spandex The smooth and tight knit surface allows for any print to come out really vibrant and detailed. Because of the knit of the fabric we don't recommend using dark solid colors such as black on this fabric. Because this fabric as cotton, the surface can show some tiny lighter areas on the fabric surfaces. Colorful designs work best with this fabric. The inside of the fabric is brushed and has a nice soft touch to it. iit actually looks like someone chose (image) instead of the (image) that i chose from your (image) *** S Hello Tieasha, The base fabric is always white. So you control the print and colors that go onto the garment. So the background colors you choose in our editor are NOT fabric colors, but simply print colors. Hope this helped there was no issue with base color or base fabric color and yes i chose the colors i wanted your mockup correctly displayed the colors i chose but when subliminator printed it completely different colors were used if i controlled the colors chose why did i get a product completely different from what I chose and again remember we are using not a file but your background color options and your own article says light colors print vibrant and i chose (image) which the mockup accurately reflected as above but someone in your factory produced (image) again I love the quality but this is not the colors I chose that you provided through (image) ***S Unfortunately we can't guarantee print colors since RGB is uploaded, and then on our end the RGB is then again converted to CMYK according to a color profile we use. it was not a print file i uploaded i chose the colors from your background color choices it was not a file I uploaded i would understand then if it was a file i uploaded but it was not a file i uploaded it was not a image file that had issues it was subliminators background color options like in this picture below (image) not a file so you are saying that the background color options shown on your own website that are given to customers to use to customize their products are not cmyk so why have rgb colors choices on your website ***S Our app only accepts images in SRGB format, not CMYK. sRGB is the default color profile in RGB color space and we require sRGB to be uploaded. The final version of your print file should be saved in the sRGB color profile because sRGB has a wider, more vibrant color range compared to CMYK. This is to generate good mockups. However, our printers work with a CMYK color space which is why the sRGB will be converted to CMYK during printing. To know if the sRGB file will convert to the correct colors that you want, it's best to test it yourself first and convert the image to CMYK and see how that looks in Photoshop. Dark colors change drastically when converted to CMYK. it is not a file i used im not referring to the file i used but, i dont think you understand I will make a video You need to use Photoshop to practice, is it the best way, ***S [...]
Hi there! Thank you for your thorough review. I've checked this with our support team to get a better understanding on the matter, and I think the confusion here was that one of our support members suggested a "fix". There is no fix. And it comes down to understanding how printing on physical products works in general. As you always design in RGB on your computer, but printing is done in CMYK. This means that some color differences will always occur. It's impossible to reflect this correct on Mockups, since these are in RGB, while the printing is done in CMYK. Hence why we always recommend our users to order a sample for themselves to make sure certain colors (especially if you're trying to replicate neon, which can't be done) come out as they should. Our "fix" for this, which our support member was referring to, is that we are working on letting our merchants order a big piece of fabric with most colors printed on them. This will allow you to choose a printed color, and use the RGB color values that are stated with that printed color, so that you can use those colors in your design. This way you know beforehand how the printed color looks before using it in your designs that you're uploading. I would say the communication on this part could have been handled a little better on our end, but it does not mean that we were at fault here. Color conversions from RGB to CMYK will always differ a little, and in a few cases a lot. This is general with any print-on-demand provider, not just with us. As designing is always done in RGB, and printing is always done in CMYK. I hope this explanation helps you a bit, and hopefully it can result in a better rating of our company. As ratings are extremely important to us, as new merchants will mostly resort to reading the "bad" about a company. Because I think you can agree with me that most merchants will only bother to leave a review on a company if they had a bad experience. If this experience is good, most won't take the time to leave a review. All the best this Q4 with the Holiday season sales!
DO NOT ORDER ANYTHING FROM SUBLIMATOR UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED TO WAIT UP TO 1 MONTH FOR DELIVERY. stay away
Hi Rice & Tees, Thank you for your review. I'm sorry to hear about your bad experience on shipping. Unfortunately we don't have much control over the speed of regular shipping, as there could be many reasons why a delivery can take a little longer than usual, even up to the last leg of the journey where the local post might be over capacity or any other reason for it to be delivered slower than usual. However, we do offer express shipping for this specific reason, to allow our clients to be able to receive their products much faster at a small up-charge. I'm not sure if you're familiar with this already, but you can check the details on that over here: https://help.subliminator.com/en-us/article/what-are-your-express-shipping-fees-grqvbv/ Either way, your feedback is appreciated, as it helps us to keep improving upon our services and to give you and your customers a better experience.
Best AOP print quality out there. Free shipping is nothing special, better aim for an express right away.
The quality of their products that I have ordered and sold is fantastic. The catalog is growing and I love their attention to detail compared to other POD services. It's the small things like changing the color of thread to match the background of the products that show me they care. Sure mistakes can (and will) happen, but I never had an issue getting ahold of their team unlike some of the reviews I see here. They are incredibly active and engaged on their Facebook page, and generally easy to talk to. I would recommend their service, but also remind you to research if they are the right fit for your business before going all in.
Great quality and unique products, responsive customer service, active moderators in the group making great communication. I love the fashion line of sublimated products, so soft and comfortable. Normally products take ~ 3 weeks to arrive on standard shipping, even in Christmas season, and the sliding price scale on express shipping is nice, we all know it doesn't cost double to ship 2 items. Note: During the COVID Quarantine, Sublimator was very communicative on the shipping, transparent on price increases (and decreases) used DHL eCommerce with upgrade options to express, unlike other china based POD companies, the products were delivered in less than 6 weeks. That may sound bad, but I had other suppliers where it was common to take 2-3 months to deliver (supposedly using the similar bulk shipping to USA then handoff to USPS like DHL eCommerce but with a different company). If the s.... hits the fan this is a company you want as a supplier.
I've used Subliminator for over a year now, I never had any complaints from customers about the product quality. Their express shipping saves me a lot of money, because of the more product your customer order on that one order, the cheaper the express shipping fee. I've used many POD suppliers before, and now I've slowly move everything to these guys. Keep up the great work Subliminator.
I am extremely happy with the products and service. The face masks are top notch and production and express shipping are really fast. The customer service is AMAZING and the Facebook group they have is extremely helpful as well.
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