When people go to elements and try to sign up (regardless of if they go direct or via another marketplace). To do so they will always see this screen. https://elements.envato.com/pricing
Short of putting some kind of inconsistent or degrading, flashing arrow or box around the WordPress access, how else could they make it any more obvious or easy?
I feel your pain. I’ve made two purchases from Envato and deeply regret it. The first was a beautiful theme from one of their vendors that it turns out wasn’t functional–it was an HTML-only template that used a Wordpress theme as a demo. I shelled out another $60 for the Wordpress theme and can’t get a single word of support on the Wordpress theme.
There’s nobody to talk to at Envato about what’s going on. I basically feel like they’re throwing up just about anything they can make a commission off of, no matter how honest the advertising really is, or how good the support is, and once the money is out of the buyer’s account, well, too bad for the buyer. I’m deeply disappointed in the experience, and out almost $100 so far.
Thank you for reaching out. There are two products. I bought the $18 Oshine web template package based on the demo provided, only to find out that the web template is html-only and the demo it uses actually requires the $59 Oshine Wordpress template.
They aren’t assigning me ticket numbers. It has just been week after week after week of emails where the person on the other end clearly doesn’t understand what I am telling them; even the most basic of questions, asked 3 or 4 times in separate emails, are left unanswered. I can forward some of the frustrating email exchanges if it would help explain what is going on.
Basically I am out about $80 and am just PLEADING with the vendor to answer basic questions like “which page do I edit to make this work like your template?” and I cannot get an answer out of them. They keep saying things like “oh, I see it’s working fine now.”
If this had been a credit card transaction, I would be disputing it right now. As it is, it is PayPal, and I’m afraid my $80 is lost and I have nothing to show for it.
I did something stupid, I did not find the template I need, please return my money, I do not download anything, My support ticket (22015). This is a very tricky reception, I very well buy on envato. I believe that you will return my money
Me too! I thought the theme “Oshine” was in elements.envato because i see the Ad on Top of themeforest Page when i wanted to buy the Theme directly (as I´ve ever done before). So i subscribe and look around in the catalog.
But it´s not! So i don’t need elements.envato but need my money back for buying the theme “Oshine” for giving the $76.63 right now.
@markaaronky can you help, please? It´s urgent now.
My Support Number is 23432
I didn’t get a refund oligoform so probably would not be the best help. I am sorry for what you are going through. I did have to push really hard through their support in order to get my problem solved (they were able to get things working for me, but it did require the intervention of a supervisor). My advice is to be persistent. Best of luck to you!
I seem to have the same problem but on my screen the first line goes “63,000+ video templates & stock footage”, only to find out after the payment that I cannot download the item I need.
The refund link does not show my subscription, how can I ask for a refund?
Hi Matthew Coxy, I, too, purchased a year subscription after mistakenly believing the Word Press theme I demoed was under the Elements section. It’s only been an hour or two since I did this. I haven’t downloaded anything. Would you kindly help me get a refund so I can purchase the themes I’d like to buy? btw - the links above to the Envato Support team and the Support Ticket are broken. Thanks for the help, Matthew,
Mike
TexMik
Same thing happened to me. I prepaid for a year! Now I’m stuck with a $200 charge to my cc and no WP themes that I want. It was very misleading. I submitted a ticket earlier - waiting to hear back on my refund. I guess I’ll just purchase the themes individually if I receive the refund.
I’m also having the same issue. The whole process felt very misleading and I unfortunately landed myself in the year long subscription that is of no use to any of the projects I’m working on. Now time is ticking away while I’m meant to be working, instead I’m waiting on a response for my ticket. I wish they had live chat like GoDaddy / Squarespace.
I think they are really trying to mislead us right here, in purpose, I can easily win in court against them.
Its not clear at all and there is a link that pops up when I am in Envato Market, trying to mislead people to buy a product is illegal.