Barefootstudent.com
Reviews and Complaints

Having never received a single confirmation of billing, nor a response to a request to cancel our account in both September 2022 and September 2023, barefootstudent.com billed our American Express account $75 per month for 13 months. Confirmation of these billings was never sent by email, and when we requested that the charges be refunded, we received a boilerplate response stating that they could provide a $75 refund a "courtesy."

American Express, agreeing with our dispute, processed a chargeback for three more months worth of these illegal charges, but barefootstudent.com still owes our business $600.

We just hired someone who found our ad on Barefoot Student. Worked great for us.

This is a total ripoff and they continued to charge my card monthly. They are grifters.

They have wonderful candidates responding to the ad, snd excellent customer service. Highly recommended!

Charges with no receipts month after month feels predatory. No phone number or customer service readily available, un manageably bad web interface.

Spammers, they find your ads from other sites and send you an email to try there service. Every time I post a new want ad I get an email from them.

Barefoot Student is a great way to find the best candidates without wasting a lot of time having to go through a lot of resumes and cover letters that are not relevant!

Barefoot Student Inc just emailed everyone in our company our job ad, including the employee we're trying to replace. This is a spam company. Do not do business with this company.

They have been spamming my company for years. Every time I request them to remove us from their database I get emails from a new person. This is not the proper way to do business.

Barefoot Student is used across all departments of our business. It is one of the best hiring tools we have, and since we are a small business it is hard for us to post on our own site for candidates. Having a one-stop job posting site is the best HR solution that a business like us needs!

I wish I could give a zero star review. We decided to give Barefoot Student a try for a month. We paid the $75 and never received an activation email. When I attempted to contact their customer service team to ask about the activation email, I learned that they have no phone number and you can only email them through the message portal on their site. Despite many attempts at communication, no one from Barefoot Student has ever responded. This is either a scam or an extremely poorly exectued business model. Don't give them your money.

Would give 0 stars if possible. I have tried to reach out to this business multiple times through their 'contact request' section on their website (since it is the only form of contact they make available to you). They still have yet to respond to my requests, but continue to make transactions from my company's subscription. I was originally going to switch the employee account that this subscription is attached to, but with such unprofessional negligence, now I want to cancel the subscription overall. There's still no way to do that since they NEVER RESPOND!

I firmly believe that Barefoot Student surpasses other competing job boards by bringing a higher quality candidate to the table. I am a true believer in looking at metrics and I can say without any hesitancy that for almost every single position I work on (or seek candidates for a client company I am working with), the best matched candidates are being provided by Barefoot Student - in addition to a greater number of candidates for me to review, screen, etc. Quality over quality is a good mantra to live by and I see this with Barefoot Student's results for my needs.

ComplaintsBoard.com - you should have some way to verify the 5 star reviews listed here because I am fairly sure they are not clients, but from Barefoot Student itself. I agree with the other 1 star reviews. This is a spam company. I signed up with them originally in October. They require you to give them a credit card which they use to charge you monthly but say that you can cancel at any time. And, when you try and cancel, they are extremely hard to get a hold of. I left numerous messages. It took me over 6 months to finally get the charges to stop. AND I did not get one applicant for the one job that posted. For that same job I received over 60 applications in 2 days from Indeed.com another hiring service. Now whenever I post a job on indeed I get an email saying "try Barefoot Student to post your job." Ugh - such an unscrupulous company trying to poach from another company. DO NOT us e this company.

Posted an ad and have been trying to reach them to cancel the subscription but their website in totally unresponsive.

I reached out to Barefoot to cancel my subscription as I've never seen my ad posted for the past couple of months. I've never heard from them.

I have been charged the same amount of $75 for the past 4 months each. This was not stated in the sign-up and it still not stated on their website.

Company has no way to contact them or cancel and continues to bill us $50 a month. Looking for a full refund for all dates a job posting has not been listed.

Company has no way to contact them or cancel and continues to bill us $75 a month. Looking for a full refund for all dates a job posting has not been listed. You can't speak with nobody

I was charged $75 for this service on June 14th after signing up on June 9th.I have no way to access the platform, or what I paid for. The product is not usable.I've asked for a refund and have not heard back.

I made an account and can't remember the name it was under, now I'm locked out. I'm unsure if it's due to an incorrect email or another issue. If the email is incorrect, I'd like to update it.

I've requested multiple times within their portal to have my membership canceled with confirmation my account was canceled on 2/12. On 2/14 I was charged $75 again, and every month thereafter. I've contacted my credit card company to dispute the charges, credit issued by Barefootstudent for March & April, then they continue charging me in May. Within my account login menu there's a confirmation I've included as a screenshot confirming the cancellation and date. They owe me for February and now May. Shady.

Early Feb 2021 I created an account for job postings, Once I submitted my payment the website redirects me to the home page. The account wasn't fully created so I created another account and charged twice and also never received any receipt and documentation that the account had been created and paid for. I have tried to contact the company my times through the website and have received no response. I have stated to them that I need the first charge for the account creation refunded and my company requires a receipt for the other charge for the account creation and have received no response. I have been trying to reach out to their contact center for almost two months now with no responses or any action taken.

I filed a complaint with a redacted Case Number. The case was closed after the business asked me to email a digital invoice to [protected]@barefootstudent.com for a refund. Despite sending 4 invoices, I haven't received the remaining refund. No replies come from this email. Here's their last deceptive reply about refunding: 'This message is regarding your Complaint ID redacted - Barefootstudent.com. Hi Bernard Mallala! We understand your concern about the auto-renewal of your Employer Membership. Subscriptions renew automatically until canceled, a detail that was clear upon joining BarefootStudent.com. Many members appreciate this feature for continuous access to our student community. Refunds are typically not provided after 60 days, but we've made an exception and refunded the last 6 months of charges. To refund the remaining amount, please send a digital invoice to [protected]@barefootstudent.com. Our payment system, like most credit card companies, cannot refund payments after 190 days. Thanks! Barefoot Student'