Pinterest

Pinterest does not adhere to your business' policies, it will make policies that help criminals scam you. Pinterest will tell you what words you can use and what words you cannot use. If a word is very important to help customers find your product, too bad Pinterest rules over you. You had better be rich enough to buy whatever products Pinterest thinks you should buy, not the products you, the expert choose. You cannot have a product go out of stock. Remember, you are not self employed, Pinterest is your boss and will call the shots about how you spend your money. Better be prepared to hire a professional photographer too. Pinterest will criticize your photography and tell you that you are not good enough for their platform while allowing others to post distasteful images and other stuff that is downright wrong. You can write an "About Me" page on your website that is unique and comes from your heart, but Pinterest will make slanderous accusations that you plagiarized that page even when that would be impossible. Last but not least, after you worked hours daily for five years to build your engagements to over 5 million a month, Pinterest will crush those numbers down to a trickle unless you pay through the teeth for mafia style protection disguised as "advertising".

Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes. You can browse pinboards created by other people. Browsing pinboards is a fun way to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests.
This tool is very effective not only for the fun aspect of every day life but also as a future teacher this website gives me ideas for the classroom. It is very easy to use. The boards are easy to pin stuff and nothing is too complicated. The pros about this website are the fact that people have such amazing ideas that they want to share with others that it makes it easy for others to access it. The con to it is that the first time users it can be confusing but once you get the hang of it everything becomes easier. The purpose of this website is to show off things you have found on the Internet for others to use. I would most definitely recommend this website to a friend.

I enjoy using Pinterest but their customer service is terrible! I had an account under an email address that is now deleted. I tried updating my email multiple times to no avail. I figured there was no need to worry about it and finally gave up.

Well, I got on the account, created a new board, and added about 20 new images. Apparently this is considered "suspicious" activity so they locked my account, changed my password, and said I had to use the email they sent me to change my password and get back into my account. That wouldn't be a problem if they had let me change my email to the new! Now I lost everything on the account because my old email address is deleted.

I contacted Pinterest stating I had saved private boards for my business and I needed access to this account. No response because they don't care. This is absolutely infuriating. What is worse is that this company knows they can treat their users horribly because people aren't going to stop using their services. If there was an alternative to Pinterest I would use it in a heartbeat. Pinterest, start providing good customer service to your users, they're the reason you're now a billion dollar company.

After many years on pinterest, all of a sudden I started getting notices about pins they removed. Most recent came this week saying they deleted one because in contained a sexual nature/porn, supposedly on my "politics and patriotism" board. I have never ever posted a thing on any of my boards with that type of content. In fact I've reported pins that did have that content and pinterest did absolutely nothing about it, the pins weren't removed nor were the users banned. I was told to just "block that user, that way I won't have to see the offensive pins". Pinterest wouldn't tell me or show me which pins they deleted, after repeated request for them to send the deleted pins to me so I would know what I supposedly posted. Needless to say I got nowhere. Get on there this morning and they had completely deleted my entire "politics and patriotism" board. I've asked them who makes the decision to delete pins... got no answer to that question either. This morning I deleted every board and ended the aggrevation of having to deal with the gestapo on their site. They are and have been a complete waste of time for several years. They're "woke" employees get offended at the least little thing if it's a different opinion than what they believe in. One never knows from one week to the next what road they will travel down when it comes to deleting pins.

I loved the fact that I could search anything and save those items to an account. I got involved in some political sites where I made some honest comments. I was blindsided with what they call a "suspension" for "hate speech" I repeatedly requested that Pintrist point out where I made such speech and asked to appeal my "suspension" I received only computer generated responses stating they suspended my account for hate speech. They claim there is an appeal process, but that is untrue. Pintrist has no accountability to anyone as to why they can suddenly terminate your account, call it a "suspension" and claim that the suspension can be appealed. They terminate accounts of people they disagree with and offer no evidence of their claims of violating their code of conduct. Good luck trying to get someone to talk to. I had no luck either through emails or attempted phone contact. Suspension means termination of your account and no further access. No arguing the point or appealing your case. Your terminated. VERY UNFAIR

A few years ago, I was raving on Pinterest, being the owner of a small retail website selling art and jewelry. It represents a good platform to display my wares in an appealing and fun way. I will give them that!
Then, verifying my website address.
Followed the steps; wasn't getting verified. Talked to them and they finally fixed the issue, and I felt like I helped change their company for the better, because now the small business can sit there next to the big guys and be just as viable and official! I had my little yellow checkmark and was good to go.
A few weeks ago, the check-mark disappears! So, I ask them what's up with that and they said the checkmarks are confusing people and double-talked through emails for the next couple weeks. Turns out, I have to be a BIG business, now, in order to have the "official" checkmark on my company's official profile page! My pinterest follower growth slowed down a lot since. This is how I got to 4 stars.
On to 3 stars: So, my marketing team is going about the daily pins, and when we go to pin off the site, it crashes the tabs on my computer now. Pinterest is sending huge amounts of cookies that can slow down or crash elements on your computer (this is not permanent damage, to those not too computer savvy). So, pinterest has to have all other tabs closed and flushing cookies before and after. They are lucky they are getting a 3! (It's still a pretty cool website!)
UPDATE: The cookie issue crashing my computer seems to have been resolved! Thank you, Pinterest! Back to a "4" star rating!