Customer Reviews

Clever Island.com Three Month Online Subscription

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I would like to bring your attention to the fraudulent practice of Clever Island (very appropriate name for this company - real clever!). I purchased an item online and a pop-up offering me my so called free gift. It was a free 10-day subscription to Clever Island. I closed the window after I found out it was for children 3-8 years old (my child is 21). I didn't put my credit card number in but my card was charged 69.00 exactly 10 days later. I sent this information to the National Fraud Information Center http://www.fraud.org/

I bought this product for my 5 year old son thinking
it would be a great way for us to spend time learning and exploring on our computer. Boy was I wrong.
First of all it took me 3 tries to get the program to install
correctly, it would always crash during loading. Once I did get it installed I realized that the product was simply a thinly veiled attempt to get me to sign up for a longer more expensive subscription. Finally after sitting through what was essentially a comercial for the product my son was able to get in and start playing games, or so he thought the navigation was so poorly laid out that my 5 year old son had no idea what to do, and I'll confess neither did I. After randomly clicking on everything we could I was finally able to get to some of the activities. Unfortunately they proved too boring and repetitive to hold my son's interest for more than a few seconds. Not only that but I was appalled by some of the values expressed by the characters in the activities everything from a rude, wise cracking, skateboarding mascot to a character whose only purpose was to wipe his running nose on his sleeve at every opportunity. Throw on top of this the fact that the program would periodically crash or prompt me to load external software from another site and I was glad when my son decided he'd had enough.

We picked this up for our daughter and she LOVES it! The characters, graphics and sound are all wonderful. Her reading and math skills have improved significantly after a few months of Clever Island. It is well worth the cost. Thanks! Keep producing great products!

I bought this product for my 5 year old son thinking
it would be a great way for us to spend time learning and exploring on our computer. Boy was I wrong.
First of all it took me 3 tries to get the program to install
correctly, it would always crash during loading. Once I did get it installed I realized that the product was simply a thinly veiled attempt to get me to sign up for a longer more expensive subscription. Finally after sitting through what was essentially a comercial for the product my son was able to get in and start playing games, or so he thought the navigation was so poorly laid out that my 5 year old son had no idea what to do, and I'll confess neither did I. After randomly clicking on everything we could I was finally able to get to some of the activities. Unfortunately they proved too boring and repetitive to hold my son's interest for more than a few seconds. Not only that but I was appalled by some of the values expressed by the characters in the activities everything from a rude, wise cracking, skateboarding mascot to a character whose only purpose was to wipe his running nose on his sleeve at every opportunity. Throw on top of this the fact that the program would periodically crash or prompt me to load external software from another site and I was glad when my son decided he'd had enough. Now if I can only get my money back!

I bought Clever Island for my niece a couple of months ago and she just loves it. It really is one of the only safe online places for her to go. And there is so much stuff in there for her to do. Also, my sister (her parents) love it because it is online, so they do not need to carry cd-roms around with them anymore. if you buy one product, buy this one.