Appears To Be a Fraud

Don’t put links in reviews, that gets redacted when found.

I checked with the real dropbox at

You checked how?

Just Google dropbox for the link. I spoke with dropbox online support. As with any review you should check for yourself.

Hello @ftarantino,

please read the name of the plugin attentively – it is called Backup & Restore Dropbox. Then please read description where it is said that it is a WordPress plugin designed to backup and restore to/from Dropbox. We neither name ourselves to be Dropbox itself nor pretending to be Dropbox. Our product is transparent. We created the product which helps users to backup and save their reserved copies of the WordPress site at Dropbox, like other plugins do. And all this info you can find in plugin description.
If you use Backup & Restore Dropbox plugin and need support, you can scroll a little bit lower the page and find the site to contact our support team. This info is specified in plugin info after description.

You certainly do use the word Dropbox – with no other branding – in your naming of the product. You also use the Dropbox logo. Backup and Restore are generic words. Dropbox is a trademark owned by someone else – not you. Other WordPress backup apps use their own branding while providing a Dropbox backup option.

Your statement is more a matter of your perspective than of fact, clouded by your apparent motivation. In my opinion, you are deceiving users into a false belief that the product is by Dropbox.

1. You use the dropbox logo front and center to identify the product.
2. You use no other logo to uniquely identify the product as yours.
3. You use the word dropbox in the product URL.

You’ve seemingly had a good thing going here. The review is here for others to judge, and the real Dropbox is now aware of what you are doing.

It is my hope that the operators of the WordPress site have their own process to review and take actions regarding products such as this that may be deceiving customers by co-opting another business’s brand. This behavior undermines that of those who play by the rules of ethics and integrity.

More information on 8/20/2018:

I reported a claim with PayPal for a refund on 8/3/2018. The product does not work, support was non-existent, and by the seller’s own admission here, they are NOT Dropbox.

The seller still has not issued the refund 17 days later.

The seller never did issue a refund.

PayPal decided the facts in my favor:

Dispute Reason
Item not as described

Case Status
Closed

Case Resolution
Decided in your favour

Seller information
WPAdm

I think www.ads-software.com should take a position on this matter of a seller misrepresenting themselves as another brand.

The author appears to be a con artist, I have another of their plugins which doesn’t work and looks like it has been abandoned. They never respond to support and there is compelling evidence the plugin I used was hacked. They didn’t report it. I have a paid version but I’ve had it a while. Will chance my luck with Paypal although I’m way outside their coverage I think.