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by SLO_bobn

I was using this service and had the auto payments tied to a debit card. I had to get the card replaced because I thought it had been lost. Amcrest sent two emails telling me they would stop service and delete my cameras as well as any recordings if I didn't update my payment method. The problem is that their termination email ended up in my junk email folder. Funny how their emails with the invoice attached made it through but not the threat to delete everything. I consider that bad customer service. I only found out they discontinued service when I witnessed what I think was a theft from a neighbor's car. I went to access the recording and "Poof", nothing there! .. at all, not even my cameras. If there was a serious crime, wouldn't deleting recordings constitute obstruction of justice and destroying evidence? Sounds like a serious liability issue to me.
The price is a little steep as well, at $20 per month for two cameras, I could buy an NVR and have it pay for itself in a year.

Update - It's one thing to stop service due to non payment, it's another thing to delete customer settings (like cameras). That action is unnecessary and punitive. Camera setups take up a trivial amount of data storage. Yes, it costs money to provide services, how much does it cost to lose customers?

by MidnightFull

WARNING: Do not use Amcrest cameras for any mission critical security applications! My overall experience is they are highly unreliable. The video streams will freeze with no error or indication. A church that I installed these for discovered this and now has to waste thousands of more dollars replacing them after they realized they were staring at still images. Good thing nobody with a gun came to shoot up their church because they would have been taken like sheep led to the slaughter.

The app is no better. I got one for my driveway and am about to return it. Half the time I go to load the feed in the app and it just loads a black screen. If the video loads it only runs for a few seconds and then freezes with no errors or warnings. I don’t know why they don’t give the option to view the sub stream through the app as that would make more sense. I’m not interested in having my catalytic converters stolen only to tell the police the camera didn’t work.

I think it’s time for this company to take a step back and completely reevaluate their position. These are not security cameras, they are toys.

by Tech Is Junk

After trying different Amcrest WiFi cameras over the last 5 years, spending $5,000+ on equipment, wasting way too many hrs with the Amcrest help team and troubleshooting issues that now amount into days, I think it’s time recycle all this frustration, patch the 8 holes I will have from removing my camera installs and break up with you Amcrest!
You have continuously let me down with issues such as memory not saving settings, poor video signal quality and my favorite when the power goes out...or just random.. why not they are only security cameras- “cannot find host” and the cameras never reconnect. I have to delete and research for devices and add password per each and save. Honestly, I’m very tolerable but this company and equipment is something you would expect to see being used in the 1990s! Do not waste your money or your time! Stay far away from this company for many years and if they survive, there may be a slight possibility that it’s because the equipment has been re-engineered and improved significantly.