Is Lit Mobile a Scam or Legit? What Do Reviews Say?

Entrepreneurship, startup culture, and owning your own business are a few concepts that inspire everyone to try and set up a business. Some businesses invest their time, money, and efforts to build a reliable business and succeed. While others try everything, but nothing seems to work out.

The Chinese manufacturing industry has given the dream of owning your business to every other American. It is one reason why new companies pop up every now and then, but only a few can make a breakthrough. Lit Mobile is also a company that popped up out of nowhere, invested a lot in marketing, advertised a promising product, received many orders, and Boom! They vanished!

It has been a year since Lit Mobile Scam took the hype. Many customers received the product as promised by the company, some of them faced some issues, and many reported that they never received the product from the company. However, many people are still looking for their refund or product from the company.

Who knows, they are still operating with some other branding. This article will tell you the facts about Lit Mobile and whether it is a scam or legit. Stick with us till the end to know how they robbed people of their money and what reviews say about Lit Mobile.

What Is Lit Mobile?

Lit Mobile is a company based in the United States who came up with a revolutionary product called Lit Mobile Solar Wireless Charger. Apparently, the company came up with a very promising and innovative mobile charger that was powered by solar energy. It implies that you could charge the power bank with the solar energy and consume it to charge your phone, tablet, powerbank, etc.

They invested heavily in YouTube marketing, and it took no time when the video reached millions of users in their YouTube feed. A lot of users will see the video ads while watching YouTube videos and who would resist such a product if you are a traveler or someone often in places where power cut-offs are frequent?

One thing important to mention here is that Lit Mobile Solar Charger was the only product the company was offering. Even more, they also offered a 60% summer shipping discount that would reduce the charger’s price from $99 to $40.

And when we checked the reviews, similar products, and online content, it turned out that Lit Mobile was similar to the solar charger sold by a wholesale manufacturer listed on Alibaba. It means that the company would have placed the order with OEM with the branding of Lit Mobile.

Specifications Of Advertised Solar Charger

Nobody hinted that Lit Mobile would be a scam as their solar charger has very promising specifications.

The Lit Mobile solar charger is a portable charger that can charge all kinds of digital devices with DC 5V input. The digital devices that can be charged include tablets, mobile phones, MP3/MP4, hand-held consoles, etc.

Here are the specs of the charger as advertised by the company:

  1. It comes with 3 USB outputs and a Qi wireless charging area on the other side.
  2. It has a LED lighting lamp with a lighting function that can operate at 800, 500, and 250 LEMEN.
  3. Input: Micro USB DC 5V/2A ; Output: USB 1(DC 5V/1A), USB 2(DC 5V/2A), USB 3(DC 5V/2A) ; Wireless Output: DC 5V/1A
  4. Solar charging and charging indicator
  5. The solar charger has 4 LED lights that indicate the battery percentage, with each light representing 25% charging. However, you can have an estimate of the battery, not the exact percentage.

Where Do Things Get Doubtful?

Things seem to be fine until you read the products’ specs, and their price is also not too high. But where do things start to get doubtful and fishy?

Here are a few things that hint this company is running a con operation:

1. Shady Marketing Campaign

As mentioned earlier, the company invested a lot into its marketing campaign by bombarding YouTube ads to American users every now and then. It is not enough to tell that their marketing campaign looks shady.

Things got weird when ads(apparently by two different tech reviewers) had the same phone, similar language, but only different clothes and backgrounds. Not only this, the company never revealed the faces of reviewers advertising their products. And many such reviews could be easily spotted as shot by some random video ad actors.

So you might be wondering where the shady part is.

Well, the point is that if a company wants to tell the audience that they have tech influencers reviewing their products, why hide their faces, and why is there the same kind of script? If their product was that promising, why wouldn’t a single influencer will agree to endorse the product?

2. Misleading Specs

Now, if we talk about the specs being advertised as compared to the actual performance, there is a huge difference. According to reviews of several customers, the claims of the company to charge a phone in 60 minutes is not true. Instead, it takes more than 2 hours to charge the phone completely.

A YouTube influencer said the wireless charger would not charge his iPhone 11 beyond 97%. According to the company, it can charge your phone 8 times once fully charged, but the battery only lasts up to 3 full charges.

The most enticing part about the product was the solar charging, and as per claims, the charger will be fully charged within 6-8 hours. But a lot of customers have reported that it never goes up beyond 25% as only one LED light turns blue, no matter if the charger is kept under the sun for weeks.

3. Out Of Service Customer Support Number

When the customers placed the orders, many of them received faulty products. In contrast, many never received a product from the company.

As per claims on the company’s website, the company has exceptional customer support.

But guess what?

Their customer support number is always out of service! It also confirms that the company might be running a con operation to rob people of their money.

4. Gimmicky Website(Not Working In 2022)

As per the detailed experience of a YouTube Influencer, Krazy Ken, the website looked gimmicky with a spin-to-win wheel, a 60% flat discount, 5-star reviews popping up every now and then, and misleading specs. Not only this, the reviews page was flooded with positive reviews that looked fishy.

And when we checked the website, it turned out that the domain registration and web hosting had already expired, and the website is not working anymore in 2022. You can also check at www.litmobile.us.

5. YouTube And Website Reviews

The YouTube channel of Lit Mobile has several review videos made by headless influencers who just loved how incredible they had received from the company. It triggers the doubt that when every other customer has complaints on public forums like Quora and Reddit, how come every customer on YouTube has found not even a single flaw in the charger?

6. Bad Rating On Trust Pilot, Quora, BBB, Etc

If we leave everything aside and look at what different reviews have to say, the answer is the same! Most of the reviews available on famous platforms like Quora, Trust Pilot, BBB, Reddit, etc., are negative, where customers report faulty products, and most of them report that they never received a charger from the company.

Some of the reviews from Trust Pilot are as follows:

Trust Pilot review on Lit mobile

Another review from La Tina Neely claims that the company is misleading on purpose, and she never received her Power Bank. The review is as follows:

La Tina review on Lit Mobile

Some reviews from Quora are as follows:

Review from Quora on Lit Mobile

Yet another review is as follows:

It is definitely a scam with fraudulent business practices. I ordered on 3/28/20 and never got an email confirmation, but they charged my card. Still haven’t received a product or anything. They won’t ship the product.

Do Customers Never Receive Product Or Refunds?

According to several claims, most customers reported that they never received the product from the company and never received any refund. The people who had received the products wouldn’t live up to the claims made by the company. And when it comes to the claims of solar charging, the charger is just a fail! It never fully charges and remains within 50%.

Final Verdict: Is Lit Mobile Legit Or A Scam?

What is our final verdict about the legitimacy of Lit Mobile?

There is no doubt that Lit Mobile was a scam that had taken money from thousands of people who never received the product, nor did they receive any response from the company. The product seems to be the same as sold by a manufacturer on the Alibaba website.

We have mentioned everything that hints toward the website, and the company is a scam. This story should be a lesson for many who got robbed by the company. The moral of the story is that everything that looks very promising might not be legitimate. You must check reviews on independent websites before investing in such a product.

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