The Little Marvin Reviews 11

I purchased two of these scopes for my two grandsons and please look at every review on multiple websites and also type into a google search "The Little Marvin negative reviews and complaints" and you'll see this company and their toys are complete rip offs and you only have 30 days to return, so forget giving it for Christmas. AVOID this company!! TOTAL CRAP!

This is a big disappointment and a piece of junk. I bought the Little Marvin Scope and you see nothing from it.

Website states speedy shipping, however ordered 2 weeks before Christmas and was not shipped (from China via aeroplane) on Christmas eve. Did not arrive until one week after Christmas. Very misleading.

I should have known better! My order roamed around Chine for almost two weeks. Still waiting for the two walkie talkies. I will NEVER order anything from this company EVER again! I’m at 15 days waiting for a tracking update.

So I ordered the robot on 12/13 and it is still in China. I emailed them and they assured me that they have warehouses in the U.S, skirting around the fact that the item is not actually coming from any said warehouses, but mainland China. It won’t be here in time, so will be a return. It just seems like they are a Chinese company dishonestly representing themselves as an American company. Tracking shows it being scanned at 4 different locations in China. It won’t let me upload pictures of the tracking and correspondence with the company.

Edited to add: received the package and the box is falling apart, doesn’t look appropriate for gifting. What a waste of time and money.

I ordered the scope for my grandson several weeks ago. Now when I click on the links to check on my package delivery it takes me to a site stating it is blocked. When I call the number it states to email. Everything that I click on in the email is blocked!!!! I would be extremely cautious ordering from this website!

I bought the Miniscope Pro and the Digital Walkie Talkie for my son and daughter, and both products turned out great.
The miniscope has an impressive zoom, and we’ve already spent a lot of time exploring things outside together.
The walkie talkies are super fun and a nice alternative to screen time.
Really happy with the quality - would buy from The Little Marvin again.

Total scam. I ordered the Marvin Scope as a Christmas gift - and I should have known something was amiss with the "too good to be true" steep discount, plus the fact that the tracking originated from China. There was no indication anywhere on their website that the product was being shipped from China - I think they had their headquarters listed as somewhere in Illinois?

After doing some digging, I could find no evidence that their product was endorsed by any of the media outlets they touted on their homepage (Parents, Families Magazine, Brightly, Mother&Baby, NBC, CBS), and there are several customer complaints of it being an overpriced product for its poor construction. Also, Little Marvin's website was only 8 months old at the time, it used unpaid-for stock images that STILL HAD THE WATERMARK on them, and Little Marvin has virtually no web presence online (again, I could find no endorsement from the media outlets they listed on their homepage), with a product with a too-good-to-be-true markdown. All signs point to a discount scam.

When I tried to reach someone via the email they had listed on their website (contact[at]the-littlemarvin[dot]com), my email kept bouncing back, claiming the message "contains a virus." It took me so long to reach someone, that when I finally did and tried to cancel my order before it shipped, they fed me the same "no refunds" policy. (And for the record, it was delivered LONG after Christmas...)

Absolute piece of crap!!! I would have rated it a zero star but I couldn't. I ordered 2 for my grandkids 3 and 5 you can't see anything through the lense. I reached out, the same day I received it, to contact the company for a refund/return number but they replied with an email telling me that I should try putting it on a flat surface and the take a picture of its issue. How do you take a picture of what you can't see through the lense???? I did. and I never heard from them again. Tried many times to contact again but nothing. Don't buy this expensive total scam piece of crap.

I ordered a scope on 12/11/24 and never received it. They claim it was delivered on 1/23/25 (so much for fast shipping) but the post office has no record of a delivery on this date. According to their shipping policy on their website, it’s the customer’s problem if the product shows “delivered” but is never received. They seem like a scam company.

“Little Marvin” microscopes were the worst unusable presents that my granddaughters (ages 4, 5 & 7) received this holiday. The scope viewing image is not clear and the scope functions are way beyond the children’s ages as targeted by this company.

I requested an RMA within the 30 day guarantee period and learned the following:

“Little Marvin’s” “30 day, no questions asked guarantee” is a meaningless advertising tactic that does not apply to return requests. The “Little Marvin”. microscope fine print return carries a 15 day window policy, that starts on your day of delivery.

My microscope return requests would have had to begin even BEFORE my grandchildren opened their Christmas gifts from me.

“Little Marvin” is well aware of standard Christmas protocol of opening gifts between 12/25-1/1 & the standard return window that should follow. They are clearly an “out of the norm” vendor NOT to support the same children that they target in their ads. A consumer friendly company would have responded favorably to my request for holiday return.
But “Little Marvin” would not provide RMA.

Be careful. “Little Marvin” microscope “30 day guarantee” is misleading with fine print attached and no holiday window for return. Be careful, the “Little Marvin” microscope is not appropriate for ages 4,5 or 7, which is the target audience for this product. Be careful, this company is more interested in their revenue than in supporting your child’s growth.