Soxialmedia Reviews 16

This guy scammed our family business and has also scammed MANY others that have reached out to us. He keeps changing his name and scamming. Please beware of who you are working with!!!

Beware of Sage Rivers and his bogus company Soxial (goes by the name Shogun Ads) and his employees including Arshil and Paul Orven. They are professional are con artists and scam artists. Beware of these thieves that take money and do not deliver. They repeatedly charge your card for unauthorized transactions through Stripe. All the people conned for thousands of dollars by his fake social media agency pray that there is a special place in hell for him.

Worst person and company to work with. Please do your deep due dilgence before you sign any document with him. He is a con artist.

Sagan Rios or Sage Rivers (changes his name) posts videos of his services, sends contracts, creates a virtual team to discuss services but once you pay the initial fee ($3000) in my case, he shuts down Slack, changes email, and completely ghosts. He did not complete one thing for us, nothing. His social media shows him as a digital nomad going from Hawaii to Japan to all sorts of places with his wife and child. He has several lawsuits pending in Hawaii.

So many people are scammed with this person who keeps changing his personal & business name. He scammed our company by the name of Sage Rivers and Soxial Media but we have been approached by other victims of the same person with using different names. Can't believe he is still in business.

Sage Rivers is a scam artist. His companies Soxial media.io, viralworks and tik tok shop should be reported to Better Business Bureau. He does not have ethics to perform the work and believes in scamming people. The reviews say it all. When is done scamming ppl from one company, he opens a new company.

Avoid this company. After paying in full in August 2025, we waited a month with almost no follow-up, no clear timeline, and no progress. Repeated requests for updates went unanswered. The experience felt purely money-driven and deeply unprofessional. We cannot recommend them at any cost. They should shut down and do something that's honorable and no cheating.

We engaged Sagan Rios (also known as Sage Rivers) to open a TikTok store and promote beauty products from a brand I represent, L'amar Etniker. He required an upfront payment of $2,100, which I paid in full. After receiving the payment, he disappeared and never delivered any of the promised services. I requested a refund since no work was performed, but he refused to return the money. This has been an extremely disappointing and unprofessional experience, and I cannot recommend working with him.

I was recruited into this company by a former teammate I trusted, with no interview or contract. Believing their word, I began working without any formal agreement in place. In hindsight, this was my first mistake.

After working tirelessly for four weeks, I submitted my first invoice, fully expecting to be paid. Instead, I was informed—without prior notice—that those four weeks were considered an "unpaid probation period." This had never been communicated to me, and I felt utterly exploited.

Despite this betrayal, I continued working for an additional two weeks before resigning, fed up with their unprofessional behavior. However, the hours I worked after the supposed probation period remained unpaid. When I reached out to the owner for payment, I was met with excuse after excuse. He repeatedly claimed the payment had been sent but refused to provide any proof. It became clear that he had no intention of paying me.

This wasn’t just unprofessional—it was outright unethical. The entire experience felt like a scam, and I was left feeling used and disrespected. A company that deceives and refuses to pay its employees is not just untrustworthy—it’s dangerous. If they can’t treat their staff with basic decency, how can they possibly deliver on promises to their clients? Avoid this company at all costs.

I joined this company based on the recommendation of a former teammate I trusted. There was no formal interview, contract, or written agreement—I relied solely on the word of someone I considered a friend.

After working diligently for four weeks, I submitted an invoice expecting payment. Instead, I was blindsided by the claim that those four weeks were an "unpaid probation period," a detail that had never been communicated to me. I was shocked and disappointed by their lack of transparency.

Hoping to move forward, I continued working for an additional two weeks before deciding to resign. However, I still had unpaid hours from the period after probation. Despite numerous attempts to follow up, the owner consistently dodged responsibility, claiming payment was made but never providing proof. Eventually, I gave up out of sheer exhaustion.

This experience made it clear to me: a company that treats its employees with such disregard cannot be trusted to operate ethically or professionally with its clients. I strongly discourage anyone from working with or supporting this business.

I was brought into this company by a trusted former colleague, with no formal interview or signed contract. Relying on the assurance of someone I considered a friend, I began working without a clear agreement.

After a month of consistent effort, I submitted my first invoice, fully expecting to be compensated for my time. To my surprise and dismay, I was informed that the first four weeks were considered an unpaid probationary period—something I had never been told. Feeling blindsided and undervalued, I decided to resign two weeks later.

Even after my resignation, I had hours worked beyond the so-called probation period that were still unpaid. Despite persistent follow-ups, payment was never made. The owner repeatedly claimed the payment was sent but failed to provide any evidence. After exhausting all avenues, I chose to stop pursuing it, disillusioned and frustrated.

This experience taught me a hard lesson: if a company doesn't respect or compensate its employees fairly, how can it be trusted to serve its clients with integrity? I cannot recommend this company due to their unprofessional and unethical behavior.

I was hired by this company through my former teammates without an interview or a signed contract. Trusting a good friend who hired me, I started working without a formal agreement.

After four weeks, I sent an invoice, expecting to get paid. To my shock, I was informed that those four weeks were considered a probation period, which was unpaid. I was devastated. Two weeks later, I resigned, but I still had hours worked after the probation period that needed to be paid. Despite several follow-ups, I didn't receive payment, and the owner always claimed he sent it without providing proof. Eventually, I stopped pursuing it out of exhaustion.

This experience made me realize that if the company owner doesn't pay his employees properly, how can he be reliable in dealing with his clients? I do not recommend this company due to their unprofessional and unethical practices.

I engaged SoxialMedia.IO | X Point Agency LLC to increase traffic through online marketing, paying $2500 for 10 weeks of services. Their contract promised social media management, email marketing, influencer collaborations, user-generated content (UGC), and Google Ads. Unfortunately, what we received was far below expectations: a handful of Facebook posts, several weeks of promising Meta Ads management (which ceased when they sacked their ads manager), and minimal effort on Google Ads.

Midway through, I was invoiced $2000 for "theme page promotions and UGC" with an urgent email stating these were "ready to go" and payment was due the next day. Trusting the company at that stage, and assuming the funds would be used for planned influencer work, I paid the invoice. By the end of 10 weeks, however, no influencer work, UGC, or most of the agreed-upon deliverables had been completed. When we asked to review their proposed influencers, we found they were irrelevant to our niche, had low follower counts, and their audiences were primarily other UGC creators.

I requested a refund of the $2000 since the funds remained unspent, which the owner confirmed. I specifically advised them NOT to proceed with any activities using that budget, as it would be better allocated to Meta Ads. Despite this, the owner began citing HR costs and claiming the influencers "contract with our company solely," suggesting the money had already been used to maintain them.

Adding to the concern, we received an email from their ads manager, addressed to several clients saying: "We were made to work for four weeks without being informed that this period was unpaid," and "I have heard from fellow VAs that if [the owner] doesn’t pay, they might take actions that could negatively impact your accounts."

Need I say more? I cannot recommend this agency. I will keep you updated on any developments.