buildabear.com
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Build-A-Bear Workshop® | Shop All The Stuff You LoveLet's celebrate all the good stuff inside each & every one of us. All the moments, the memories—the stuff you love. Shop online or find a Workshop near you.
Build-A-Bear Workshop® | Shop All The Stuff You LoveLet's celebrate all the good stuff inside each & every one of us. All the moments, the memories—the stuff you love. Shop online or find a Workshop near you.
One of the first images collected of this website on 19 Jan 2001
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Business details
- Founded
- 1997
- Sells
- Physical goods
- Sells to
- The public
- Kind of seller
- Sells its own goods or services
- Licensed trade
- No licence normally needed
- Domain age
- 29 years
- Address
- 415 S. 18th St., St. Louis
- Email address
- dmca
@buildabear.com - Phone number
- +1 877-789-2327
- Contact page
- buildabear.com/
contact-us.html - Website
- buildabear.com
Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints
Trustpilot reviews are not included in this assessment. This business also has a Trustpilot page, which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here.
Summary
Is buildabear.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 90 out of 100, high truth signals: 7 public checks clear, 1 to be cautious about, 3 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: mostly dissatisfied, low confidence.
We read 3 of its pages: contact, terms and privacy. Its website address was registered 29 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. It has a review page on Trustpilot. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. Be cautious: its 67 reviews on SmartCustomer average only 2.4 stars out of 5.
Positives
- We read 3 of its pages · contact, terms and privacy.
- Its website address was registered 29 years ago.
- It has a review page on Trustpilot.
- No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.
Be cautious
- A low number of independent reviews (67 on SmartCustomer), but it falls short with only 2.4 stars out of 5.
Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.
What they offer
Let's celebrate all the good stuff inside each & every one of us. All the moments, the memories—the stuff you love. Shop online or find a Workshop near you.
- Promises
- Promise Pets
Latest YouTube video
Correct as of
How to check if buildabear.com is legit
To check if buildabear.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about buildabear.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.
Who they are
Company detailsBased in the US; serves the US; founded in 1997 (Wikipedia)
- Where the company is based
- US
- Why we believe that
- OpenData.org's record puts its head office in 415 S 18th St, Saint Louis, MO, 63103, USA, its Better Business Bureau profile is a US listing
- Which countries the company serves
- US
- Why we believe that
- $ prices on its homepage
- Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)
- 529900S9MWZC1UBF3D13
- SEC registration (CIK)
- 0001113809
- Type (Wikipedia)
- Delaware corporation
- Industry
- retail
- Founded
- 1997
- Listed name
- BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP INC
- Trading names
- BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP - CLARKSVILLE WALMART SUPERCENTER, BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP, BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP - WASHINGTON WALMART SUPERCENTER, BUILD A BEAR WORKSHOP, BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP - MOBILE WALMART SUPERCENTER, BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP - SAN DIEGO WALMART SUPERCENTER, BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP Ð NORTH LOGAN WALMART SUPERCENTER, BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP - HAMPTON WALMART SUPERCENTER, BUILD-A-BEAR BAKESHOP, BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP Ð AMARILLO WALMART SUPERCENTER
- Head office (OpenData.org)
- 415 S 18th St, Saint Louis, MO, 63103, USA
- Number of locations
- 104
Domain registrationIts website address was registered 29 years ago
- Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else
- Domain age
- 29 years
- Domain transfer lock enabled
- Yes
Website detailsWe read 3 of its pages: contact, terms and privacy
- Company contact email is available
- HTTPS enabled
- Yes
- Contact phone number found
- +1 877-789-2327
- Contact page found
- Yes
- Hosting company
- Akamai Technologies, Inc.
- Phone support
- +1 877-789-2327, [email protected]
Search engines and AIBlocks automated visitors: its bot protection turned us away
Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.
All blocked
- Google Search
- Blocked by its bot protectionGooglebot
- Bing
- Blocked by its bot protectionBingbot
All blocked
- OpenAI
- Blocked by its bot protectionGPTBot
- Anthropic
- Blocked by its bot protectionClaudeBot
- Google AI
- Blocked by its bot protectionGoogle-Extended
- Apple AI
- Blocked by its bot protectionApplebot-Extended
- Common Crawl
- Blocked by its bot protectionCCBot
- Meta
- Blocked by its bot protectionmeta-externalagent
- ByteDance (TikTok)
- Blocked by its bot protectionBytespider
All blocked
- ChatGPT search
- Blocked by its bot protectionOAI-SearchBot
- ChatGPT
- Blocked by its bot protectionChatGPT-User
- Claude search
- Blocked by its bot protectionClaude-SearchBot
- Claude
- Blocked by its bot protectionClaude-User
- Perplexity
- Blocked by its bot protectionPerplexityBot
Reputation and track record
Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints69 reviews across 2 platforms, rated 2.4 to 5.0 out of 5
| Platform | Rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Trustpilot | Unknown | Unknown |
| SmartCustomer | 2.4 out of 5 stars | 67 |
| Total | 2.6 out of 5 stars | 69 |
App StoreIts app, Build-A-Bear Merry Mission™, is on Apple's App Store, rated 5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, counted in the reviews total.
- App
- Build-A-Bear Merry Mission™
- App Store rating
- 5.0 out of 5
- App Store ratings
- 2
Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months
- Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
- It is among the 200,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)
- Popularity among Chrome users
- top 50,000 sites
- First known user traffic
- Feb 2021 or earlier
- Months with real traffic, of the last 24
- 24
- Traffic pattern
- sustained
- Rank jump in the last 12 months
- none
- Rank drop in the last 12 months
- none
- Popularity across the internet
- top 200,000 sites
Share of people looking up buildabear.com, by country, over the last 2 days.
- Over 50%
- 5 to 50%
- 1 to 5%
- 0.2 to 1%
- Under 0.2%
- None seen
- 1United States73.5%
- 2Brazil4.1%
- 3Singapore4.1%
- 4Barbados2.0%
- 5Bangladesh2.0%
- 6France2.0%
- 7Guadeloupe2.0%
- 8Hong Kong2.0%
- 9Indonesia2.0%
- 10Netherlands2.0%
Top 10 of 12 countries.
Web history and authorityThe Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 28 years ago
- Website archive history
- 28 years
Social presenceIt is on 6 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X.com and YouTube); the largest audience is 2,838,157 followers on Facebook
YouTube Data167,103 views a video, 28,455 views a day and a new video every 5.9 days
- Views per video198,016,873 views ÷ 1,185 videos
- 167,103
- Views a day198,016,873 views ÷ 6,959 days
- 28,455
- Views per subscriber198,016,873 views ÷ 135,000 subscribers
- 1,467
- New subscribers a day135,000 subscribers ÷ 6,959 days
- 19
- Subscribers per 1,000 views135,000 subscribers ÷ 198,016,873 views × 1,000
- 0.7
- Subscribers per video135,000 subscribers ÷ 1,185 videos
- 114
- Days between videos6,959 days ÷ 1,185 videos
- 5.9
- Channel age24 October 2007 to 12 November 2026
- 19 years 0 months
- Subscribers
- 135,000
- Views
- 198,016,873
- Videos
- 1,185
- Started
- 24 October 2007
- Country
- United States
- Language
- Not stated
- Topics
- Entertainment, Film, Lifestyle
- Made for children
- Yes
- Website in its description
- Not stated
- Trailer
- Yes
What data this site collects about you
What its privacy policy saysWe found this business stores and uses your data
- Says it does not sell your personal data.
- “No Personal Information Sales We do not sell (as defined in the CCPA and other applicable State privacy laws) any Personal Information that we collect or use.”
- Shares your data with other companies.
- “We share Personal Information with third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising for our commercial purposes and to provide you with advertising targeted to your interests and preferences.”
- Collects where you are.
- “In connection therewith, both first party and third-party Google cookies are used to collect user ID, device ID and data, location data, engagement data, and usage data.”
- May make automated decisions or build a profile about you.
- “Automatic decision making We do not make decisions in relation to your Personal Information that are based solely on automated data processing (including profiling).”
- Says you can ask it to delete your data.
- “Data Privacy Framework, if the burden or expense of providing access (Right to Access, Right to Rectification, and Right to Erasure) would be disproportionate to the risks to the individual’s privacy in the case in question, or where the rights of persons other than the individual would be violated, a request may be denied.”
- Has a data protection officer you can contact.
- “In the US and Canada: Data Protection Officer Build-A-Bear Workshop 415 S.”privacy
@buildabear.com
Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Tag Manager
Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.
- Google Tag Manager
- Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.
Uses Cookiebot to ask which cookies you allow.
Safety
Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.
- Malware or phishing threat status
- None found
Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company
- Known data breaches found
- 0
Domain and email securityIts email is protected: mail forged in its name is blocked
- MX records
- Yes
- SPF record
- Yes
- DKIM key
- Yes
- DMARC record
- Yes
- DMARC policy
- reject
- Security certificate browsers warn about
- No
- Certificate issuer
- DigiCert Inc
- Certificate type
- OV
- Certificate expires
- 8 Mar 2027
- Nameservers
- udns1.cscdns.net
udns2.cscdns.uk - Address
- 104.82.117.184
Proof of ownership
What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.
DNS recordNot added yet+3 possible
- What we check
- A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.
- When we check
- On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.
- Points
- 0 of 3 added
Email at its own domainNot added yet+1 possible
- What we check
- That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.
- When we check
- When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.
- Points
- 0 of 1 added
Lets our checker read itNot added yet+1 possible
- What we check
- That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.
- When we check
- On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.
- Points
- 0 of 1 added
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