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I originally posted this on trust pilot and it was removed after snap raise accused me of being a competitor and that I was writing libelous claims about their company. Snap went on to say that they have thousands of positive reviews (harvested of course) and that they've never been accused of doing anything wrong. In fact, there are plenty of complaints on the internet which this company has been unable to delete or bury and you can find them if you search for Snap! Raise complaints. My review is my opinion based on being, I feel, scammed into donating to a friend's child. I provided the same information and information from other reviews on the internet to the school's principal and a snap was banned from that school.

My advice is to never support any organization or school through SNAP. First, they have fake websites with hundreds of fake 5 star reviews that they have optimized to come up first on searching for reviews for snap. All their 5 star reviews read like they were written by a SNAP marketer and never say the school or organization in the reviews. No good company has to do this. 20% of everything you donate goes to SNAP and more if the kids don't meet their outrageous goals. My friend's autistic kid was given a goal of $900. Once SNAP has your email OR when you donate they will SPAM you forever and there is no way to stop this. Opt out on the email and they SPAM you more. They have your personal information and credit card and will then use and sell this information. Complain to the school principal and your school boards. Only make donations directly to the schools when they are no longer contracted with SNAP so the kids get all the money. Complain at PTA meetings. Don't allow your kids to go out and make money for this organization. Read real articles on the internet that explain how bad SNAP is. There are a bunch of articles written by schools on how bad SNAP is. Any positive reviews of SNAP were likely written by SNAP.
Don't donate directly to the school while SNAP has been contracted as the agreement states the school must give 20% of anything they receive to SNAP. Do not provide email of your family and friends to this company as they will be spammed forever. Read their responses to any negative review. No one cares about what they have to say and it shows the kind of organization you will be dealing with. They have found a way to steal money from the kids and their responses to reviews show Snap has no shame doing this. Who says "Thank you for your wonderful one star rant on how terrible we are?"...and then defends stealing from kids or justifying all the ways and processes they use to steal from kids and use kids to enrich themselves. There is a sucker born every minute and the fact that SNAP is still around proves it. Nowhere in their Spam email do they say anything about the fact that they take at least 20% of every dollar donated or that once they have your info they may sell it and/or SPAM you forever... How do you trust anything SNAP says when they take more than 20% of everything you donate to the kids? I sent an article written by another school to the Principal and he was shocked. He was new to the school and was unaware but assured me that the school would not be dealing with SNAP again. It is hard for schools to raise money and SNAP is just a predator feeding on this. So please donate directly to your schools!

Edit based on company response:
Joe,
No I'm a parent. You actually tried to get my honest review taken down by saying you have no records of me using your company, which unfortunately I did.

The internet is litterally plastered with negative reviews of your company. Instead of listening to valid criticism you came down hard, tried rationalize your bad business, and said I am libeling you for my personal truthful opinions. I am not your competitor. In my opinion it is a sleazy business and you are in taking money that should go to the kids and I would not be in such a business.

I am annomous for just that reason, because people like you are vindictive, threatening libel. I provided copies of my transaction with your company to trust pilot. Yes, I would not give you a personal email because you cannot be trusted with personal information, but the email I provided was mine and you never used it to communicate with me. I provided my information to you once while trying to support a friends child and you used my email to spam the heck out of me. Everything I said was true and what I believe to be true.

I will provide evidence in a follow-up post as I have run out of space."

Here is the companies original response or what will fit here:
From Snap
Hello Anonymous!Snap! Mobile exists to serve our communities coast to coast, and since 2014 has made honoring them our central mission.The critiques and claims you have provided in your review do not appear to have any basis in actual evidence, and you have provided none.When we requested your information or corroborating details to validate ANY of your claims (for example, by checking to see if you were ever a customer of ours or if we had ever sent you a single email), you provided us with an anonymous email address. As a result, without providing us with the correct email address, we're unable to verify at least some of your claims.Your claim that we sell your information is false, as per our privacy policy. You can read more about it here: https://www.snapraise.com/disclosures/snap-mobile-privacy-policy/. We do not sell any of our customers' data. The email address you provide for order processing will only be used to send you information and updates. No emails are sent without your authorization. Also, you can opt out of emails at any time. Your insistence otherwise, without evidence, isn't credible.As for pricing, it is completely transparent. We negotiate custom pricing and inform our customers up front that we collect a percentage of their final fundraiser profits after the closing of a campaign. This percentage serves to provide our customers with a dizzying array of market-leading solutions, which we work hard to substantially improve each day. Unlike many other websites, our campaigns are backed by real human beings, including dedicated account managers and live support. We are proud to have great team members who directly support our nation's schools, and we believe this support is priceless. Not to mention, we provide a free spirit wear store, fundraising reporting, and a dedicated rep to support all fundraisers.Snap! Mobile Inc. follows all applicable laws and has NEVER been accused in any proceeding, public or private, of doing anything that you stated above.At this point, we have reason to believe your libelous claims were fabricated by a competitor as a marketing tactic. We find that when somebody such as yourself makes numerous unsubstantiated claims, won't back them up with a real name, and then posts the same reviews everywhere, it speaks volumes.We have thousands upon thousands of satisfied customers who have left real thoughts and reviews about fundraising with Snap! Mobile. Please see our profile on G2 to find some of these reviews that have been provided by several happy and satisfied customers (https://www.g2.com/products/snap-raise/reviews#reviews)If you would like to discuss this matter further, please email me at *******@snapraise.com.Thank you,Joe

First I would caution anyone to continue to post reviews on trust pilot. I would also suggest you read the reviews here on how bad Trustpilot is. You can see that trust pilot allows companies to either bully them or pay them to remove valid helpful reviews. It also now has a policy of harvesting reviews by inviting people to review things. This by itself makes this site untrustworthy.

I'm probably going to get banned on that site but I had been a reviewer for quite a while and have many detailed reviews of companies. Please know that sometimes you'll have a positive or negative interaction with a company but not have a purchase. Trustpilot requires documentation of a purchase with your personal information to be sent to them. I don't think they can be trusted with personal information. This is an easy way for trustpilot to have reviews deleted. So if you're reviewing a company or looking at the reviews of companies, you can't trust that you are getting the true story for any company on trustpilot. They took down a review on a company called snap! Raise which I exposed in my personal opinion as a company that actually steals money from children under the guise of helping schools raise money. I provided information as well as suggestions of articles and places to go to confirm what I was saying in my review. My review was honest but certainly wasn't great for the company and they complained. Not only did they complain but they went after me both by the email that was provided to them by trust pilot and they also went after me in their response to my review claiming that I was not a real customer. I provided proof of my use of the company to trustpilot twice but they still removed my reviews. I'm afraid they will ban me so I'm posting my review of Trustpilot here. I also have a few reviews here.

MY review of Trustpilot on trustpilot site:
"This site is no better than the scam companies I have been reviewing.

Trustpilot cannot be trusted. I have reviews where I sent proof I used the business and the business paid to have my review removed. How can this be?

I agree with all the other reviewers who have had this happen to them. Trustpilot sends a cryptic message asking for a "reference number." Reference numbers don't exist. There's no way to know what is requested in order not to have your review removed. I eventually was able to contact trustpilot which is almost impossible. Customer service is the worst and on par with other really bad companies. Couldn't get an answer from them. I provided them proof that I used this company. It didn't matter. They still removed my reviews. This is unconscionable.

If you get one of these threatening messages be assured there's nothing you can do and trustpilot will certainly remove your review. I suggest you copy your review and post it elsewhere and stop using this site and stop contributing to the site. My review was on Snap! Raise which is a company which steals money from children under the guise of helping schools raise money. There was no reason to take down my reviews.

How can you have a company pay to have reviews removed. If they're not paying to have reviews removed then explain why on earth would you remove helpful reviews? I'm not the only one who has had this happen to. Read the dozens of other complaints on this site where people complain about Trustpilot removing their reviews.

Only allowing fake and fake positive and solicited invited reviews isn't helping anyone. People come to your site and are fooled or tricked into believing that a company is safe to do business with and this just does not true.

At this point it appears that you're inviting a lot of people to review your site which is bumping up your positive numbers. You've tapped into a way to scam the system and this isn't helping anyone. You are using deceptive tactics and removing reviews. This is not a sign of a trusted site. I'm just one person but I'll be taking my interviews elsewhere.

In the meantime, I'm posting my reviews back. It sucks that your reviewers have to keep going back and checking to make sure that their reviews aren't taken down.

And again, responding to people's reviews with cut and paste canned responses which are infuriating and certainly not helpful is no way to run a business no matter what you think. It shows not only do you not care for your customers or your reviewer base but that you have contempt for them. Right now I'm so upset with myself for placing my work on your site for free and allowing you to make money off of my really good reviews.

I would have certainly provided trust pilot proof of my purchase with this company, again, had they provided assurance that this information would not be sent to the company. Right now, I don't think that anyone should trust trustpilot in any way and I would be concerned about sending anything or any documentation to trustpilot with my personal information. I would not trust that trustpilot would not share this information and my name with that company.

I have provided over 20 detailed helpful reviews for the site and there's no way that you can look at my reviews and believe that I would lie about any company or that any company would have a valid reason for removing any of my reviews."

It amazes me the number of people that are still coming on to review sites and complaining about losing money to the scam organizations. Never ever pay any money to any dating site whether it be okay Cupid or match or Tinder or Bumble etc. You do not have to pay money to get the same bad experience. Paying money only means you are giving your money away for nothing. They will scam you out of your money. Never ever pay money to these sites. You do not have to pay money to find a date on these sites. Paying money does not increase your chances of finding a date. Read all of the hundreds and hundreds of reviews here and on other review sites to see that paying money is a scam and if you are willing to give up your money then do so but do not come back on here and complain. Never ever pay money to any of these sites.

If you read the reviews you will notice that the match group purchased okCupid and destroyed it. It is now only a shell of its former self completely filled with fake and scammer profiles. It's only reason for being is to scam unsuspecting new people and to get money for the match group or OKCupid. You will not find a match on OKCupid. You will just lose your money. If you have already lost your money, coming on and complaining is not going to help anyone. Just don't ever spend your money again on any dating site. When you stop paying for these dating sites they will go away. When they go away they will hopefully make room for legitimate sites. Any site run by the match group is not going to be a legitimate site. I am not saying you will not find a match on these sites but it will be difficult. Paying money will not increase your chances of a match and will only give your money away to these scam organizations.

I stopped using this site months ago. It became a 100% waste of time. There's no value in this site. If you look through the reviews you will see the percentage of negative reviews. Any five star or positive review read with caution because it is most likely fake and provided by a scammer or the company itself.

I feel for all the reviewers who have come here to express their frustrations with Bumble. The company has hired an entitled group of similar bent pushing an agenda narrowly based on their radical beliefs and pushing this on daters across the counties they infiltrate. Their beliefs of right and wrong are so screwed and different from the majority of the world.
They have created a fiefdom based on fake and scammer profiles in the beliefs that pushing AI relationships is more important than providing a safe platform for normal people to meet. It is a sesspool and frustrating waste of time created strictly to take your money. Their better than thou attitudes forcing their beliefs and rules interpreted based on their perverse view of the world on all while providing a platform filled with dangerous scammers and bots and fakes is sickening.
Fine. It's is their sandbox and if you play it's their rules and interpretations. Their group of office workers read your communications and make decisions while at the same time filling their site with fake profiles.
Don't ever pay. This group that is so rule focused has screwed probably thousands out of their money and have been flagged even by the BBB based on their bad business practices and hundreds of unanswered complaints.

Imagine being banned or warned and never being told why? If you think this could never happen to you, well, I thought this too.

Over a month of trying to get an answer and here is what I keep getting from them:

"I completely understand how frustrating it is to not know the exact reason why the account had been warned.

However, we have strict privacy laws and in order to protect the integrity of our internal systems we cannot reveal certain information.

Please know we investigate each report thoroughly and with the utmost care to avoid causing any unintentional distress or confusion.

The warning has been reviewed by multiple team members here at Bumble and has been deemed to have been issued fairly.

At this stage I can recommend having a look over our Community Guidelines as well as our Terms and Conditions via the following links:"

Any educated reasonable person reading this who then gives Bumble any money or continues to pay deserves to be in the other end of this insanity. I have never given them a dime.
I just want to get the word out as I am sure there are others like me. If you find this useful, please mark it as such so it will be available for others. Bumble and other sites are so opaque that it is important to make their despicable practices known to all.

I am not saying you can't meet someone here. I just want people to be clear of the dangers. Never pay. You do not have to pay to meet someone. Do the work. Read the profiles and like those you are interested in. Don't only go by what fills your in box. If you are a woman, make an effort in your message. Men don't know you and have no reason to chase you unless you give them one. Don't just say hello. Never pay Bumble or any of these sites. Never give anyone you meet on any of these sites money. Never. No matter how long you are talking never do it. If you are insisting on paying read the BBB site warning first.

I can't believe there are so few reviews here on this bank. If you see the articles on the Internet from sites like nerdwallet giving this bank amazing recommendations don't believe it. I can't imagine any of these articles have not been paid for. Because of the limited reviews here, I urge you to seek out reviews on sites like trustpilot and the BBB before giving Axos bank your personal information or money. Disregard the total star review these sites have and focus on and read all the negative reviews.
Unfortunately when I signed up for axos, all these negative reviews were not available and I sure wish they were.
You will find hundreds of similar serious complaints about Axos bank. These include in no particular order terrible customer service, outdated banking software, fees, unacceptable incompetent practices, deceptive practice etc. You can only communicate with them via secure messaging. It is nearly impossible to speak to a real person and their customer service is 100 in the Philippines. They hold your deposited checks for yo to 14days. Please please please believe these reviews. I am not a bad customer, just a fool to believe nerdwallet. I am not just a random person with a bad experience. Please just use another bank or a local bank you can go to and talk to a real person. Please don't make the mistake I hand hundreds of others who have taken to the Internet to complain have.
You can use apps like zelle with this company. They have no system of online payments you would expect from an Internet bank. They charge for everything. I never actually realized the money from the high Interest they promised. You can't fight them as there is no way to contact them or speak to someone in the US.

Use your common sense when reading the five star reviews. They are fake or paid for or solicited.

Even if you think Axos can't hurt you because you are just using the site for something simple, trust me, they can. Look at their terms for how much they will charge you to close your account.
Look that it is impossible to easily find their terms and a current list of all they charges they have when you use their bank. Their Web site is deceptive and difficult to use and find information for a reason. If you see how hard it is to find their terms and charges, it is ten times harder and more frustrating to deal with them once you sign up.

I wish I never signed up. It was so costly for me because of Axos mistakes, penalties and charges and hours of wasted time and frustration.

Today on tinder I get this pop up from tinder saying, "I feel like the profiles I see on tinder are real." Then there was an option to choose a star rating from 1 to 10 I think?

Most days I feel like my profile is the only real profile on tinder. I'm embarrassed to say that I have been on tinder for a couple of years. When I rarely get a match, it's most likely going to be fake. I end up spending hours swiping through nothing but fake profiles. Now tinder has a pop-up asking me if I think the profiles I'm seeing are fake or not. It's laughable.

Believe me that tinder has a symbiotic relationship with scammers. Tinder is filled with almost nothing but scam profiles and bots. I wouldn't be surprised if the company is not also creating fake profiles. Tinder accepts all of these fake and scammer profiles because I believe that relatively few real people even use tinder. I imagine there are enough new people coming on board that are faked into believing that tinder is full of all of these great amazing beautiful people that are using the app. Tinder, I imagine, is able to scam these new people out of money and scam desperate people out of money. So they allow the fakes and scammers to create a working scam profile where people are getting messaged and it looks like there's a lot of people using the site and they accept all these scam profiles so that they can make money off of the new people they are able to scam who come on board and do not know any different. The fakes and scammers are allowed to use tinder with impunity and without fear of losing their profiles. They are making millions off of scamming people. So the symbiosis is scammers provide an endless supply of profiles for tinder. In return for doing this Tinder allows them to scam real people who use Tinder. What does Tinder get? Well they get a lively site which entices plenty of new people to come on board to be tricked into paying Tinder.

I see these positive reviews of Tinder on review sites and I imagine these positive five-star reviews are as fake as the majority of profiles on tinder. I'm not sure why tinder feels the need to ask their own users whether or not they feel the profiles they are being shown are fake or not? They need to get off of their butts and just read the online negative reviews that should be able to tell them everything that they need to know.

Look, tinder and their owner, the match group, are not a dating site and care nothing about creating relationships or getting people together. This is nothing but a money grab. Anyone who pays for any of these relationship sites specifically tinder or specifically any of the match group sites is throwing their money away. You don't need to pay to have a terrible experience. Paying these sites for any kind of subscription does not increase your chance of getting a relationship. It probably increases your chance of getting scammed.

When you pay tinder or any of these match group dating sites, you are just giving them money and they owe you nothing and return. Just because you've paid money doesn't give you any protection. You will be fed the same scam and fake profiles and you have probably a greater chance of being scammed by paying them money. Look, these are bad companies and bad websites and they have turned these online dating sites into nothing but a scam money grab. It is dangerous because you are coming into contact with tons of scammers and it is dangerous for your mental health.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't use these sites but I am saying you should never pay for them. When a company comes out and asks their users how they feel about fake or scam profiles it tells me one thing. It tells me that they are not policing their site and are not protecting their users from scammers and fakes. It shouldn't be a question of user feelings but rather they should know how many fake and scam profiles they have on their site. Like I said, a conservative number based on my experience is 90% or more are fake, or bot, or scammer profiles.
Why should you believe what I'm saying? Don't believe me. Go ahead and spend some time on multiple reviews sites looking at the negative reviews. You will find one thing in common. All of the negative reviews are very well written and intelligent and appear to becoming from sincere reviewers. Many of these reviewers will have multiple reviews to their name. Most of them will be complaining about being scammed out of money and many will complain about the fakes and scam profiles. When you look at all of the five-star reviews you will find a few things in common too. You will see that they are usually poorly written and do not appear to be coming from the same intelligent reviewers. They are usually very short and they usually will come from a reviewer with one or two reviews. Please know that tinder is able to pay people to get fake positive reviews for their sites. I bet the reviews are coming from a bunch of people in a Nigerian sweatshop as this is what those five star reviews sound like. It ends up driving up the nonsensical total stars that these review sites give to tinder but when you dive down deep into the actual reviews you will see that most of the five-star reviews are fake reviews that have been paid for or created by bots and that the negative reviews, based on a normal logical person evaluating them, seem to be more real.

So you must ask yourself what kind of a company goes out and tries to deceive people with filling up review sites with hundreds and thousands of fake five-star reviews and at the same time filling their site with fake and scammer and bot profiles (other than another match group dating site or Bumble...). Is this really something that you should feel comfortable or a company you should feel comfortable giving your money to? Ask yourself what you are getting for giving them your money.

Ask tinder what they are doing to protect their customers. They say they rely on users to report fake profiles. Look, you're not being paid to report fake profiles and clean up tinder site for them. This is an online internet company with dozens of IT specialists working for them. They would be able to clean up their site in a heartbeat if they wanted to. They would be able to protect customers from fakes and scammers if they wanted to. The reason they don't protect you is because they are making a boatload of money by allowing these scammers and fakes on their site.

Looking at it from another perspective, there is no incentive for them to get you a date. Their business is based on making money off of people that are single. Single people are their way of making money. It would be counterintuitive to match these people. That's why the site is set up like a game and there are multiple psychological tricks built into the site to keep you on there and entice you to pay. They want to frustrate you into believing that paying for any of their options is going to make it possible for you to find the love of your life. It's not going to happen because everything that they have built into their site or application is to keep you on there, keep you using it, keep enticing you to pay money and to be able to keep showing you advertisements.

The government has regulated The gambling industry. The gambling industry has to have payouts of a certain percentage. Tinder and other match companies are like the gaming industry without any regulations on payout.

So when tinder starts asking their users whether or not they feel tinder is full of fakes, the game is up friends. Tinder is not going to clean up their act but they are going to try to find a way to change this perception of their users without giving up their money. Better yet they are going to try to change this perception and make more money. I bet you the next iteration will be Tinder selling an option for users to pay money to limit the number of scammers you are shown.

In reality, there are only a fixed finite number of single people looking for dates in your community. I doubt there's more than a few hundred and probably even less in your particular dating circle. If tinder just showed you real people in your community then you would see them all in one sitting and say oh hell no. I'm out of here. I'm not paying for this crap. Then maybe you would check in every month or so to see if there's new fresh blood in the pool. Other than that you would have no interest because it's the same people over and over. How does tinder come up with hundreds and hundreds of people that I flip through every day in my community that are real? My friends it's a scam.

Plenty of fish is basically a scam site. If you don't believe any of the reviews here then go to the Better Business Bureau review site for plenty of fish. The Better Business Bureau is also a big scam as they are paid by the companies that you are complaining about. That means that the Better Business Bureau is on the side of the companies like POF and not on your side. If they piss off POF then POF will stop paying for them. Nevertheless the BBB site is also full of negative reviews.
Here is what is very scary. You will see in the responses from POF that they actually state that they do not guarantee that you find a match and they do not guarantee that they will show you any real people and they do not guarantee you that people will respond to you. You will see where they say that they remove fake profiles but this is clearly not true. You will see that it is the responsibility of real people on the site to report fake profiles. You will see that people have challenged the recurring credit card bills with their credit card companies and have had the charges reversed. However at this point POF which is part of the match group will immediately delete your account and remove you from the site. They will retain your personal information and it will be impossible for you to sign up again and in the unbelievable event you want to pay for POF again, they will not allow you to. But this is not what is shocking. Match group owns multiple dating sites including Tinder hinge POF and OkCupid. Once you are banned on any of these sites and you cannot use any of their sites.
I'm sure you're saying that whoever was banned certainly deserved it and you can't blame a company for not allowing somebody who was doing something bad on their site to join any of their other sites and continue their bad behavior. But this is not true. In fact, I have been accidentally banned by POF on two occasions and when I have contacted POF they have admitted to their mistake and restated my account. However, if I did not complain to POF and get a satisfactory response then my accounts would have probably been banned on all of the other dating sites. It is very scary that the match group maintains all of your personal information after you leave the site or delete your profile. This is clearly a very scary company the match group and pof.

If you really want to be shocked then you can go to the Better Business Bureau complaint site and see all of the shocking responses from this company. People who's profiles that most likely have inadvertently banned or deleted for whatever reason are labeled and banned from all match group sites. Who knows what else match does with your personal information if all their different sites have access to your personal information.

You will also see how this scam organization gets your credit card information and continues to bill you unless you jump through a serious of Hoops to attempt to remove their automatic billing. There's no penalty for them to continue to bill you even if you have opted out or canceled. No harm comes to them from continuing to bill you. You have the responsibility and obligation to stop them from billing you and it is almost impossible. Look at the responses of this company and look at the complaints on the Better Business bureau. Most of these complaints are from people just like you and me and the response of this company screams that they are scam artists and con artists and thieves. Nowhere do you get the idea that this is a company interested in creating matches and love. The company's responses to negative reviews or complaints is that they are a company that offers you no guarantees of anything and that your payments are for basically nothing and they don't have to refund your money.
Actually you really don't have to go through all the research yourself because I've been researching this for a while and I can tell you as honestly as possible that the match group and POF are not a company that you want to trust with your credit card information. Never pay them. You may want to join their site because it seems like they are the only games in town but when you join just be very very cautious as almost all of the profiles you will be shown are either abandoned accounts or fakes. They take no responsibility to protect you from these fake accounts or to remove these fake accounts on their own from the site.
Why wouldn't they protect you and stop the fake accounts? Because without the fake accounts their site would be nearly completely empty and they need these fake accounts to try to entice you to pay them. They have a symbiotic relationship with the scammers. They need the scammers to fill up their site and the scammers need the dating sites so that they can have a place to find you and scam you.
If after reading this and you decide you still want to pay for the site and your scammed and upset then don't think you can go to the Better Business Bureau and complain and get any sort of resolution. You may not even get help from your credit card. I haven't complained to the Better Business Bureau but just reading the complaints and the responses is enough to frustrate me to never count on the Better Business Bureau for help. If I can stop just one person from getting scammed by paying any of these dating sites then I will feel I have done a good thing for society.