Badoo has a rating of 1.3 stars from 606 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Badoo most frequently mention fake profiles, credit card, and phone number problems. Badoo ranks 500th among Social Network sites.
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This is the worst dating site ever they blocked my account for something I didn't do and won't reactivate it people be careful with this site they can screw you over worst dating app every don't go here
They are an absolute terrible company to deal with buyer. Beware don't spend your money. I think after my subscription and my credits are out. I'm gonna cancel everything because the company is a total waste of time and money and energy. And I never did a thing wrong either.
Am not sure if Badoo is the best site for finding love cos ive heard about other good one's like tinder and wejustfit.com but for me its good I like it a lot I like the way it works and have had sum gd chats wi girls that id like to have a date with I hope I find sum1.
Date of experience: April 13, 2017
Hei, don't use badoo, I ve been decent user, single mom and suddenly kicked out and I contacted support but never came any exact answer. I asked for copy of what I ve done wrong, but account deleted. Really bad support, def not suggesting.
Date of experience: May 18, 2020
Badoo I cool in the fact that it offers live chats. But with all the thirsty lame guys stroke the egos of bored insecure girls that just get on the app for the live chat to get their $#*! kissed i can miss out on it.
Date of experience: October 26, 2019
Site completely horrible. Is very rare that will be anyone you would even want to talk to anyway. Was very bored around holidays and tried. Half people on there were scammers from Guana or somewhere similar posing as someone cute to try to rob you and other half were definitely not attractive barely even human. Had about 2 mini conversations and was bored. They charged CC every 3-4 days for 2 months no approval. Theives will rob you to death.
Date of experience: January 11, 2016
Openly married men looking to cheat, flagged 5 profiles with graphic photos and disgusting descriptions of sexual acts men are looking to do. Looking to date within my ethnicity and was flooded with men who were not. Deleted after an hour.
Date of experience: August 31, 2020
Hey Michelle!
We're sorry to hear that you haven't enjoyed your time with Badoo! Our systems quickly identify suspicious behaviour as well as a team of moderators that work 24/7. We also count on the support of the community -if something doesn't feel right, please report it! We take the security of our users very seriously and do our best to implement the most effective solutions to remove these profiles.
If you'd like to make any comments or have any questions, please feel free to contact us at Badoo.com/feedback or on social media@BadooHelp
- BadooHelp
A guy called Danny Dimitrio stole pictures of my FB after being very insulting. He then found information on my FB & threatened to throw acid in my face. Badoo wouldn't do anything about it. So had to call police. Very dangerous site.
Date of experience: July 7, 2015
Awful is too generous a word. Badoo is just a profiteering site and app for the owners of it. They don't care about the users. As someone else says, it is a greedy pay site, quote "constantly hounding you to use pay services like sending gifts and stickers, get your message read first, get your profile seen more, and it goes on..."
I found it very costly and any extras you pay for are quickly used up and you are motioned to pay again and again. The extras, the add-ons, are expensive too.
Date of experience: September 10, 2016
The $#*!ing girl on this dam website told my $#*!ing son she was 18 come to find out she was 14 now her dam parents want to prise charges against my son. Do not use this site unless your looking to go to jail. People on her lie bout everything on here.
Date of experience: September 27, 2018
Badoo lets you create a profile on its website with just an e-mail address, and you can use it for a while. Then one day you try to log in and it demands you hand over your cell phone number for SMS verification - even though you signed up without it. I don't have a cell phone, and if I did, I would never give my number to Badoo because they would almost certainly sell it to spammers.
The bottom line is that they hold your profile and pics hostage until you give them your cell phone number. No way to remove your pics or close your account. Badoo is the poster child for why the internet needs to be better regulated.
Date of experience: February 20, 2015
I identify as female. My photo's kept being rejected. I emailed support to help change my gender identity on the app. They said it was changed, but my photos kept getting rejected. Then my photos appeared again but my gender was change back to male. And so on and so forth. And the custome support people? RUDE AND SARCASTIC. At least Tinder is inclusive and you don't get rejected and have to fight because of your gender identity. Basically, if you "look like a man" Badoo will reject your photos and not allow you to change your identity to female.
Disgusting!
Date of experience: March 28, 2021
Hey Sameer,
We are so sorry to hear this. We would never want you to feel uncomfortable using the app. We assure you that this must have been a technical difficulty. We would never discriminate against anyone especially our LGBTQIA+ community. We are so proud of our diverse community and have designed the app to be accessible for everybody.
We hope that you will contact us on@BadooHelp with your registration details so we can rectify this issue for you.
Hope to hear from you soon Sameer.
-BadooHelp
Badoo is a piece of $#*! rip off and supportless work of con art. Stay away from it, they beg you for money every step you go, arrogantly try to force you to provide your mobile phone number for unexplained verification or your profile gets completely locked, making it even impossible to subsequently delete it - WTF! - who they believe they are these idiots!
Date of experience: May 28, 2016
Badoo hasnt found me love yet but im only on my fourth month and I think its getting better. Its not as good as wejustfit.com yet but you hear so many happy stories about people finding the one on Badoo so I think ill keep my subscription going and hopefully my patience will pay off in the end lol
Date of experience: October 26, 2016
Nothing to see here but fakes, flakes, spammers and bots. Do not spend your money on this site. If you really want to get nothing for your money then send it to me. At least you'll know it went to good use. I promise to by dinner with it.
Date of experience: February 12, 2020
Hi James,
We're sorry you feel this way about our service.
As Badoo is a free website to join, in some cases there are individuals who create profiles on our site with false intentions. We take the security of our users very seriously and assure you that we do our best to implement the most effective solutions to remove these profiles from Badoo. To assist us in this process, we encourage you to report any profiles to us that you may find suspicious.
We also recommend that you visit the following page to find some safety and security tips: badoo.com/safetytips
If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at badoo.com/feedback
- BadooHelp
I have been now actively on Badoo since May, but I deleted my profile 2 weeks ago. The reason being, after answering 6 requests, turn out to be all scammers wanting money! At one point, I had to involve the FTC, because the pictures were stolen of an US soldier, and I also think, since you are letting this go on, knowing some of these men are scammers, you should be held accountable.
Date of experience: October 3, 2017
Hi Eveline!
We're very sorry you've had this experience with us.
The majority of profiles on Badoo are genuine. However, there are people who try use our product for malicious purposes. The security of our users is very important and, as per our Guidelines, we do not allow any kind of malicious profile. If you come across a suspicious profile, please report it and we'll check it immediately, we want to solve this issue with you.
Absolute disgraceful. Everything cost you more money. Even with premium you can only message people they want you too and beware the Customer services take the approach of tough read our terms and conditions. Alot of the time the app says people are online when they are not, resulting in a two day lag. Please read trust pilot reviews they will tell you more just how bad badoo is It's in the name bad oooooo
Steve c
Date of experience: July 26, 2020
Hi there Steven!
Thanks for leaving a review. Badoo is actually free to use! Of course, we do also have some optional paid upgrades, but it's totally up to you if you'd like to purchase them or not. Millions of our users enjoy using Badoo without paying a penny!
We'd also like to look into the technical issues you're having- feel free to reach out to us directly with your registered email address/ phone number so we can locate your account.
- BadooHelp
I have been with Badoo for a couple of years now. Someone appears to have hijacked my profile. Instead of the 51 year old gay man I am, it shows a 22 year old girl named harmony with large breasts. I can't seem to delete my profile or alter the basic information at all. I informed Badoo and they didn't even reply. Now I have a fake profile linked to my email and they obviously have my password. I can't do anything at all about it and Badoo won't help. I am going to have to delete my email account now to stop it myself.
Date of experience: February 3, 2015
Beware of a profile under the name Angelica Barnett in Canada. May also go by the name Kim Barnett. Age 31/32 I have seen both ages on this scammers profile. The skype id is angelica. Barnett2. This is a scammer profile being run from Lagos Nigeria. Will immediately ask you to go to skype to chat then within a week will be asking for money.
Date of experience: February 28, 2016
I met this dude off badoo. I've been with him for two years. He was very sweet and kind at first. He made me fall in love and I had a baby with him. People when I say I saw his true colors after 3 months it came out... Bottom line: NEVER DATE NO ONE OFFLINE. They are crazy as $#*!! He came out to be a cheater, left me in the house every weekend, got mad over Stupid $#*! and Lied about having a car and job! It was a Nightmare being with this $#*!! Badoo is a good dating site, but don't fall for the bull$#*! everyone splurge at you because you're online...
Date of experience: October 4, 2017
Also known as exsoldier. Lived in Sheffield now brighton area. Hes a player. Trusted him it was all a lie. He prays on nice women who want a relationship. I confronted him he got violent since heard Im not the 1st he's got a past for violence. Just please be careful he's not the person you think he is he will say a vandetta is against him. If so check domestic disclosure!
Date of experience: November 1, 2015
Badoo is full of scammers that work the older generation (50+) of members being women or men. The first red flag is a very young young girl or guy adds you as a favorite, you contact them and they say they live in Miami or Los Angeles but the reality they are out of Africa or India. Now you know that these people use other profiles to do the scamming.
Be intelligent, if your 60 and a 28 girl finds you attractive RED FLAG, the moment someone asks for money from the step is being scammed. Stop block and go on with your searches. Not all people are bad on this site, I've met some very nice girls but just use common sense and you won't be scammed.
Date of experience: June 19, 2016
Dating site or booty call. Pretty much booty call site. Found out my boyfriend was on there. Also found my friend (who is married) on here... be careful and don't get your hopes up if you are looking for something serious...
Date of experience: April 24, 2016
These people are crooks. They still charged my card almost $70 after I canceled my trial. I never used the service because most of the accounts on there are spammers aka cam girls and it is a waste of money. They refused to refund my money even though I cancelled the day after I signed up.
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Date of experience: March 21, 2021
Hey there,
The trial must be cancelled before the two weeks is over. This would have been explained in the Terms and Conditions before the original purchase If you would like us to look into this for you please contact us on@BadooHelp with your registration details and we can look into this together for you!
-Reme
My account have been blocked because someone reported me I no who it was some man messaged me asking for sex and I said I rather $#*! in my hands and clap and he said I was ugly and horrible and I said if he was the last man on earth I did go lesbian. Badoo doesn't care about sexual harassment the amount of times I have had to tell dirty slam bag men off. Definitely a mans world in badoo woman have no say on badoo absolutely disgusting the way I have been treated if there was a zero star I would have given that. I haven't got the message from the exact person but I no who it was, I have attached picture of the kind of messages I receive all the time.
Date of experience: May 30, 2021
Hey Jen,
We are sorry to hear this. We block anyone that violates our guidelines.
We assure you we have a 0 tolerance policy to any sort of harassment and block anyone that does so.
If you would like us to look into this for you please contact us on@BadooHelp on any social media form with your registration details and we can look into this for you.
-BadooHelp
Well someone that was outside of my selected preferences reported me for hate speech after I told them I wasn't interested. Badoo gave me a yellow warning, I messaged badoo and complained they then banned me out of spite. They refuse to unban me. Found me guilty and blocked me just because they can, they are tyrants.
It's everyone's human right to have the sexual preferences they pick. If I or anyone else want only females then it's only right to expect only females and vice versa. Etc etc
Under their own terms and conditions it says about impersonating a person in with the intent to deceive and confuse others is not allowed, so block the person that was wrongly listed as something they aren't.
If they wish to pretend to be a robot martian cat dog what ever they can but I won't be forced to play along with a false delusion. As badoo says it's honest dating, be yourself etc etc all lies it seems, you can't be honest or yourself because you get banned
Date of experience: May 6, 2021
Hey Lew,
We block anyone that violates our guidelines. We need to take the harshest of measures to ensure the protection of our community.
If you would like us to look into this again for you, you can always contact us on@BadooHelp with your registration details and we can have another look. Hope this helps.
-BadooHelp
Used Badoo for about a year... I tbh thought I'd met a few weird and nutty ladies prior to any Internet dates... But there's a lot of needy and disfunctional women here... Although I met my first ever online date here whom was a sweet wee angel... She obviously set a high standard but was a decline fromm there I'm afraid...
Date of experience: March 20, 2016
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Hey there Sigita,
Thanks for your review!
Unfortunately we decided to permanently block your profile for being in violation of our Guidelines. All of our users are required to follow these rules to ensure Badoo remains a fun, friendly and safe place to be. Our decision about your profile cannot be changed and no exceptions will be made.
In order to protect our users' privacy we are not able to provide any more details about the reports made against your profile.
- BadooHelp