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Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Do NOT GIVE THIS GROUP OF CRIMINALS ANY MONEY! You pay money but it's never enough to actually talk to anyone. Then you discover they are not even in your country! Nigeria anyone? Now let me post my damn review!

I can't emphasise this enough.

Date of experience: July 12, 2022
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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So following on from Badoo's response I replied to them with the following 'I was not even aware that were was a one-touch system set up. It's only been in the last fortnight that I have returned to your site after 4 years. What I can't believe you find acceptable is that even though I contacted you straight away to inform you of this mistake, you still insist that I've taken advantage of the benefits of your Lifetime Badoo Premium. I don't understand how, as although I was on the site at the time, mainly looking through your Terms and Conditions, and I haven't returned to the site since you think it justifies charging £120 for that.
I also think that you should reconsider using the term 'customer service/support' as basically telling a customer tough luck, we're going to keep your money is NOT in any way 'customer service/support'.
What you could have done is said is 'okay, it was a mistake, but you've had access to some of these benefits so we'll only charge you for a month and refund the rest'
Instead you get another 1* review which has already has 300+views in less than 24 hours, and that's only on this site, plus Paypal are looking into it, along with my bank. Hardly encourages people to use your service or it to be recommended to others'
That was on Friday morning, it's now Monday and they haven't had the decency to reply.
As I said before shocking customer service. Please avoid at all costs.

Date of experience: October 19, 2020
Badoo H. Badoo Rep
over a year old

Hey Scott, We are very sorry to hear that you have had an unpleasant experience since rejoining our community. We understand your frustrations with this and we must stress that our customer service/ Support are dealing with queries worldwide, as we have one of the largest social networking communities in the world it may take some time but we hope you can understand that we are doing our best and do get around to everything.
We follow our procedure for everyone and cannot make acceptions for each specific case. If we find that it truly was unjust we always refund.We are also unable to look into refunds when PayPal is involved, the same goes for Apple payments as we are not responsible for these charges. Please do follow up with PayPal to make sure they respond to your query.
-BadooHelp


This morning whilst still in bed I looking through the Badoo app. Accidently clicked on the lifetime Badoo Premium, unaware that it instantly confirmed payment. Straight away I went onto the Badoo website and explained my mistake and read their Terms and Conditions and read that 'Once you have paid for any premium services, you have the right to cancel and be reimbursed for all payments received within 14 days'.
Not wanting to spend £120, that I can ill afford, I contacted them asking to cancel. Their Customer Service contacted me to say that because the benefits were instantaneous I was not allowed a refund and that as far they were concerned that was the matter over. I can assure you that it is not.
Shocking that they couldn't even compromise. Disgusting customer service and I will be in contact with my bank and others regarding this incident

Date of experience: October 15, 2020
Colorado
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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This app sucks. I've had 5 or more fake ladies, try to contact me with fake profiles. They do a lousy job. This company

Date of experience: October 23, 2023
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Just Delete
September 16, 2022

It was good when it started but now it's full of catfishers and other sort I'd rather avoid. I've even deleted the app. Unless they take measures to filter profiles better, won't be returning.

Date of experience: September 16, 2022
Canada
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Hundreds of fake/bot accounts.

One click payment is a scam.
There's no way to turn it off, and as soon as you buy a few credits THEY START CHARGING YOU WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT WITH CLICK TRAPS OPENING UP AT RANDOM TIMES.

I bought 100 credits for 2.50$ and now I'm in 200$ deep, because I apparently bought lifetime badoo premium and 2700 credits...

I had no idea this happened until I looked at my bank account.

Obviously their customer service will only reply that "it cannot be refunded" because their fraudulous terms and conditions say so. Well, good luck with that. THEY ARE NOT ABOVE FEDERAL LAWS. HOLD YOUR GROUND.

Date of experience: December 4, 2018
GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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It created a profile each for me and my partner using our email addresses, pictures from our respective facebook albums WITHOUT CONSENT as a consequence of answering some stupid querstion about a friend and provided random, incorrect details - have managed to delete my partner's account but mine remains for the time being NIGHTMARE DATING SITE!

Date of experience: April 12, 2011
Australia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I was told that for premium service I was supposed to pay some 7 dollars/7 days and for buying one lot of credit about 17 dollars and it was indicated by message that If I needed to buy more credit they will ask for my approval and send me a message. I kept on using it and my credit kept on getting added even though I really really did not want it. I never knew that they will be deducting the amount from my credit card automatically without seeking my permission. But today when I checked my account just within 6 days time they had deducted 240 dollars from my account without my permission. I know they will reply saying sorry this is as per our terms and you did not check them properly and so on... In this difficult times such a high value just for 6 days usage is unbelievable.
Very few girls will reply you in-spite of your good profile and pictures. Otherwise how will they earn money from customers? They are very fake. I know they will never refund me the amount not even 60 percent of the amount. If they do so I will be the first to declare this again over here...

Date of experience: May 10, 2020
Badoo H. Badoo Rep
over a year old

Hi Nick,

We're really sorry that you had this negative experience buying Credits on Badoo. Automatic credit top-up is an optional feature and can be turned off easily at any time.

If you have not already contacted us, please do so and our team will be able to look into a refund for you, but if you have already been in touch and our team were not able to refund you on this occasion, we do apologise.

Regarding getting responses to your messages, if you're not sure why people aren't getting back to you, it might be due to the content of your message and therefore it may be beneficial to try another approach. To potentially increase your reply rate, we recommend that you try to be more creative and use something that will catch a user's attention. For example, rather than copying and pasting the same message to everyone you like, read their profile first, see what they're into and send an appropriate message. Additionally, don't forget to add pictures of yourself of the best possible quality.

Please don't hesitate to reach out if you need help with anything else!

- BadooHelp

GB
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Go with the flow.
March 1, 2015

I didn't know what to expect when I first started using Badoo, so I just didn't expect anything, I went with the flow.

Flicking through, yes I would get some obvious fake profiles, but doesn't mean I have to speak to them, there is a great thing called the 'block' button. I spoke to people who were clearly real and had something decent to say, this gave me someone to talk to almost every time I would visit Badoo.
One day, on my random visit, I was zoned to my computer screen and spent several hours talking to a guy, we would keep up to date on a daily basis, have general chats about how our days have been, work, college etc and we exchanged numbers, texted and again, all at the same time I was still going with the flow.
To put a voice with the face, I rang him and had the best and un expected conversation, this really pushed the boat out, and out daily chats continued.
Still going with the flow, we met... we got a hotel, chatted in real life, had dinner and had a real connection from there.
What really surprised me was the radius on Badoo, set at up to 5miles, I was in London and he was in Reading, a bit more than 5 miles? YES.
We continued to meet, I visited his home town, met his lovely family and everything was going great.
I am now living in Reading, spending and enjoying every day with the guy I met through this 'bad online place' called BADOO.
I could fault Badoo, but there is more good than bad, and it all depends how you look at it.

I am still going with the flow, but with the man I enjoy spending time with and the man I adore.

(Just depends what angle you look at it from)

Date of experience: February 28, 2015
Nevada
2 reviews
10 helpful votes
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Total Scam
November 11, 2019

Badoo is a scam. They will charge your pay pal or credit card without your authorization.
They have sneaky ways to charge for additional services which are not explained.

Date of experience: November 11, 2019
Badoo H. Badoo Rep
over a year old

Hello Naj!

I would like to assure you that Badoo is a legitimate company and we work hard to make sure our users have an amazing experience.

We're really sorry to hear you feel you've been charged for a service without your consent and we would love the opportunity to look into this matter further and hopefully resolve this matter for you. We've sent you a message as we'll require some personal details in order to assist you and we hope to hear from you soon.

- BadooHelp

Massachusetts
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I just had someone steal all my funding from my bank and sent through badoo. They ignore any emails and don't have any numbers listed to report the fraud

Date of experience: October 31, 2020
Badoo H. Badoo Rep
over a year old

Hey Ron,
Oh no this does not sound good unfortunately we do not have customer service over the phone but you can always contact us on Twitter, Facebook or instagram on@BadooHelp for a fast response.
We will be happy to look into this for you, and we can see what has happened for you this way.
-BadooHelp

Overview

Badoo has a rating of 1.3 stars from 582 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Badoo most frequently mention fake profiles, credit card and phone number. Badoo ranks 501st among Social Network sites.

service
98
value
96
shipping
22
returns
23
quality
87
This company does not typically respond to reviews
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