Badoo

I have used the Badoo site for a few years and they have a system built in to where some people you need to spend credits to chat.

The exit button is conveniently right neat the payments buttons and I accidentally used the 79.99 life time fund. They had my PayPal because I made 10$ transactions here and there.

When I contacted them at first they said because I agreed to their site policy I'm held to the purchase I accidentally made! I continued to contact them and tell them I didn't have the money to spend and they told me they will refund me!

I waited for 2 days and got nothing.

When I contacted again they told me that April their Community Operations Manager Would contact me. She said to close my PayPal case and they would refund. I did so and they ghosted me!

They play dumb and try to get rid of you as soon as possible with their bs policy they say you signed when you signed up!

I'm going to call my bank and report for fraud to get my money back because I have the screenshots and the attempts to make peace with them. Through their e-mail customer service and facebook.

These guys are totally scam artist-run away!

This site is nothing but an over glorified popularity contest! I was invited by a friend (or at least I think this person really did invite me-with Badoo, it's hard to tell since they get into your personal email account) to come on there and found out that it isn't all that it's cut out to be. There are some cool people on there however, but a majority of the people are kind of weird. And if you want to see who has you as a favorite, you have to pay for superpowers! What kind of b******* is that?!?! It's way too expensive. And you have to put up some pictures of yourself, which I did and only one was up on my profile despite that I put up 3! I couldn't find the contact form on the site to ask them why my other pictures didn't show up on my profile. Plus, there are several scammers running around on there and there's no way to tell them about it so they can look into it. Don't waste your time on this site, and if anybody says that it's a good site, either 1) they work for the site or 2) they probably have been rejected off of the more decent sites.

A distinct and flagrant absence of transparent processes sums of this dishonest company. I have created a number of accounts in the past all of which were blocked. Its only recently that I contacted Badoo and questioned the reason. I was informed that I was sexually explicit in my username. On one username I will hold my hands up. So lets be VERY clear here. I am a gay man in an agreed open relationship. I am very clear in my profile what I am looking for which is no strings sex fun and am also equally clear about the rile I adopt in any sexual meeting. Many (not all) people join this site to meet up for casual sex or sometimes a full on relationship. I believe this to be a form of Homophobia and also theft and fraud. I created a new profile yesterday and today added over £60 at which point I was notified the my new account was blocked. My profile was clear but not offensive and had a non sexualised username. I am determined to recover my money and seek a legal direction with regard to a potential future action against this wholly dishonest company.

I just reported them to my bank as I am not even sure how they received my banking information. I downloaded the app a week or two ago and lost interest very quickly. It was advertised as a free app and had premium features. I never looked at the premium features but somehow was charged $58.99 today and sent me an email thanking me for renewing a service that I never knew I even had. I don't know how they got my information other than Google or they are part of another site somehow. I called my bank and she said that many dating sites share the data. She also said write to them and they will likely give it back and if not it would take up to 55 days to get back from the bank. Badoo responded in an email saying that I agreed to a reoccurring charge for my premium service that as I said I never signed up for. I would never remove my bank card from my wallet for this site and that is what disturbs me is how did they get my banking information, to begin with. I see other posts of people complaining about similar things this company needs to be investigated for the shady practices. I have reported them to my bank as fraudulent. Badoo must have it set up this way on purpose and need to be held accountable. This is unacceptable.

*** THIS APP IS A SCAM!*** DO NOT SAVE YOUR CREDI INFO!, they will make you pay for an expensive subscription if you click wrong once. They want to obtain payment details, and then trick you into making outrageous payments. They do this by providing "one-click payments" defaulting to large sums of money. This app is maliciously designed to make you pay by accident. They will not return any accidental payments. They will not even reply to your complains. **AVOID THIS SCAM!**mers pay by accidental click.

I have been on Badoo on and off for a while now, I remember when you could comment on other members photos as well. Shame they stopped that.

They use to have a cool credit top up feature where you can message someone for free or 10 credits or top up 10 credits but now the minimum required to message a user/badoo member will cost you 150 credits! Tell me Badoo team? Why does it cost 150 credits/ £1.50 to send one message? Please let me know why? It use to cost 10 credits last year. I disagree the way you have hiked your prices up at the expense of many of your loyal members.

So if you only have 5 credits left on your account then to chat to one person would cost you £3 GBP (for 200 credits). Also if that badoo member doesnt reply or deletes their profile then you would have wasted £3 and 150 credits! - When before it would cost you 10 credits only!

Also an increase number of fakes on there as well sadly. I hope badoo looks into this a little more for the benefit of their users/members!?

Stay safe all!

Best wishes,

Sean