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Total scam!
February 3, 2023

This app is a total SCAM they do not deliver the messages. And you only get likes when your Subscription is over. So you can subscribe again $$. Do yourself a favor and just uninstall this trash!

Date of experience: February 3, 2023
Michigan
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Total booty call site infested with desperate creepy people and scammers. I was on it 5 minutes before I had 5 messages from total losers and a scammer. Watch out!

Date of experience: July 25, 2009
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Sucks
November 26, 2018

Waste of time and you have to pay to meet women not free like it says false advertising sucks don't waste your time and money on this stupid dating site

Date of experience: November 26, 2018
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over a year old

Hi Albert,

Thank you so much for letting us know your thoughts.

However, Badoo is free to use. You can message anyone you match with for free! It's entirely up to you if you wish to purchase any premium services on Badoo. If you have any questions about specific paid features on BAdoo, feel free to reach out to our team on Facebook or Twitter,@BadooHelp.

Badoo Team

Texas
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Badoo Scam
August 7, 2018

I too was on the auto pay thing for the one day which is about $2.99 and all of the sudden I was charged $159.99 through my paypal. I tried asking what happened and they claim I did this one click method. I wasn't even on the app when it happened. So I asked to return my settings back and a refund. They told me it was non refundable by their terms and conditions. I read the terms and conditions it says I can cancel within 14 days and I was sent this reply when I asked about it:

Thanks for your message.

I'm sorry to hear that you'd like to cancel your purchase.

Unfortunately, since you instantly receive the benefits of Badoo Premium once purchased, this type of service is non-refundable. Services for which the benefits are instantly redeemed, like Premium, are exempt from the 14 day refund period. Therefore, you lose your right to a refund as soon as you purchase Badoo Premium.

We recommend that you check the terms and conditions for all future purchases before proceeding.

No where on their terms and conditions does it mention that! I did not consent to such a purchase but they claim I did and refuse to abide by their own terms and conditions. These are scam artists and something needs to be done about them.

Date of experience: August 7, 2018
Badoo H. Badoo Rep
over a year old

Hi Nicholas,

Thanks for your review.

When you made your purchase of Badoo Credits, you will have been given the option to link your payment details to help speed up making purchases on Badoo. If you continue with this option selected, you'll link your payment details to your Badoo account which can be removed at any time via your account settings. Since you linked your payment details to your account and agreed to this by continuing with your purchase, you were then able to make a purchase of Badoo Premium using your stored payment details. Unfortunately, since this type of service is instantly activated on your profile, the benefits are instantly received, therefore making this type of purchase non refundable as per our terms (which you previously accepted).

Please note that this is stated in our terms and conditions. However, we appreciate your feedback on this and will be passing this onto our team for further consideration.

Badoo Team

GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I was open 2 different account one of them call diamond they steal my £99
Then blocked my account
I Don't understand how they do this
Even any person complain you easily taff blocked you ASAP without investigation your problem
I saw this website worst ever
Wouldn't recommend for any person
Absolutely waste time
I couldn't find any partner
Also Significantly Support Gay
Relationship Not easy to find Opposite sex partner.
I'm Male Never Received any female respond
Look like staff working another site just text me Hi then Gone sometimes I see they deleted account ASAP
Worst worst worst
Get away from BADOO ABSOLUTELY NIGHTMARE.

Date of experience: May 21, 2021
Badoo H. Badoo Rep
over a year old

Hi Murat!

Thanks for leaving a review on SiteJabber. Badoo is an inclusive app for all, including the LGBTQIA+ community. We work very hard to ensure that everyone is welcome, and will never exclude certain users based on individual preferences.

We're sorry to hear that you didn't find the right connection and that your account was blocked- this can happen when our moderators find that your profile is in violation of our guidelines. We ask all of our users to follow the same rules which help us to keep Badoo a fun and safe online environment. If you're unsure what our rules are, you can find them here: badoo.com/guidelines.

It sounds like Badoo was not right platform for you, but we hope you find happiness elsewhere!

- BadooHelp

Canada
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Badoo used to be pretty usable for free: it had lots of filters, and you could hunt for new members. That's all gone now.

And it's become a lot harder to message anyone attractive. Most of the time if you find someone cute or sexy there will either be no option to chat, or else you click on chat and it says their mail box is full but you can still pay to message them.

And they are 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 and on ad nauseam.

You can't filter out smokers and single moms anymore, it's like Tinder now, no filters. As a result, most people don't even say anything about themselves in their profiles, no real need to now that they know they won't be filtered out.

I give Badoo two stars because they have built a pretty slick website (didn't try the phone app), but holy crap have they gotten GREEEEDY! They must be making a lot of money pimping these girls out. But if you want to try your luck for free I would say don't even bother with Badoo, it's an exercise in futility.

Date of experience: August 24, 2016
GB
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Don't you think it would be better and safe to have all profiles verified! There so so many fake ones you can tell by the pictures. All the ones in greater London are not in this country? You put in the area and people come up who live miles away! But yes be careful, lot of meant after money, a lot of them say they live in the UK WHEN THEYRE ACTUALLY AMERICAN! If you have kick and go on your maps, if the kik location isn't in the UK it will show like the one I was chatting to - told me he was in Croydon turns out he was in waterloo- Canada

Date of experience: September 13, 2015
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Scammed, then blocked.
February 24, 2021

I signed up for the unlimited lifetime account for $79.99 through the website, since the app tries to charge you $159.99. But, when I went to check my account, they had charged me $79.99 twice. Obviously outraged, I cancelled my account immediately in the hopes to get my money back. Well, PayPal was willing to refund one of the $79.99 charges, but told me to contact Badoo to get my other $79.99 back. I emailed Badoo (which turned out to be a mistake), not only did they ban me from the site and app for having "multiple accounts" (I've only made one, no idea what the hell they are talking about) and I was told that because of that, they didn't have to refund my money, because I'm in violation of their terms of service. So, because Badoo is being no help, I'm trying to get my bank to refund my money. Hopefully that goes better than dealing with Badoo. Because, even if they let me keep the unlimited account, which they didn't. It disappeared after a day. I'm still out $79.99 because of my permaban.

Date of experience: February 24, 2021
Badoo H. Badoo Rep
over a year old

Hey there,

Oh no sorry to hear this. Please do reach out to us on@BadooHelp on any social media form with your registration details and we can look into this for you.
This should not have charged you twice. Once you reach out to us we can also look into your block for you.
Hope to hear from you soon.

-BadooHelp

Greece
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Don't ever give your credit card details to Badoo, charges out of nowhere.

The whole concept of this application is to scam people using it.

There are traps everywhere in the application to steal money from its customers.

NEVER GIVE YOUR CREDIT CARD INFORMATION TO THEM.

Date of experience: December 9, 2020
Badoo H. Badoo Rep
over a year old

Hey Giorgos,

Sorry to hear that you had payment issues.

Once signed up for a subscription with us, each time these services run out it will automatically renew itself.
You can cancel these by opening your profile and click on the cog icon in the top right corner. Then, scroll down to the Payment Settings section and click on Unsubscribe. Your subscription will be cancelled at the end of the last payment period that you purchased.

We also offer free ways for our users to obtain our features, you can be rewarded with these by watching our promo videos and inviting a friend through the app.

If you would like us to look into these payments for you please do contact us on@BadooHelp and we can look into things together.
Hope this helps.

-BadooHelp

New Jersey
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Full of scammers
February 27, 2016

Was threaten by a user! Wanted to marry me! Now I can't deactivate my account, because I forgot my password. Badoo wont answer me. They send me blank emails

Date of experience: February 27, 2016

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
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value
96
shipping
22
returns
23
quality
87
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