Badoo

Having tried all the major dating sites over the years, I can safely say that Badoo is the worst I've ever encountered. It's normal on the other 'swipe right/left' sites to receive 5-15 'matches' each day for a relatively average man; on Badoo I've received one in 14 days, and I'm not convinced she's even a real person. I think the issue is country-specific; Badoo has almost no active UK users, so most of the potential matches you are shown have been there long enough to be rated tens of thousands of times over the course of several years. They're no longer active, yet it pretends they are.

Badoo is also a scam site. Don't give them any card details; I decided to try out the £4.99 premium for a week, and literally the next click they had taken an extra £44.99 out of my account to buy credits (credits are required to do almost anything on Badoo - it's very money-grabbing). They do this by automatically signing you up to recurring billing, without actually telling you they've done so; one feature of recurring billing is 'auto top-up' when you fall below 200 credits. Because I had never bought any before, it instantly 'topped up' my balance. I recovered the money but it took several days. Even with premium, you don't get any of the features you'd get with the premium version of any other site.

I don't really understand why anyone would use Badoo. It has no unique functions or features, everything costs a small fortune and the site is set up to scam money out of people (I don't seem to be the only one - check dozens of other reviewers from whom Badoo has taken money without permission). They'll mislead you at every turn. At once point it claimed to have more members from my town than there are residents in my town.

Worst dating site I've encountered. I assume people from other countries have more joy, but don't waste your time or money in the UK.

Hi everybody,
As many others, I've been also scammed this week by Badoo. I wanted to suscribe to a Badoo premium membership for a week, but they charged me for the unlimited version.
Of course I wrote them politely a message to let them now and asking for refund. They just refused, which is completelety ILLEGAL (see below a link concerning the right of cancellation for any customer - you can cancel until 2 Weeks)
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/3134/regulation/29/made

Problem with Badoo: there is no customer service existing! It means NO phone number, NO email adress, NO names. They want the people to give up, but they don't know me really well...
I think this kind of company has no place on Business market, they have dishonest business practices, and they have absolutely NO intention to improve it. What I recommend you it's just to conduct a legal action, and spread the word as much as you can all over social media (FB, forum, comparators, blogs,.) in every country, in order to let everybody know, how Badoo.com works.
Hope these info could help you.

Crappy app that blocks users from accessing the app after suspicion of violating community guidelines without conducting a proper investigation!

They allowed my profile to be hacked... Went to log in and got a message saying. Wrong password... Thought I'd typed it wrong... Did it again... Same message... Tried to do a password reset... Using forgot password feature... It then said my e-mail address was wrong... It wasnt... By now I'm getting annoyed... I'd been on the site for a long time so knew my details were correct...
I then complained to Badoo... And they said I'd broken some violation rule... What a load of rubbish!
I've always been polite to anyone I've spoken to on the site... And don't use rude words.
So how can Badoo explain that my password was somehow wrong... Reason... Because they allowed it to be changed... And I did'nt receive an e-mail to tell me it had...
So to me member/profile security on the site is'nt very good...
And the violation excuse was how they tried to deny it... Plus they did'nt even tell me what the so-called violation was either...

I did get this from them on... Wed 02/02/2022 16:08
Your account has been blocked
Badoo doesn't work if we treat each other badly, and some of our users have reported that you're breaking our Terms and Conditions.

That is certainly not the case...

But earlier... Wed 02/02/2022 12:17...
Welcome back to Badoo
Good to see you again, Nathan
Since your last visit a whole bunch of new girls in East of England have joined Badoo and would love to meet you.

Welcome back... I'd never left...

And how can of of been rude to anyone when I could'nt even log in...

I think the above more than proves that Badoo allowed my account to be hijacked...

The Badoo response to my review is rubbish... As this is all they keep saying...

Hello Nathan,

We have decided to permanently block your profile for being in violation of our Guidelines.

I love this app, really helped me find a lovely girl, to spend some time with. Highly recommended specially if you are just looking for lovely time.