Badoo

Badoo was great 10 years ago, i had many encounters and had regular conversations in the site. At the time you could customize your profile with a welcome message, you could search people with filters for children, marital situation, size, colour of hair and so on...

But Badoo had a change of policy, they remove all these options (now this is about pictures only). I no more talking to anyone, i stay on the site, but without any expectation, because the amount of men and women makes you never get an answer...
Badoo likes money and you see it clearly visiting their site, you want send a message, use credits, you want to know who like you use credits... a pop up? Buy credits...

The fact Badoo tries to record your phone number or your Facebook every time is very disturbing too, and shows this site isnt trustworthy

Why paying for a site who takes such a bad direction, if i had to pay one day, i would have done it 10 years before when the site looked like something.

This led to other copies like POF, Lovoo, which use the same stupid policy
People not pay to talk, talking is a basic freedom, and to pay for Badoo you will get better results to go to a bar every day. These sites are in the best case passive towards scammers, maybe creating them themselves.

This is a lack of analysis for Badoo, they make themselves awful, as they remove every good function of the site for no reason... and i wont register to a company who makes bad decisions

New feature: the live function: awful, you got lot of pretty photoshop pics, but when you enter the cam different story, there you can give credits to users for doing stupid things like singing a song... keep your money, there are adult webcams to do that. Badoo cams are vulgarity kingdom, but it remains soft

I dont understand how Badoo cant analyse what this site has become so bad when it was the best years before, this is sabotage, but the content of the site is not the priority if Badoo, because its priority is easy money

To save yourself for some subjective stories, here are things that I'll point and why I think Badoo deserves a little bit more recognition than other dating apps I've tried (as a free user):

Pros:
- you can actually chat and video call people
- you can watch people stream for free, no premium needed
- you get free trial of premium upon registering that actually works
- you can search people nearby for free
- so far I can say their premium pricings are cheap, not bull$#*! compared to other dating sites

Cons:
- tons of verifications needed
- you can only message those who are at the same verification level as you or lower
- a lot of fake profiles
- limits you to 5 people to chat per day
- unable to chat with people nearby immediately unless you pay credits
- less verified profile gets banned easily with some reports

So far it's good, and the limitations are rather tolerant for a dating app unlike others I've reviewed. The place is decent for finding friends, but stuffs just seem worse because the men and women's purposes are never aligned to each other.

Lousy service, got blocked for no reason, before I payed a lot of money to them, support didn't respond to me, avoid them

Badoo seemed to become popular as Plenty Of Fish became less popular around 6 years ago, and I feel they took an increased share of the free dating app market. At that time I joined up and it really was a great little app, they even used my account to promote themselves via twitter. I met someone nice off Badoo and for 2 years didn't use the app. When I returned to use the service a few years ago it became clear that using the Free account is now next to useless! A few months ago I decided to take them up on the premium account offer. This makes the app as effective as the old free accounts. Regrettably Badoo took £10 for a premium 30 day subscription just before Christmas and then banned my account day after Christmas (just over 4 days later). I have had some really pleasant dates from the App and I never threaten people so I am at a loss to know why I am banned? It seems to me that you've only got to have 1 woman who feels bitter at being rejected to report a man and have them banned? I even have to pass criminal record checks for my Job so hardly the sort of Man who needs to be banned from a dating app. To compound issues the customer support appears like a "cut and paste" Robot, and Badoo don't seem in the slightest bit interested in good Customer Service but rather raking in the money! I have requested a refund for services not received but Badoo have 1) refused point blank to restore my membership or 2) refund the money paid. This is illegal in the UK! I have complained to my mobile service provider and will escalate to the UK Telecoms regulator OFCOM. I think its absolutely diabolical this company is allowed to operate at all in the UK. I believe until they can get a handle on their banning criteria and stop charging people for services not received Google Play and Apple Store need to suspend the App from the App store. I will be contacting both Google Play and Apple Store to report on my experience. Anyone reading this - I would avoid Badoo and use a reputable dating company such as tinder or match.

I've been their paying member for years and never gained anything from it, literally, except two long-distance (from the other side of the world kind of) facebook friends. I can't believe how angry the site makes me every time I visit it.
The badoo features I absolutely despise are:

- The pathetic limitations they impose on you,
- Basically, they are pleading for financial gain at every turn,
- Dirty tricks such as fake profiles, spamming your friends via e-mail after your free trial, fake notifications you get when you are about to stop paying them or just to lure you back in after a period of you not paying them.
- Pathetic pleadings to rate their site almost every time
- Profile photo ratings are great to take away your self-esteem!
- Most users there are just awful to communicate with!
- The pretty ones usually ignore you,
- The kind-of-pretty ones never or rarely message you back,
- The ones you don't want to communicate with can sometimes annoy you hard,
- If you don't meet people's criteria, then you cant message them unless you are a premium member, that is also so much bull$#*!.

Its a colossal waste of:
- money
- time
- energy
- soul

A few days ago I had a nice chat with someone who just stopped writing back, because they don't have the balls to tell you, I'm seeing someone else, or I don't feel a spark between us or nothing they just have a nice chat with you, being formally cordial and even cool, but ultimately abandoning you without a word, and you still hope to meet them, This happens so quite often. It's called ghosting and seems like it's a trend in online dating now:/

I think it should've been shut down a long time ago because it's only getting worse and worse. Online dating, in general, today can be summarized in one word and this word is scam. On a side note there are also many of cheating married people.

It kills the love, it kills the humanity in one's heart, it's just wrong and awful!
And nobody cares. Badoo is becoming more and more artificial and greedy by the day and its literally giving you less and less chance to meet anyone and discover genuine chemistry based on and an intellectual level. In my opinion Its a total disaster.