Change.org has a rating of 1.4 stars from 147 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Change.org most frequently mention credit card, and social media problems. Change.org ranks 33rd among Petition sites.
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Even though an open platform change.org acted IMMEDIATELY to remove parts from a petition that was created to harass a black family, in East Toronto, Canada thus making it useless. We thank all of the team at change. Org. As their message is clear: 0 tolerance.
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We started a petition regarding our problem of my husband being refused a residence card under my EU rights in France. It started well and we spent hours promoting it on social media. We managed to obtain 100 signs in 4 days at one point and then it went stagnant, lucky to get half a dozen signatures in a week. It was then that we realised that lots of people who said they had signed (and donated) did not appear on the downloaded names list. They were not receiving the verification email to register their signatures. Many complaine emails to Change and they still have done nothing. All they keep saying is to update to let people know to tell people who think they signed to contact them. How do we contact strangers? They are idiots and liars as our petition has not been promoted anywhere by them.
I would never advise people to use Change.org. We believe our petition is restricted because we are in a battle with the French authorities
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Change. Org i would not donate because the ratings are low 2.5 do the donation yourself, this is a scam $10 $20 its your money. Keep your money for a better cause. Donate money because rising gas prices too good to be true.
If you are directed to this site to sign a petition, you will be encouraged to donate X amount. To me, it implied I was donating to the cause for which the petition was circulating. Not true. The money goes directly to change.org. For what, I don't know. Supposedly to help circulate the petition. Well, isn't that what they are supposed to be doing anyway? Why on earth would you sign a petition that isn't going to be circulated? If you think you are donating to a cause through change.org, you're not! This is very misleading and downright fraudulent. They use the expression would you like to "chip in." yeah, chip in to their bank account. Don't give them a dime.
I was a target of a personal attack campaign after I successfully received a harassment order against another. Several 3rd party people worked together to create a defamation petition full of lies. I sent all my legal supporting documents to change and it took over two weeks for them to pull the petition. The process for contacting them was difficult and with a slow response time. This site can be used to really HARM people.
As a petition signer, to help a particular cause, I am asked to share or contribute financially, I choose to share it, then I am asked to sign more petitions, not one or two but 10 more petitions. It's a waste of peoples time to have to read throughout 10 more different petitions to be able to decide if it's something you want to get involved with or not. Please stop this harassment. Bottom line is it completely defeats the purpose of the program in my opinion.
This site is very non user friendly, saving progress on a petition almost never works, and it is very slow to navigate. I would rather see my issue play out the wrong way than try and formulate another petition on this website. Stay away from this website if you want to remain sain.
Potential is so massive, but after continually seeing one sided misleading surveys' that can ONLY support one side (Anti Brexit as the most obviously biased theme) this is not a people's voice but a political engine. Shame. You've wasted an opportunity for a real people's voice.
I found out they were charging me every month for what I thought was a 1-time donation. And I don't even know what the charge is going to? It doesn't seem like there is any fund for the cause I signed the petition fund. So I guess they are just keeping all the money. What a scam site. I don't know how this is legal.
I signed petition for a teen girl that was killed by a psychopath cop and they got like 300 signatures and wanted donations to promote the story I guess. Then they send me an email for a chick-fil a petition to save the chickens and they had ******* signatures. That is just sick and they seem to promote save the chickens aggressively. I feel dirty even going there.
I created a petition for freedom of humanity because all these draconian measures are a way to control people and to reshape the world into tyranny. The petition was holding those people responsible for lying and killing people but it was removed silently.
Because you are not allowed to go against Silicon Valley. Later I found out they are huge financially connected to Bill Gates. The one next to Anthony Fauci the petition was against. Censorship was used to silence me so it's absolutely not an independent site. Change.org is from Google.
Later I saw more articles saying some petitions regarding social activism or against covid rules where censored and removed silently. Better not use the platform. It's just as bad as YouTube when it comes to censorship.
The site is an efficient and effective platform for its stated purpose. But, there are two major problems with the site.
First, there is no provision to voice dissent regarding a petition. So, when the petition is presented to a decision-maker, the decision-maker only sees the people in agreement. Disagreements are not presented. For example, what if 1,000 people support a petition, but 100,000 would not support the same petition? How would the 100,000 people be represented here?
Second, while I saw a large number of left-leaning petitions, I don't recall seeing any petitions supporting conservative values and issues. I'm questioning whether conservatives are simply not using this venue, or if Change.org is not presenting petitions supporting conservative values and issues.
Given these two apparent problems, I am no longer participating in Change.org and have canceled my monthly financial support.
I've been trying to support a couple of petitions for some days, but as soon as I go through the process, I get a message that they don't support my browser... and go on to recommend that I use one of the browsesr that I'm already using! I don't know whether I've duplicated, trebled or quadrupled my signatures: I suspect they haven't accepted any of them, because they are so anxious to persuade me to download the Google Chrome program that I'm already using. I'm certainly not receiving the usual "thank you" and to please "let zillions of friends know that you have signed this petition,," Perhaps I should start a petition suggesting that Change, org set their own house in order... get their act together, and stop wasting our time by their own inadvertence.
Excellent place to bring change to certain issues and certain situation that require the voice of more than one person.
Lives have been changed because of this site and will continue to change because of it.
I always support petitions there for change.
Less than 1.,... the more we petition what's right the more the globalists win they just want an excuse to tax us and make us poor all along destroying everything good and blaming it on us. these people fuel that
The site must be owned by a puppet, as in someone that can not think nor see anything for themselves. The twist and turns in your lies aren't even the real stories! You should be ashamed and shut down immediately in the name of The People.
I signed a petition that was advertised on Twitter. The petition was on change.org. There was a solicitation for contributions that popped up and it looked like it was to support the petition cause. It said with my contribution they can reach more supporters. However, after I made my contribution, I discovered the contribution went to change.org as a "membership fee", and doesn't show any connection to the petition organization I wanted to specifically support! In addition, they automatically make it a monthly contribution! We all understand that they want to get paid but I feel this was either a very sneaky miss-representation and a poor business model.
Made a one time contribution to a fundraiser and then my card was charged $3 every month automatically. Had to cancel my debt card. Now change.org has the balls to email me and ask for a new card number.
Good thing I locked my debit card. I've been getting bank notices that transactions couldn't be processed due to my card being locked. I take a look and it's numerous attempted transactions from change.org. I don't recall giving them my card number or making any donations recently to change.org. So these guys need to be reported. I'm keeping my debit card locked so no more weird looking transactions that I didn't approve.
A few days ago I made a $5.00 donation responding to a call to "chip in $5". In error I put the full stop in the wrong place and the donation went off giving them $500.! I immediately tried stopping the card transaction, E-mailing them re the mistake and asking them to refund me $495.00. I am a pensioner and can't afford to lose this much money! Need I say that I have not heard back from them..
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I would prefer to give them zero stars.. 1star is too good for this lot!
They use your causes as business. The same they support the rights of animals they give place to conservative groups to promote apartheid. And when you ask them why they are so "tolerant" they say they don't have an agenda. Yes... they have, those who don't have agenda don't have principles and. What they do with your information? One must be stupid for not believe they sell it
Anyone can use any email address to create and sign petitions. Once your email address is in their system you are spammed forever.
Why is it that anti spam laws do not apply to unethical organizations that refuse to implement email verification?
All they will do is steal your money on a monthly basis. The cause that you think that you are giving to will not receive your money. They need to be investigated because their business practices are bordering on illegal.
Never, ever, ever sign a change.org petition. The next thing you know, you're getting stacks of their spam, and there's no way to unsubscribe. The "unsubscribe" link only goes to a sign-up page, and there's no way to contact the organization. The "contact" link is also a dummy. All you get is a list of FAQ's that take you in a circle. In short, it's a swindle.
Two years ago I made a single donation via Change.org. I don't even remember what it was about. Nothing until 6m ago when random $10 debits appeared on my Paypal statements. I have checked my Paypal account and found that there was a monthly debit set up. But $10 was not being debited monthly, only at apparently random intervals.
My advice: have nothing to do with change. Porg, and pass it on.
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Hello Nancy - thank you for the feedback; I am very sorry to hear about the confusion. It sounds like you signed up for a reoccurring promotion of this petition. If you haven't already done so, please contact our Support team at help.change.org. We'll take a look at your account and make sure you are changed to a one time donation. Thanks! Zo