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Virginia
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
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I have used NordVPN since 2017 and after one year of great quality, I struggle with lags on more than 80% of servers. Please add WireGuard protocol for routers.

Date of experience: August 30, 2021
New York
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Yesterday, after an update, ping times went from 20-40ms to 200+ or timed-out. Their solution: NONE!

Date of experience: January 21, 2022
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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3.5 rating
May 8, 2023

I would give Nord a 5 star on security but 2 on timeliness in responding to correspondence.

Date of experience: May 8, 2023
Andrew B. — NordVPN Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry to hear you are not completely satisfied with our service. Our support agent reply to emails usually within 24hours. Therefore, for more prompt response we always advice to reach us either via live chat function available on our website at support.nordvpn.com or hit us on Twitter. Thank you.

South Africa
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I purchased Nord VPN because they advertised 24 hour service. (FALSE!) I am in a South Africa. I have to wait long periods of time to get a response.
I bought Nord despite it's high price, because I want something effective. Day two, my VPN started giving problems. It is almost a week now, and I am still trying to get it sorted. Getting fairly fed up! Pity, because I like the program.

NordVPN attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond
Date of experience: April 18, 2023
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Auto renew
October 17, 2022

Like most on here I find that their auto renew is awful. They manage to take payment from my account using expired payment info. They had attempted and failed to take payment on no less than six occasions. Most would give up after 2. Glady my bank don't charge for these. Cut and paste answers from customer service. Very predatory get 1 year for £90 wether you want it or not. Service is slow and required reconnection a fair bit. Just awful from start to finish.

Date of experience: October 17, 2022
Andrew B. — NordVPN Rep
over a year old

Hello Tom, sorry to hear we did not live up to your expectation. Regarding the automatic payments, we advice to cancel recurring payments on your account settings, that way our system won't attempt to charge you in order to extend the subscription. About the connectivity issues, whose usually can be quickly resolved by tweaking some settings. Our support team would be happy to help if you'd like to continue using our service.

Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Was referred to use NordVpn by a friend and got a referral link with 3 months free. Thought it was very cool at first. There was a glitch with their registration which resulted me in purchasing the service more time and not having the service for a few days. I got a standard and prepaid for a year ahead. I was trying to get my 3 months of promised free service added to my account but the customer service started saying I'm not qualified cause it's "only for new customers" well hello? I just purchased the service yesterday but there was a glitch with registration I guess this means I'm no longer a new customer because they refused to give me 3 months service "cause my name is already in the database" well you know what? That's how you know it's a scam! Very poor customer service who doesn't care but get your money and then if you have issues they don't care and they don't honor their promotions for referrals and other promos as well it's just a way to get your money and then you no longer matter as a customer. If you are not happy and didn't get what you're promised by them becomes not their issue. I definitely DON'T recommend their service and they are NOT a good service provider and will take advantage of you! Only good marketing to get your money and the sales ' Also, if hear cancelling a service after a contract is a nightmare and you'll be charged again because they mess with your auto renewal dates and it take forever to get your money back if you are lucky to ever get your money back at all!
Scam and very poor service and a questionable product! Stay away!

Date of experience: February 25, 2024
Andrew B. — NordVPN Rep
over a year old

Hello! The initial referral works only while registering through it for the first time. Afterwards the offer is no longer available automatically and the support team can no longer reverse. We apologize for the negative experience, but we hope you can give our service a chance to redeem itself in the future. -Neo

Canada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Watch out for their automatic renewal and billings. I initially signed up, but did not intend on purchasing an ongoing subscription. They advised me I am not entitled to a refund as per their Terms of Service.
Super unethical sales tactic. Watch out.

Date of experience: August 25, 2022
Andrew B. — NordVPN Rep
over a year old

Hello, sorry to hear you did not find use for our VPN service. Recurring subscription model is applied by most VPN providers as well as other digital services. Upon purchasing our service, you are informed about and agree to a recurring subscription, which you may cancel anytime in your account settings. Also, we send email reminders to inform about upcoming charge, in case you no longer intend on using our service.

Ukraine
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Crappy service.
May 3, 2023

Crappy service.

I've had some problems with so called 'smartdns' service while using it to access Disney Plus. I've raised an issue with NordVPN support.
Their first reaction was - all problems are on my side)). Despite a fact that problem with service only arose during the peak periods. But they was deaf to my arguments and kept continuing to blame me.
As a result I've bought subscription for other VPN service and all works perfect on the same setup.
Even after this support of NordVPN stated that they have no problems on their side and can't make a compensation for me for all inconveniences.

So I can't recommend this service due to it's quality deaf and ignorant support.

Date of experience: May 3, 2023
New Zealand
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Auto renewal
September 28, 2023

They load a auto renewal on there product and don't give you any notification that they are drawing it. They have refused to refund and which is against NZ consumer laws since they didn't give any notification they were taking money from your card. Extremely poor responses over 6 emails stay away from them choose another provider

Date of experience: September 28, 2023
Andrew B. — NordVPN Rep
over a year old

Hello, Damion. Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We'd like to note that all of our subscriptions are recurring, however, it's possible to cancel the automatic renewal on the NordAccount website at any time. Also, you may contact our team at support.nordvpn.com and we'll cancel the subscription for you. Our agents are available 24/7. -N.L.

New Jersey
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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Scummy Autorenewal
August 11, 2021

You have to take about 7 steps to cancel their service. And even if you do there's a chance it might not even go through. Plus customer service is terrible they're basically automated bots. The service itself isn't very good either within the 6 months I got it I had more emails about my accounts being compromised then I ever had before.

Date of experience: August 10, 2021

Overview

NordVPN has a rating of 1.9 stars from 209 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with NordVPN most frequently mention customer service, credit card and auto renewal. NordVPN ranks 93rd among Vpn sites.

service
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value
87
shipping
35
returns
67
quality
87
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