BadooReviews 607

I realized on 4/4/18 that I was debited 159 for annual fee for Badoo Premium service which I did not authorize nor did I press a button to confirm this purchase. I immediately after a hr of having this service looked for a contact number to codrially fight this charge. To not get hit with the You use the service you paid for line. I deleted the site 4/4/18. So I am expecting to get all of my money. But the lack of human contact via phone, and email is going make this difficult process. I am very angry and really thinking about an international class action lawsuit. I even called Dublin. I never let anyone take money from me in life. It aint going to star now.

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.

Do not trust these people. I agreed to try it for a month for $8.95. I was billed an additional $49.95 which I learned later was for these ridiculous credits that I supposedly needed to send messages or cherries to girls. I'm not even kidding. Why would a full member need credits to do simple things like send messages? I immediately cancelled at Pay Pal and received an email from Pay Pal stating I had cancelled my 'agreement' with Badoo yet was still billed the $49.95. Liars & frauds much like the women there. A skanky dating site at best. BEWARE. DO NOT GIVE YOUR financial info to these people. They will SCREW you! And you really wouldn't want it from the women there anyway.

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.

Yes looks like Badoo it's doing it again, and Paypal is an accomplice in this fraud.

I never intended to subscribe just to buy 100 credits for the value of §1 and the PayPal buy now next to that 1§ product when I purchase that 100 credits for 1pound their charge me 1 + 65 when I see that ( 10 minutes aFTER CALL PAYPAL AND BADOO AND THEIR REFUSE REFUND WTF

Terms state 14 cancel refund... like the law sated... badoo say they're automatic enable some bloody superpowers that invalidate the refund...

The funny thing is that PayPal replies to say their cant do nothing_:? Wtf they the payment provider to this fraudulent scammers.

Its all gone FRAUD I will take that to the trading standards

This is even more scamming.

You clearly dont listen and you dont answer.

You have the nerve to write me here and state you want to correct this error.
When i write you, the same response as before.
No answer, no resolve, no refund equals SCAMSITE!
Please refund the money you wrongfully stole and no
I wont stop until you follow the law and good business practices. You can give me the refund and I will cease exposing you. Else face the consequence of your malpractice Mr. Manel.

Very few of the girls profiles are real, or active.

** Badoo purchased HotOrNot, and simply post the pictures from the highest rated to get people to sign up.**

https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/02/has-dating-site-badoo-found-a-love-match-in-the-form-of-hotornot/

You will find transsexuals, and fakes, but no women who want to meet.

Most profiles are simply bots, or the system artificially adds 'visits', 'likes' and 'wants to chat', while asking you for your credit card details.

Beware of Badoo's deceptive charging policies. After opening an account, I received a notice that stated for only .79 cents, I would have the ability to better communicate with others on the site. What I was not aware of is that I was then automatically signed me up for a Premium Account with ongoing charges. Without my knowledge (because I was not using the site while I was traveling out of the Country), I was being charged $3.99 on a weekly basis. Once I saw those charges, I figured out how to unsubscribe and requested a refund. Badoo flatly refused saying that I had signed a Terms of Service, which is untrue. I then closed the account, which they acknowledged, I continued to demand a refund, which they again refused. Subsequently, I was charged again! After complaining about that, which should not have been disputed, they again refused the refund, stating that I had reactivated the account! So over a three week period I was charged approximately $30. Maybe not a lot of money of me, but imagine what they are earning through these deceptive policies with so many members. By the way, good luck trying to cancel the account. Even that is made difficult.

Badoo has deducted $169.99 from my credit card, and refuse to refund it even though I immediately informed them of their error. Instead they claimed that I had intended to purchase a premium subscription, and that they are unable to give refunds. They are clearly acting in bad faith, and their business model is apparently to obtain money by any means possible, and then to avoid chargebacks.

My bank is currently processing the chargeback, and I had to cancel my card to prevent them making any further transactions.

This site has not been updated or issues fixed in years. First, it never send the verification link to your email when you first sign up, so you have to use your phone number or facebook to sign up; it does not keep your profile picture up; it keeps asking you to upload a picture of you when you've uploaded several; it keeps saying the picture of you has multiple people in it, which it doesnt so that causes issues with people being able to view your page and you being able to view theirs and send them a message. The site is crappy and needs to be destroyed because clearly the administration isnt even paying attention to any requests for help.

Badoo begs you for money far too much and offers you a poor initial experience if you're an average male. Harassing me for cash, when you've given me a terrible experience up front by giving me zero replies or interaction, is a joke. I am a decent, tall, good looking guy, but on Badoo I get no messages, no replies, no likes, and no favourites. And yet Badoo expects me to gamble on spending what is a small fortune on the 'chance' of finding a lady I like. I've literally got better luck with putting my money down a drain, as a passing lady may ask me what/why I'm doing that!

1) You have to pay to message someone if you've made the mistake of 'liking' them first. Unless they 'like' you back.

2) You have to pay to see your favourites, and to clear the notification.

3) You have to pay to get a large number of likes per day.

4) You have to pay to get up the rankings.

5) You have to pay for any of the super power features, which aren't super.

6) You have to pay to 'Increase Popularity' and come up earlier on the matches.

7) You have to pay just to get the super power icon, otherwise you look cheap.

8) You have to pay to start new conversations with an absurdly low number of people, meaning it mostly will be men paying for this feature as men tend to get nothing.

9) Even WITH all this begging, if you're using the web version, they show you adverts too!

Finally, if someone from Badoo is reading this: get rid of the "Free" credits joke. "FREE" IS NOT FREE WHEN YOU HAVE TO PAY.

Just to clarify: My favourite was a friend, we agreed we would favourite each other just to test if it really worked. I got zero real favourites from others.

I was on Badoo and saw that I could chat with a girl right away if I sent her a gift. "Ok, I'll try it," I thought. So I clicked on get credits and it immediately gave me 500 credits because I had already put in my payment details at a previous date.

I saw no screen nor any option nor any notification for an automatic top up.

I sent three gifts and dropped to 200 credits upon which I was charged immediately for another 500.

WTF?

So I contacted Help immediately and told them of the error, lack of notification and they brushed me off and pointed to their policies.

Total scam tactics. Totally unethical.