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All men beware! I have been bumple for a while and after a lot of swipes this has been my experience. There is rarely a real profile there. Bumble tries to keep you swiping and pay for premium features such as 'compliment', 'super like', etc. Occasionally you will get a match and start texting only to get no response after a text and then eventually be 'unmatched'. Sometimes you send a 'compliment' to someone and get an out of context scripted message and then no response either after!
It ismnot only frustrating but disappointing to know that you are being swindled by an App that calls itself legit. Contacting bumble support for help is impossible. They don't respond to your messages either! Bumble is similar to a scamming 'call center' overseas, but only right here!
I feel for all the reviewers who have come here to express their frustrations with Bumble. The company has hired an entitled group of similar bent pushing an agenda narrowly based on their radical beliefs and pushing this on daters across the counties they infiltrate. Their beliefs of right and wrong are so screwed and different from the majority of the world.
They have created a fiefdom based on fake and scammer profiles in the beliefs that pushing AI relationships is more important than providing a safe platform for normal people to meet. It is a sesspool and frustrating waste of time created strictly to take your money. Their better than thou attitudes forcing their beliefs and rules interpreted based on their perverse view of the world on all while providing a platform filled with dangerous scammers and bots and fakes is sickening.
Fine. It's is their sandbox and if you play it's their rules and interpretations. Their group of office workers read your communications and make decisions while at the same time filling their site with fake profiles.
Don't ever pay. This group that is so rule focused has screwed probably thousands out of their money and have been flagged even by the BBB based on their bad business practices and hundreds of unanswered complaints.
Imagine being banned or warned and never being told why? If you think this could never happen to you, well, I thought this too.
Over a month of trying to get an answer and here is what I keep getting from them:
"I completely understand how frustrating it is to not know the exact reason why the account had been warned.
However, we have strict privacy laws and in order to protect the integrity of our internal systems we cannot reveal certain information.
Please know we investigate each report thoroughly and with the utmost care to avoid causing any unintentional distress or confusion.
The warning has been reviewed by multiple team members here at Bumble and has been deemed to have been issued fairly.
At this stage I can recommend having a look over our Community Guidelines as well as our Terms and Conditions via the following links:"
Any educated reasonable person reading this who then gives Bumble any money or continues to pay deserves to be in the other end of this insanity. I have never given them a dime.
I just want to get the word out as I am sure there are others like me. If you find this useful, please mark it as such so it will be available for others. Bumble and other sites are so opaque that it is important to make their despicable practices known to all.
I am not saying you can't meet someone here. I just want people to be clear of the dangers. Never pay. You do not have to pay to meet someone. Do the work. Read the profiles and like those you are interested in. Don't only go by what fills your in box. If you are a woman, make an effort in your message. Men don't know you and have no reason to chase you unless you give them one. Don't just say hello. Never pay Bumble or any of these sites. Never give anyone you meet on any of these sites money. Never. No matter how long you are talking never do it. If you are insisting on paying read the BBB site warning first.
Bumble really is a dangerous money suck. If you don't believe me just read all the negative comments. Look at other sites including the better Business bureau and a trust pilot. Never believe any of the five-star ratings as they are generated by scammers, or solicited or are paid for.
I am not saying not to use this site but only to use it with caution. Never ever pay Bumble as it does not increase your chances of finding a match. It just gives the bumble company money. Be careful because the site is filled with scammers, bots and married men. Never ever give money to anyone under any circumstances. This includes Bumble.
Only communicate with those profiles that are verified and beware that even verified profiles can be faked. Bumble does absolutely nothing to protect you.
One of the issues that I recently experienced was that I believe I may have rejected a person or a scammer and because of this they reported me to Bumble
And Bumble immediately sent me a warning saying that if I continued this bad behavior that I would be banned. They sent me their terms of services and rules but never told me what I did wrong. I have had so far over a week of messaging back and forth to Bumble and it is as frustrating as having a conversation with a 2-year-old. They refuse to tell me what I did. To be honest, I could care less if they ban me. The important thing to know is that unless you have significant mental fortitude you should not use this site because you are going to be hammered on all sides by scammers, people that are just not nice, married people and worst of all you're going to get upset because of the way Bumble treats the people using their site.
Why should this concern you? Well if you were unfortunate enough to have given Bumble money, and they decide to ban you for whatever reason, you have no recourse and you lose your money. Shame on you for ever giving any of these dating sites any money.
Also, the way that they have set up their site is also terrible for people trying to meet each other. You must know, this is perfect for them as the site is not set up to have you meet each other and leave the site. This would be counterintuitive to the reason that Bumble is in business. If everybody matches up and leaves the site then they won't have people as potential customers to give them money. They have no interest in seeing that you meet someone. This is why they don't do anything to make the profiles more useful. They allow scammers to come on and not fill out profiles and put fake pictures. They allow low value people to come on and catfish and a scam you. It is psychologically set up to make you feel like you have to pay money to get a match or a decent match. This is not true. They fill their site with all these fake profiles and stuff and over time, if you let it, it could significantly cause you psychological problems. So if you're coming off of a breakup or you're stressed in your life, be careful coming on to a site like this as it could really cause you mental problems.
My problem is that the site is purposely not set up to have you match and meet people so you end up spending hours and hours swiping on people and most of these profiles are fake and you spend days and weeks doing this without even a match. When you do get a match, usually they go nowhere. It's worse than going to a gambling casino because at least in the casino they are regulated and have to have payouts. Here there are no payouts.
If you don't believe what I'm saying please please spend some time reading all the negative reviews. Hopefully it will convince you not to pay and will at least give you some tools to proceed knowing all the bad things that can happen.
Right now I am dealing with bumbles ridiculous customer service and I am so glad I have never given them a dime.
One last thing, when you are using bumble, look at the profiles and look at the pictures and really consider whether or not this is a real person or is this profile just too good to r true. Step back and really think about it. Do people really look this good with such professional pictures? Are people really this perfect? Why has a real person not written anything of interest or about relationships or what they're looking for in their profile? Does this person or does this profile really look like something you would expect a real person to have written? Is what the person has written in their profile nonsensical and has nothing to do with dating and relationships? Just beware and think about those questions because most of bumbles profiles are fake.
I see a lot of people complaining about their experiences with the profiles that are on Bumble. Unfortunately many of these people who have these really bad experiences believe that they are communicating with real people. They don't realize that they are communicating with fakes a scammer and bots. Yes there are quite a few low value people that are real on Bumble but most real people are there looking for a real relationship. I think what people have a problem with is that they have interactions with these fakes and they think it's real and then they come on and complain about how bad the people are on these sites. Always go back and check the bait you're using to fish with especially if you're not attracting the right kind of fish. Make sure your pictures and profile and messages don't sound like bots or scammers. Be realistic and honest and be safe. However, whatever you do never ever ever pay Bumble and never give anybody you meet under any circumstances for any reason any money.
I started going out with a guy. He goes by the name Larry House. Or Houser. At first he was nice. Then he started verbally abusing me. He lied to my father about where we were going on a vacation. Turns out we didn't go to st Augustine, as he told my dad we ended up in North Carolina. The whole time he was swearing at me and threatening to leave my on the side of the road I was able to get help from a family member and got out and away from him! Stay away from this man Larry house -fl he isverbally abusive smokes 420 while driving and almost killed us,
Its a scam,no customer support at all!
I do not recommend.
Most of profiles are fake.
I would give zero star if I could
It should be a Dating APP. But it is a APP with 99 Fake Pictures.
Normal People are not Models... Bumble makes that to get more people paid.
There are so many bad reviews about Bumble. JUST NOT USE THIS SCAM.
They rip you off. I hope they go down to 0 in NASDAQ this is SCAM/FRAUD
I have been using Bumble for a while, I have had no problems until a few days ago when, while writing to a contact, all of a sudden the app kicks me out and shows me a page requiring me to verify my profile.
I contacted the support which has never replied and leaves my account open and my data, profile and pictures on the systems without my consent.
Profile verification means sending them a photo with the same posture shown on the screen. This is optional, I have never used it before and I have had no problems until now. I went to read the Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions where I found that they use face recognition technology to scan your face acquiring biometric data about you.
Biometrics is like your fingerprints, highly sensitive data that uniquely identifies you. In the wrong hands, it would be disastrous.
I got concerned as I don't see the reason why I should give away such sensitive data on a social media / dating app which does not follow the strict security measures of Government systems for handling passports for example.
Since they use this technology, I have decided not to go through the verification process as I reckon is too invasive and a step too far for the purpose. I contacted support to remove permanently my account. The support doesn't seem to exist, nor do they reply to try and explain what they do, how they do it, and solve the situation. They kick you out of the app without any reason, forcing you to go through the verification process in a sneaky way.
It's worth mentioning that even fake profiles appear as "verified".
The experience with Bumble is not good unfortunately and I suggest everyone not to use their service.
I will also proceed to make sure that Bumble permanently deletes my account and my data.
I will write the same review on Google Play and other social media platforms, hoping that potential users will desist and avoid Bumble.
Real disappointment.
Pretty ridiculous site mainly because it's location based. What do I need to try to match with women vacationing in my home state? I get matched with women as they are changing planes at Denver International Airport, spending a few days nearby or while skiing at resorts 100 miles away. Conversely I get matched with women while I'm traveling and none of them are eager to meet the guy who lives 1000 miles away. This is useless and a waste of everyone's time and energy.
I have been trying to contact them because it was not supposed to continue with payments this month and it still went through... I have been trying to contact someone for a refund, I have messaged like 6 different times and not one response! It pisses me off so bad!
I had many perfect conversations. And the delete pop up and gets in way when you slide up to go to another conversation. You don't see I it. And it deletes who you were talking to. It does not ask if you want to delete the connection. I have missed out on many opportunities due to this bad feature in bumble. I hate bumble due to this.
I got a message when I logged in a day after a religious bigot blocked me that I was "monitored" and that if there was "another occurrence" my account would be dropped. No explanation as to what I did, no phone number to call, no response when I was able to ferret out their concealed email address.Big Brother is watching.
Some 70% of men I had matched with and initiated a conversation don't ever reply! Or unmatched me soon after I started talking to them. Why are you matching then? What is wrong with you? Playing mind games or something? This app must be an ego booster for men and nothing else. I should add that I am attractive tall woman, and good at holding a decent conversation, so can't understand this.
I have now deleted Bumble and will never use again!
Pretty much everytime I get 1 or a few more likes they ALWAYS never message first resulting in the match expiring. Why do they do that? It's extremely misleading, are they not interested in me after matching? Then unmatch me don't just let it expire. The price is good compared to other sites/apps that rob you. But it would be nice if Bumble had more options similar to Tinder. If you are looking for a gamer partner why is there no option to select you only want to see gamers etc? I really only use this because of it's price and the fact that women have to message first. Since on every other site or app guys have to message first, and even if I match with someone they never reply.
My account was blocked because a member reported me. I asked for this to be reversed but was told that it was permanent as I violated their guidelines. I carefully read through the guidelines and I most certainly did not violate any one of them.
I believe the person who reported me (she actually wrote to me and said that she was goign to do so) is someone that I had not written to or responded to on Bumble but rather who was angry at me for something that happened between us in person many years prior, and long before I was on Bumble.
This is particularly aggravated by the fact that I had foolishly shelled out $249.99 for a lifetime membership only to have it cancelled with no money returned at all.
They write a message as if someone is trying to contact you but when you reply no return message is forthcoming they just want you to buy premium.
I texted someone and lo and behold they left the country after a short time. Kept in touch, but had a bad vide. I was correct, he was in a jam and needed money. Surprise. No money and haven't heard since. This guy went to a lot of trouble to set up his scam. I contacted Bumble because I thought he might be pulling this on other woman. Never heard back from them and I gave them quite a bit of info.
This is based on my own experience, men with hidden intentions, liars etc nobody serious there
Everyone's playing some game
Sad
U get likes from profiles u can't see but u never see them in the scroll feed (except the real ones)
They just want you to pay for everything, even to send a message or see who likes you for separate, too expensive, technical issues, fake profiles, no customer service, botched features, worst experience ever! I want my money back, but they already stole it. STAY AWAY save a headache!
A. You can't filter by race. Really?
B. None of your photos can have a weapon. Sounds ok at first, BUT...there are thousands of us who shoot skeet/sporting clays as a hobby or even professionally and the stupid app wont allow ANY pics that feature me participating in this sport, even with an explanation. I guess my archery pics are forbidden too? Their reply was... "you wont ever meet someone carrying a weapon so it cant be in your photos" Funny, I have a carry permit and might very well meet up with a potential match with my.35 on me. LOL. People have actually been raped or killed on blind dates through dating apps. AND...sporting clays/skeet would be an IDEAL first date for others that participate the sport. Doesnt make me a "killer"..
Signed up for their $20 a month membership only to learn that if I want to learn of the alleged eight women who have matched with me I have to pay another $20. Otherwise they're just blurred out.
Textbook deceptive advertising.
