Change.orgReviews 151

Like other people in this site I am very disappointed with this "organization". Like many of you I signed up for a petition and did my contribution for that particular petition, I ended with a monthly payment charge. Canadian MasterCard refuse to help me because in their opinion this a " reputable institution" and what are they doing is consider a legal action. If you decide to help be aware it is so difficult to get rid of them. If they are legal they should change this fraudulent way to get peoples money.

Stay far, far away. I intended to contribute a set amount to sign a petition. As I hit the "submit" button, all of a sudden the terms were changed. They increased the payment I authorized by $10 and signed me up for a continuing monthly withdrawal through my PayPal account. Be forewarned. This site needs to be shut down.

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.

Whatever money you 'donate", goes to change.org itself. Also you end up subscribing for monthly payments and its very hard to unsubscribe.
They pretend to be a no-profit, but they actually harvest money by making you think you're donating to a cause, while everything goes to them. You do not only pay for them to advertise these petitions, they also sell your data to companies which will start sending campaigns based on your political believes. It's a fraud!

Payments for promotion of campaign actually resulted in a decrease in signatures. Emails suggesting that they want to back your campaign just to a ploy for more cash for ever decreasing returns. Really... the total number of signatures stayed static then actually fell-how can that be? Being profit-making is one thing but a blatant scam is another-very disillusioned by the cynical attitude of an organisation that purports to be ideals driven.

What a useless website this is. It's nothing more than a forum for people to vent their rubbish and vitriol when Facebook and other social media isn't enough. Nobody credible reads any of these petitions anymore because you have to wade through thousands of rubbish ones before you get a genuine one - if you can recognise it when you see it. Unless Change.org put some resources into properly policing this site and weeding out the rubbish and the defamatory self serving petitions full of misinformation and lies, then it's not worth the time logging on. Change.org don't respond to complaints or take action. They just waffle on, delay and lie. I notice the usual suspects signing the usual rubbish petitions and none of them get anything accomplished. I suppose it keeps the trolls all together in one place - but that's not enough of a positive to make it two stars. I'm off to find a petition to remove Change.org from the web.