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Coinbase has a rating of 1.3 stars from 824 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Coinbase most frequently mention customer service, bank account and phone number. Coinbase ranks 59th among Centralized Exchange sites.

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Texas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Coinbase the crooks
August 29, 2023

These people are criminals, the manipulate the price of coins for financial gain based on watching what you buy, of course crypto currency is very volatile, but to watch what someone is buying, and manipulate the price based on that is criminal. These people get to do these things because of the huge amount of money they pay the government. This company is truly a scam!

Date of experience: August 29, 2023
Tennessee
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Avoid
August 24, 2023

Terrible customer service. They refused to answer simple questions and required that I provide unnecessary documentation.

Date of experience: August 23, 2023
Washington
3 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Coinbase locked my account for no apparent reason without any notification or explanation whatsoever. Instructed to call customer service who can only tell me they've forwarded my questions and to expect a response within a week. Meanwhile, I can't contribute nor move my crypto off the exchange. BTC is nose-diving and Coinbase is obtuse and costing me money. Complete knuckleheads. Buyer beware! Better alternatives out there.

Date of experience: August 19, 2023
Illinois
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Deposited a substantial amount of money to purchase goods in South Africa. It is to a trusted source. On the phone 3 times with coinbase customer support, before and after wiring the money to my coinpurse wallet. After deposit, and as I go to transfer to bitcoin and then to South Africa, I was told that I could not transfer it for 45 days (or up to 60 or more days). This was something that customer support failed to mention as I was wiring money to them and organizing the transfer. The websites that mention Coinbase also fail to mention this. It is supposed to be somewhere in the multiple pages that we agree to in "the terms". Stay away from them, looking for an alternatives.

Date of experience: August 18, 2023
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Coinbase help scams
August 11, 2023

I invest $50,000 in ETH hoping to make money and I fund a project in coinbase wallet call Gamefi, since I was in Coinbase wallet I trust it, i really thought Coinbase was secure but they have this tab call brower in his set up that it make you thing that what ever its there it's check or working with coinbase, so that's how I transfer all my ETH to this project and everything was looking good my account was shoing the earning untill I want to withdral the system didn't let me so I e-mail coinbase and they said that that's not there responsability, so I'm relly looking for help I have contact this company fast fund group and has been two months and I'm still waiting. Any help would be apreciate it, if anybody here know what could I do pleae let me know

Date of experience: August 11, 2023
Washington
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Buyer Beware!
August 9, 2023

Buyer Beware! As an attorney and executive for a fortune 300 company, I am amazed this can happen. I was locked out of my account. I went through the verification process and submitted pictures of my drivers license. After several unsuccessful attempts I did a chat line. Zero help! There was literally no way to get my account verified. Luckily on the iPhone app I had a direct deposit back to my bank. Thus I immediately sold everything. They lost my money and my business because they have no way to work with you directly when their software will not work properly.

Date of experience: August 9, 2023
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Horrible support
August 4, 2023

I could not get a transaction to work. The support I got was terrible. I made no progress with them. I ask to speak to a manager and they said they dont have managers for support. As soon as I can, I getting all my crypto out of that exchange.

Date of experience: August 4, 2023
Indiana
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Once you are hacked they will not give you access back to your account. They will just simply give you a run around each time. They will ask you to wait weeks on end to try the verification process yet again and each stage of the verification process takes weeks on end arbitrarily as a supposed security measure. Once you wait the months needed to complete their verification process you are given a blanket link giving possible reasons as to why you cant trade instead of a concrete reason and with no clear reason given or recourse you are forced to do the verification process yet again after they inevitably reject you.

Do not use this service. They dont send out emails or generally care about your account.

Date of experience: August 4, 2023
Florida
3 reviews
1 helpful vote
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October 7, 2023

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Date of experience: August 3, 2023
Indonesia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I regret being member at coinbase and storing funds. Policy changes which i couldnt opt out of required me to re verify my credentials. No matter what i do they wont accept my valid passport or IDs. Everything is automated and you keep running into digital brick walls. I have deposited fund years ago and there is no way for me yo retrieve them. Support is non existent. If you manage to talk to a human you will only receive cut and paste replies. Thanks for taking my money and then close the doors

Date of experience: July 27, 2023
Nevada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Someone stole money from my Coinbase account. I noticed my account going down so l got locked my account. I was unable to contact Coinbase but then I decided to make a new account. I was then able to contact coinbase but they didn't want to reimburse me. However, Robinhood did. They also never sent an authentic code to my email. They don't help you because they don't take any responsibility for fraud. If you experience fraud coinbase will tell you to report it to police but you will never see your money again. Do not put any money in here. It will be your worst nightmare

Date of experience: July 25, 2023
Norway
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Amazing jobs
October 7, 2023

After investing a large sum of money in the stock market, I was scammed by this notorious broker known for shady practices. Every time I tried to withdraw my funds, they would give me silly excuses and delay tactics. I became desperate to get my money back, so I decided to seek help from a financial recovery firm. After some research, I stumbled upon CP-INVESTIGATION (.) comm and even though they seemed too good to be true, I decided to take a chance on them. When I reached out for help, they were quick to respond and assured me that they could help me recover my investment funds with their years of experience in the financial industry. They also informed me that if the case wasnt successful, then their services would be free of charge.

Date of experience: July 24, 2023
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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STAY AWAY!
July 22, 2023

Bunch of thieves. Abusing their power. They have put my funds in hold although my account is fully verified and I have used a payment method used previously for withdrawals. This is utterly unacceptable. They refuse to advise on the escalation process and to what authorities they report. Thieves!

Date of experience: July 22, 2023
California
4 reviews
2 helpful votes
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I've been trying to close my account for three days. They keep giving me the run around, making excuses for this and that. How hard is it to close an account? They make it super difficult and are not helpful. I'm tired of this app and want to be done with it. I don't recommend anyone use this app. I'm still waiting for them to close my account

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Date of experience: July 12, 2023
Washington
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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A negative 10 is a better score for this company.

If you invest in crypto using Coinbase, be sure that you do not get married, move, change phone numbers, or have any change in appearance. If you do, you will never get ANY of your investment back. Instead, they will ask to verify your identity. This process means that you must give away personal information and submit to have your computer camera view you. However, this will not be enough. An hour later, they will send you an email stating that verification failed without providing a reason for the failure. If you are lucky enough to have verification confirmed, try getting your funds converted to US dollars and withdrawing. They will send you through the verification process again and this time you will fail. OVER and OVER again until you literally give up on what, for me, was thousands of dollars!

Date of experience: July 12, 2023
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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As I read in many reviews I had the same experience. I was not able to withdraw my money and there's no customer service whatsoever. The only one to communicate with in the house is to chat with a dummy...!

Date of experience: July 11, 2023
Nigeria
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Scammers
July 10, 2023

Thank you so much edgetophub.digital

In April 2023 I deposited $6800 to buy crypto(btc) and invest on this scammer platform. I was told to wait 15 business days before withdrawing. On May 2nd I decided to withdraw my funds and there was an error. I reached out to customer service to get help. They said i have to pay 28% for tax and accrued fees. I sent it in.I try to withdraw again and they freeze my account i can't access my wallet and money. I wrote them no less than five times asking for an update in the status and they never responded.
I couldn't stay doing nothing so i reported to my husband's sister working at the sec, they confirmed Coinbase is unregulated. She directed me to private forensic investigators, (EDGE TOP HUB DIGITAL)
I immediately sent a message to them at, they were swift and professional in their work to trace my money to the wallets the scammers had hidden them, and they helped me retrieve it all in eleven days. Do not make the mistake i made! Don't do any sort of business with these scammers.

Date of experience: July 10, 2023
Georgia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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It was a great site at first. I never had a problem with Coinbase until now. They kicked me off of their platform without telling me the reason. They said I violated or broke one of their guidelines and then told me they could not tell me why. So, I can't see if I had money in my account and they aren't giving me any answers. I will be getting me a lawyer. Idc!

Date of experience: July 7, 2023
Colorado
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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My funds just simply evaporate.
Doesnt matter the news of crypto
Tried to stake so maybe make interest
Nope
Unstake - put money on indefinite hold
Now i have 0 balance available
1yr 2000.00 to 0 dont do business with this company
Thieves

Date of experience: July 6, 2023
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Closed my account
July 2, 2023

I've had Coinbase for four years. All I did was deposit, twice cashed out because I had to, and sent btc to a software wallet. Log on Thursday. ACCOUNT CLOSED. Called. Got some lady who I couldn't understand who kept saying check your email. I did to an account closed letter. I told her that's why I'm calling. She just keeps saying read the letter over and over. Rude. Amazing. I'm still depressed, and will never do anything with coinbase ever again. I'm getting my friends to leave coinbase.

Date of experience: July 2, 2023

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Coinbase is a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency.


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Founded in 2012
San Francisco, California, United States
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