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eToro Reviews Summary

eToro has a rating of 1.4 stars from 116 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with eToro most frequently mention customer service, bank account and live chat. eToro ranks 57th among Centralized Exchange sites.

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Ukraine
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Stay away
April 1, 2021

For the love of your mental health, kindly stay away from this company. They'll take your money & withdrawal becomes impossible.

There's no reliable customer service, so contacting them is impossible.

Took my money and almost drove me mad!
But since it was all my savings, I couldn't give up and let them win

Kept looking for means to recover till I got recommendations from a lady on Quora to contact Phoenix Souls

I was skeptical at first but had no choice.
They were able to recover my money back
Surprisingly! Best day of my life!

You can look the website up at Phoenixsouls dot com for help

Good luck

Date of experience: March 31, 2021
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I DEPOSITED WELL OVER 8K INTO ETORO AND WHEN I TRIED TO TAKE IT OUT IS WHEN THE PROBLEMS STARTED. THE ACCOUNT HAS GROWN TO OVER 11K AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN IT IS LOST IN TRANSIT! WHEN I GET MY MONEY BACK I WOULD NOT EVER, EVER, EVER TRUST THEM AGAIN. TRYING TO OPEN A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT WITH ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HAS GOTTEN SCREW BY THIS COMPANY. HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET THE STOCK TO TANK WHEN PEOPLE KNOW HOW MUCH OF A SCAM THEY ARE. I ATTACHED AN EMAIL BELOW THEY SENT 2 WEEKS AFTER MY MISSIN WITHDRAWAL!

Date of experience: March 31, 2021
Sweden
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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What Happens with Your Money?

Both Unregulated and regulated brokers promise you that they deposit your btc/funds in a segregated bank account. They like to think that they will prove their integrity and convince you that they guarantee your access to your funds. However, no such personal account exists. That also is fiction. Your money went straight into their own bank account instead. Sure, they promised that you could withdraw your money whenever you want. But you will soon find out that's easier said than done. Some firms will ignore your requests to access your funds outright.

Others will bounce you back and forth between different departments in order to exasperate you. To the point when you'll just give up. And then there are those that will point to the small print on the Terms & Conditions page. Squint eyes and you will see that you agreed to first reach an unattainable amount of trades. Or repay that huge bonus they gave you before you even apply to withdraw your money. Or both.

If you are a victim of a fraudulent online company which presents itself as a broker or a reliable company but is in fact a scam. Getting your money back isn't a big deal if you get the right person to help you out but with the rate at which a lot of scammers come online to rip people off, it becomes difficult to get the right person. This is why I'm going to recommend to you a legitimate Cyber Investigation Firm and recovery expert team. It's time to recover the money you lost with Binary Options! If the company does not return your money, you should approach your credit card company or issuing bank and fill out the paperwork for a chargeback, citing fraud, misrepresentation and breach of contract as the reasons or you can seek the assistance of a private investigator and asset recovery expert, former industry insiders said. (Israeli binary options salespeople routinely lie about their identity, location and financial experience.).

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Date of experience: March 28, 2021
Denmark
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Etoro asked me for documents I already sent them to verify my account, and then closed the case when I reminded them they had them. Then they suspended my account. It's been three months and they just keep writing to say thanks for my patience, they will get back to me. They are so bad at customer service it's hilarious

Date of experience: March 27, 2021
Ukraine
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I lost my savings...
March 24, 2021

I lost my savings in a couple of days, they just disappeared. I was very angry and looked for ways to get my savings back. I was helped by funds-recovery(club). They did everything well. They can be trusted

Date of experience: March 23, 2021
Nigeria
1 review
0 helpful votes
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March 10, 2021

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Date of experience: March 9, 2021
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Seem to always have technical issues during times of extreme volatility in the markets, don't take my word, check it out for yourself. Criminal

Date of experience: February 23, 2021
France
3 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Avoid by all means!
February 23, 2021

I am losing alot of money due to:
- The site and APP crashing regularly and during critical market times= Loss
- Leverage removed when the market is going up= Loss
- Buttons of buy and sell not always working properly= Loss
- They sometimes close your trades without you even knowing= loss
- Calculation of my profit/loss is incorrect and i have raised more than 5 tickets explaining this fact and no one is solving it.
- They send you deadline alerts 24 hours or less before the deadline dates.
Basically this trading platform is not recommended. It is low quality. It is unreliable and you end up losing money instead of making it due to their several hickups.
The site was down for 7 hours today. Money tied up and I dont know what is happening with it.
I am leaving the site. What a terrible experience and loss!

Date of experience: February 23, 2021
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Not profitional
February 23, 2021

The website go off and you can't stop your trade or open new trade.
If you do it twise because its not working its makes 2 orders.

Date of experience: February 23, 2021
Texas
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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I've been trying to withdraw money from eToro for 2 weeks. Always end up with "We are unable to submit your request. Please contact out customer support for help". I've contacted customer support a dozen+ time. It's always the same line, "a few more days to resolve". EToro is looking more and more like a scam

Date of experience: February 18, 2021
Ireland
1 review
1 helpful vote
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They took my initial investment. Then stoppped me trading until they validated my profile. They wouldnt accept my drivers licence as ID although their own emails say a drivers licence is accepted. So I was stuck. Generic replies to my emails and complaints and then they mark them as solved, this is more than incompetance., its intentional. Dont give them your data or your money. They stole my money and my stocks, liquidated them but now apparently my profile is 95 percent complete so it looks like they eventually accpeted the Id, but my investment is gone and my account is at zero. Avoid this crown. It's a scam.

Date of experience: February 17, 2021
Australia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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My account is not usable as it is still pending verification after a month and an email exchange with support. I withdrew my funds over a week ago and still no sign of them in my bank account. And of course the fees for putting money in or taking it out have me out of pocket for the experience. Look for other trading apps.

Date of experience: February 15, 2021
Ireland
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Keep away
February 4, 2021

I'm 5 working days waiting for a reply to an urgent query. One of the worst companies I've ever dealt with.

Date of experience: February 4, 2021
District of Columbia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Importantly, see attached undisputed pictures from eToro account. Furthermore, eToro will respond to a negative review you post but not doing anything about it.

I deposited $5k with eToro and bought and sold Bitcoin. After contacting eToro customer service via the website, linkedin, facebook and twitter, I am still waiting for return of approximately $683 and a $500 promotion. I have filed complaints with the SEC and the FTC.

Date of experience: January 24, 2021
Norway
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I lost over 358k in an investment trading company last year; I was down because the company refused to let me make withdrawals and kept asking for more money…. My friend in the military introduced me to a recovery agent "ethical360@ cyberservices com or WhatsApp No *******573/Text *******129" and he's being really helpful, he made a successful recovery of 95% of my investment in 2 weeks, and I am really grateful to him. If you are a victim of binary scam and needs to get your money back, please don't hesitate to contact him. If you have been scammed he can restore your hope of getting your money back

Date of experience: January 19, 2021
AE
1 review
7 helpful votes
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EToro is a fraud
January 13, 2021

EToro is a fraud. They take your money and never credit your account. Their customer service does not respond. Avoid at all cost

Date of experience: January 13, 2021
Hong Kong
1 review
2 helpful votes
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They closed all my margin transaction without any notification. Upon I questioned them, they says the policy has changed hence service no longer available. I was get to know trade closed 1 week after when I login to the account.

Date of experience: November 19, 2020
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Do not contact them
October 23, 2020

Do not contact them, it is all a scam. They will try to take your money and will never give it back to you. Anyone having problem with this company should do as I have and report them to (webploit recovery)groupgiving as much information as possible. Download the "positions" data and highlight the losing trades

Date of experience: October 22, 2020
GB
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Binary options scams
October 16, 2020

Hello everyone I'm Laura Hulsey i initially invested a total sum of $89,000 over a period of 18 weeks. My bonus/profit was $168,000, every attempt to make withdrawal failed and I was instructed to make another deposit of $30,000 before I can make withdrawals which I did. Up till now I'm still unable to make withdrawals and all attempt to contact broker has failed. This is very pathetic and I advise everyone to desist from binary options generally. I did a due diligence test before investing with them but guess what I ended up getting burned. This is to create awareness, not everybody can be as lucky as I was. I'm saying this because I was able to recover my funds through the help of Mr David Shaw Thanks to Mr David a private investigator and wealth recovery expert…Contact him on email via *******@gmail.com for more enquiries. And he will guide you on steps to take and get back all you have lost. Am very happy to share this because i love seeing someone smile again.

Date of experience: October 15, 2020
Canada
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I invested 1500 Euro, and later aggreviated to 3800 Euro. I now requested for 1500 to be paid on my Bank account. They never said no until one day one worker (Jay) came online to trade with me before the payment of the requested 1500 Euro. He now trade with the whole 3800 Euro at a time and said it would be doubled or triple. To my greatest surprise as i was watching the transaction on the Trade platform in less than one hour the whole money turned to Zero Euro. He promised to call next day, over one week nobody calls untill i started writing series of E-Mails until someone called me again after about 2 weeks and told me to invest again to regain their company loss and my personal money, then i now told them i would not do that. God so kind I was to find on the reviews a recovery expert Mr Nathan Chambers him and his team worked relentlessly to get back my invested capital including my bonus back from the investment company in question (Utrader). Feel free to reach out to him via his email address *******@gmail.com if you are having issues withdrawing your funds and he will guide you on how to recover your funds.

Date of experience: October 1, 2020