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FreedomPop Reviews Summary

FreedomPop has 188 customer reviews and ranks 124th in the Mobile Carriers category. Common review topics include customer service, credit card, freedom pop.

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1 review
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FRAUD AVOID
July 30, 2017

They charge for services but im not able to call out or receive calls. I will be reporting them to trading standards.

Date of experience: July 30, 2017
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Just another crooked company
July 28, 2017

I ordered $1 SIM card that I ve never received. Checked my account page and... the sim actually has never been sent. Yet they keep changing my account even I told then and actually cancelled all. They feed my with BS messages and keep changing my credit card. I open a case, credit card quickly refunded me since freedopop's well known as a fraudulent company. BEAWARE.

Date of experience: July 28, 2017
Georgia
3 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Cheats
July 25, 2017

Ordered for my daughter. Got the $9 plan. Never set it up so called and canceled. A few months later we had to cancel our credit card and saw where they had been taking out $25.00 a month for six months. Not only do you have to call and cancel but you must get a confirmation code and watch your card. They will cheat you out of all they can.

Date of experience: July 25, 2017
New Jersey
4 reviews
12 helpful votes
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Will never have anything to do with FreedomPop again. This company is the most incompetient amount of idiots that you could ever deal with. First they are not US based, you talk to someone that has 1/2 broken english. Their whole scam is to try to sell you a device that is used and then when you get it the device isnt even activated. If you have a suite number or an Apt number, don't bother ordering it. These morons will purposely not put the suite or apt number on the package causing the item to be sent back to the stupidity this company does. Then when you call them they give you the run around. The second they find out that your a customer, they blow you off immediately. To talk to their 1/2 moronic support they want to charge you another $8 just to talk to someone that will blow you off again. Do yourself a favor stay clear from these cons!

Date of experience: July 17, 2017
Florida
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Worked for two months, then stopped
July 8, 2017

I paid for FreedomPOP service. Even though they originally said it was free, it was not. My phone worked for two months, then stopped. I keep getting a message that I need to upgrade. Do not give anyone the FreedomPop number because you cannot get any help once it stops working unless you pay much more.

Date of experience: July 8, 2017
Virginia
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Poor Customer Service & Lack of Tech Support
July 5, 2017

Stay away. Ordered SIM Card for phone. Unable to get phone to recognize. Called CS; no phone based TS available unless pay monthly fee. TS via email that is less than subpar. Slow to respond; days. Question whether the TS reads the email sent to them of actions performed due to asking questions to try procedures that have already been tried. Working on six days w/o resolution. DON"T WASTE YOUR MONEY WITH THEM.

Date of experience: July 5, 2017
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Be very careful if you plan to start a Freedompop account. This plan is for extremely light cell users. Before you know it, they are charging you $20 dollars for only 1GB of data. They nickel and dime you on everything, so cell plan isn't free at all. You pay for voice mail also.

If you look at the monthly charges that they tack on without your permission, you are paying double what you would pay on any other low cost cell plan for subpar coverage and zip/nada customer service. And they lock the phone for 6 months.

Really think this through because it is not a free cell unless you leave it in your car and use it to dial 911 or call for a tow only. Anything else uses up the 500mb of data really fast and then the phone is shut down unless you agree to pay $25 per month for 2GB of data and voice mail (voice mail uses data).

Check out Cricket, Boost Mobile, Metro PCS, etc. You get a lot more for your money else where and the phone will work. I can't tell you how many times this phone goes dead, or won't work.

Date of experience: June 19, 2017
Missouri
1 review
1 helpful vote
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You're better off getting most expensive plan with Verizon! There isn't one positive thing to say, from the cheap, crappy phone to the non-existence of customer service. A rating of zero is too high - RUN!

Date of experience: June 12, 2017
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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DON'T SIGN UP WITH FREEDOM POP!
June 10, 2017

I ordered the $1.06 SIM card. They charged me two $89 charges on something I NEVER ordered! It caused my bank account to be overdrawn -$206 and my bank charged two $30 insufficient funds fee!
DON'T ORDER FROM THEM... unless you have money to burn!

Date of experience: June 10, 2017
California
2 reviews
16 helpful votes
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Poor
June 8, 2017

Poor phone service (at one point I wasnt able to make calls) but great texts as long as you don't send photos. My friends are telling me that sending them pictures through their port has ruined their phones. They also take advantage of your account and don't inform you of changes or charges. I went from 500mb to 300mb to 200mb without warning. I'm not sure how long they will be able to carry on this way, but it doesn't seem like long. I guess for free they think people will put up with it.

Date of experience: June 8, 2017
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Unauthorized charge
June 4, 2017

Recently they charged my cc for 0.01 the amount when I see it i called and complain they told me that in customer service ido not have any service with them but they charge the credid car to see if it was still active? How a company can charge 0.01 to customers who does not have service? Do they do the same to all of them? Why? Is it so bad that no body wants the service? Do they do the same to all people and may be not every one check their statement?. I don not know how many customers or the information of how many people do they have but to do that is abusive specially if the company knows that person is not a customer. If they charge 0.01 (unauthorized charges) to ******* people who they have their information they can make one hundred xtra with out authorization. 0.01 is nothing but a serious company shouldn't charge u nothing knowing they do not give u the service. To. See if my car was still active? Are they playing with customers information?

Date of experience: June 3, 2017
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Warning if you like calmness
June 2, 2017

Bad order process, bad customer service, bad phone service, canned emails, billing is out of this world! I now have two cell phone service's that actually work. Freedompop should be called MissionCreep!

Date of experience: June 2, 2017
Florida
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Thieves plain and simple
March 24, 2017

AVOID this company, you cannot get support, they will steal your mone, charge as much as they can from your account before you cancel service.

I have reported them to the BBB

Date of experience: March 24, 2017
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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F***ing Horrible
March 14, 2017

There is not one single good thing that I can about this company or its people. Disturbingly poor from start to finish and from top to bottom. Avoid. Abort. Abandon.

Date of experience: March 13, 2017
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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A fraud operation.
February 16, 2017

I bought a FP phone for a homeless friend. Since he has extremely limited funds I turned off the automatic refill off. To do that I had to "deposit" with them $5. After the first month my friend turned off the $6 enhanced voice option. From that time on he was unable to make calls. He still should have had his 500 free texts. Texting died out in short order and he received a notice he had to buy more data before he could use the phone. I called FP up to find out what happened to the free 200 minutes and 500 texts. They told me their voice and text ran on the internet and when your free 500 MB of data was used up you had to buy more to use your "free phone and texts. By this time they had already confiscated the $5 I had to deposit with them. When I called to complain I was not allowed to speak with any supervisory personnel. They refunded the $5 they stole but refuse to reimburse me for the phone until they got it back. They promised to send a call tag for shipping but 3 weeks later it's not here. If someone reads this and still buys from these scammers beware! Their whole system in still in beta. That means a bug factory. I'm filing a complaint with BBB as well as the Washington Att. Gen. This outfit is nothing more than a pack of thieves. If they were close enough I'd find one of them and shake them upside down until my money came out of their thieving pockets.

Date of experience: February 15, 2017
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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FREEDOMPOP THIEVES
February 11, 2017

January 24,2017 I canceled the service freedompop because the sim card never worked despite this you debited my account capital one without my agreement so I ask you to recredit the sum of $ 27.98.
I am very angry that is not serious you are thieves and I will put a very bad review against you on internet Thieves Thieves...

Date of experience: February 11, 2017
Maryland
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Fraud! Avoid this company
December 28, 2016

This company has been taking of $7.99 from my account fraudulently after i signed up to their free monthly service. Don't become a victim. I had the 39 days trial then downgraded to the free service. They deducted $7.99 X 2 from my account within one month. Reaching them has been impossible. However, they are available to new customers. Avoid this scam if you can!

Date of experience: December 28, 2016
Virginia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Transfering service to an i-Phone
December 14, 2016

Our daughter gave us her old i-Phone 5s that was coded for Sprint. We wanted to port over our T-Mobile number to use on the Freedom Pop service. After four days of phone calls and e-mails it seemed no one we talked to or who wrote to us had a clue about how to do this. We were charged a total of $109.97, $9.99 of which was promptly refunded.We were sent a package of unknown contents (opened it to see but there were 2 boxes of indeterminate contents which we left unopened and the outer shipping box re-sealed). Disappointed, dismayed and disgusted, we cancelled everything and got an e-mail acknowledging the cancellation. I am now writing a postal letter to the company requesting a full refund for services not rendered.

Date of experience: December 13, 2016
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Freedompop are thiefs and scam artists!
December 7, 2016

This horrid company sold me a "refurbished" iphone with a 30 day money back guarantee, and battery was 79% depleted. Within 2 days I complained and requested a refund. They assured me that a good-working replacement iphone with a good battery would be shipped. The replacement was worse than the original. After many, many emails I finally received an email acknowledgement that I was entitled to a refund, and that a prepaid return would be issued. After returning the phone I was informed that the length of time had elapsed and they would not issue a refund. So, they have the phone, and I have nothing. To add insult to injury, they proceeded to charge my credit card for a year's service, months after I made the return. Not only do I not have a phone but there is no phone number associated with my account. I have hundreds of emails from FreedomPoop, many of which contradict previous ones. This company is clueless where it pertains to cell phones or the public.

Deceptive business practices. Fraudulent charges, false claims, inferior service, complete lack of support. This is an abomination of a cell phone provider. It is a cell phone provider from hell. It's fine to vent here, but the Attorney General of California needs to be contacted with your pertinent information.

Kamala D, Harris, Attorney General
Public Inquiry Unit
P. O. Box *******
Sacramento, Ca. *******-2550
*******360
*******225

Date of experience: December 6, 2016
Michigan
1 review
1 helpful vote
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After service was established on November 2,2016 under the 100% free service they assured me I was participating in was actually a 72 hour frenzy on my credit card that totaled 88$ and unable to get my refund for something never received or authorized, be aware; of thier piggyback billing system they have implemented; it eats the funds to the bare bone unknown pending charges that haunt you.

Date of experience: November 7, 2016

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  • (424) 317-9266
  • Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA, United States
  • Founded in 2012
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