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GasBuddy

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GasBuddy Reviews Summary

GasBuddy is a website and app that helps users find the cheapest gas stations near them, with features like fuel rewards programs, discounts, and savings tools.

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74
value
81
shipping
33
returns
29
quality
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Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Not all stations listed.
December 21, 2021

You say you are saving us money at the pump. Your NOT. Grand travel center in shawnee oklahoma not listed on gas buddy is a good five to seven cents less than any stations you list in the area. START LISTING THEM! Save others money.

Date of experience: December 20, 2021
Colorado
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I uninstalled your app. It won't let me change my preferences let alone my search information. It won't let me opt out of you taking and sharing all my personal information with the entire world. You want my banking information to give me a discount on gas? No way, that is just insane. It wants to know where my trip is to. None of your business. You want to sell all my info to other companies. No, not your place or your greedy business. Sad you can't just find gas prices on your area when that is what the app is supposed to do. Quite the scam for people's information you have going on there.

Date of experience: December 12, 2021
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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If ever there was an example of switch and bait, Gas Buddy is a great example. I have yet to pay what their app says (usually 5-10 cents higher) and the so-called deals of an extra 17 cents per gallon were only 2 cents per gallon. Such liars! They need to be honest or get buried.

Date of experience: December 7, 2021
Wisconsin
2 reviews
10 helpful votes
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Anyone with a persons drivers license and your bank account info could empty the account.
BIG SECURITY RISK. No Protection. They will not take a credit card or Paypal which offer the consumer protection from unauthorized transactions.

Date of experience: November 28, 2021
Illinois
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Do not recommend using! Doesn't save you money!
November 7, 2021

Prices seem to never be the same as what's posted on the app. Pumped 23 gallons at. 5 cents back per gallon and I got. 47 back. And the price At the station was. 32 more than what the app said. It would of been way cheaper if I had Gone to Sams club. App seems to be a waste of time and prices not accurate.

Date of experience: November 7, 2021
Connecticut
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Made me so mad. Went out of my way to 2 gas stations they said gas is cheap. Prices were not even close and then when i tried to update it over and over. It would show like i did, but as soon as i closed the app and opened it again, it had the old prices which were low and inaccurate.
Now. I updated gas prices at 2 different gas stations, it updated one, but it would not update the other one.
They ask the public to participate, but really it is waste of time. It will show on your phone as if it did update but go on, close the app, open it again, and the old wrong prices are still there.

Made me so mad. That # prices were wrong, but then it would not even update. Now that i have read all the other reviews, and the fact that it used to be a good app but. A new owners have taken over and are doing horrible job. I am taking this app off. Yes i will use Waze thank you. I will not update prices for GasBuddy which you do not even update, but leave the wrong low prices so someone else will waste their time just like i did today. And yes i have seen how scammy this company is now. Will not get their credit card and its too bad i gave them any of my information. No I will not get any kind of card from them. The end.

Date of experience: October 28, 2021
Texas
10 reviews
10 helpful votes
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INCORRECT PRICES!
October 27, 2021

THESE ARE INCORRECT PRICES ALL THE TIME FOR 10 CHEAPEST GAS! WASTE OF TIME, AND MISLEADING. POINTLESS. STAY AWAY!

Date of experience: October 27, 2021
Georgia
1 review
33 helpful votes
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Total waste of time
October 24, 2021

Just tried using this app and the card stopped working while I was at a pump. It is not updated, even if it states it was 2 to 4 hrs ago, it will be more at the pump. Just stick to Waze app. I would not recommend gas buddy be used by anyone. A total incompetent app! You have been warned and I hope it helps someone use any other alternative. I enclose a photo of my receipt before it stopped working at any other pump or even gas station?

Date of experience: October 24, 2021
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Bologna
October 19, 2021

I used to love gas buddy but y'all can eat a bag of diks
You don't need access to my phukin location when I ask for price at a CERTAIN location
Assfuks get bent

Date of experience: October 19, 2021
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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When I scanned my Gas Buddy card at the pump, it over-road a discount of $. 10 a gallon, and it gave me a lower discount! I threw the card in the trash after that. You can get better discounts by using the gas station discount program that is available.

Date of experience: October 6, 2021
Missouri
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Be careful, what u see on app is not what u get. App shows one cash back what u get is less. I have tried to contact and it difficult to find a site for contact

Date of experience: October 5, 2021
Illinois
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Besides all other issues mentioned above, this company cancelled my card without notice. When asked, they told me that I have a duplicate account? Really?
Three months tried to get a new card. Just keep asking banking info to send small deposits for verification but never sent. Only sending stupid useless emails once in a month.

Date of experience: September 26, 2021
Illinois
2 reviews
29 helpful votes
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This is a gas app- not a mortgage loan. With identity theft going on& you guys won't answer phones etc. I can't imagine the hassle if my identity was stolen. Also, if I use a coupon at Starbucks or Dunkin donuts, they don't ask for my driver license. I guess I'll pay full price or occasionally take cta, but no gas buddy for me.

Date of experience: August 18, 2021
North Carolina
1 review
14 helpful votes
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Since most people get around 2% discount just by using your regular credit card, GasBuddy is no longer an advantage. At today's prices, most people would get 6 cents savings per gallon with a credit card and only 5 cents with GasBuddy. GasBuddy takes credit for other loyalty savings, which you'll get anyway. So when they report 8 cents savings, it's only 5 cents from GasBuddy and 3 cents because of your loyalty card (Sheetz, Murphy's, Kroger's, Harris Teeter, etc.). Lastly, it's very annoying to report has prices and not get any meaningful credit for them in the app. That's probably why people aren't doing it much anymore.

Date of experience: August 8, 2021
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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July 30, 2021

The gas buddy app sucks half the time they don't show stations there's no way to edit your favorites or even edit gas prices it's a waste of time

Date of experience: July 30, 2021
Mississippi
3 reviews
6 helpful votes
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I'm done with it
July 26, 2021

I have tried to use the gas buddy debit in 5 stations, 1 accepted it but did not give me the discount so I make that a 100% dissatisfied rate. Circle K no better just so you know.
Too bad because I have used the gas buddy app to find gas on trips and have been pretty satisfied with it. I guess charge cards aren't your forte.

Date of experience: July 26, 2021
Missouri
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Really not worth it
July 18, 2021

I have been with this program for months now and getting a couple of pennies is not worth it. I have spent example $45 and have a savings of. 21 saving on my fillup. I have never gotten more than a penny or two.

Date of experience: July 18, 2021
Florida
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Wow... Where can I start... Another no-Service Company. Lost my card... April 2021. Tried to get a new one for three months and 8 days. The only way you can talk to someone is to go through a matrix of automated call prompts. There are 9 of them... after begging them to do business with them and getting no help, I finally chose the prompt to cancel card. Guess what. When you do that, they hook you up to a know nothing, work from home powerless person who reads from the same script and tells you what is wrong the same as the bots... but guess what again. It's not wrong. All the stuff they tell you you didn't do, you did. They don't listen to you they just keep reading from the script telling you you are wrong. Aggravation. Cancelled my card today, breathed a sigh of relief and made a vow to stop doing business with companies that don't provide service. Next after this, cancel my connections with walmart... No cashiers... another slap in the face.

Date of experience: July 9, 2021
Kentucky
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Daily giveaway
July 9, 2021

Most of the winners started September 2016. That's right same month same year. I have saw that a few win on their first day with new. Made up accounts. It looks to me these are fishy. Look up winners the tap on their achievements tap on get it started. See for yourself. Fishy

Date of experience: July 8, 2021
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Today we stopped by the Esso in Black Diamond Alberta.
Wow! You can certainly tell it's under New Management. The store is now bright and clean and oh my... you HAVE to try their chicken and fries... Look out KFC they have got you beat by a mile!
I would drive from Okotoks to grab that for dinner anyday!
The selections looked fresh and plentiful and the staff there were cheerful and very helpful.
Teri McInnes

Date of experience: July 6, 2021