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Paltalk

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Paltalk Reviews Summary

Paltalk has a rating of 1.4 stars from 62 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Paltalk most frequently mention chat rooms, death threats and religious section. Paltalk ranks 190th among Mobile Applications sites.

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Canada
1 review
33 helpful votes
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Bad, Very Bad
December 17, 2018

I had been just managing things with the newest version of Paltalk. Then it stopped - I could not login anymore. What is worse I cannot even re-install the program. I am gone - no more wasting my time with Paltalk.

Date of experience: December 16, 2018
GB
1 review
53 helpful votes
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Too hateful.
September 25, 2018

I don't know why it attracts such horrid people, but they can issue death threats, ill wishes, bully the sick and vulnerable and make racist, xenophobic and hateful remarks without so much as a comeuppance. I'm so done with it if you're not American, you get bullied and thrown off the mic for expressing a different view. Whereas these fools can belittle your country without having travelled there at all. What's that all about? Some admins control rooms and you have to be part of the clique or you're unwelcome. I tried to give it a chance but yahoo was more fun and less rubbish. I thought death threats etc were a violation of terms and conditions clearly not. When Shame.

Date of experience: September 25, 2018
Canada
1 review
18 helpful votes
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Ban allfor1insults
August 28, 2018

This allfor1insults needs reporting to the FBI. Threatening and very racist. Pal Talk is out of control

Date of experience: August 28, 2018
GB
1 review
25 helpful votes
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This company allows hackers to destroy their rooms and my experience. I paid for a gold name and I cannot now use it. The NYC District of Companies needs to investigate this sham company. Complain to NYC.Gov

Date of experience: August 1, 2018
California
1 review
35 helpful votes
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What a junkyard!
May 29, 2018

It took 3 downloads, 2 reset passwords and a different user name to get in the systerm Then I realized I only needed the Messenger portion. But once in, the barrage of options, clickbait and; download the program; requests were ridiculous Google has failed with Google +. Microsoft has ruined Skype. Twitter killed ooVoo.
Who needs a disaster like Paltalk?

Date of experience: May 29, 2018
Georgia
1 review
23 helpful votes
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Confusing paltalk ersion
February 11, 2018

I have been using Paltalk for over 15 years but this new beta version turns me off. To make it short it is too complicated to navigate for me (and I believe for many others also!)Also font is not contrasted enough to see comfortably (at least for me). I am seriously considering cancelling my present acct. After it expires.

Date of experience: February 11, 2018
Arizona
1 review
34 helpful votes
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Rubbish Chat/Cam App
January 16, 2018

Ok, I've used this app chatted to hundreds of people on there. I think I am qualified to write a review on this garbage app. Some of the things that come to mind are
1. The chat rooms are run by power hungry narcissist losers that ban/bounce users for no decent reason
2. Many of the users that pay as subscribers are treated with respect whereas free users are generally treated like crap in many rooms
3. The app has a feel like the majority of rooms are run by volunteers that support the app
4. A lot of users don't accept private messages they only want to talk in room which is really odd, some users ban you to chat via pm in a chat room!
5. there are a lot of paedophile type personalities
6. Many of the people on there have limited contact with real people i. E. no real friends, no families, limited education, no job etc.
7. being on there actually makes me feel repulsed and sick from the number of rude people
8. There are many people with serious mental problems, its known that paltalk has even had users commiting suicide on cam with users encouraging it in chat rooms
9. What strikes me is how the name paltalk does not live up to its name in the slightest sense
10. I'm of the opinion that its an app made by losers for losers ie the majority of pal users don't win at anything in life, ie no friends, no sex, no job, no praise in anything in fact many of the people on there only use it to masturbate on cam or to watch others in the act
11. Extremely hard to recommend, your time is better spent elsewhere

Date of experience: January 15, 2018
Virginia
1 review
19 helpful votes
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Pure Organised Garbage, What A great program they had. Now it's a gig saw puzzle on the screen.Not even good eye candy A sending Adware with every Upgrade. I Refuse to Run it
Looks like A Bad put together HTML Website Are they trying to create A all for one Site for both PC and Tablet And other devices phone, iPad, Android. I could not believe my eyes when it upgraded into this POS "Please get it out of my site it's Sickening"I find it hard to find words to describe how shocked I was when this so called update drooped down.It's took own the look of Cam Frog another ugly duckling. I would describe it as highly unorganized add generating picture linking nightmare. I would not pay for it now I have in the past RIP Paltakk

Date of experience: December 31, 2017
Canada
1 review
21 helpful votes
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Pal talk sucks with it's recent up date ruined their chat client. It is all geared now to force people to buy a colored nic name. What a shame

Date of experience: December 28, 2017
Oregon
1 review
27 helpful votes
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Just because people are behind a computer monitor typing is no reason to be rude to people. I spent five minutes on PalTalk, that was more than enough for me. Rude people rule there!

Date of experience: May 23, 2017
GB
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Worst chat service ever
December 4, 2016

Taje your 100 then dont give you ur credits for 3 days
Avoid like bad aids

Date of experience: December 4, 2016
Turkiye
11 reviews
33 helpful votes
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Lots of perverts inside chat rooms, not a good messenger. Good for nothing.

Date of experience: November 29, 2016
Canada
1 review
28 helpful votes
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VolunteersMost users in paltalk are losers who have no job, no family, and no education. The interesting part is that this website is running by volunteers. Imagine a social media website is running by guys who have failed in their life. So
If you want to lose your wife, join paltalk,
If you want to lose your owner, join paltalk, but
If you are a loser, join paltalk ASAP.

Date of experience: November 25, 2016
West Virginia
1 review
18 helpful votes
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There service sucks big time there security is horible letting pedifiles come on to the site and letting hackers screw up computers and there red admins are all useless in helping people they have no custom, er service number for you to contact them for real help

Date of experience: October 12, 2016
California
1 review
16 helpful votes
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Gave them $5000 worth business and they blcoked my card because accidently they charged me $50 once and i ask for refund and stated due to chargeback they have blcoked all my major credit cards I can no longer pay for my nicknames or room. So i have to use western union they just wanted me to punish me so i will pay $10 every transaction for western union what a $#*!ing rip off. Goto hell paltalk i will never be doing any business with you. Yahoo should come back

Date of experience: October 23, 2015
Australia
1 review
22 helpful votes
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Clicquey members ruin it
October 22, 2015

Loved it then got the starters wrong font too loud too quiet then the last was too rude, and yes from the same people wrong colour red is admin only, blue is too quiet - I won't be back

Date of experience: October 22, 2015
GB
1 review
17 helpful votes
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I been on pal for over 6 months, got banned from help room because red admins couldn't deal with the problem, 2 of them which gang up on me. They even told me to uninstall after I had paid for a year. They have a lot of server issues and for the price, I suggest looking else where.
I am unable to find there official complaints procedure to complain about the red admins so I will have to write to the company in hopes they deal with this problem.
I will leave this review and hope it helps in choosing a chat client
Sometimes it's better to not know what you missing...

Date of experience: July 21, 2015
New York
1 review
20 helpful votes
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At first my experience was good, until I had a stalker. Paltalk will take your money and not live up to their own rules. They didn't return any request for assistance when I reported the harassment and stalking. And they've said they won't refund, either. Which is a breech of contract since they took the money. Apparently I'm not alone. I would say definitely a SCAM!

Date of experience: April 14, 2014
Georgia
1 review
17 helpful votes
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I was dating a guy in an LDR for 12 yrs, he sent me pics and we had them on my profile, as he wasn't to keen on getting pics on at the time. Well I caught him cheating in a hidden nic and found out he had been for over a year, lying to me as well. I dumped him, blocked him, but he was allowed to make as many new nics he could to send me mean messages. I kept the pics up and moved to a new nic, and his new girlfriend reported me. I got banned. I told them the pics were mine. It was her that reported me not him. I lost my account, that's fine. I reported him for stalking me and telling women to attack me, they did nothing.

Date of experience: June 26, 2013
New York
1 review
39 helpful votes
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Predatory internet chat provider. The site uses less than honorable tactics to "push" users to purchase their product. While they offer "FREE" use they do not tell you the free use can DAMAGE your PC. They artfully claim they know nothing of this. They do this by selling advertising space on the "FREE" accounts to advertisers that send all types of virus and homepage hijackers, web pop-ups and anything else they can slide through the ads. When a customer does get caught in the nest of ad viruses and such and complains to Paltalk, they simply claim they have no control and to stop this you should simply purchase a paid account to stop the ads. Another issue is that in 2 instances the same advertisers have accessed Paltalk's servers and financial information and billed my bank account for bogus charges and products. Paltalk of course swears they had nothing to do with this but it is their advertiser and always seemed to happen at the same time they billed for a product. When these occurrences happen Paltalk also mysteriously has to shut down for "server maintenance" or some other bogus reason. In short they have to figure out how to get the advertisers out of their servers... BEWARE while this service can work fine it will only be a matter of time before they are targeted by professional hackers and true damage besides, annoying viruses etc, are passed to the end user.

Date of experience: December 1, 2012