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Google Play Reviews Summary

Google Play has a rating of 1.8 stars from 182 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Google Play most frequently mention customer service, gift card and app purchases. Google Play ranks 879th among Music sites.

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Sri Lanka
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I really enjoyed this. The workouts get my heart pumping and every week I feel stronger. Life gives me newfound motivation and my all work can do perfect time. Now I have the best dating plan. Super easy to track my progress & The workouts are efficient. This is very user-friendly and fantastic! 100% recommended.

Date of experience: June 16, 2023
India
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I'm new to gaming started a game and it said Google play verified and recommended. Spent fair bit of money to catch up with other players then realised the devs never respond constant issues with game. One player asked devs for refund and they blocked his account. Then other players found out about it and left the game now the game is dead only 1 or 2 people there lol but they are leaving now also. I was refused any kind of refund from devs so I asked Google play for some kind of refund as I can't continue to play the game even though I invested so much into it. Google play refused to give me anything. Shame really such a good game devs destroyed it :( so anyone new like me do not listen to Google play verified etc they are not going to protect u in anyway same as devs there just for the money. But it is a hard lesson learned lol £400 lost my bank details now removed from Google play. Happy gaming guys :) Attached pic of response from the gamer that got blocked.

Date of experience: May 26, 2023
South Carolina
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Thieves!
May 22, 2023

I purchased $30 worth of Google Play. Used all except $17 then all of a sudden, and for no reason, I'm not able to use the balance, and they want me to verify a long list of information. I provided everything they asked for,butI'm still not able to use my balance of $17. Thieves!

Date of experience: May 21, 2023
Pennsylvania
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Scammed
May 19, 2023

Bought a play card for my son. When redeeming, it gave an error that more info was needed. Clicked the link and provided all information that was asked. Received an email stating it was not eligible for appeal with no further explanation. Tried to chat someone about this, but they said decision is final with no explanation as to why it cannot be appealed or how I am supposed to get my money back since the store we bought it from does not issue gift card refunds. Their final say over the matter was that I was holding up the waits and ended the chat.

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Date of experience: May 19, 2023
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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RIP off
May 19, 2023

I bought a Google play gift card and couldn't redeem the $100 I payed not much help form support tried to get refund denied now going to report to better business Bureau would never spend money with them again

Date of experience: May 19, 2023
Utah
3 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Terrible service
May 11, 2023

Google neglected to vet a developer, and as a result, they have been providing no support for their in-app players, and reports go un checked. Players are subjected to harassment and then are ignored when reporting to the developers. I requested a refund for all in-app purchases. And was met with a rude Google Play representative named Judy. I requested a survey and was not provided one. I attempted to connect to the chat again and was met with rep nicklaus and requested a survey and was ignored. Then my support chats would no longer connect. They blocked me out of the Google play support system. I would like to speak with legal in regards to this.

Date of experience: May 10, 2023
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Real games
May 10, 2023

I should of said something before, but Google play store seem to have games that seems to copy others. Most of them are like bootleg knock offs of some games I played in the 90's and early 00's. You look for one particular game and always got the bootleg version. Step your game up Google

Date of experience: May 9, 2023
Utah
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Goot
April 20, 2023

You just have to have hope and try. Every failure is a new beginning. You can start right now I will

Date of experience: April 19, 2023
Australia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I am a senior and received a prize of google play gift cards. Since I cannot use much of the google play products, I write to google if I can transfer my money to google store to buy something. The answer is No.
My money is now stuck in google play for 3 years. I do not understand why since it is the same company.
Not a user friendly company.

Date of experience: April 18, 2023
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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A mistaken purchase was made and an immediate refund was requested. Their response- "our policy doesn't allow it". I could get no further oppertunity to contest this.

Date of experience: April 17, 2023
Illinois
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Lost 20 dollars
April 15, 2023

30 dollars in gift cards wasted. All support does is send an automated message and ends up saying fill a form. I shouldnt have to fill a form to redeem what i payed for. No help. Before they said they couldnt help and me and I lost 10 dollars. Yesterday, I spent 20 dollars and I have to wait 3 days. For another, it was 5 dollars. They said submit a form and it would take 3 days and its been 3 days during the week. Useless.

Date of experience: April 15, 2023
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I purchased meaning NOW OWN a TV series. They pulled the series and took away my access to something I now OWN. They refused a refund which is criminal but no accountability for Google. Will never spend one red cent again on Google and I definitely recommend the same

Date of experience: April 8, 2023
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Purchased content within a game that didn't meet my expectations and requested a refund under 48 hours of purchasing. They took a day to get back to me and stated the refund request did not meet their policy. Ridiculous.

Date of experience: April 4, 2023
Virginia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I domt suggest anyone use any phone connected to the playstore. My granddaughter spent almost 300 dollars in less then 2 months on in game app purchases before I realized what she was doing contacted Google support amd they are denying the refund of almost 200 dollars. Samsung much as I love your phones will be discontinuing my purchases as long as your affiliated with the Google playstore. They are ripping people off. I'm selling my Samsung and going to apple. Never had this problem with apple.

Date of experience: March 28, 2023
Egypt
29 reviews
9 helpful votes
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I can not enter bank details it always say invalid and support is useless...

Date of experience: March 26, 2023
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Gift card
March 20, 2023

Got my gc approved used it once with a remaining balance and today I have to submit all documents again to use the same card.beyond mad customer

Date of experience: March 20, 2023
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I didn't order and don't want a book that dropped into my google play. They won't refund and there's no option to explain to them. Just a no reply email address with their computer says no answer.

Date of experience: March 18, 2023
Poland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I bought a minecraft map which hasn't loaded for 3 days now. But google said that:
So my questions is - how come I pay via google play and I buy something which doesn't work and they leave me with an unworking map and send me to the developer? Never ever will buy anything there again. A rip off.
Google Play

Hi,

We hope this email finds you well. Thank you for contacting Google Play Support.

Issue status

We received your refund request of PLN 27.99 for Minecraft Store Item 6 (Minecraft), Transaction ID GPA.3347-7166-2815-*******, but this purchase doesn't meet with our policy. We understand that this must be frustrating and apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Learn more about our Google Play refund policies.

Next steps

If you need help with an item that you purchased, like activating it, it's often faster to contact the developer directly. You can find developer contact information on the app's page in the Play Store under the "Developer" section or on your order purchase receipt.

Date of experience: March 18, 2023
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Downloaded a tile game via just play, everything OK,till I got passed level 250. Reached 500 got nothing from just play just pathetic emails saying they hadn't received the appropriate email, 5 days of playing they advertise amazing results payments but THEY JUST SCAM YOU

Date of experience: March 15, 2023
Idaho
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Your suck
March 9, 2023

I hate how you half to pay for apps and games and also the adds there are wayyyyy to many so 0 star.

Date of experience: March 9, 2023