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Tinder Reviews Summary

The company's reputation is significantly marred by widespread customer dissatisfaction, primarily stemming from technical issues and inadequate customer support. Many users report being unable to access features after paying for premium memberships, leading to feelings of frustration and perceived exploitation. Complaints about account bans without clear explanations are prevalent, contributing to a sense of mistrust. While a few users have found success in their experiences, the overwhelming sentiment reflects a lack of reliability and support, suggesting that potential customers may want to consider alternative platforms for their needs.

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Ohio
1 review
1 helpful vote
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How to win Tinder:

If you are male: Think of Tinder as a game like Contra or Dark Souls. Yes it's hard, but if you take the time to learn the game, you can win. Follow these pro-tips:

- Before you do anything, take a good look at yourself. What are your best qualities? How can you improve yourself? Would you DO you? My point is, you are selling yourself, so put your best foot forward.

- Post good photos! Have a friend take pics of you doing fun activities that cater to the girl you are looking for. Want a fit girl? Post pics of yourself in the gym, for example. Failing that, post a pic of yourself with a guitar, even if you can't play one. Trust me on this one.

-Also, learn how to play guitar.

-Do something unique in your profile! Post a funny joke, or a funny acronym, or a pic of yourself doing something that nobody else is doing like skydiving. Remember that you are competing with thousands of other guys for a small handful of women. Be competitive!

-Learn how to talk to women! Just telling a girl "hey" isn't going to win her over. Convey yourself as interesting, funny, sweet, and more importantly, positive. Don't drone about how horrible things are in your life. Talk about how awesome your job is, share funny stories, or talk about the new guitar you just bought because some cool stranger told you to learn guitar (wink, wink).

-Buy Tinder Platinum! Just a month. Make sure you manage your payment options so they don't charge you for multiple months. I'll tell you why in a second.

-Hide your age and distance. Girls are going to pick apart every detail, and what they don't know won't hurt you.

-Be wary of the countless fake, dead, or scam accounts on the site. I added a pic of a "woman" who obviously photoshopped a pic "she" stole from an image search. Also be on the lookout for profiles that are vague, have poor English ("Ask me what i do"), or use pics that were clearly stolen off of some chick's social media.

-Here's why you buy Platinum. Smash that like button like a caveman! Then after that, change your location to London or something, and smash dislike for twice as long as you did the like button. You have to beat the algorithm here, otherwise your profile will sink to the bottom of the "deck" and the likes will stop.

-Don't give up!

If you are female: Exist.

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Date of experience: September 8, 2021
Colorado
3 reviews
7 helpful votes
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Stay away from tinder!
August 28, 2021

I had a bad experience just from the beginning, some scammer trying to redirect me to some adult site requested me to become member there and then we can talk more. Tinder will keep your likes In the back If you are free member just with one purpose {to make you pay, If you want to see them}. Good luck to anyone!

Date of experience: August 27, 2021
District of Columbia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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A terrible experience down here, it would be better to invest your money into Crypto, Profit Option, com.
They will give you a better return on investment that those girls that lie a lot.
They turned to a center to deceive innocent and hardworking people.

Date of experience: August 24, 2021
Oklahoma
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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This app is basically all romance scammers nowadays. So Sad, It use to be a great app. I think they should start screening people and clean it up.

Date of experience: August 13, 2021
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Tinder is a $#*! company. It is literally "le creme de la $#*!" of all the dating apps. I have seen fake profiles on it, I have seen only people who want sex or hook ups, I have seen women prostitutes soliciting money and sex and yet here I am an actual person seeking a relationship who did nothing wrong but have normal photos and a normal profile and I get banned with NO explanation. Makes a ton of sense! NOT! Good luck Tinder. You suck!

Date of experience: July 27, 2021
GB
4 reviews
36 helpful votes
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This dreadful dating web site is getting worse. Lots of man-hating, heavily-tattooed, obese, roly-poly chavs. Many grown so unfit they won't post real profile photos. Lots with pet dogs to massage low IQ neurotic egos. Some keep asking (sic) where have all the good people gone or declare they're waiting for Prince Charming / Mr Right. They've still not got it. Lots of un-dateables with immaturity, ignorance and limited education. Few gym members amongst those who've done nothing to look after or improve themselves. Many bigotted views posted in aggressive, poorly-written profiles. BS dysfunctional narratives that ask users not to keep pestering them for hot dates or ONS. Men haven't grown so desperate they want to date them. "Nobody wants to talk on here". Little wonder why.

Date of experience: July 24, 2021
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I cannot express enough how lucky I am to have found my forever! I was about to delete my subscription and decided to take one last look and I found "HIM"! We matched in March and he proposed July 3rd on top of a mountain in Stanley Idaho on horseback and we will be getting married Oct 2,2021!
He is my missing piece! The person that feeds my soul! Here's to our 8 kids and FOREVER!

Date of experience: July 19, 2021
Colorado
1 review
17 helpful votes
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Tinder advertises 55 billion profiles. Planet earth has close to 8 billion people. Both of these facts are provided thru Google search You do the math. They banned my account bc I shared this revealing truth in my profile. This is why so many men can never find a date on tinder. We are all selecting fake profiles. Stop using tinder. It's making the sad people kill themselves bc how can every profile not respond back. This is why. Hey Tinder, quit killing people! Get rid of your AI. It's not helping in the long run.

Date of experience: July 12, 2021
Virginia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Worst app ever
July 2, 2021

They cheat you and they are all fruits working there. They have fake girls on there and trannies. Don't buy.

Date of experience: July 2, 2021
Spain
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have been writing to the Tinder Support team for MONTHS now, my account had been hacked, yet they have not made the slightest effort to check my account.

Date of experience: July 1, 2021
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Last year after going through 1 horrible marriage and a 4 month hospital stay I was on this sight and found this guy who I found very handsome. Now a year and a half later we are happily married and couldn't ask for any better. I'm loving my relationship that I found on tinder! If I could of ran back time this would of been done in the very first place. I'm thankful for this app and my wonderful husband that I found on tinder. Thanks tinder

Date of experience: June 18, 2021
Australia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Tinder today is a major SCAM. Misleading you into a basic membership which the infer gets you started I t just gets you in the door. See someone you like, want to send a message, pay an extra additional monthly fee. Got a like from someone, want to see who, pay yet another additional fee.The ignore bother age and distance requests you entered and many of the images and/people have been on the site for years They should be banned once upon a time it was the best app around. It's a damn shame

Date of experience: June 17, 2021
Illinois
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Having said that, it might be worth at least trying for a week or so, for free. I had no issues installing the app and using it (it's very easy to do, and I'm not a techie sort; and my profile was never randomly deleted, as some often complain about ~ I used it for a couple weeks for free). You do get some matches here and there, but you can't see who they are unless it's a double/mutual match. But, on the downside, to be honest it's probably over about 50% filled with (assuming they're all real users and not bots or spam or hijacked profiles of some sort) vapid 18-yr old to -late 20 something-yr old girls. Many of whom (at the moment at least; ie, June of '21) are still posting their main profile pictures wearing a surgical mask, and/or stating their vaccination status (ok, kind of understandable, that...) at the very outset of their profile. Followed by something like: "HMU on IG... or SC", etc. In short, if you're over, say, your mid to later-30's or so, or you're just not into all these app-types of things and social media in general (beyond perhaps having a FB page) you may not feel like you have all that much in common with many of these people using this app.

Verdict, for me = for free, it was -- almost-- fun (and sometimes even borderline hilarious) to scroll through and 'swipe right' on some people just to see if by random chance they might mutually 'like' you. But don't pay for it. And yes the very concept of simply discarding the entire person immediately ("swiping left") based simply on one or two profile pics alone, is incredibly superficial and shallow. But, wading in these kinds of waters (it's Tinder), with these --many of them at least-- airhead type millennials or Gen Z'ers, what do you really expect?

Date of experience: June 14, 2021
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Biggest scam ever! As fake as it gets... waste of time you'll have better luck on free Facebook dating site... save your money

Date of experience: June 12, 2021
California
1 review
24 helpful votes
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Full of Scammers
June 9, 2021

I downloaded the app two days ago. I have swiped right on at least 50 women. I have chatted/texted only 6. And of those 6, their all scams. Not one original woman that's serious about a date, or anything original. I have also accounts on Zoosk & Match.com and they are exactly the same. I will be stopping my subscription to these sites, and removing them from my phone and life. The world has gone to sh-t.

Date of experience: June 9, 2021
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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My ex-husband made a fake account on me and posted very nasty stuff gave my home address and phone number out on the app. The guys that called and texted me stated coming to my house and listed my address so that was scary enough putting me and my children in danger. I filed a police report gave Tinder the police report number. I filed a restraining order which I was granted. They asked for a subpoena so I got a lawyer. Numerous emails were sent back from me to Tinder saying they were going to look into it. My lawyer even sent a subpoena over and nothing. They don't care just out to make money. I would never refer anyone to use this app. Tinder sucks bunch of $#*!s on their legal team.

Date of experience: June 7, 2021
New Jersey
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Tinder Scammers
May 23, 2021

Tinder is full of a bunch of trash. Men acting like they are us military in Chad Africa on hope mission and need money for food & phone minutes. They have no class People get a job & a life. 3 of them in two days begging for money like the dogs that they are! Scammers I file fraud reports to stop them...

Date of experience: May 23, 2021
Georgia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Found my husband
May 14, 2021

I was literally online 5 mins and kicked off but before I caught sight of a gentle man and we clicked right away I created a new account we matched again and have been in love every since. If you tell people what you want up front and be very clear things work out thank you tinder for changing my smile life and am closer with god honestly. Thank you tinder this change my whole world for the better love crystal

Date of experience: May 13, 2021
Ireland
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Every match is at least 5,000km away. Trying to limit the search to 100km does absolutely nothing. Its useless in Ireland. Also every time I exit the app I get a message telling me I missed a match. NO I DIDNT. If I liked anyone within a 2 hour drive I would have clicked on like. Lots of stupid notifications and no matches in the country Im in. Perhaps Tinder wasnt told we are in a lock down?

Date of experience: May 1, 2021
Illinois
3 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Me and my husband love this app, but if you are poly, beware of shadow banning. Sometimes we get a lot of matches and sometimes it is crickets.

Date of experience: April 28, 2021