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Reviewed Aug. 14, 2026
I actually want a refund for my platinum. Biggest scam ever. I literally received nothing but a thumb workout from swiping.
Reviewed July 5, 2026
Paid for safety. Got nothing. I subscribed to Tinder Gold specifically for the Dealbreaker filter — a paid feature marketed as a hard limit on distance and age. I set 27km and age 42-55. Both toggles active. Tinder matched me with someone 7,842km away and decades outside my range. That match cost me my life savings to romance fraud. The moment I complained, the out-of-range matching stopped completely. They quietly fixed their own defect — no disclosure, no apology, no compensation. The scammer's account I formally reported was deleted with no history retained.
I have been in correspondence with Match Group's legal department for over three years. Their position: not our problem. They sell safety features they cannot guarantee. When those features fail and you lose everything, they run. Do not trust paid safety features on this platform. They are not guaranteed. They are not monitored. And when they fail, you are on your own.
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Reviewed July 2, 2026
Should be "0". You pay for every little thing. It's expensive. They have outdated old profiles. Many many phoney profiles. Some with covid stuff on them. They have phoney bots to make you think you are talking to a real person. Short word answers to keep you going....all BULLSHIT. Nobody can provide a current picture when asked. I met one person and she had 50 condoms next to her bed. I left. Tinder is pure garbage.
Reviewed April 13, 2026
Nothing but a SCAM. Bots are all over this site. You pay an upfront initial fee, then you have to pay MORE just to communicate. A BS site that should be made to be taken down because it is a SCAM.

Reviewed April 8, 2026
Too many verifications. Took our money. No refunds. Unethical. No tangible net value addition.

Reviewed Feb. 7, 2026
The worst dating app I’ve ever experienced! Continuously makes me verify myself 3 times in a 24 hour period and you’re locked out while waiting! I can’t wait to get back in so I can delete my account and I paid for Platinum!
Reviewed Jan. 20, 2026
Racist and anti-Semitic. Avoid this site! They should be ashamed of themselves and to top it all they won’t give you their reason for deleting and banning accounts. They must be too ashamed to do so! I hope they are investigated.

Reviewed Dec. 6, 2025
I have been a member of Tinder for many years. I have repeatedly had issues with verification messages that I tried to take a selfie and the process never completed and also the screen went blank while trying to take a picture. This has happened repeatedly to me, and I am very annoyed after the last communication with them that it is happening again. Their customer service is horrible and I urge anyone who is a paid subscriber to cancel their membership and if enough people follow my recommendation, maybe they'll get the message. Additionally, If you know anyone else who has had problems like mine, Please feel free to leave a negative review, as there is a greater impact obviously with more people leaving negative reviews. Thank you.
Reviewed Nov. 20, 2025
Tinder feels like a chore disguised as an app. Instead of meeting real people, you end up swiping through an endless loop of half-finished profiles, old photos, and copy-paste prompts. Matches rarely speak, and when they do, conversations fizzle instantly. The whole experience feels rushed and shallow. The app itself is slow, glitchy, and packed with paywalls. Every useful feature hides behind a subscription that costs more than it should. Even then, you still get the same low-quality matches and the same tired UI. It feels like the app exists to milk you, not to help you meet anyone.
Safety and support are almost nonexistent. Fake profiles slip through constantly. Reporting them feels pointless, because nothing changes. It leaves you wondering why you’re spending time in a space that does not seem to care about its users. Overall, Tinder drains your time, patience, and money. It promises connection but delivers frustration. If you are looking for something real, this is not the place to find it.
Reviewed Nov. 2, 2025
Pure trash run by a trash company that deliberately designed their product to give you almost no matches. The rabbit hole goes deep but match group are already named in multiple lawsuits for defrauding users. The quality of the user base is also trash.

Reviewed Sept. 21, 2025
Tinder has some shady business practices like if your subscription billing date is on the 19th, they actually bill you on the 18t,h so everyone that plan to cancel their subscription on the 19th can't for another month and of course, get billed that extra month. Shady shady shady. No thanks.

Reviewed Sept. 11, 2025
This site is a joke. Nothing but scammers. I read that this was a good site to meet people. Believe me when I say that this is nothing but women or men, who knows trying to get your money. Ellen was one. Nice pictures but she wanted me to invest money. Was that a real profile? Don't sign up people.
Reviewed Aug. 27, 2025
Tinder does not care that there are tons of scammers on Tinder! Save your time and money! They give you limited resins when you try to report a fake profile. They want as many profiles as possible! It’s all about keeping you on the app. They could care less if they have people on there just to shake down people for money!
Reviewed July 29, 2025
Worst site on the planet. Zero stars. The ONLY thing Tinder is good at is banning people—forever. Also if you sign up and get no matches but can still use the site, they have silently shadow-banned you. The site should be called Banned. The worst part is since Match Group owns Tinder, OKCupid, Hinge, Match, and POF—then when Tinder bans you—the ban automatically applies to all those other sites. So, you basically cannot online date anymore on the most popular sites all because of Tinder.
They possibly use your device ID, geo-location, SIM card, Wi-Fi connection (and cellular connection), IP, phone number, facial recognition, photos, and who knows what else to keep you banned. It’s like the FBI or something. They act as if you are trying to break into government security instead of simply trying to go on a date. They are ridiculous. They are going to end up banning all their members and be left with no one—then they will be begging people to sign up on their crummy site for FREE. TINDER’S. DAYS. ARE. NUMBERED.
Reviewed July 13, 2025
Tinder banned me abruptly with no reason provided. This was after years of successful paid usage. Their support pointed me to the department that gave no reason. 0 stars. Tinder is basically a hot-or-not slot machine designed to waste your time and drain your wallet. You swipe through a sea of bots, soft core Only Fans ads, and people who haven’t opened the app in months. Even if you match, most convos go nowhere — ghosting is the norm. The algorithm is rigged to make you feel invisible unless you pay. It’s not about dating anymore, it’s a gamified attention economy. If you're looking for real connections, look elsewhere. This app is digital junk food for your self-esteem.
Reviewed July 3, 2025
Closed account; Tinder continued taking my money!! Had to cancel my credit card to stop them! Canceled my account after 45 days. Tinder makes it VERY complicated to stop a subscription. There are innumerable complaints about this! In addition, the Tinder website has additional charges for every little thing. Zoosk or Our Time are MUCH BETTER. Tinder screws their customers...period.
Reviewed June 16, 2025
Awful company, engages in deceptive and manipulative practices to scam users out of time and money. Low quality users, tons of fake accounts and spam bots, and half the site's features don't even work correctly.
Reviewed May 6, 2025
It comes with no surprise that the average rating about Tinder is low. From one side, swiping to find matches can be addictive at times, but this don't make any sense. The physical appearance of someone is only one aspect of his or her attractiveness and pictures are only incomplete representations of someone's look, that is, even from the physical point of view, a picture may be old, filtered or simply may not show the real appearance of someone. For this reason, profile completeness is a critical factor in social media and, especially, in dating platforms and Tinder, just like other free dating apps, doesn't really care about profile quality.
But this is not the only problem. There is also a serious gender disbalance in free dating apps, an average of 70 men for 30 women and this is very bad, because women get overwhelmed by irrelevant and - often - prosaic messages, they don't get paid to read and answer dozen of messages per day and they get quickly tired and eventually stop using the app. Most men never manage to get read, they have to much low quality competition, without mentioning fake or deceptional profiles. There is almost no control about this.
Finally, free apps like tinder will compute a score of your profile based on other users engagements. If you have a low score, you will only see people with low scores. To sum it up, apps like Tinder don't care at all about the success of their users. People should understand that social media or dating users are not customers who are always right. They don't pay anything. Their customers are the companies that pay to advertise on these platforms. They, and not you, are the customers who are always right. You are a customer when you pay for something, not when you are using a free service from someone.
For this reason, the main goal of Tinder, and other services like that, is to make you stay online on their platform as long and as much as possible. If you succeed, you will not stay, you will leave. They don't care if women stop using the app, as long as their advertising strategies will work. For this reason and other, free dating services never work. Paid dating services are better, but they are still pigeonholed to the concept of meeting people on you area. Should I suggest anything? I will not suggest popular alternative that are almost identical and everyone already know. I will suggest a new service whose business model is completely different: www.meetero.com. This service is also a social media, then their business model is not based only on showing you ads or making money by subscriptions.
On Meetero, there are both dating and social features. Everything is free for women but dating features are partially paid for men, in that sense that men can use them freely during some time and then, if they want to continue using the service, they must get a yearly Premium subscription, similar to what people normally pay monthly. The paid options are only to reduce ad dependency and a way to help avoiding gender imbalance. Also they are a way to cover the maintenance fees of the service, which are high.
I tried it, they highly promote people's vanity and virality. They use an inverse-affinity algorithm, so people who searched for users like you in past searches, are the first you will see. On the other hand, if you post a story on Meetero, it will be viewed by all other members, without any algorithmic limitation. Meetero is a new service but it offers very new features. And, for this reason, I recommend it.
Reviewed April 20, 2025
Never enjoyed dating apps. Too many scammers and irrelevant people. People who try to scam you by offering love forever. "Oh but my phone broke. Please send money so we can connect and chat." Hard to find someone who is sincere or didn’t ask for money.
Reviewed April 8, 2025
Tinder is overrun with fake profiles, bots, and time-wasters, making it a poor choice for actual hookups. The swipe system feels superficial, and matches often lead nowhere. Compared❤️ to Datemio, where profiles are verified and intentions are clear, Tinder feels like a guessing game with low success rates. The paid features are overpriced for what little they improve. If you want real, no-nonsense connections, skip Tinder and use a dedicated hookup platform instead—it’s faster, easier, and way less annoying.
Reviewed Dec. 4, 2024
Very poor dating site. They have banned my account for no justified reason. It is impossible to speak with anyone from this poorly run dating site. I Strongly suggest that you use another site for your dating needs.. Semper-Fi
Reviewed Nov. 14, 2024
I tried to make an account, and it banned me before I could even build a profile. After checking my phone number and email account with verification, they banned me and demanded I make a video to verify my photos. I contacted their email support and asked how I can delete my account because I didn't want to make a video, and they ignored me 4 times and told me to do the verification. There was no suspicious activity as they said. I never even got to make a profile so how is that suspicious? It's a scam to get personal info and pictures for their database I suspect. They say that they will keep the information for 2 years and then delete the account. Why do they have power over my personal information? Why can't consumers have a say on what companies do with their information?
Reviewed Oct. 28, 2024
No way to contact. App not working. It won’t allow you to delete your profile. Thank God, I never use my banking information to sign up for any of their extras. However, I’m very concerned that they have my personal information and I’m not able to delete it.
Reviewed Oct. 22, 2024
I was on Tinder for a few years off & on. Over a year ago I was banned for no reason, they do not tell you! The very fact they know all about your phone, IOS, where you log in, very personal information is highly concerning! I rejoined again later, they kept making me do selfies several times to confirm my identity! I come with the FTC, making a consumer complaint! I feel they are discriminatory, they prevented me from seeing any matches or likes, they shadow-banned me & treated me very disrespectfully! They do not deserve to be online and should be stopped from their deplorable behavior the way they treat people.
Reviewed Oct. 15, 2024
They don't read or don't understand English. I would write out an explanation and get a canned response to another issue that was not related to my problem. I'm trying to cancel payment with my bank, but I'm probably going to take a loss. Their software will ban you if you connect with a VPN. They are so pathetic and you can't talk with a person, total joke.
Reviewed May 18, 2024
Worst experience ever. Fake profiles. Because the profile was a fake profile, I got trapped, robbed and hurt by ** men on a date. The Profiles are mostly fake and women ask for money. Tinder is free, so everyone, even scammers and gangsters, can use it. I cannot recommend it.
Reviewed Dec. 19, 2023
Bad experience. It’s just money. Not one answers and when you have a message it’s probably a team member from Tinder who write the message or a machine. It’s more easily way and you don’t have to spend money with Facebook dating. Put 50 bucks on trash.
Reviewed Nov. 14, 2023
Banned for no reason. Wouldn’t give me the reason why they banned me and I wasn’t rude to women. They took my money and refused to refund me. File a BBB complaint that didn’t work out. Do yourself a favor. Don’t buy from these crooks. I hope they get sued someday and they refused to delete my data and breaking the law.
Reviewed Nov. 10, 2023
I used Tinder for several days, unfortunately for me, I agreed to some annual plan with paying some amount monthly. Then I realized I can't even see who likes me, what they answer me. Then bloody Tinder brought a very confusing procedure with 2 poses, as if to test me as a real person, boing nowhere. Don't ever pay God cursed Tinder jerks a cent!!!
Reviewed Sept. 17, 2023
During my 2 year experience being on Tinder I’ve come across 75% scammers with verified photos. (These men asking me for money.) They have no reliable safety measures and anyone can verify a photo. Tinder banned me for no reason. Prob because I’m not a paying member. Their system is setup so you don’t actually meet anyone and keep paying for the service they don’t provide. During the last 6 months of being on tinder I noticed they shadow banned me (I wasn’t viewable to other profiles). Making me unavailable to profiles who are paying reducing matches to paying members. Tinder does not provide the service it was created to provide. A safe and reliable way to meet genuine people. I’m a woman looking to date men.
Reviewed Sept. 12, 2023
I had the worst time with Tinder, the woman I met was a fake profile, was beautiful, we talked and I ended trusting her and send money and gift cards over $100k, I was luck I was able to up to $80k back with the help of **, they are expert on money recovery. Though Tinder doesn't seem to trust its users. It is an absolute joke of a dating site. Site sucks! Full of liars, fakes and scammers. An annual subscription was paid by me and my account was banned later stating as, "You have violated terms and conditions."
Reviewed July 26, 2023
I changed my bio to “looking to love, not loving to look” (maybe a bit corny but completely innocent) with my ig preceding it and added a pic of me with a fresh haircut on my 21st birthday and I got banned immediately after attempting to do so. Haven’t done anything that violates their TOS as I am always as respectful as possible when speaking with matches and am careful with what I add to my profile.
I contacted Tinder support and they were essentially useless saying “please understand if your account has been banned for violating TOS” and upon sending a follow up explaining that I hadn’t violated TOS they said “we cannot disclose any further information about the ban.” They were quite obviously pre written messages they were instructed to send out as it didn’t address my messages directly and I have seen others online that have gotten the same messages upon receiving bans for nothing, so do not expect anything from their customer service. Use Hinge or Bumble or go outside and meet people, this is not an app you want to use.
Reviewed July 26, 2023
I had a Tinder an account that was paid for until March of 2024, but they banned me and did not refund my money. Additionally, they did not offer any specific information/evidence of what I did to break the Tinder rules and be banned. My pictures were all dressed and my profile was clean with no sexual stuff. When I communicated with people it was always respectful. I still don’t know what I did wrong. My account was also verified. When I emailed them for more specific information, they sent a general blanket statement that they send to everyone about being banned.
“Thanks for following up. We take violations of our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines very seriously. Your account will remain banned from Tinder and you will not be able to create a new Tinder profile using your Facebook account and/or phone number. Please refer to our Terms of Use and Community Guidelines for more information about our policies.”
I read all rules and regulations and still don’t know what was done wrong. It’s frustrating that they do not offer specific information. When I emailed them again about it and asked for more specific information as to what I did to get banned this is what they sent:
“Your account has been banned for violations of our Terms of Use or Community Guidelines, which we take very seriously. We are unable to provide further assistance, and so we may not respond to additional requests about this case.”
They pretty much said stop writing us because we’re not going to give you any information or a refund. This company scams people and the stories of the fake profiles are accurate!! Take your money somewhere else because you might be banned for no reason like me. There are countless people on there stating that they were banned and had to create another account under a different number. I am not going to create another account and give them more money. They lack customer service and all they care about is making money.
Reviewed July 2, 2023
Hi Tinder Support Team, Thank you for your response, even though it didn't address my issue. It's disappointing that you cannot provide support when users encounter problems with their Tinder experience, especially when money is involved. It seems that Tinder takes advantage of people looking for companionship by quickly taking their money for subscriptions and add-ons but offering no assistance when their experience falls short of expectations. It's unfortunate that you didn't offer any educational resources or attempt to troubleshoot the issue, whether it was the user's fault or not.
As someone who manages a customer success team at a fintech company in San Francisco, I'm deeply concerned by this kind of treatment of customers. Our team is expected to ensure that investors have a great experience and are equipped with the tools to be successful on our platform. If something isn't working as intended, we fix it. Our goal is for customers to feel positive about working with our company and to share their experience with others, potentially growing our customer base. If your management team saw this exchange, I doubt they would consider it an example of quality customer service.
To be clear, I'm not angry; I'm just disappointed. As a result, I will be canceling my services with your company and switching to another app that will hopefully demonstrate more concern for creating an environment conducive to customer service and sensitivity to the fact that this app is about relationships - ironically, something that you just broke between Tinder and myself. Best wishes, Mark.
Reviewed July 1, 2023
This is the biggest rip off. I bought a 1 day pass because you can't see anyone unless you pay for a day minimum. So I pay the 5.99$. I start receiving messages. All the women wanted me to go to another website to be able to meet them. Also there are no women in my area. At least nothing I would touch. So my day was up. I figured they would end the subscription. Nope they immediately charged my card 38.99 for 1 month of suspicious fake profiles! Also they don't understand age parameters.
Reviewed June 12, 2023
I signed up for this site and within about a day, I was banned. I did nothing inappropriate. I look like my picture. Tinder banned me immediately and refused to let me know why. I am now scared for my safety because I don't know why I was banned. I am concerned that someone hacked my profile and put something inappropriate on this site in my name. I am very concerned that I have been hacked and Tinder refuses to help me.
Reviewed June 11, 2023
Horrible experience. You get likes initially to get you to purchase the Gold or whatever, and they turn out to be bots, which Tinder clearly does nothing to police, but that's obvious considering how it all works out for them. Just a terrible experience all the way around. I'm gonna stick to the analog way of meeting people.
Reviewed April 23, 2023
I just signed up and learning how to use the different way to swipe. Tried to log in from the app in my cell phone and I keep getting authentication through my cell phone and my email but not be able to get in. Next thing I know I need to send 2 live pictures, then I got banned. I really want to know the reasons, but there is no phone number, email address or live chat for me to talk to someone. I was charged for the subscription as soon as I signed up and this is how I was treated. This is the worst experience. Totally ruined my day. I do appreciate the verifications and checks to prevent scammers. But this is not how it should work. Maybe it is a defected AI that need to be re-evaluate. Nevertheless, I would not recommend this to anyone.

Updated review: April 16, 2023
Tinder did get back to me and said they refund money also. Tinder deserves a five star ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ for refund and not scamming me. Hopefully you have a better experience and get what you pay for with Tinder. If not I'm proof they refund and didn't scam me. So I have to say I didn't get a day on, but hey you might get different results. Good luck and Tinder does Refund and is not a scam. Thanks for reading and best of luck.
Original Review: April 15, 2023
Not on site 11 hrs before I was banned for no good reason. I got 2 response one sent an email and one like. In my defense the one who sent Gmail was Russian and states she needs help because she working in Russia but is now dating. Scam. The other was an innocent like. Now after finding this out I got back on site to tell Fanny. She gave me a bad email. In the opening of site at this point asked me to verify picture. In which I did then it went to a review that lasted hours and boom they banned me with no explanation but I broke a rule.
When reading them I found nothing I did in violation to Tinder's rules. Also customer service doesn't say anything but they're reviewing. But as I said before it's a scam because not only was I banned now Im getting emails from russia. This is not cool and scary because now I think I'm in for the ** of more scams thanks to tinder who gave me no good reason or show me or tell me what I did wrong. No refunds neither thieves and scam that need to be reported especially with Russia email. Never ever pay for tinder scam. I told them and tried to fix but as you can see I'm here and as I read other reviews. seems I'm not alone. Thanks. Please be advised. tinder is a scam and customer service is nonexistent apparently.
Reviewed Feb. 16, 2023
I found this dating site fun and easy to use. I had tried a few others (Hinge, Bumble) but I found Tinder to be both affordable and crowded with many attractive options and interesting people. There are definitely a broad range of personalities, orientations and ethnicities. I went on quite a few dates with men and women and found most everyone to be polite and honest. Yes, there were a few rude ones, but it overall it was a pleasant experience. I eventually found my perfect match on Tinder, tho I had to broaden my dating range a little further to another city, but we are deeply in love and have moved in together! We expect to be engaged soon and couldn’t be happier or more compatible in our lives! Thank you so much, to all the staff at Tinder for making our dreams come true! We never would have met otherwise!
Tinder author review by Mark Brooks
Tinder is a mobile dating app that can be downloaded and used for free. It is currently the largest and most popular dating app online with over 50 million downloads. It is best known for its extremely popular swiping feature.
Social Media Login: Tinder uses your Facebook profile as a means of sign up for their dating app. This helps prevent fraud and makes it easy to quickly import information and photos over to Tinder so you can begin searching immediately.
Swiping: Tinder's popular swiping feature allows members to quickly move through matches until they find people of interest. If you do not like the profile you are looking at, swipe left and you will not see them again. If you are interested, swipe right. If you accidentally swipe in the wrong direction, you can now pay to unswipe a match.
Consent before contact: While most dating sites will let users contact anyone in their membership ranks, Tinder will only allow you to contact someone if you have both "Swiped Right" on each other.
Quick local matching: Tinder is most popularly used as a way to meet people the same day within close proximity.
Harvard Business School graduate, Mark Brooks, has been an expert in the Internet dating business since 1998. He is currently the CEO of Courtland Brooks, a consultancy agency for the Internet dating industry, and runs OnlinePersonalsWatch.com. He prides himself on being a New Media Futurist and can be reached at LinkedIn.
Tinder Company Information
- Company Name:
- Tinder
- Year Founded:
- 2012
- Website:
- tinder.com




