“I fullly agree with the predatory and unethical membership practices of the other reviewers. I never authorized any auto-renewal, but after I stopped paying for their useless membership (which I hadn't used anyway), and even though it's charged _in advance_, I started receiving collection letters and legal harrassments. And the best part is - you cannot cancel your subscription NOR delete your account because until you pay, there are NO such options anywhere, as the account is "disabled".
Interestingly enough, they also stop providing any services, yet want to charge you for them.
Unethical, and possibly illegal. Super willing to test the legality of their practice in court.
Long story short - stay away from them.”
“Poor in every respect. Avoid at all costs. If I could give 0 stars I would. I cancelled trial period on the last day of the free trial but was still charged for the year, and a refund was refused.
Aside from the shady, underhand and dubious manner of doing business, the site itself is a waste of time. They offer no meaningful opportunities to make connections at all and the vast majority of events they publicise are poorly attended. Avoid at all costs - you will find vastly superior offerings from the (free to join) groups on Facebook and other social media sites.”
“Don't waste your time with this company. It is a scam. They advertise that there are 2 membership levels, Basic and Albatross. This is a lie. There is no basic membership level. When you create an account it forces you to sign up for Albatross and if you don't you get nothing. You can't even read an article or go in and update your profile or delete your account or anything. I advice to not utilize this scam site as it is not legit. I had to message customer support just to get them to delete my account and it's worthless to have an account that ONLY allows you to sign up for Albatross membership.”
“They charge you for a yearly account renewal without any previous notice, when you contact them to clarify the situation or revert the charge, they basically tell you should have read the "fine print"...
My experience with their events was quite disappointing, definitely not worth the extra cost.
To make things worse, Internations bombard you daily with several emails and have NO easy unsubscribe option/button. They have more than 30 email lists which you have to individually select and unregister INDIVIDUALLY from!!!
Internations is an unethical and scammy company.”
“Extremely rude and incompetent event hosts. Was just loudly scolded in front of everybody and kicked out because of a simple misunderstanding where two events were scheduled the same night and I was at the wrong one. Insufferable rudeness.”
“I give an star cause there is not the option to give a zero. Really disappointed, I feel scammed for this website first of all for fake promotions and second to decline to return my money next day after doing the payments saying that I joined for a free trial 30 days when that's not true. So I never heard about them before. Plus once on the website it's no events since Sept 2021 and it's August 2022. So of course I don't accept to pay 6 eur a month for an un aktiv place.”
“One of my worst experiences! They are forcing me to pay for a service that I haven’t used for months just because of their auto-renewal membership policy with no notices sent. Avoid!”
“I wanted to cancel my subscription but they refused to let me and threatened to take legal action and send debt collectors over €40. Seriously... Everyone, save yourself the hassle and approach someone on the streets. Don’t use this app.”
“They are scammers.
https://wanderwomandiaries.com/stay-away-posts/internations
https://dileeshus.medium.com/how-you-can-avoid-being-scammed-by-internations-dodgy-business-practices-4c8ea5035a1a”
“Since this is a consumer-facing platform, I’m editing this post to speak directly to internations. Hopefully people will see this before they get screwed too.
Internations has a long pattern of preying on customers through a deceptive annual auto-subscription model they’ve built in to their business. In it, they knowingly reach out to customers via email only AFTER the payment is due, claim they can’t process refunds, and, if you refuse payment due to this bad-faith practice, they threaten you with debt collectors. No joke. They actually do this. This is their whole MO.
(My personal experience is at the bottom)
TO INTERNATIONS:
1) Don’t leave fake reviews on trustpilot in an effort to make yourselves look less horrible. It’s just a display of how much contempt and how stupid you think your customers are.
2) Don’t lie about your policies in these reviews; you told me multiple times in emails that you literally could not process refunds. Were you lying to me? Yeah, you were.
3) Read your user agreement. Buried away on page 7 of the 16-page terms and conditions, you snuck in this little gem:
“ The user accepts that they will receive all invoices as PDF files via their personal Membership Section on the InterNations Website. InterNations will not send a copy of the invoices also by mail to the user”
LOLOLOL!!!! You hid it in the middle of a user agreement you know no one will read!!!! You know EXACTLY what you’re doing. You planned it this way. Why the hell else would that be hidden in there, but to protect yourself from liability when you steal people’s money?
So you protected yourself from the very policy people are complaining about: that you happily send along an email and directly contact people when money’s owed, but not when the payment is coming due? JFC, internations, we knew you were contemptible, but we didn’t know how inept you were. Try a little harder when you’re robbing people.
5) Nearly 100 Euros! It costs nearly 100 euros for your service for a year. How many people, who couldn’t spare 100 euros, have you taken from? How many people have you done this to?
You’re cruel and contemptuous. The hatred with which you treat customers, who used your service in good faith and expected good faith in return, is staggering. You’re con artists minus the charm. Just shameful.
There’s much, much more, but that’s enough. Anyone who has made it this far, be forewarned: KEEP YOURSELF AND YOUR INFO FAR, FAR AWAY FROM THIS APP. And to you, internations: for the way you’ve treated me and the rest of your customers: may you all get a rash and may it itch for months, and when your sham of a company comes crashing down, may all of us who have been screwed by you take a brief moment to chuckle before we continue on with our lives.
Adieu.
MY BACKSTORY: Used the site for a couple months, then job location changed and no longer needed it. Months later, got an email saying a payment was past due from internations. Puzzling because i never got an email saying it was due to begin with. I refused, saying the policy was absurd and i don’t use the service anymore. They said payment was processed and therefore couldn’t give a refund (complete bs). Then, they literally THREATENED TO SEND DEBT COLLECTORS. Lol.”
“They simply only out to charge your card, not allowing customers to leave. I haven't even visited one of their events because after registering they simply didn't seem to atrackt my sort of people. Now I write this, I wonder if these were actual events.. What a rip off the fraudulent organization.”
“Total scam - hell to cancel. Their service are the worst people, but then they choose to work for this scam of a company so that’s not surprising. Save yourself the headache”
“The first message I got soon after joining was from a man asking me on a date. This guy wrote such a long message, so long I was yawning by the end of it. He sounded so phony, using the same trick that every other conman uses: claiming to work for an offshore oil rigging company. This made me question the intentions of the group, since I thought they would introduce me to professionals only. Fortunately I haven't paid a single penny as I have heard some not- so- good stories about how they scam people into paying for something that never happens.”
“NEVER subscribe with your credit card to this service— there is no notification of renewal unless you are logged in, and there is little to no reason to do so as their offer of meeting events is pathetically limited.
I was denied the ability to cancel my subscription despite NEVER using it because I hadn’t logged on to cancel before payment was due.
Deceptive processes and super rude people.”
“First, few real opportunities for local interaction are listed. Second, but most important, they renew your subscription without warning even if you wrote to them saying you don't want to review. Then they say you owe them because you didn't follow their complicated process to stop the subscription and will send you to collection if you don't pay. Don't get involved with this company!”
“My account has been disabled for the last 4 days and I have no idea why. I sent them everywhere on social media plus emails but noooo response at all.
Very BAD EXPERIENCE & BAD SERVICES. UNFORTUNATELY..”
“My account on internations has been disabled for the last 4 days and I have no idea why. I sent them everywhere on social media plus emails but no response at all.
Note: STILL NO REPLY FROM THEIR SIDE..”
“My account has been disabled for the last 4 days and I have no idea why. I sent them everywhere on social media plus emails but noooo responded at all.
Bad experience bad services...”
