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InterNations GmbH 1 star review on 4th October 2020

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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“basically the same most of the review writers have written already. No meeting since 10 months. Sure they hide behind Covid, but this also mean they didn't honour their part of the promises they made. Luckily my Credit Card expired and now they are threatening me for payment and asking for giving them my new credit card details. Because of their many unfriendly mails , I was nearly about to give in , untilI read the reviews of other people who feel cheated by their organisation. Don't ever give them your credit card details or they will charge with whatever forever .”

Posted 3 years ago

“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.”

Posted 2 years ago

“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!”

Posted 2 years ago

“Report this company’s practice to: https://reportfraud.ftc.gov If you live in the USA, please also contact your state’s attorney general. It is illegal to hide clear and easy steps to cancel membership online.”

Posted 2 years ago

“Do NOT sign up with InterNations! I have downgraded and cancelled the annual renewal services through the InterNation App, but I have still been charged for renewal without my knowledge, consent, against my will. I explained the situations repeatedly to their Customer Support team and request for refund as it is the issue with InterNation App and I do not wish to continue with the membership. InterNation App is bad and often crashes and do not record cancellation and downgrading correctly. The Customer Support team wouldn’t listen to me, refused to refund and blamed me for not sending them the error messages about App issue earlier. Unpleasant, unhelpful and unreasonable customer services. Total waste of my time and effort. Would not recommend this to anyone.”

Posted 3 years ago

“Hi, Last year, I recently moved to Asia from the states and decided to join InterNations as an Albatross member (1-year subscription). Early on I attended a few events. They were pretty disorganized and pointless since no one greeted you as an InterNations representative. I would have had the same luck just going into any random venue and striking up a conversation with a stranger. Based on these initial lackluster experiences I quickly forgot about InterNations and settled into my new life abroad. Right after COVID-19 became a global pandemic I received an email notification from InterNations stating how they couldn't charge my credit card (it had expired during the interim) for my auto-renewal. I sent them a quick e-mail telling them not to worry about it and that I don't want to renew. Well, as I found out, they don't take "no" for an answer. Instead their policy, no doubt designed from their ex-McKinsey CEO, was to escalate the situation and threaten me with debt collectors over US$100. I was a bit shocked to be treated like a deadbeat and a criminal. After all, I was technically still a member. I never received an e-mail notification that a charge was imminent, which is standard for practically every business. I guess it's my fault for not devoting to memory their T&C. I mean, it's not like anything happened over the past year. I asked them how could this be legal? It certainly wasn't where I lived. Their response: "InterNations is a German company based in Munich. We are therefore governed by and operate according to German law, rather than the laws of your country of residence." I admit...again it's my fault I didn't read up on German law before initially signing up for the Albatross membership. But fair enough, I did some reading and paid them back in their own coin (apologies for the length of the e-mail below, but worth the read): "Thank you for clarifying that your company is governed by and operates according to German law. According to the German Civil Code “Einführungsgesetz zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuche § 1 Moratorium”, a consumer has the right to refuse a claim related to a consumer contract until June 30 due to the spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19 pandemic). As it is Monday, June 29 in Germany, I am exercising my right to refuse your claim. Let this email serve as notice that I want my subscription canceled and my account deleted effective immediately. According to your company’s mission statement, InterNations is “a place where international people like you meet, connect, and exchange information” and “network and find friends who will explore your new surroundings with you”. Do you reasonably expect people to “meet” and “explore” their surroundings during a global pandemic? According to German law, the answer is Nein. Lastly, I never received a notice of re-enrollment from InterNations and therefore had no reasonable expectation that you would be charging my credit card for anything over the agreed upon one-year period. It appears that InterNations cares more about its short-term profitability than it does about its subscribers’ economic and physical wellbeing. I am confident others will share this sentiment once I forward this and your previous emails to my colleagues in the media." This e-mail elicited their standard response that ends with their company motto: "We reserve the right to escalate this matter further to a debt collection agency, which may result in additional costs for you." So did InterNations break a German law that was meant to protect consumers during COVID-19? Seems that way to me, but I don't have a German law degree. To end this review, please avoid InterNations, they are the worst. Stay safe everyone :)”

Posted 3 years ago

“I am very dissapointed and disgraced by the messages I received from some guys on internations. I thought this social network is to connect with expats, attend some quality events and all not to receive twinkles and hook up mesages. Just because of this reason I had to change my profile picture from formal to show that I am in a relationship. Then I realised when I send friend requests to people that sends me twinkles I receive messages from them like ' I only accept friends that I personally know them and met them. I hope I can add you one day' after I changed my profile picture. Internations has turned in dating site unfortunately. I will post all of them on instagram and not recommend this website to anyone as It does not provide anything quality but disgust. And seriously wtf with twinkles, what is it all about?”

Posted 3 years ago

“Paid for a subscription to this website while I was traveling, looking for some meetups and to meet some other travelers. Thought nothing of it. It was a relatively nice experience In 2019, after my subscription ran out. I wasn't allowed to access the content again until I paid to renew my subscription. That seems fair. I still wanted to use the content so I paid. I barely used the website since then and when they repeatedly told me my subscription was going to end, I didn't care, because I no longer wanted to use the product in 2020 with the pandemic. Anyway, without my permission, they extended my subscription and sent me a ridiculous email, trying to threaten me and saying I owed them money, even though I had no current credit card in their system. That's not how things work. You cut off someone's access to content when they don't pay. Seems they got extra sketchy during the Corona pandemic and just started trying to hustle people. Sounds like a criminal to me Now they are basically trying to extort me for something I didn't want. The weak minded people that work for them aren't allowed to say anything non PC when you contact them, so the conversation got nowhere. They just kept trying to talk about the Terms and Conditions. I'm not paying thieves and they can shove their terms and conditions up their ***. I read several reviews and it seems I'm far from the only one they tried to steal from. Looking forward to this criminal enterprise going out of business”

InterNations GmbH 1 star review on 4th October 2020

Posted 3 years ago

“GREEDY AND UNETHICAL SCAM COMPANY THAT GETS AGGRESSIVE IF THEIR USERS DO NOT WANT TO REMAIN ALBATROSS MEMBERS I had an Albatross membership that was auto-renewed about 2 months ago - during a world pandemic and lock-down when there were no real-life events organized at all. They could not charge my credit card and therefore started to harass me for the membership subscription fee. I contacted them right after receiving the first email about the failed transaction for auto-renewal (otherwise I would probably have not noticed immediately that my money has gone to their pockets). The communication with their Support Team clearly showed how much consideration and empathy they have for their users (hint: 0). The membership that I was able to use since the coronavirus has been spreading corresponded only to Basic membership, therefore as they failed to provide any services that match the Albatross membership, they could've simply admitted it and could have downgraded me to Basic membership - like I requested their Support Team multiple times to do so, in a friendly way. They cannot sell any value with Albatross membership during a world pandemic as their offer was not designed for the online world. Charging users for Albatross membership was completely unwanted and inappropriate. Instead of understanding and accepting my request, they insisted on me paying the outstanding balance so that I become able to downgrade. Yes, I could buy a downgrade option for many EURs - for a 1-year subscription fee! What an impertinence! Their sneaking idea is to hide the "downgrade" button as well as the "profile deletion" function from the user menu in order to put pressure on the user to settle the balance. They lied that they cannot downgrade me and cannot cancel or revert the renewal of my membership. If that's true, be especially careful when giving your sensitive data for a company that does not have a competent User Administrator in charge and make sure to request the deletion of your data from their database! They blocked access to my profile and messages after a couple of payment reminders and started to threaten me and told me that they reserve the right to escalate this matter further to a debt collection agency, which may result in additional costs for me. What a ridiculous and shameless move it was from them! And they kept repeating that I should have seen the auto-renewal date on their web page and on my older invoices and in their Terms and Conditions. Seriously, who on earth visits web pages in 2020 regularly just to read old invoices and Terms and Conditions?! They are able to spam you with a lot of newsletters, but they don't bother sending a single notification email before the auto-renewal is due. If they succeed with charging your credit card, they don't inform you in email either. This is pure meanness. I learned after some googling that they have been applying this practice to hundreds and thousands of their users for years without any consequences. It's outrageous to see how many people they stole from or threatened already. If you start to complain about their unethical practice on their social media accounts, be prepared that they will be quick to suppress your voice and block you. DO NOT PAY them, or do request a refund from your bank if they already charged you. Spread the word about this scam and discourage your friends from signing up there. ADVICE: Do not sign up! Downgrade if you have Albatross membership and don't want it to auto-renew! Delete your account!”

Posted 3 years ago

“SCAM COMPANY!! STAY AWAY! My free trial expired for InterNations and they attempted to charge my card without any notification whatsoever. They forcefully made me an aboiSHIT member for a whole year which I haven't even used and it's impossible to downgrade, cancel or even delete my account I hope this so-called Internations criminal organisation comes crashing down soon.”

Posted 6 months ago

“I got scammed as well to try the free period Cancelled it after one week and they confirmed the cancellation but still charged my credit card the full amount. I don’t like people who play such games. I will not stop here. Time for a class suit. Any others with such cases especially in uae respond to my post and we shall get together to do something about them.”

Posted 6 months ago

“Never ever sign up for the free trial and forget to cancel. They are not making any attempt to undestand their clients.”

Posted 6 months ago

“I use to like it alot and used it for many years. However, recently the App had lots of issues!! and then they froze my account because of a payment they claim it didnt go through and when I wanted to repay it, their App had issues so many that I wasnt able to even see how much I should pay nor the payment button for monthssss. I contacted them several times through emails and they were just very rude for no reason!! And till this day they never solved my issue. Now their App is working however they want me to pay for almost the whole past year which I didnt even have access to because of their technical issues and rude staff.”

Posted 8 months ago

“It is a site for losers who are in their late 60s and 70s as well as for Middle Easterners (Iranians, Arabs, Turks) who are looking for their dates in an extremely pity but toxic way. The company is run by a few German guys who have no talents, no skills, and no intelligence. Those few German owners have a mafia type of close knit connections with a few German members and Councils who report to them and then get a free Albatross membership in return. For instance, there is an old German lady who lives in Brussels, Belgium but she is a Council. In addition to being a Council, she spies for InterNations and reports to them. She is extremely evil and toxic. Overall, it is a very petty and toxic site, which clearly reveals the typical German narrow-minded culture that lacks innovation and cannot go beyond their comfort zone and confined bubble.”

Posted 9 months ago

“InterNations posts fake positive comments on Trustpilot to deceive their mafia type of operation. The company witch-hunts members who criticize their unethical practice of conducting business. I witnessed an over 70-year old senior German lady, who lives in Brussels, and who witch hunts for InterNations. She gets a free Albatros membership in return to witch hunting for InterNations. Extremely unethical company.....Stay clear!!!”

Posted 1 year ago

“InterNations' online events serve as a platform for miserable people. It is not an online platform for professional networks. Their in-person events could be much better but it all depends on a specific geographic location or the personality of a specific Council or Ambassador. The Councils and Ambassadors are just random volunteers. By being a Council they benefit free membership by voluntarily hosting events both virtually or in-person. Their online events are full of Middle Easterners, especially Turkish, Iranian, and various Arabic sub-groups. While the Middle Eastern single or widowed men look for their dates or hook-ups from non-Middle Eastern countries, the Middle Eastern women look for blonde western European men (German, English, Spanish etc) to date. So, it turns out to be an extremely miserable platform. Before the local groups used to host online events but the company stopped local groups to host virtual events. Instead, the company started a number of ludicrous Global Groups that host virtual events. And, it has turned out to be toxic competition about what nationality is the best or what civilization is the most scientific or what civilization is the most advanced etc (e.g., is it Persian civilization or Western civilization the most scientific or is it Jewish or Russians or Indians who are the most scientifically apt people etc). Because of such a toxic competition some Councils and members maliciously watch one another whom they view as a threat to their popularity or plot to harm one another when they see someone as a threat. Even the company has their own spies who maliciously watch a specific member or a specific Council if they see him or her as a threat to InterNations' unethical conduct of business. This kind of malicious practice of conducting business will certainly pay off its consequences to the company itself. There is no longevity for this kind of unethical business.”

Posted 1 year ago

“InterNations is a mafia business that exclusively relies on recruiting volunteers under the grand title of "Councils" "Ambassadors" to host events both virtually and in-person. As its virtual events are exclusively relied upon volunteers who are called as Councils and Ambassadors, some Councils host virtual events that explicitly indoctrinate a conspiracy theory. Their virtual events are poorly attended with 5-10% of attendance rate. Most of those who attend the virtual events are lonely female seniors, Middle Eastern widowed men in their 50s or 60s who are looking for their hook-ups, some old male creeps from the western countries, and some people who simply have no social skills and no social life except for attending InterNations' virtual events. There is an increased risk for those type of InterNations members who are lonely or who have mental health issues or women from developing countries to be lured into certain radicalized ideologies or certain radicalized groups such as ISIS. I have seen a female Council, for example, hosted a virtual event to hold a discussion about pornos. Soon after the discussion event, she posted another virtual event, which preaches a conspiracy theory about Iran. There is a high risk that much of such indoctrination takes places through InterNations' virtual events hosted by InterNation's random Councils and Ambassadors. InterNations recruits its Councils and Ambassadors from its regular members, which means literally anyone can become a Council and Ambassador to host virtual events. Once the regular InterNations members become a Council and Ambassador, they are exempt from the InterNations' membership fee. The company micromanages their Councils and Ambassadors, and shields their Councils from any criticisms despite their shady and risky way of organizing virtual events. This kind of shady practice of InterNations' conduct of business is even extremely risky to InterNations' own business prospects. In addition, there are many Middle Eastern widowed men (from Jordan, UAE, Algeria, and Morocco) who are in their 50s and 60s, virtually stalking women from developing countries, in particular women from East Asian or Southeast Asian countries. There are some popular members and popular Councils who virtually harass their targets whom they harbour resentment against because Councils can also attend virtual events. Mostly those members and Councils from Iran, India and Israel harass their targets in an extremely toxic and vicious way. But they're simply shielded by the company, as some of them are Councils who devote their time to host events. By accepting anyone as a member and creating many meaningless Global Groups that host virtual events, InterNations is no longer a professional network but it is just a platform for vulgar, obnoxious, and pejorative group of people who live in the bubble of InterNations. Despite the fact they have been a member of InterNations for many years, they're still single, and they're still friendless, and have no a meaningful social life outside of the bubble of InterNations. The company has no future.”

Posted 1 year ago

“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.”

Posted 1 year ago

“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.”

Posted 1 year ago

“Internations want money durring Covid lockdown for annual membership.totally ridiculous. ZERO COURTESY ,be careful not to give any card details.WORTH ZERO VALUE FOR MEMEBERSHIP. There is some catch word called renewal so watch out,else they will harass you with email saying it was our responsibility to look every year to see auto renewal box is unchecked.”

Posted 2 years ago

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InterNations GmbH is rated 1.1 based on 121 reviews