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Overview

Answers has a rating of 1.22 stars from 189 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Answers most frequently mention many ads, interesting topics, and next page problems. Answers ranks 84th among Question And Answer sites.

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  • Value
    19
  • Shipping
    13
  • Returns
    13
  • Quality
    18
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Critical highlights

  • It takes you 20 minutes to get through an article that has maybe 20 sentences.
  • The site loads all the ads first which takes up a lot of time since there are so many.
How would you rate Answers?
Top Positive Review

“One of the best places to exchange knowledge with others”

You D.
7/15/14

One of the best places to exchange knowledge with others. Unlike Yahoo! Answers, answers can be changed and edited.

Top Critical Review

“Pretty basic service, then terrible terrible terrible”

miles s.
8/15/21

Pretty simple review, Asked question, Paid for question all ok, Unsubscribed Then charged anyway, Full refund from paypal not after spending a lot of time on the issue. Enjoy the jpg Most concerning was the incorrect charge after unsubscribing. Their system appears to be automated and the lack of follow-through cancelation request appears to be either a result of bad billing procedures or intentional misuse of billing information. So would avoid, Probably could have spent the time researching the question in google or a library, but that isn't the point.

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Thumbnail of user ramint1
1 review
2 helpful votes
December 23rd, 2023

I rarely have time to check my statements, few weeks ago I saw a 66 dollars withdrawal from my account and I did not recognize it, called my credit company, THEY TOLD ME ABOUT 14 months withdrawals from my account, I remembered 14 months ago I asked a question they asked for 2 dollars payment with my credit card then they continued to withdraw 66 dollars from my account for 14 months, they are scammers do not trust Answers.com

Thumbnail of user miless66
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
August 15th, 2021
Verified purchase

Pretty simple review,
Asked question,
Paid for question all ok,
Unsubscribed
Then charged anyway,

Full refund from paypal not after spending a lot of time on the issue. Enjoy the jpg

Most concerning was the incorrect charge after unsubscribing.
Their system appears to be automated and the lack of follow-through cancelation request appears to be either a result of bad billing procedures or intentional misuse of billing information.

So would avoid,
Probably could have spent the time researching the question in google or a library, but that isn't the point.

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Thumbnail of user jeismf
1 review
0 helpful votes
September 11th, 2021

This website has nothing to do with answer or helping people it just a clickbait to lure to click on their ads

Thumbnail of user tommyh152
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
March 27th, 2021

Site doesn't send email verification - despite several attempts to resend for it. When you then try to reset your password, it'll then say it cannot, because your email already exists. That's crook city.

Tip for consumers:
WESLEY VIRGIN recommended this site . Woop te do.

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Thumbnail of user jessem58
2 reviews
20 helpful votes
February 8th, 2016

Answer.com is worthless... No question just a complaint. Takes on average of 10 minutes to load each of their pages even with high speed broad band!

You have a product that people want to see. But the service is worse than the old school 14 kb dial up modems.

Thumbnail of user joes576
1 review
6 helpful votes
May 23rd, 2016

Don't bother looking at a story from these douche buckets. 1 sentence per page and it's all bs anyways. Have to click through 40 pages before you finally start getting to the story line. I will be blocking this terrible website from my life. Maybe people would read some crap on here if it was all on 1 or 2 pages instead of stretching a small paragraph into ******* pages. For now I d ok nt even bother going on a story if it is associated with this garbage company

Thumbnail of user glenp15
1 review
12 helpful votes
January 4th, 2017

Very well. We will give you an answer to your question over the course of several pages, often just to complete one sentence, so that on each page we can load up 20 banner ads above, below, and to the sides.

Yes this will lag like crazy and very likely freeze up your browser, but meh... some jackasses are paying us obscene amounts of money to throw these ads in your face.

Maybe instead of telling us how crappy a site we are you ought to boycott every business that advertises with us. THAT might teach us, and those businesses, a lesson once and for all.

Thumbnail of user ryleeb4
1 review
2 helpful votes
August 22nd, 2019

I went on to answers.com for help with my hw and instead I was swarmed with annoying pop up adds and unclear answers.

Thumbnail of user jeffg49
1 review
3 helpful votes
May 21st, 2015

I had a question about a car problem I was having and they had the answer, very useful. I checked out some of the articles and enjoyed the video articles very much.

Thumbnail of user scottl81
1 review
5 helpful votes
May 9th, 2016

They lure you in with interesting content, then make it virtually impossible to view. Every link takes FOREVER to load, and 9 times out of ten the site with freeze completely. They also overlap ads, like when you try to watch a video some other one is playing at the same time and you can't turn it off. I have had it with you Answers and will no longer click on your tempting links! You suck!

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Severin V.
6 reviews
11 helpful votes
October 21st, 2017

This site is awful. When you want one simple sentence to answer a question, instead you get spammed with ads all over the screen, and it has like 15 dumb slides just to say one or two sentences. Very inconvenient. And almost every time I try to use it, it just freezes up and crashes. Never use this. Use ANY website but this.

Tip for consumers:
Never use this site.

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Thumbnail of user sharonak
1 review
14 helpful votes
March 2nd, 2016

In trying to read what was ostensibly a short article, I had to click through literally dozens and dozens of pages.
It's ludicrous.
Answers.com made their money from my clicks in the cheapest possible way, but that's going to be it forever because I will never, ever read anything on Answers.com again.

Thumbnail of user fucky36
1 review
20 helpful votes
February 23rd, 2016

How many $#*!ing times do I have to post this?
I should NOT have to click "next" 60 God-forsaken times to see 20 God damned pictures.
$#*! you, $#*! your mother, daughter, niece, sibling and $#*! your $#*!-stained $#*!-sucking $#*! of a grand mother.
Never again will I visit this $#*!ing site. $#*! them.

Thumbnail of user edm395
1 review
20 helpful votes
February 15th, 2015

The site is practically unusable. It has so many ads, cross-scripting and probably viruses that it takes forever for the page to load. When you try to ask a question, it takes up to 5 minutes to type it because the site is so busy with ads and who knows what else that only half of the characters that are typed actually make it onto the screen. Very frustrating. So frustrating that I wont use the site or click on any link that leads to the site. A waste of web space.

Tip for consumers:
I cannot in good faith recommend this site to anyone. The web has so many other websites that do what this one supposedly does.

Thumbnail of user stewartc24
1 review
14 helpful votes
June 1st, 2016

This has to be the worst site ever visited. You are lured by what appears an interesting or amusing article only to be bombarded by utter junk and mountains of advertising before you can view the content you went to see. Then without fail it NEVER produces the promised review. Absolute garbage.

Thumbnail of user garyh64
1 review
18 helpful votes
December 26th, 2014

I might rate answers.com as high as a 4 if I were actually able to view their content - they have may lists that are interesting enough to attract my attention. However, after repeatedly getting sucked in by headlines such as "13 actors who are box office poison" and being unable to get past the first slide without the site locking up, I now avoid this site. It is very unresponsive and burdened by advertisements - a total waste of time! Worst site I have ever visited!

Thumbnail of user zacp1
1 review
3 helpful votes
February 17th, 2018

I paid $40 to get a useless two sentence answer. I honestly think the answer came from a bot... god I am pissed!

Thumbnail of user ruthb39
1 review
28 helpful votes
June 4th, 2015

They have some interesting slide shows that you CANT view because the site is so bogged down by ads. I understand they need ads to make money but they also need people to be able use the website. I make sure to NOT click on any articles from answers.com because you cant read the article and end up frustrated. I often wonder if the people that run the site ever actually try to use it. If they did they would know it is complete crap. I would have like to been able to give it no star for the rating or negative stars.

Thumbnail of user bg28
1 review
23 helpful votes
December 28th, 2014

I have finally learned not to go there... thought it was just my computer. I see their stories pop up on my Yahoo home page all the time, interesting leads and you can never navigate the site, it's just too frustrating. It is also making me avoid the Yahoo home page, now I just use it for a quick mail check. How do they keep that site on the web, it barely functions? Advertisers are wasting their money.

Thumbnail of user harrys76
1 review
11 helpful votes
April 4th, 2016

Recently clicked on a link to answers. Top 10 type thing. 4 clicks through and I'm still on the first one, split mid sentence every time then when you click to the next page it jumps about on the screen and ads are thrown in your face some more. It really is pathetic excuse for a site. If it was 1 whole section per page then maybe I wouldn't mind so much but you have to jump through so many links to read a whole article if you can even call it that. I wish people would stop sharing links to this horrible little site

Thumbnail of user jimr53
1 review
23 helpful votes
January 10th, 2015

One of the most annoying sites on the net. What makes it particularly galling is that they actually have interesting topics... but when you try to navigate their site, it drives you nuts with ad reloads, hidden ad triggers, etc. Yahoo should dump them off of their page.
And yeah... I too noticed the phoney "oh... it's great!" reviews at the bottom. Nice try!

Thumbnail of user fitzp1
1 review
23 helpful votes
March 31st, 2015

Awful, awful, awful. Catchy headlines with erroneous, outdated information in the stories. Wading through their adds is more gelatinous and sloppy than cleaning out an army latrine. DON"T click here!

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Thumbnail of user jillh42
1 review
12 helpful votes
June 24th, 2016

It is awful! So much on it moving ads. Auto play commercials that jam your feed. The pages take for ever to lad... I hate this site...

Thumbnail of user debh26
1 review
12 helpful votes
June 6th, 2016

The only good news about this site is that they don't have original content. I have learned to search for their stories elsewhere and can usually find the same vid or photos on other sites. Far as I can tell, answers.com is solely intended to shove ads in your face? It's the old fashioned bait and switch, now more like bait and spam.

Thumbnail of user susanl154
1 review
6 helpful votes
January 6th, 2017

Covered my daughter's Chromebook screen with ads--so many that she had to ask for help. The CLOSE button on the ads took us to an ad for Country Inns and Suites. I wonder if the Carlson Group, which owns that hotel, agreed to such a smarmy bait and switch. Makes me not want to stay there, that's for certain!

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