Change.org

Change.org is a horrible company. Spreading defamatory, hateful and inaccurate content.
They have spread disgusting and inaccurate information and now try to defend their disgraceful actions. They have broken the law and now I will take them to court and also include damages

They try every way they can to force money out of those who sign with the only opt out seeming to be to advertise them on your own social media. If you sign something they then without you knowing you've given them permission send you an email prompting you to sign something else (give them more money). Apparently change uk was started as a charity for altruistic reasons until somebody mentioned that they could con bug profits from people. They become user rich by conning us.

In 2016 someone came to my door asking for a donation to Change.org I graciously gave a One time donation of $22.00. It is now 2023 and I recently found out they have been charging me $22.00 EVERY month. I never agreed to pay monthly. I should have caught this sooner, but that does not excuse them stealing from me every month. When I tried to cancel, they did not even have me listed as "Monthly Contributor" and therefor did not even have a method for me cancel or modify. Per their web site,"If you do not see the "Manage contribution option, it means you were not signed up for a monthly contribution." (See the attached pictures) I never signed up to be a sustaining contributor, yet they did take money each and every month, gave me no option to cancel, and made it appear as if I was not contributing. Be wary of this organization.

Unfortunately, I decided to create a petition using "Change.org
To my big surprise, my friends receiving the petition informed me that the website was asking them to donate money! (I never received that information entering the "my petitions" section...)
I did not give them the authority to make such a thing, neither they informed me about that intention...
And that's NOT ALL...
I immediately asked them to delete my petition, but I needed to do this several times, and many days after, until I finally saw my petition (partly) erased...
Stay away, they are scammers, use another company, more reliable!

1. It hides its commercial nature as a certified B corporation. It's actually a for-profit business. In wiki, Change.org claims to be a non-profit in the beginning, but if you read on, it states very clearly that "Change.org is a for-profit, venture-backed company."
2. It asks for donations for a particular legal action against racial discrimination, but when you make a donation, your money actually goes to Change.org instead of funds for that legal action. In other words, you thought you were supporting a petition but you are actually the profit of change.

By the way, while petition might not be the best way to actually make Congress move, they are an effective way to lure an internet user into handing over their personal information.

Even though an open platform change.org acted IMMEDIATELY to remove parts from a petition that was created to harass a black family, in East Toronto, Canada thus making it useless.
We thank all of the team at change. Org. As their message is clear: 0 tolerance.

I did not break any community guidelines with my change org petition. It was up over a month with promoters paying to promote it. Yet after 7,000 signatures suddenly, and with no explanation the petition was removed by Change.org. This is unfair and in essence taking money from promoters and then turning around and removing my petition is stealing money. How is it allowed to receive promotion money's and then be removed?

Change. Org i would not donate because the ratings are low 2.5 do the donation yourself, this is a scam $10 $20 its your money. Keep your money for a better cause. Donate money because rising gas prices too good to be true.

A few days ago I made a $5.00 donation responding to a call to "chip in $5". In error I put the full stop in the wrong place and the donation went off giving them $500.! I immediately tried stopping the card transaction, E-mailing them re the mistake and asking them to refund me $495.00. I am a pensioner and can't afford to lose this much money! Need I say that I have not heard back from them..

Change.org should not be keeping all donations people mistakenly make on their site when people think their donations are going for the cause of the petition they signed.
Thousands of dollars were made on change.org donations thinking donations were going to the cause, but change.org has kept all the money and the cause gets nothing.
This is more a scam than anything else.
Change.org should keep a small percentage but not the entire donation.

So basically they are a bunch of shady companies out there trying to trick people into investing in candle trading schemes. They promise high returns on investment but end up taking your money and they act like they never knew you. But thanks to SPE C T R UM - CR E ST for helping me get back my funds from these brokers
They scam people by making them believe they are an investment scheme that gives profit after investing which i i also decided to invest in just for me to place a withdrawal after making profit and they declined me telling me all sort of excuse. But luckily for me i got back my money with help of SP E C T R UM - C R E ST.
Reach out to them if you need assistance on how to get back your money

I donated money to a petition as I don't have social media, and it was a cause that I believe in. I got an email notification that confirmed a single one off donation. At the exact same time I received another email with the same subject heading so i did not notice that in fact two different confirmation emails had been sent. It was an email saying that I'd set up a monthly donation. Logging into change.org there is no record of my monthly standing order so I had to cancel via PayPal. I have tried to contact Change.org twice now for a refund and they've not responded. It is not a charity, its is a scam. I did not knowingly agree to pay monthly donations to change.org (a for profit company that doesn't appear to do anything really other than host random binary opinion polls). I have attached the two screenshots of the emails that were sent, the first confirming a one off payment and the second thanking me that I'd set up a monthly donation.

I am a bleeding-heart liberal (except I don't support legalization of cannabis), but this website is atrocious.

I am 6' 8" and created a petition one day for more leg room on coach flights. Without my permission, they gave my name to dozens and dozens of third parties.

The last thing they want to be is optimistic. I suffer from depression but they still make everything sound scary. I've been much happier now that I no longer receives these parties' emails. My experience led me to conclude that if the Civil Rights Movement had taken place today, Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" would have been its anthem instead of "We Shall Overcome."

Not only that but I, like other reviewers here, had no luck with my petitions. They are very much pick & choose about whose (and what) petitions they decide to support.

Got request to sign: Stand Up for Daniel Marquez, an 11-Year-Old Child Whose Civil Rights Were Violated. So I did research.
PROBLEM: Of course you're not going to get real story, only what gets your blood boiling. TRUTH - he's being prosecuted for making a threat against school, sending picture of gun, AFTER Uvalde school massacre. DON'T BLINDLY BELIEVE PEOPLE

What a useless website this is. It's nothing more than a forum for people to vent their rubbish and vitriol when Facebook and other social media isn't enough. Nobody credible reads any of these petitions anymore because you have to wade through thousands of rubbish ones before you get a genuine one - if you can recognise it when you see it. Unless Change.org put some resources into properly policing this site and weeding out the rubbish and the defamatory self serving petitions full of misinformation and lies, then it's not worth the time logging on. Change.org don't respond to complaints or take action. They just waffle on, delay and lie. I notice the usual suspects signing the usual rubbish petitions and none of them get anything accomplished. I suppose it keeps the trolls all together in one place - but that's not enough of a positive to make it two stars. I'm off to find a petition to remove Change.org from the web.

I am absolutely disgusted as they deleted my petition because some snowflake got offended by it, I put a lot of money, time and effort into it, my petition was getting quite popular but change.org being biased decided that they were going to side with the special snowflake(s) and completely torn it down, the thing is I never swore, I was mildly blunt and only stated some issues. Freedom of speech does not apply on there clearly. This website is a load of codswallop and will only cater for the weak minded childish part of society.

This company- private for profit, not public non profit - has a curious way of turning one off donations into monthly charges on your credit card. Impossible to cancel. Almost impossible to contact. Use them at your peril as I have discovered.