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New York
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Incompetent Thieves
July 14, 2022

Over two weeks ago, as a newbie I attempted to make a transaction to ICE. Unbeknownst to me that platform is blacklisted by coinbase.My account was frozen and restricted. After many hours of talking with Customer Service to resolve the issue, they repeatedly said that an email would arrive in 4-5 business days. That never happened. Last week I withdrew my finds as much as I could, but there is still a $10.00 balance, This morning I received an email with a single line, no explanation that "Your Coinbase account recovery request is cancelled." even trying to close the account has proved to be impossible so I just deleted the app from my phone. I work in financial security. There is NO WAY that this should have happened. This is a crew of reprobates and incompetents. Avoid this platform.

Date of experience: July 14, 2022
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I figured I was never going to get help from Customer Service, so my son suggested that I should try to enlarge the scanned id that Coinbase kept saying it was unreadable. I enlarged it so much that it was almost the size of my laptop screen and then cut off any white that was outside of the id itself so that it was fairly big in comparison to the actual id and hopefully readable. I tried uploading it again and bingo! It went through. After that the automatic process was fairly quick. In about 24 hours I was able to login.

It is honestly sad that no customer service person ever got back to me. Had someone tried to take the time to figure out what was the problem it would have made my life a lot easier. I figured if everything is alright you should have no problems but if something goes wrong, be prepared to figure it out because you will get no help.

Date of experience: July 15, 2018

I have been calling, emailing, etc. and after a month I still cannot log in my account because they cannot read my id? What? They had no problems with it when I signed up with them... Why do they need my id anyway?... I have the same phone number I just lost prior verification on last phone... Not even my bank asks for this... especially when I have my password. They keep "escalating" my problem when I told them I wanted to close my account, but I get no follow up. After calling after a week they told me it was sent to the WRONG department. Second escalation produced exact same results. After three days no follow up. After calls and emails I'm finally telling them I will contact the state attorney's office.
Canned very nice email answers... no results... I'm really getting worried here. STAY AWAY!

Date of experience: July 12, 2018
California
5 reviews
4 helpful votes
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REVIEW
February 28, 2022

If you or your loved one unfortunately has lost any funds to any fraudulent company, do not be dismayed, with the right hands on the job, you can get it all back, very effective, quick and 100% safe. Get in touch with Ashley.
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Date of experience: February 28, 2022
Pennsylvania
1 review
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Legal scammers
March 10, 2022

Absolutely horrible. They can legally steal your money and there is not one thing you can do about it. The customer service individuals cannot answer simple questions or maybe they aren't allowed to, I don't know but do not waste your money and time. They do not care about you they are just stealing your money, they need to be investigated, if normal people were behaving this way they put you in prison for fraud.

Date of experience: March 10, 2022
Missouri
1 review
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Misleading
February 13, 2021

The platform misleads you showing you all types of crypto available. I created an account looking to purchase DOT and transferred money just to realize they advertise it but they do not actually support it.

Make sure they are supporting the crypto youre looking to buy before creating an account. Its taken me 10 days and endless emails with support to get my money back.

Date of experience: February 13, 2021
Massachusetts
5 reviews
2 helpful votes
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US Exchange
May 15, 2020

I have not had any issues with Coinbase at all. I have been able to use all the services provided deposit, withdraw, convert, send and receive cryptocurrencies. It is a great platform if others were more readily available in the US lik bybit i would probably use them but this is fine for now!

Date of experience: May 15, 2020
Texas
1 review
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Be careful when on dashboard, it is not user friendly and confusing. On 07/22/2011 on dashboard trying to review funds and they (Coinbace) withdrew $1000. 00 from my Well Bank. How i discovered this "unauthorizes" purchase was their email. Immediately i called my personal banker, who immediately filed a complaint. There is no human customer support with Coinbase. Site not Trustworthy

Date of experience: July 27, 2021
California
1 review
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Worst ever. Like many of the other reviewers here, same issues. They are a total scam and just straight out lie to their customers. I have been with Coinbase for 10 years and have been fully KYC'd. They have my drivers license, social, etc all on file. Suddenly a few days ago, my account was "blocked". I called them and they told me they suspected something fishy was going on because I had $8000 in my account. They locked me out for 24 hours, made me upload a TON of personal information... Then the next day suspended me again. It went on and on for days. I finally got my account back and lost $800!

Total disgrace.

Date of experience: April 6, 2022
Indiana
1 review
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The emails to and from "support" are ridiculous. I simply lost a piece of paper with my 2FA key on it and also lost my authenticator connection on my phone app. There is nothing at all I can do to fix this unless Coinbase disables my 2FA. Everyone else has done it without compromising their security concerns, but Coinbase won't do anything about it at all. So effectively they are holding all my funds forever for no good reason. I know I am not the only person who ever lost their 2FA app and their key at the same time! Does anyone know what I can do to get my money from these people?

Date of experience: April 24, 2017
Ohio
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Fraud
October 4, 2017

Someone by using the help of this company commit a fraud on my credit card. They stole my money and this company refused to refund the money back. Be aware of them before you give them your bank account!

Date of experience: October 4, 2017
Canada
1 review
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I don't know if this is for you but...The platform is easy to use. I admire the interface but they hide behind a mask and take a hold of peoples money. I was down for a few days and opened up to my son. After making some research, we found out you could get your investment back. I got in touch with@ ezreko via Instagram, he's a Chinese recovery expert, and in less than 2weeks the problem was fixed. I hope this helps.

Date of experience: April 20, 2023
Colorado
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I've been a customer with coinbase for over six years. My account was hacked coinbase locked it. I have been trying for months to get my account unlocked they have no customer support in the coinbase help.com is ridiculous it gets you nowhere. When you do a ticket they never respond.

Date of experience: December 30, 2021
GB
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They are up to all sorts of scammy tricks. I'm currently on a "trading suspended" whilst markets rally. Customer support has taken over a day just to respond to an email regarding this. This was a template email. This is just one major scam they get up to. There are too many to write! Get your money off this exchange! They are going to get investigated, they are guising under the premise of being legitimate company now. They pull all sorts of moves on you to take your money but will not pay you when you're successful in the long run. Screenshot everything, emails, balances anything you can for the ombudsman or financial services watch dogs. It will all come out, I'm sure there are plenty disgruntled employees that will say how they were told to thwart and dupe customers. This exchange is a fraudulent ticking time bomb.

Date of experience: November 21, 2020
Oregon
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Hidden Fees
February 21, 2024

When selling my cryptocurrency and sending my cash to my bank, I was given the option of having it transferred into my bank account or to my debit card. I could have done either one easily. I chose to have the money sent to my bank debit card. There was NO indication that to have my cash sent to my debit card was going to cost me $500, *more than DOUBLE* than sending it to my bank account! I contacted them about this. Their customer service was terrible. No help at all. They basically said tough s***.

Date of experience: February 21, 2024
Ohio
1 review
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Love Coinbase!
January 11, 2022

I am actually very surprised to see all of the negative reviews about Coinbase. I have had nothing but positive experiences with the app and in trading crypto. It periodically will give you opportunities to learn more about crypto and to earn $$ - since I downloaded the app less than a year ago I have racked up over $50 in free crypto. Yes, there are improvements that I think should be made to the app but overall you can't argue with free crypto rewards! Great referral program too, if you use my link below to signup and trade $100 you'll get $10 in free Bitcoin! coinbase.com/join/whitte_54?src=ios-link

Date of experience: January 10, 2022
Florida
1 review
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Wish I could give 0
January 10, 2022

I have been waiting for going on 3 months to get my money back. They have been 'reviewing' why my account was disabled for no apparent reason. I have sent countless emails and still, they are reviewing my account and holding my money. It's too late to ask my bank to get it back, so now I am just waiting for this 'review' process. At this rate, they might keep my money

Date of experience: January 10, 2022
Pennsylvania
1 review
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I recently opened my coinbase account and Invested on some stocks. Coinbase people charged me like a hell. They are chagrin way more than the locked price. I couldn't believe them. For example If I buy 10K stocks original stock value is $9500+ coinbase fee $146 so total $9646 but the remaining balance they took from my account. I don't know why coin base is charging like that. It's not easy money It's my hard working money.

Date of experience: May 4, 2021
New Jersey
1 review
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Support does not reply.
December 10, 2020

There is no support. If they even bother to get back to you, it will be a non-answer followed by silence. The company also lies about rewards they offer and does not honor them. They are also the most expensive in terms of fees and they make clever attempts to hide the actual cost of a trade or purchase. DO NOT USE COINBASE.

Date of experience: December 10, 2020
Wyoming
1 review
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Send in an order for 1300 dollars and they cancelled it. Said their software detected "high risk" behavior on my account. What the hell?! What kind of response is that? What does that even mean. They didn't even give me a better response. The just said "we're sorry". If they can't give a better reason, it means they don't have one. They are scamming people selectivity. So I waited 2 weeks and tried again. Same thing. Cancelled automatically by their system. And they kept the fees both times! If the btc value changes in a way that doesn't benefit them, they blame you saying a Blakeney statement that you are "high risk" they cancel your order, keep your fee, and they aren't losing anything by cancelling the transaction. They are just keeping thousands of people's fees. They don't even have a phone number! Seriously, STAY AWAY FROM COINBASE!

Date of experience: January 27, 2015
Florida
2 reviews
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You will regret the day you ever started with Coinbase.
They are a fraud! They will find a reason to lock you account and not open it.
They will hijack your money, they do not have customer support for coinbase pro.
It took me 3 months to get back on and then they removed my bank and wont let me connect it.
They wont let me sell my crypto.
I would take a loss to get out of it.
I actually need to hire an attorney and sue them. They are a nightmare from hell
I really dont understand how they are in business. THEY ARE A FRAUD

Date of experience: May 26, 2022

Overview

Coinbase has a rating of 1.3 stars from 816 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Coinbase most frequently mention customer service, bank account and phone number. Coinbase ranks 51st among Centralized Exchange sites.

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