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Canada
1 review
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Garbage
July 1, 2021

I canceled my subscription within the first two weeks because of the lack of content that could be found on other platforms. So imagine my surprise when it still renewed and charged my account, their "support team" was useless and just kept repeating that its up to the customer that the subscription is canceled before the renewal date and they don't do refunds, despite the fact I had canceled it two weeks prior. Don't waste your money. It ain't worth it.

Date of experience: July 1, 2021
Canada
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We cancelled our Crave subscription the day the renewal was due. They charged us for the full year and now say that it's their policy to not to offer refunds. We are out $230. We then asked if our subscription could be activated again. No luck. So they basically stole $230 from us.

Date of experience: March 7, 2024
Canada
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No Crave, It's Not My Device. It's Your App.
March 21, 2021

Crave buffers every few minutes repeatedly. I can't even get through a movie. I looked up online to see if this was a widespread issue only to see that Craves own site answers this issue by suggesting that all streaming apps have this problem and that the problem most likely is with a devices internet connection.

Well, I have Netflix and Disney+ on my iPad, and I don't have this problem with either. So no, crave, the issue is YOU, not my device or internet. The worse part, Crave costs more than Netflix and is twice as expensive as Disney+. If your stupid app will ever let me get through the Snyder Cut of Justice League, I'm 100% cancelling my subscription. Either way I'm canceling unless they grow some balls, admit they have the problem and work towards solving it.

Date of experience: March 21, 2021
Canada
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I just paid for a subscription to Crave TV. There are all sorts of errors all over the pages, and I can't watch the videos that I click to play. So, I'm now paying money for absolutely nothing... So frustrating.

Date of experience: May 21, 2019
Canada
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Terrible
December 25, 2018

Three weeks since paying for Crave and it still doesn't work. Outsourced tech help is useless. Judging from the reviews, it is better to bail now rather than wait for paying for another month. This borders on scam!

Date of experience: December 25, 2018
Canada
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2 helpful votes
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How can a streaming app cost me $20 p/m (and somehow they recently started doubling their fee) and be this bad? Sometimes it won't play anything at all, other times it forgets where I am in a season and starts me at the beginning. I can't keep watching. So, so bad.

Date of experience: December 30, 2018
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Crave is the worst. We can't even use the account. The absolute worst! They take your money and offer almost zero consideration for it. Will be cancelling and telling everyone not to use this joke of a service!

Date of experience: March 10, 2019
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I struggle through using the terrible platform with all its glitches to watch the couple of good shows that Crave offers, and then I cancel. I do this about once a year, as the content is very limited, and using the interface drives me crazy.

Date of experience: March 23, 2019
Canada
1 review
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I don't understand how I have NO issues with any other providers, but for some reason Crave is constantly signing me out, wont let me log back in, won't play some episodes of seasons, and is the most difficult one to use of them all, and yet the most expensive. If there is something that only Crave has I highly suggest you watch it and minimal use of Crave, then get rid of it.
Get it together Crave, you have some the highest paying contracts of shows to air and yet this is the quality you provide? Pathetic when cheaper services out perform.

Date of experience: October 26, 2021
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Crap
November 4, 2022

Rarely puts on anything worth watching been crap since beginning of covid keep waiting for good movies week after week nothing waste of time and money only have it as bundle for hbo a couple of shows was way better when other movie channel was running before crave took over shameful how they rip us off dropping this crap frustrated

Date of experience: November 4, 2022
Canada
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5 helpful votes
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This is a terrible quality streaming service, it abruptly stops 3 - 4 times per episode with an error message. To quote someone on from reddit:
"I had this problem, spent way too long trying to figure it out- my solution was to turn off all adblocker type things, including chrome settings that prevent tracking. Crave wants you to pay premium prices AND consent to being monitored so they can sell your info. BS."

Date of experience: August 6, 2022
Canada
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$#*! company
November 5, 2022

They didn't offer a free trial so we bought it for a year(I know, stupid) but it was cheaper that way than per month IF we were to enjoy the shows/movies they offer. We had it for 2 months and decided it isn't worth it so we called to cancel and get remaining refund back…. Well they don't give refunds. So we have a useless service for the next 10 months rather than them paying us back $100~ remaining ….

Date of experience: November 5, 2022
Canada
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I love the shows on crave. Who ever does that great job.
Whoever designed the delivery system should be sent to the 9th circle of hell.
It is unbelievably terrible. Sometimes freezes and crashed every 3 mins.
But the shows are so good you put up with it.
How can such a huge company continue to have such horrendous service. Truly mystifying.

Date of experience: June 19, 2018
Canada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I'm looking for movies on my original subscription but can't see that you pay extra until I click on the movie and it says that you have to get the plus. I'm an original subscriber at $10/month. But I am also a customer, so why treat me like I'm second class to the "new" HBO +?

Date of experience: November 5, 2018
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Terrible tv app
July 20, 2019

I have the tv app on my 45 inch samsung tv, the app itself works fine for me but it's incredibly laggy, the continue watching isn't good at all it just restarts the episode from the beginning and theres no fast forward or rewind. Also for some reason every time I open an episode of something it always has the play bar, show name and episode number menu up the entire episode, when it's supposed to go away after a few seconds. Absolutely horrible tv app that needs a complete rehaul in everything about it. The photo I added was still going and I don't know what button would make it go away.

Date of experience: July 20, 2019
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Technology behind crave is pathetic. When you call and ask why they can't stream a one hour episode of anything without freezing, all they say is 'yeah". Did t work for a while on Windows 10 tablets because was optimized for Windows 7 or earlier. Just a useless piece of tech that somehow bell got suckered into packaging and is now the only way to watch show time or HBO.

Date of experience: April 1, 2019
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I've been a Crave subscriber for 4 years now. Why am I such a loyal subscriber? Because they have a genius customer-retention strategy:

1) Every May, they charge my credit card an annual subscription fee.
2) I call them and ask them for a refund, and they say no.
3) I tell them to cancel my subscription and they say "fine, but it won't take affect until next year."
4) I say "that's what you said last year" and they say "I'm sorry, but we have no record of that."
5) After 20 minutes of arguing, I begrudgingly accept that I have to subscribe to a service that I don't want.
6) The following May, they repeat steps 1-5.

As angry as I am, I have to admit that it's really quite intelligent on their part.

Date of experience: May 30, 2020
Canada
1 review
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Painful
May 8, 2019

I rated 1 since I cant go any lower. Using the website is a painful ordeal when it comes to streaming. I have fairly good internt speed in my house, so for a site that's only proving 720p, should be able to stream any show flawlessly, but this is not the case, every show is prone to brutal freezing or slow load times. Issues are too consistent, I will be cancelling my subscription asap. To say any more would be beating a dead horse, to who ever reads this, do not waste your time and money.

Date of experience: May 8, 2019
Canada
1 review
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Absolute Trash
May 15, 2019

- Firstly, they charge you an insane amount of money (3x Netflix) and then they show you ADS?!? If you are going to show my adverts, why did you charge me money?
- Secondly, this site looks and feels like it was built by students at a coding bootcamp. There are bugs so critical that sometimes you literally can't watch shows, can't subscribe, etc. The user experience is horrible.
- Lastly, customer service is non existent. I once emailed them reporting a critical bug and they never responded...

Date of experience: May 15, 2019
Canada
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Their software is amateur and bizarre device rules
December 11, 2021

Wow - it is seriously the worst software - on any device - amongst all of the streaming services. Have to believe that Bell has their design engineers locked away and not allowing them to see services like Netflix, Disney, Prime.

And the error you get about "too many devices". We are not talking "active" devices - they limit the possible number you can have "registered". I can see limiting to so many active - but if you have 3 apple tvs, 2 iPhones, 2 iPads - you are hooped - only 5. And you can't "fix" this on the device - you must log in through a web browser. So frustrating.

If HBO offered a direct service, would drop Crave in a heartbeat.

Date of experience: December 11, 2021

Overview

Cravetv.ca has a rating of 1.1 stars from 466 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Cravetv.ca most frequently mention customer service, credit card and bell media. Cravetv.ca ranks 331st among TV Shows sites.

service
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value
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shipping
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returns
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quality
107