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Washington
1 review
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Scam
February 22, 2025

The app don't work! You can't contact them! They've cheated me out of, who knows how much money!
Scam scammers scam!
Where's my money!
Scammers scam scammers scam scammers
Who do you require 100 characters?!
Scam scammers scam scammers scam scammers scam scammers scam scammers scam scammers scam scammers scam scammers scam scammers scam

Date of experience: February 19, 2025
California
1 review
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Complete scam.
February 6, 2025

App told me gas price as of 2 hours ago was $2.86, it was actually $3.269. I changed the price in the app however it fod not change on my wife's phone app. Waste of time.

Date of experience: February 6, 2025
Indiana
1 review
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Took off articles relevant to the gas station business. Changed the web site to where it is almost unusable. Not nearly as many members posting updated prices since the change. Site was bought out by OPIS awhile back who makes money off supply contracts on the wholesale price of fuel. Conflict of interest may be the cause of the site being less useful to the consumer!

Date of experience: December 19, 2024
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Lost more than gained
December 6, 2024

I have saved many times but I've lost up to.50 /gal. By incorrect prices that are advertised. Twice I went to discounts where the station was out of gas or under construction, wasting my trip. They get by with this by stating that all prices are reportedbyusers so not their fault. But they get discounts from the stations, why not prices? It is too frustrating to continue; I'll just use my local station discounts, thank you. I'm out! (The screenshot shows 3.19 price. Was advertised at 2.66.)

Date of experience: December 6, 2024
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Questionable at best
December 8, 2024

What a farce!
This weekend a gas company is offering 15 cents a litre off to Journey card holders. (Journey is a loyalty thing for ultramarine/pioneer).
I went to the station in Oak Ridges, price 20 minutes before I got there was 1.383 and was posted by user haseff. I arrived and price was 1.50 a litre. Didn't get gas! Wife posted the correct price for me.
Went to the station in Gormley, price had been posted by the same user but surprise it was 1.459 a litre.
Gassed up and posted correct price.
Came home and guess what, haseff has changed the Oak Ridges price back 22 minutes after I was there.
So to my simple mind either the gas company is screwing around or the station staff/management is screwing around.
Guess you can't trust gas buddy until they put something in there to keep the Haseff's of the world honest!

Date of experience: December 8, 2024
Massachusetts
1 review
1 helpful vote
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GasBuddy routinely charges me more than the advertised price after discounts. For example, I only save $0.03 per gallon even when the app says I will save $0.08. This is only 1% discount. I could have been saving at least 2% by using a rewards credit card this whole time. This seems like a scam. For example, today at Shell, the discounted price advertised was $2.77 after $0.03 gasbuddy and $0.05 fuel rewards. For 10.105 gallons the charge should have been $27.99, but I was charged $28.59, so only saved $0.30 over 10 gallons, $0.03 per gallon. There is no information stating that there is anything I did wrong, or anything else I needed to do, or could do, to receive the advertised price. This has happened many times. I have documentation. I think GasBuddy needs to be investigated for fraud.

Date of experience: October 21, 2024
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Unreliable information
October 11, 2024

Gasbuddy is not a useful tool during hurricanes or times of shortages. Although every news outlet seems to cite them as a useful tool (how much did they pay for that?!), there is no way for people to mark when a gas station does not have gas. The data on their website is unreliable and causes people to go to gas stations that have no gas.

Date of experience: October 11, 2024
Spain
1 review
2 helpful votes
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No Moderation
September 2, 2024

There is no moderation of price posts and no discipline of the hucksters who consistently (and obviously maliciously) post incorrect prices. I have made brief detours because Gas Buddy reports a lower price on fuel at a station a couple of miles off my intended route, only to find the price significantly higher at the pump than reported on Gas Buddy. It's also happened numerous times at a station in my neighborhood. I'll post the correct price and within an hour or two, it's changed back to the incorrect (lower) price - and always by the same user who also posts incorrect (lower) prices for all the other grades of fuel on offer at the same time. This is an intentional scam, likely by the station owner or someone else connected with the business. Gas Buddy turns a deaf ear to complaints. This is something they could moderate and control but they choose not to. Because of this, I have no doubt they are equally dismissive of the privacy complaints raised by others. This app is a total scam. Avoid it.

Date of experience: September 2, 2024
Canada
1 review
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Disappointed
December 31, 2023

I have used the gas buddy app for a few years now and have saved multiple times. A very useful tool for saving $. Unfortunately not very impressed with the local Tim Horton locations being listed along with the gas stations, how is this relevant on a gasoline comparison app? Very disappointing, if I want coffee, I'll go to the coffee app.

Date of experience: December 31, 2023
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Wrong info!
March 1, 2024

Drove 30 minutes to get Diesel at Valero/Anthem Oil at 2490 N. Tustin St. In Orange, CA, as Gas Buddy said it was much cheaper there. Arrived and found out it was $1 a gallon more than stated. Worker said they didn't know anything about it. To top it off, when I filled up they put a $175 hold on my credit card. Go elsewhere!

Date of experience: March 1, 2024
Virginia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I would estimate that at least 75% of people posting gas prices in Wichita have not been anywhere near a gas station that they posted a price for. What this means to the person using gasbuddy to find gas will more than likely go to a station that one of the gasbuddy liars has posted and find that the gas price at the station is totally wrong.

Date of experience: January 23, 2024

Gets worse all the time
December 4, 2023
Previous review

It's bad enough with all the liars posting, but now I can't seem to get points even though I am very close to the station I am posting. Another thing bad about gasbuddy is that as you travel most of the time gasbuddy does not show you the neatest gas station even though you have it set by distance.

Date of experience: December 4, 2023

All I can say is that gasbuddy allows people to post prices on the web with no proof they were ever at the gas station. Some people post numerous gas stations during one minute. The gas stations are more than a mile apart. Can you go to 3 gas stations that are each a mile apart in 1 minute? I think not. Yet they get points for doing this.

Date of experience: August 16, 2021
North Carolina
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Went to 4 stations on 7/11/24 based on prices reported to Gas Buddy. All of the actual prices were drastically higher than the prices reported via Gas Buddy. We'd driven far out of our way based on the GB reported prices. AND, when I submitted correct prices to Gas Buddy, they were never posted. I have relied on GB for best gas prices for years but won't be depending on GB anymore. Something fishy going on.

Date of experience: July 11, 2024
Louisiana
5 reviews
23 helpful votes
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The worst
December 8, 2023

Seems like my account is not working now. I have done everything you asked. Now if you could fix this it would be greatly appreciated. I am a Regional manager for a pharmaceutical company. My company has thousands of GasBuddy accounts. If mine can't get be fixed I am going to have the company discontinue all GasBuddy accounts losing your company hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Silly that you would want this instead of fixing an account which had been with you for years. Simply because one of your employees bullied my nephew who is autistic. I will make sure many people hear about this. They employ immature people like Cady and Nychole who like bullying people.

Absolutely the worst company. Simply find another company is my advice.

Date of experience: December 8, 2023
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Scam
November 4, 2023

Went to a station because of gas buddy price. Get there and it is higher for both midgrade and premium. Corrected the prices. It stuck for about 5 seconds and the reverted to wrong price. Tried three times. Every time it reverted to wrong price after about 5 seconds. Can't trust it.

Date of experience: November 4, 2023
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Pulling a 5th wheel needing diesel, tried 3 different times on trip, last stop said $4.79, wind all around through city streets on to find it $5.49, headed back to the highway on our own and it's 29 cents cheaper. So frustrating, won't use the site again while traveling.

Date of experience: September 11, 2023
Florida
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Gas prices are in accurate
August 21, 2023

We just drove 10 miles out of our way because Mobile advertised 3.62. When we got there it was 377. I suspect that the business has people constantly updating their gas price to something outrageously low just to get customers to drive there.

Date of experience: August 21, 2023
Georgia
1 review
33 helpful votes
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Total waste of time
October 24, 2021

Just tried using this app and the card stopped working while I was at a pump. It is not updated, even if it states it was 2 to 4 hrs ago, it will be more at the pump. Just stick to Waze app. I would not recommend gas buddy be used by anyone. A total incompetent app! You have been warned and I hope it helps someone use any other alternative. I enclose a photo of my receipt before it stopped working at any other pump or even gas station?

Date of experience: October 24, 2021
Texas
1 review
3 helpful votes
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No good no more
August 9, 2024
Updated review

Used to save money- now just full of fake prices, seldom accurate due to gamers trying to get app points and cheating gas station owners trying to attract unwary drivers. Waste of time.

Date of experience: August 9, 2024

Stop using GasBuddy
December 29, 2022
Previous review

Prices are completely unreliable (literally, more incorrect than correct). Station owners have learned to cheat the system by posting fake prices. It's up to GasBuddy to plug the holes in its system. If people stop using GasBuddy, they will be more motivated to ensure price accuracy on the app.

Date of experience: December 29, 2022
North Carolina
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Disappointed
March 14, 2017

I've used for 6 months. Kind of fun to start with. Now it's just disappointing. I'm not cheating. I go to each gas station submit info. The points are gone. I'm deleting this app today. Also the truck drivers should be on a different program. How can one compete with that. Good bye gas buddy.

Date of experience: March 14, 2017
South Carolina
1 review
6 helpful votes
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GasBuddy needs to crack down on owners reporting false prices. The same names keep popping up at certain stations, with prices often 25 cents or more lower than actual. This has made GasBuddy completely useless.

Date of experience: September 20, 2018

Overview

GasBuddy has a rating of 1.3 stars from 373 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with GasBuddy most frequently mention customer service, bank account and credit card. GasBuddy ranks 2261st among Autos sites.

service
74
value
81
shipping
33
returns
29
quality
60