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NordVPN Reviews Summary

NordVPN has a rating of 1.9 stars from 211 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with NordVPN most frequently mention customer service, credit card and auto renewal. NordVPN ranks 6th among Vpn sites.

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Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Worst customer service.
September 7, 2023

I was a seven year user of Nord VPN. The service was shutdown requiring a two step verification to restart. I was unable to use the Authenticator as requested to get back online. When this didn't work they required bank statements and credit card verification which was onerous and also just generated more email frustrations for me and no VPN service. 16 emails were exchanged and in the end I dropped the service with about five months paid service remaining. After all this about a week later they said that they would reset my service. I told them that I had already setup with a new VPN service. DEFINITELY DO NOT USE THEM IF YOU REQUIRE A DECENT CUSTOMER SERVICE GROUP!

Date of experience: September 7, 2023
Andrew B. NordVPN Rep
over a year old

Hello. Sincere apologies for the inconvenience. Could you please update this review and provide us with a ticket ID that you have received after reaching out to our support team? This would allow us to investigate this case in more detail. -A.Z

Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Crooked Company!
September 7, 2023

I tried to buy Nord VPN coverage, but on the invoice I was charged TWICE for GST, once on their invoice, and second time when I was to pay via PAYPAL. After exchanging three or four e-mails, I could NOT get a straight answer from them.Their program did NOT even download, so I do not use their product. I approached American Express to void the sale.They are in the process of "investigating"...Stay away from that company. They deserve MINUS 5 stars rating!

Date of experience: September 7, 2023
Andrew B. NordVPN Rep
over a year old

Hello, Mark. We are really sorry to hear that. Could you please provide us with a ticket ID that you have received after contacting our customer support team? We would like to check if your request was handled properly and provide you with further assistance. -A.Z

Costa Rica
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Hi all, I just wanted to update here, I did get a response 2 weeks later, and they processed my refund a few days afterwards. It was a bit odd to me they didn't respond that it's in progress prior to the resolution, that's why I posted here.

Thank you!
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I renewed my two-year subscription on May 3rd this year and found a notification that my license 'expired' past weekend (Aug 20), when logging in again the system was askig me to renew it. I knoew this was off so I started chatting with support (helpful guy) and I found out I've been banned. He opened a ticket (ID #*******), thank you, chat support guy) and another person followed up, letting me know that
"in this case, our tools have detected your account performing potential web scraping activity. Unfortunately, your account is suspended indefinitely.

Let us know if you have any further questions.

Dionio Rubio"

I did have more questions, like why no warning (I was utulizing tool for my work scraping a domain that is owned by the company I work for--I'm happy to provide details), why are they pushing to have VPN on ALL THE TIME if there are restrictions to the use, and finally if can I get back my money for the remaining 20 months that I paid for. Dionio didn't bother to even reply to my questions for a third day in a row now.
While I understand it's their right to stop the service--not even responding to the money back request (or other questions for that matter) is simply poor service. And beyond that trying to get me to shell out more money (with a screen on my account stating nothing about the ban, just asking to renew) is plain terrible sales tactic.
I'll be posting this everywhere, until I get a response. Thanks for reading random stranger!

Date of experience: August 24, 2023
Andrew B. NordVPN Rep
over a year old

Hello! Thank you for your feedback. It would be best if you could continue to contact our support team via live chat at support.nordvpn.com so we can investigate your situation further. For your convenience, our team is always accessible 24/7. - K.S

South Carolina
1 review
1 helpful vote
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S/h/it
August 21, 2023

On March 20th 2023 we paid for a subscription for a year and a few months later I see that the VPN stopped working I contacted the support explained what happened and they told me that I run a VPN for illegal things and this violates their policy. It's just terrible I use VPN for my company I have to constantly turn it on so that I can go through the search for other countries to buy goods well, as they did I accused me of false information I was just horrified they stole the money they took away the subscription just scammers your policy is simple and the system equals the trash company all the best hope no one else stumbles upon you

We needed a VPN purely to use it to search for truck parts abroad and you wrote me about some scripts and your program worked protection and thereby limited our account please delete it in your VPN system because it does not work correctly and your employees are full s/ht

Date of experience: August 21, 2023
Andrew B. NordVPN Rep
over a year old

Hello. We're sorry to hear about your negative experience with our service. If possible, please update your review with a ticket ID# or contact us at support.nordvpn.com again so that we could further address your concerns regarding your account. -N.L.

California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I purchased 1 month subscription assuming it was just for a month, but it turns out it auto renews. On the first day of next billing cycle my credit card was charged and I contacted NordVPN to cancel and get a refund, but they pointed to their Terms of Service and would not issue refund. I get the ToS, but would appreciate more flexibility for cases like mine.

Date of experience: August 19, 2023
Andrew B. NordVPN Rep
over a year old

Hello! We currently offer refunds for initial purchases within 30 days. After the trial period, our support team is no longer able to offer a refund for the payment. We apologize for not meeting your expectations and hope that you will give our service a chance to redeem itself in the future. -Neo

Florida
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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BEWARE! 24/7 customer support is an outright lie. You can't reach out to customer service via phone or live chat. You only receive a response from Nordvpn representativesis if you write a review on a website. It is always a generic response that points you right back to the same email that DOES NOT respond. Any comments about great customer service are either paid or made by bots. Only response received are on review boards Don't waste your money. They'll respond with 24/7 customer service is waiting write another email guaranteed resolution. Only received automated response in 24 hours. We have received a request (ID #*******) with a subject title "Refund Request"
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Watch the response :)

Date of experience: August 3, 2023
Andrew B. NordVPN Rep
over a year old

Hello, Colin. We are really sorry to hear your displeasure. Our customer support team is indeed available 24/7 via live chats. You can reach out to them by going to support.nordvpn.com and clicking on the chat bubble at the bottom right of the screen. -A.Z

AE
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have been trying to use it, seems 4 months now, and it doesn't work. U are supposed to be connected, but you have no internet whatsoever. It is garbage. I have tried to change all the possible protocols to get a better connection, but nothing works. Don't waste ur money... IT IS THE WORST VPN EVER.

Date of experience: July 24, 2023
Andrew B. NordVPN Rep
over a year old

Hello! Please accept our apologies. We would strongly suggest contacting the NordVPN support team via email at support@nordvpn.com or via live chat at support.nordvpn.com. Support is always accessible 24/7. - K.S

New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I bought a Nordvpn subscription using paypal. Nordvpn will not recognize the active, paid subscription. I can not use the service w/o an active subscription. Customer service tells me my account is active, which irrelveant since wo a subscription it is useless. Terrible customer service

Date of experience: July 22, 2023
Andrew B. NordVPN Rep
over a year old

Hello. Apologies for the inconvenience. Make sure that you are using correct email address to log in, if that's not the case, try logging out and logging back in to our application. -A.Z

Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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TOOK MY MONEY FOR A 2 YEAR SUBSCRIPTION, THEN DISABLED MY ACCOUNT

I have had Nord VPN for more than a year. I recently bought 2 YubiKeys and set that up in 2FA and logged in multiple times to test that it is working and they blocked my account for "scraping" and then reactivated it and now... 2 weeks later they did the same thing, without me even logging into any new devices. I don't even know what scraping is, and they refuse to give me any details, so they took my money for 2 years and then blocked my account and can't tell me why, so in my opinion they SCAMMED me.

NO Call support, just email and takes a long time, with no resolve, WOULD WARN YOU AGAINST THEM!

Terrible customer support. Just says, sorry we can't help you, someone will contact you, without any explanation about the details why.

Date of experience: July 15, 2023
Andrew B. NordVPN Rep
over a year old

Hello! While suspensions are issued for serious infringements, our support team is able to review your account upon your request. Please note that this process does take time and suspension is not lifted in cases if infringement is confirmed after review. -Neo

New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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NordVPN was my 3rd VPN service. I subscribed for 2 years because they had a decent review. After one month of use the turned off my service because their "automated tools" detected I was "web scraping". I am a retired person using a single desktop. Aside from the occasional BitTorrent book I am NEVER done anything like webscraping. Repeated emails to support to cancel my account are replied to by robot mail saying my account is suspended indefinitely. No further explanation. No Cancellation. Word of warning: they are clearly monitoring your traffic and given their crappy analysis tools they probably have all that data laying around on their servers. Let my loss be your gain: DO NOT USE NORDVPN!

Date of experience: July 14, 2023
Andrew B. NordVPN Rep
over a year old

Hello John,

First, let us apologize for the unpleasant user experience you had with our customer support team. Your feedback will be forwarded and taken into consideration.

Regarding the web scraping communication you received from us, we would like to reiterate that we employ automated tools to identify web scraping and minimize abuse of our Services. These tools analyze new sessions for irregular patterns, and if such patterns are detected, your account might be automatically suspended or have limited access to the Services until further investigation is complete.

In such situations, we advise our users to verify their account credentials to ensure they have not been compromised, and someone else is not using their NordVPN account.

Once again, our sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused. -J.B.

New York
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE
July 12, 2023

Been a member of NordVPN services since December 2021. NordVPN worked for maybe, MAYBE, a couple of months before it turned into just constant issue after issue. You contact customer support and they do everything in their power to make you feel like you are the problem and not their terrible service. Their customer support is the most inept support team I have ever had the displeasure of interacting with.

Months ago, I contacted NordVPN support because out of nowhere, nothing from the iCloud worked unless I turned off NordVPN. No downloads, no access. They claimed this was not an issue on their end and led me through HOURS of useless troubleshooting. I searched online and noticed SEVERAL HUNDRED complaints with my same issue. There was no resolution. About three months later, an update was released for the NordVPN app and magically all the iCloud services started working again. How coincidental... Yet the NordVPN team PERSISTED in telling me that the iCloud issue was on my end.

I then had to contact support again months later because the service just stopped working completely out of nowhere with zero changes made on my end; Internet searches showed that MANY people were experiencing the same exact issue as me. Support vehemently denied any issues with their service and offered tedious and unhelpful troubleshooting. Several days later, me and everyone else who was experiencing issues ALL magically stopped having issues. How crazy that every single one of us had our issues resolved days later, without doing anything on our end and yet NordVPN still claims there were no issues on their end. Not only that, but the customer support agent I dealt with, was super abrasive, condescending and wholly unhelpful.

AVOID THIS COMPANY. As soon as my plan ends, I am RUNNING to a different company.

Date of experience: July 12, 2023
Andrew B. NordVPN Rep
over a year old

Hello. We're sorry to hear about the negative experience with our service. While the issues were resolved within days as per your mention, we do understand the frustration and hope you will give our service a chance to redeem itself in the future. Stay safe! -Neo

New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Good service
July 11, 2023

Thank you i had a very good service and i got my problem sorted

Date of experience: July 11, 2023
Netherlands
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Top service.
July 11, 2023

Quick and satisfied answers on all my questions.
On all questions I had they gave me an satisfied answer.

Date of experience: July 11, 2023
Italy
1 review
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Truly horrible service
July 10, 2023

The server in which my dedicated ip is was down for more than 18 hours.
This ip is essential for my work.
Nobody informed me, live chat agents lied saying everything is fine and the problem is in my device while they know that that servers are down.
It took 6 hours(!) till customer care replied to me saying there is a problem and not helping with a solution.
Also they took no responsibility while saying this is the terms of conditions so my problem.
Horrible service.

Won't renew my subscription there!

Date of experience: July 10, 2023
Kansas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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10/10 Customer Service!
July 9, 2023

Loved the chat experience! The bot at the beginning was easy to understand and it knew quick what kind of help you needed. Once I connected with the live agent, Annabelle, she went straight to the point and was quick to respond to every message. I highly recommend Nord VPN.

Date of experience: July 9, 2023
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Quality Company With Quality Service
July 8, 2023

I've been a NordVPN and NordPass Customer for a few years now. I rarely if at all have any issues with the service. However, just recently my Nord Service was not quite!00% and I needed a better understanding of how the application was functioning. I contacted Nord directly and before I knew it I was dealing directly with Nord Customer Service who guided me through a re-set, which corrected the issues I was having. (Not auto starting on CPU startup). Problem solved. Thanks, Nord Service.

Date of experience: July 8, 2023
France
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Très bon service
July 4, 2023

Je suis très satisfait du service, je 'e regrette pas bon abonnements merci

Date of experience: July 4, 2023
Florida
1 review
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Best of the Best
July 2, 2023

You wont find a better service out there, PROMISE!
Customer Service is the best!
2 Thumbs Up!
Any app that can do all this for the price you pay is INCREDIBLE!

Date of experience: July 2, 2023
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Great product and service behind it
June 30, 2023

Support was super helpful and helped me and my VPN is again working flawlessly! Nord has never given me any problems and now I can again work no matter where I am in the world. Great quality service, can recommend.

Date of experience: June 30, 2023
GB
1 review
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Great CS, but product falls short
June 28, 2023

Re: ticket (ID #*******): The customer service team is very helpful and very quick to respond. Very please with that. But I'm disappointed that in the end they have no solution to get the NordVPN software working on an LG TV - arguably the best and definitely one of the most popular TVs on the planet. No App is available and their SmartDNS work-around doesn't seem to work to stream services on the LG TV.

Date of experience: June 28, 2023

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Enjoy ultimate internet privacy, security and freedom with advanced features such as Kill Switch, Double VPN, Threat Protection, Dark web monitor, state-of-the-art encryption and no-logs policy so that your sensitive information is protected from snoopers of any kind. The extensive network of 5500+ servers in 60 countries lets you explore internet like a virtual traveler.

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Your activities using NordVPN Services are not monitored, recorded, logged, stored or passed to any third party.