"All of us who are members of Couchsurfing believe in something greater than money, possessions, and status. It took over 14 years for the Couchsurfing community to come together. Without your immediate help, this community will be lost forever."
Exaclty! A "couchsurfing" was never about of money...and ever since the ~50€ validation price the site is a joke, and this beggar attitude was the last nail in the coffin... The couchsurfing site suppose to be a non-profit organisation and not a money making business!
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Florin F.
R.I.P
R.I.P. Couchsurfing
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C.C.
This company is the worst
This company is run by the worst, most ignorant and selfish people in the world. This website was made by volunteers, the founder figured out a way to sell the organization to a for profit that he created and owned, then he sold that company for millions of dollars. The new owners made an app that doesn't work well and they completely killed everything that once made the site great. Please do not support this behavior. They rely on people not knowing what happened.
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Alyssa Escalante D.
Used to be great - not anymore!
Used to be great, now it's not. Don't sign up, they will just try to suck more money out of you and it is so difficult to delete your account or get a refund!
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Emil N.
Was great - now it's not!
I was member since 2011, met few people during the year however my big time was in 2015 and 2016 when I hosted a bunch of people - as well I went travel myself. Still contact with all hosts I stayed over and some of the surfers I've hosted.
Haven't been as active but still available for hosting the past years, been few times a year.
When Couchsurfing locks everyones out from their account without contribute by force, by money - they deserve this review from me and leaving their platform for good even if they open again for everyone.
Has been constant issues as well on the site during years, still somehow they need money to run a website. When I bet you lots of people would freely volunteer to help run it. But that's not the goal of Couchsurfing owner, it's the money they want.
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Taras
It should not be commercial
Since Couchsurfing was sold their focus is more and more on earning money.
Don't want to be a part of it anymore
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Castor C.
It's dead
It's dead. Try BeWelcome or Trustroots.
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Oliver V.
Stay away from CS
Stay away from them. I have been a member since 2004 and Since CS became a for profit organisation, they have only taken arbitrary actions such as using our information for their benefit, blocking users that publicly expressed their disagreement and deleting profiles that would be against this. Now they are using the covid19 situation to blackmail people about paying for their accounts as they are clearly looking to make more money.
I get a for profit company's priority is to make money, however, we as hosts, receive people in our houses for free, give our effort, time, space and sometimes even money to the travellers at no charge and they still expect us to pay for doing thay?!
Also, the quality of members is constantly going downhill, there are more freeloaders and people that dont really care about the whole core of what CS should be, due to this there have been lots of cases from new members stealing from / harassing others .. Have CS listened to the people affected by it? Never and by constatly blocking members and deleting their profiles instead of opening a dialogue they are clearly showing how willing the are to listen. Members are their clients, as a company you care about your clients and listen to them... well CS dont.
