CouchsurfingReviews of couchsurfing.com

Achtung Abzocke. Vormals kostenlos jetzt muss bezahlt werden auch um seine alten Daten einzusehen.

Couchsurfing isn't what is used to be anymore. Now it's a company that steals your personal data and denies you the access to it + kicks you out unless you pay. What the heck? Do not sign up for this website. We're all leaving the place.

Remember Orkut? Maybe you guys should google them... you're heading down the same road to oblivion. For my part, as longtime active member and someone that has had some incredible experiences on the platform before you guys wrecked it, it's very sad. Lifetime verification should mean LIFETIME. Not one years grace from your new monthly 'subscription fee'. No one asked for facebook synchronisation and NO ONE has asked for 'couchsurfing supports blah blah blah' facebook posts. Your recent bit of hollow virtue signalling around the Black Lives Matter movement is particularly disheartening. Seriously, If nothing else - fire your social media promotional guy. Personally, I am very supportive of the movement and take great offense of your transparently corporate appropriation of what those protestors are trying to achieve. The cut and paste responses to the comments in following your BLM post were SO bad, I'm almost looking forward to the one you will post replying to this review - should be a beauty. RIP CS

Use blackmailing techniques in order to squeeze money out of users.

Couchsurfin used to be a terrific idea about sharing, welcoming and bein welcome. As (too) many such initiatives it went down the drain the day it was sold to become a for-profit organization. The last straw was for the "owners" to block, without any warning, all the "member's" profiles to racket them into "saving C$". A treacherous and fatal move towards the death of this beautiful dream. Many members are now deleting their profile and moving to a new welcoming hive : BeWelcome !

I'm so disappointed about the way they are treating their members, hijacking their accounts, putting their accounts behind a paywall (even for those that have already paid for verification or membership), deleting critical comments on their social media, blocking people, taking over a month to delete data etc...Shame on you!

Getting your account and all data deleted from CouchSurfing takes a very long time. I e-mailed CouchSurfing support on the 14th of May 2020 asking to delete my account. But it took until the 11th of June 2020 and several e-mails on my part before I got a confirmation from CouchSurfing support that my personal data was deleted. It a complete mystery to me why CouchSurfing has not chosen to make it possible that users can delete their own personal data instead having to go to a lengthy procedure via CouchSurfing support. It almost seems the management of CouchSurfing tries to hinder users to leave the site!

I used to love it, but they sold out. It's all about the money now.