InterNations.org Reviews

BUYER BEWARE and read the reviews! Do not join this organization. It has outrageously unethical billing and business practices! It claims that basic membership in InterNations is "free", but then you must pay full-price to attend every single one of their events. If you then upgrade to Albatross membership, which allows you free entry to social functions, it is almost impossible later to cancel your membership. They give you NO direct Notice when they automatically charge your credit card for their annual fee, and if you object, and state that you no longer wish to be a member (which is why the charge was blocked to begin with), they threaten you with a collection action. This is an unscrupulous organization, which is all about profit. Do not be scammed. BTW, if you're interested in attending one of their events, you can go as a guest, without even risking joining their despicable organization. You still have to pay (of course; it's all about the $$$), but far better to do it on an event-by-event basis than ever risk giving them access to your bank account.

As many of the other members of this site, I was also a victim of the unethical practise and policy of internetions.org. They are asking me to pay over 30 euros for something I was not aware I was scamed to pay for.

Clearly, they "took" all the steps they need to, not to clearly inform me on time, that if I don't cancel the autorenewal, they will charge me about something I don't need, want and I will not going to use anymore.

Even from the beginning they managed to subtly hide the autorenewal informations, subtly enough that you feel comfortable to just klick all the "next" buttons until you finish the subscription.

At the end, they don't allow me to delete my account until I pay the invoice they sent to me, threathening me that they will take legal actions against me.

Not letting me to delete my account is pure kidnapping of the user's privacy!

All of the members, or the future members should a ll be aware that the Internations.org practises are rude, not user friendly and fraudly.

Best regards,

Gjorgi FIlipov

We're a group of Internations.org victims and we decided to team up and take legal action against them. Please contact us on internations.scam[at]gmail.com

If InterNations has access to your credit card information, it is already too late.

You will no longer be able to do anything to be billed for undue amounts.

Phase 1: They reassure you before they get the informations. Once the informations has been obtained, internation.org moves on to ...

phase 2: your access to the invoicing data will disappear from their site. You will not be able to change anything before the trial period and even at the end of the year you were unduly charged, they will charge you again: they will tell you that access to cancellation is still available, but do not believe them, that is not true. They know that their trap works. Then Internation.org moves on to ...

Phase 3: there are successive threats of prosecution against you. Do some research on the internet and you will see that hundreds of people complain about the process. The other victims are silent.

I leave in France and have filed a complaint against InterNations.org so that this type of scam can be neutralized.

Be careful, it is the same site that manages all payments from all countries, no matter what your country is, it is the same treatment you will undergo. So don't be careless or naive. Make it known and run away from these crooks

Best regards

This organisation claims that I joined as an "Albatross" member. I did not. Somehow they got my credit card details and have been debiting it by stealth for years. No invoices issued. No emails sent to state my "membership" would be renewed. The only thing I heard from this scam outfit was a moaning email stating my last payment had not gone through (my credit card was cancelled this is why) and threatening me with legal action.

I complained stating my case. They stated they could not cancel my membership at their office and I had to go into my "account" to do it (I have no logon details for it). Have tried contacting the CEO's of the company, who are cowards and will not reply - if they exist. Do NOT give any details to this organisation. It is a FRAUDULENT SCAM!

They are very sneaky in the terms for paid membership. Nobody has the time to read the small letters. I thought i was just paying for 6 months when I subscribed for albatross membership. Just in case, I gave a one month valid credit card just to make sure they would not automatically charge me... after 6 months they tried to again and did not succeed since my credit card was no valid anymore. then they threatened me with legal action. So sneaky. Internations lost my trust. Luckily there are other organizations planning similar events, like meetup and many more.

They are not interested in helping expats acclimatise to life in a new country, they are just looking for your money.

Signed up to what I thought was a year of membership, ended up not using it. Turns out there is smallprint in their Ts&Cs where it automatically renews for another year unless you actively cancel it. Contacted customer service to explain the issue, they hounded me with debt collection notices until I paid for another year of membership they know I will not use. If they check their records, I have clearly not been using their product.

Happy to share screenshots from customer service department, they were rude, offensive and thoroughly unpleasant.

Very unethical. Posting my experiences to hopefully prevent others from going through this horrible ordeal when trying to build a life in another country.

They sell the business as a free trial and then start charging your credit card with automatic renewals without your authorisation. If you want to cancel the free trial and remover your information from their website you are forced to pay a fee of EUR90. Failure to do so they send you threatening emails via a law firm saying your credit rating will be impacted. Complete fraudulent behaviour.

It seemed like a good organization at first, but BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT PAID MEMBERSHIP.

I paid for an Albatross membership, and did not realize they will bill your credit card every year, without sending you a notice that they will do so prior to billing.

I had not been using the organization, for two year and was billed without realizing. Okay, my bad. However, when my credit card number changed, they issued a membership again, without asking me first.

I immediately asked them to cancel my membership, but they refused and said I could only cancel, after first paying (no refund of course). They refused to have any person that i could speak to on the phone, and said they would call collections.

Don’t be scammed like this. If you join then do not give them your credit card information. Stick with a free membership is best.

I had an Albatross membership (which I didn't realize autorenewed). So the ba***ds are sending me emails threatening to call in a collection agency. I have lots of free time in hand and would love to see this go to court. Misrepresentations, fraud and a totally deceiving customer service are some traits they represent.....a bit like Angela Merkel's Germany where they are located. No wonder Trump is screwing Germany (though I am not a Trump fan!). And we all know how they are trying to screw Great Britain with the Brexit deal. Bunch of malicious, malignant and misrepresenting crooks!

They create a dark pattern where it is really easy to accidentally pay for a full membership after your free trial is complete. They will charge you even if you are a day late canceling and have zero interest in helping you out. It is impossible to get any kind of refund since they charge you everything upfront and not month to month like most subscription services. While what they are doing is completely legal, it is clearly done purposely and dishonestly to scam you out of your money since you can read all over the internet of people bringing up the exact same complaint. I have learned my very expensive lesson and am posting my story anywhere I can so that other do not fall into the same trap.

DO not give your credit card information for even a single event. I have just identified that I was charged 9 times (rolling renewal 3x) for a product I NEVER USED. I never received one invoice, and never signed up for the community membership, just a single event.

FRAUDULENT. I will report this everywhere I can find online as they are refusing to resolve the matter. For an organisation that purports to support expats, they certainly are taking advantage of them.

C. Robinson

They wouldnt let me cancel the trial and kept my credit card information. the T&C don't say it is renewed automatically and they charge you and keep your details!!! they don't let you modify it, change it, cancel it before the term and then scam you out of 50 bucks! it doesnt help you socialize and a complete waste of time. NEVER go in!

Don't fall for Albatross Membership. Once you signed up for this you will not be able to cancel. Customer Service is a "joke". They will not assist you at all but only will start threatening you for Legal Action if you will not pay.

This kind of message you might will receive:

"We provide you with all the necessary information you need to manage your account online. As you did not downgrade your account before your membership was renewed, there is no further action we can take.

Please note that as per our Terms & Conditions, we reserve the right to keep your account active until you settle your balance. We also reserve the right to escalate this matter further to a debt collection agency, which may result in additional costs for you."

Very tricky, cheap and dirty approach towards members.

Internations is eager to charge for the Albatross membership, however once you subscribe, it will be automatically renewed without your consent and cancelling the subscription is a pain: information on how to do that is hard to find and the process is painful. I haven't used the site for over a year and have just learned with surprise that I have been charged all this time. As if this was not enough, my account is now blocked and I'm forced to pay for a renewal because the card attached to the subscription has expired. I strongly recommend you stay away from the subscription, and from this site all together.

Last year I signed up for an Albatross membership on Internations.A few days ago, I got an email on the same day of the renewal saying that the payment could not go through.

I got no advice notice regarding the auto renewal, not even in my Internations inbox. Reminder emails are the common thing in these cases, unless you only care about the money and basically want to ripoff your members!! Fortunately I have moved to other country and the bank account I provided does not exist anymore. I am not interested in keeping my Albatross membership for many reasons, being the main one that they are trying to force me to pay for something that I don't want nor need!!

I am trying to delete my account but they are not letting me to do so unless I pay. I cannot downgrade, I cannot remove my account, no options available, only to pay!!

What a scam and ripoff!!!Please avoid this network!

s soon as I realized I had been charged for an entire YEARS membership (over $70usd) I got in touch with customer service via email. This was after the 14days to get full refund for not liking this 'service'. The company is stealing from me, hiding behind terms and conditions, it is unethical to not give someone their money back for being unhappy with this 'service' they are providing. Yes, I was unaware that I would be charged a full years membership. As the website states that there are options for the length of membership, ie 3 months....I figured thats all I would be paying when/if I forgot to cancel the trial which I did forget. Any other ethical business would try to do something, but these jerks....

The thing that gets me is that the email they send to let you know you have a bill or remind you that your trial is almost up is sent to their internations webiste, so if you don't login, you will never see it. That is what happened to me.

The parties used to be interesting but then I have not used the service for a long time and they simply charged me for an auto-renewal I have NEVER requested saying it was for my convenience.

I have requested a refund on the same day explaining that I had not logged in to the platform in several months and they simply refused to give me a refund.

Also, somehow my previous credit card has already expired so I don't understand how they were authorised to charge me on my new card. I will never use this service again.

These people understand nothing about business ethics and good customer service, hiding behind their T&C like the supreme law, and have no remorse of taking their members' money, even though those members aren't aware of such term.

Behind their image of "connecting people" or so is a practice of "stealing from people as much as possible while this is still legal".

This should be made illegal for businesses to deploy such practice, preying on their customers' carelessness to steal people's money.

Turned out there were many other victims of the same practice. So just be aware and don't get caught in the same situation