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[episani]

I had a yearly subscription and by mistake they sent me an offer to reactivate that subscription which wasn't expired. I clicked and paid into the offer, which was for a 2 year subscription, but it created a new subscription instead of extending the existing one. I ended up with 2 subscriptions. I was expecting the subscriptions to be merged. When I received an email saying that my subscription was expiring it took me by surprise. When I contacted customer service they said I should have merged the subscriptions within 30 days of receiving the second subscription. They basically stole 7 months of subscription from me. Customer service is horrible and you can't access a history of financial dealings in your account. Please keep your emails as it is the only proof you have of any charges made by this company. Very dodgy. Please avoid.

 

[rayh99]

Been with PIA since 2010 and own multiple accounts that I pay with Gift cards. PIA stole $50 from me and have refused to restore or refund the funds even after providing them with statements showing that the payment was legit.
Private Internet Access charged me $50 for a year account. A few days later they close my account and have refused to refund me the money or reinstated the account. The excuse they gave was that a transaction had show on the card that I paid with after purchasing the year service.
Even after I show a statement of the gift card that the PIA payment was the only one on the gift card pia refuses to refund or restore the account or refund the money.
I have heard multiple you tubers knocking them down since they got bought over but I actually never tough they will steal $50 and refuse to make things right. STAY AWAY FROM THIS VPN, THEY SCAMMED ME AND WILL DO YOU AS WELL.

 

[Cerelia]

I had the absolute worst experience with this company and would never use them nor recommend then again. I had a static IP address I paid for each month and it suddenly stopped working. I used the token I was given to try and reactivate it and received the error "incorrect token." I have numerous financial accounts linked to this IP address for access and was temporarily unable to access them.

When I tried to resolve this with PIA, their chat support was absolutely abysmal . After explaining the issue, the person had no idea what the issue was and disappeared from the chat so long that it disconnected. When I tried to reinitiate the chat, it was busy for 2 hours. Finally I got through to the "same person" who acted like they had no idea who I was or what my issue was (amnesia?). They offered a refund with no explanation of why my static IP address stopped working.

Email support was even worse. It was like talking to machines who don't read or understand tickets. How can anyone use a company that offers static IPs then randomly has them stop working...... Absolutely terrible all around.

 

[3ch]

Deceitful. Servers in 50 states either is false, or is irrelevant for the user.
Fifteen US servers are listed in the UI, TWELVE of which are recognizable by a state name or a city name.

Disingenuous in replies to my complaints about the reduction in number from
the former far from 50
to the current 12.

 

[New User 101]

I wonder if the reviewer Mo Harber-Lamond, ever actually used the PIA VPN, or did he just read about it somewhere else? If he had used it, even once, he would know that PIA is blocked by Google and a vast number of websites. It is almost impossible to run a basic anonymous search using google, without running against an almost infinite number of CAPTCHA tests.

I suppose it is possible to avoid the test by logging into Google but users with any sense of personal security are outraged by the prospect of Goggle using your search terms to create a marketing profile. As far as I know, PIA never refreshes it's IP address ranges, so once the address is logged by the Google server, it is almost impossible to avoid being tracked. All the other search engines, DDG, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, etc, are rubbish.

When my PIA contract expires, I will not be renewing and will apply other methods to search the internet, quietly.

 

[keepitsimpleengineer]

I recommended this to my brother who travels a lot. He could not get into his account to set it up. I advised him to cancel his credit card payment, Seemingly VPN company competition to drive down prices has resulted in terrible customer support, which is a shame.

 

[Barneshta]

30 days money back guarantee is a lie and a scam. They dont offer port forwarding like they advertised, so I immidiatelly deinstalled it and asked for my money back. Customer service first tried to play out me with requesting various codes, transaction codes and similar. After I have provided them all of the codes, transactions they just stopped responding to my emails. I tried several times to reach them, but no success, they just stole my money.