Skout — Meet New People Reviews

by Msheltra

I’m not surprised the people on here don’t get any sort of customers support reply they just get the same lame response - email support and there was no support.

I guess finally generating enough revenue they don’t actually have to care about what the customer says - look at all the critical reviews and look at the standard cut and paste reply

Support never answers update I got an answer that my account was suspended for violating terms of service which seems to be some thing many people are going through although they will not elaborate or tell you anything about it and I have done absolutely zero to violate any terms of service on any software package. I am a responsible adult and business owner and the only thing that differentiates me from anybody on here is like a small portion of the population I am transgender so the only thing I can think is that this is discrimination towards me and towards others and if you have a similar result find a way to contact me through SkoutMeetNewPeople Store I’m going to register a complaint with them and get enough users to support this.

by Brgonz

Update 9/5/18. Developer has “responded to my review” twice asking me to email them so they can help . I’ve emailed three times and NO response. There is NO support. Be careful because you may sign up, post your pictures and then never be able to access your account again. They reply acting like they want to help but when you actually email support, you get no response. Completely useless!!!

I signed up. Went to log in and got the message that they could not find an account with that email and/or password. I had JUST signed up. I knew what my password and email were. So I clicked forgot my password and it said I’d receive an email in about a minute. Never received the email. Tried multiple times and never got an email. I emailed support but never got a reply. I don’t know if my account got hacked or what but I don’t like the fact that my pictures and stuff are on there but I can’t log in to even cancel my account. Very frustrating! I don’t recommend.

by WhyBotsHuh?

They randomly banned me out of nowhere for no reason. Couldn’t sign back in at all so I deleted SkoutMeetNewPeople . Few weeks go by and I figured I’d try to download it again. I download it and sign back in and continuously nonstop keep getting these spam bot accounts messaging. One after another after another. Well I was talking to someone on live and was trying to figure out a way to get rid of all these bot accounts from messaging me. It was getting VERY annoying. Well I decided that I’d report and block them all, thinking maybe that’ll help. I get off SkoutMeetNewPeople . The next day I try logging on and have no access to my account. I had SkoutMeetNewPeople for a whole 2 days. Something tells me SkoutMeetNewPeople is purposely allowing these bot accounts to be on there in order for them to make money. There’s a lot of people on SkoutMeetNewPeople but no as many are you’d think. Half of them are fake/bot accounts, half are old accounts, and then there’s real people. SkoutMeetNewPeople is completely trash and whoever runs/manages SkoutMeetNewPeople is doing a TERRIBLE job. Imagine only caring about money and not your business. I’d rate SkoutMeetNewPeople 0 stars if I could.

by Laceydanielle

Wish I could rate this a 0 stars. But I can’t do it gets a 1. I loved SkoutMeetNewPeople for the longest time. But out of nowhere I got blocked. I made another account and got blocked months later. And just a few minutes ago I made a brand new email and made a new account on SKOUT because I love SkoutMeetNewPeople and I tried making a new SKOUT account with the new email and they didn’t even let me sign into it once. I was immediately blocked. It says I’m blocked “since breaking our terms of service” but I haven’t even gotten a chance to log into my new account! So, even though I used to love SkoutMeetNewPeople, I hate it now. This is ridiculous. There is no reason that I should be blocked from breaking the terms of service before I ever even got to log into my new account. Don’t ever download SkoutMeetNewPeople!! It’s trash!!! It used to be really good years ago, but now anymore!! Stay away!!!

by Coatedcoco

When I first download SkoutMeetNewPeople it was fun. Met a lot of cool people which I knew over a year now. However, not that it combined with meetme and tagged it gets worse by the minute. You lose favorites, so many under age kids on here, and they banned your account over anything. I done seen girl dance half naked and half naked pictures and nothing happens. I don’t seen little girls who look about 12 on live and it be grown men in it. Nothing ever happens. I don’t spent money on this account and everything. I think the more money you spend and the more diamond you get the more they take your account. I know so many people accounts who gets deleted and I know for sure they never did anything. If you download do NOT put any money on here. You a get all the promotions and stuff in the beginning which is to drag you in more then BOOM deleted. And let’s not talk about the foreigners who be sending and saying the most nasiest stuff online and nothing happens

by Mr.cornsaidit

Legit I’m on here friends with many; A military man so I carry myself in such a manner however, it boggles how I’ve been suspended once??? For no reason and just now I’ve been put on “time out” for live but I haven’t done anything but support SkoutMeetNewPeople and make friends so my question is who’s the actually moderators and why is it innocent individuals profiles are being subjected to this Bs?? When I have financially supported SkoutMeetNewPeople and then some. SkoutMeetNewPeople automatically kicks me off based off a group of people who I’m not even sure off who banded together to screw me? What kinda mess?? This will forever be a major setback in your app development. SkoutMeetNewPeople social status/ credibility cannot develop because the creators lack the care to progress in the aspects that matter making your app creeper and biased proof, that should be your foundation and main focus, it shouldn’t have been adding a live. I hope you seriously reflect and look into this flaw, or you will continue to lose many loyal Patriots.

by Aristafaye

Warning the people: last night I was informed by a friend that my fiancé had an account on SkoutMeetNewPeople, at that moment I had said that he was online. That was at the same time that we were both watching TickTock on my phone and his phone was across the room and I have been like that for hours.
He opened up his phone and showed me all his apps, even looked on SkoutMeetNewPeople Store for SkoutMeetNewPeople and it had said that he hadn’t even download it it wasn’t even on the cloud download.
I have tried to make several attempts to contact customer service about this issue I even tried making an account and messaging them I also tried messaging them on Facebook and I’ve gotten no response.
I have talked to multiple people on SkoutMeetNewPeople and they said the same thing has happened to them or friends and I have proof as I have screenshot it all of it. The next thing I can do is go to the authorities and to the police.
DO NOT GET INVOLVED WITH THIS SHADY APP!

by OnlyRealSpike

I have been having nothing but problems with SkoutMeetNewPeople & support completely refuses to resolve issues/problems I have been reporting! Most recently, I am getting notifications for messages that do not even exist (saying I had 3-6 or more minutes when I can’t find them at all! It has been displaying a “3” all day today (July 17) even though I have none....of I happen to get an actual message it says “4” (or whatever) but then it goes right back to “3” when there are NOT any messages!
That doesn’t even cover the fact that it is filled with fakes & scammers....I have had & been using SkoutMeetNewPeople for at least 2 or 3 months & have NEVER met a single real person....either fakes/scammers that want to scam me with websites or expect me to pay for sex (which makes them prostitutes which the last time I checked was illegal)!
With all of these issues/problems I am about 98% close to completely deleting SkoutMeetNewPeople & never using it again!

by Naomikey2008

SkoutMeetNewPeople is fun to use i really like it because we communicate with people all over the world.
But i have to admit that their support team are so mediocres on providing information to the users when they are being blocked of their services.
Skout tends to block accounts for no reason and when users appeal bu email asking the reason why their account are being blocked all they say its that the account has been blocked for violating the terms of use. Ok be more profesional please and explain with details because we all users have the right to know specially when we have not done anything wrong. They should literally do a better on that other than pretending to be so strict. SkoutMeetNewPeople is free which is good but i would rather pay a premium and not to deal with such mediocres team support. Would definitely not recommend SkoutMeetNewPeople. And another thing is that so many perverts using SkoutMeetNewPeople and they do not get their account blocked but yet we who receive these pervert messages and photos are the one who pay the price.

by Please Read Everything

Several years ago SKOUT used to be fun. Now that I am single again, I decided to give it another try. It’s the worst. Everything changed. You have all these live videos that people use to self promote. I set my search settings and I get results from UK. I don’t know what’s worse...the commercial ads or the SPAM/ads of fake profiles asking you to either text, call, email, Snapchat, kik, Instagram and other sources for you to go and continue a conversation, isn’t that what SkoutMeetNewPeople is suppose to be about?? In reality, it’s a bunch of people soliciting for sex. Is this a dating app or an escort service??? If your looking for an app that will waste your time, or if your looking for a lead to a sex webpage or a prostitute, by all means go ahead and download SkoutMeetNewPeople. How is it that these people right on their profile write the word prostitute and it’s not flagged. Don’t bother wasting your money for their premium services because it’ll only get worse.

by Jayoftheopera

Join SKOUT and defend into despair. What was my yearbook has now devolved into SKOUT/Meetme. Aside from the breading ground of sex workers who are even disenfranchised by the misery they’ve invited into their own lives, you have to deal with a constant barrage of scammers and bots. If you are lucky enough to find a real person you’re still left with that awkward dance where you try to figure out if the other person has any chill left whatsoever after being traumatized by the sheer horror of only attracting fake profile of constantly being asked for money. You could go over to the live streams where there are at least real people who seem to just want smiley face emojis or jet plane gifs, and will do almost anything for them. You can report them but them come immediately back, seemingly with a vengeance. My advice is that online dating is dead much like society’s decency. They’ve even disabled the feedback button cause they just don’t care. Run just run away

by Honestyis Important

This application has entirely too many bugs. You cannot delete any of the so-called profiles that look at you. So in a couple weeks you have 100+ profiles you cannot delete. When you go into match, it will show you profiles thousands of miles away. When you reach out to the company they tell you it’s your GPS locator on your phone even though no other apps you use have a problem like this. The company continues to make excuses for its failure to deliver a good product. As far as profiles, as a straight male you can expect to deal with 40% of the profiles around you being transsexuals. Of the remaining 60%, you can guarantee that 55% of those are fake or spam profiles. The company does not take them down even when they are reported. They like being able to say that they have a lot of people on their platform. Even though they are mostly spam and fake profiles. This is a complete waste of time. Do not pay for any service provided by this hack company.

by Anger Player

I don’t like the fact that your profile can be reported and blocked for anything I don’t recommend SkoutMeetNewPeople to anyone I use to think think this was a good app until I got blocked and they haven’t done anything about it. Where do I start well I was talking to someone today making plans to finally meet the an all of a sudden my email was blocked so I’m waiting to see if they restore it if not I will not make another account I’ve had my account for a few years now...... I’ve heard from other ppl that once they block your email there’s no getting your account back which is horrible...... if they do not fix this issue I will update my review n let everyone update....... so update email them still waiting on a response...... new update so they said I violated terms an conditions but they can’t tell me so i tested another person situation I made another account have my friend report the account n I was blocked right off the back so basically they will block you account if anyone reports it for any reason which is dumb I don’t recommend SkoutMeetNewPeople to anyone

by Kolohekahopena

I recently got the Skout app because my friend was on here looking for a relationship. I went on because we are both young and inexperienced, it gave me an opportunity to look for new friends and possibly a new partner as well (since the person I am currently seeing is shallow).

A few issues regarding SkoutMeetNewPeople ’s overall performance is it’s glitches. When scrolling, the screen constantly glitches up or down and makes it difficult to reach a specific chat, possibly because the ads they stuff in there are always moving. Along with that, the live feeds are very cluttered, the search bar that allows people to look for live feeds near or around their area is hidden under the live button, which makes it more difficult.

From what I know there is no possible way to contact Skout’s team in order to report disruptive behavior or bugs, which would be very helpful in a case of glitchy bugs.

by Funkyorgan

SkoutMeetNewPeople is great in concept, but clearly has major bugs. I used SkoutMeetNewPeople at first only a week ago on my preferred email. I was enjoying it; meeting nice people and even going live. However, one day I was logged out and for some reason it said my email was blocked. Was I hacked? Was it a glitch? Not sure. I contacted support and a week later never heard back. I have an additional email, so just a few days ago I created a new account with said email. Everything was going smoothly until today when voila, I wasn’t logged in. This time, I could log in but all of my profile and all of my chat history has been completely wiped out, like it’s giving me a brand new, empty profile. I emailed support again but my expectations are low. I enjoyed SkoutMeetNewPeople but I personally don’t find it worth the frustration to give it a third try.

by LiyahChristine

Waaay too many bugs right now. My app glitches, it freezes, it crashes.
When I open SkoutMeetNewPeople after switching between others, music will play but I’m not sure from where? The only way to make it stop is to either force-close SkoutMeetNewPeople or wait about 30-45 seconds for the music to stop looping.... Even worse? My phone volume is OFF, so I’m not sure how you’re making the music blast through. My messages don’t send right, I constantly have to restart SkoutMeetNewPeople , I’ve noticed the Match section glitches a lot and will show me usernames and profile pictures do not match up... Another issue is that I can’t seem to type out a buzz on the iPhone app, I had to log onto the browser to do it. That would be a great feature to be added so the extra step wouldn’t have to be taken every time... I like SkoutMeetNewPeople but the bugs are CRAZY! Please fix this, it could be great! I used to have an account a long time ago and SkoutMeetNewPeople has improved since I’ve been back, but it’s not going to be any better if we can’t even use it.

by Real415

There is basically no information on the profile pages to draw your interest. Other sites do much better. The idea is to make this an experience. Pictures should be required and the profile pages make the site look totally generic. Add more color and flash. Remove all the fake ads, spam, and bots that represent most of the traffic it seems. Enhance the live experience by allowing up to 4 people to be added to your live instead of one. Allow more interaction. Live dating game format where you can have 3 people participate in answering question for points. And keep going until someone knocks him off. Try to connect folks in local area so they can really believe there is a chance to connect. Let the top users help sell ad space. Run ads

by LoliJuku

I like SkoutMeetNewPeople but for some reason it doesn’t give you the option to put where your from or change it. When I first made my account, I put where I was from. Just today I find out that it’s showing me people that live in an area that way farther than where I’m from. I don’t know why it all of a sudden changed my location and I’m trying to change it. Also I have a MeetMe account and it says that MeetMe is connected to SKOUT so I decided to make one thinking that it’ll connect to both. For some reason, I have two accounts that show on both these apps. This bothers me because if someone were to see a second account of mine, they’re going to think that my account is fake. I wish they would just have one account that switches from app to app.

by Cashking888

I used SkoutMeetNewPeople and it was ok at first but now it’s weird , so many spam accounts and fake accounts with just “model “ type photos and it’s all robotic how they send you a link with some xxxxxx meet me on here for free blah blah ! It’s spam ! Then you have the problem when you delete your account and remake it for what ever purpose and when you select that you a male looking for a female and bam it’s showing you guys after you finished your profile wth??? Then you have to go and change that stuff feeling all worried if any guys are gonna think your on that side of the grass so you have to quickly go and change it or dudes gonna be checking you out and that stuff ain’t cool. I’m looking for females ! Women ! Chicks ! Not dudes ! It should keep guys off the females section too that’s awkwardly weird scrolling down and bam some dude with a beer lame as hell after seeing some chick that’s cute . Idk!!!

by MyNicknameIsJ_

I like the diversity of people using SkoutMeetNewPeople . Tons of people and a good mix. Plus, you can be listed on MeetMe and see people on there too, so it’s a big community.

The tech is the downside. It has features you’d expect- swiping, matches, etc, but a lot of it is non-functional. I get a “hi” or similar message roughly every 3-5 mins while logged in, but half the time, The person’s name displays as “someone” the message shows as “sent something” and I get a default profile pic. Ergo, even if I’m having a great conversation with someone, I might never find them again in my inbox unless I open dozens of letters. Plus, I can’t search by interests or age or anything- and when someone doesn’t answer their interests, their profile literally says “leave blank.” Sorry, guys, shoddy development. But, it is free, so I will shut the heck up and thank you for letting me use it. It has good bones.

by Rgx313

I used to really like SkoutMeetNewPeople (mainly because there were a lot of really decent people on it), now however it’s become a creep fest. I use it to try and find people to talk to because I do have a boyfriend and I put that on my profile, if asked I’m honest. I don’t like the fact that any time I get on I get a lot of mail from all these guys who have a problem with that, have a problem with not wanting to ‘hook up’, the constant unwanted pictures.

I don’t understand how my inbox can say I have X amount of unread messages when it’s completely empty or any message I do have in it is read. There are too many ads when you’re just scrolling, my app randomly crashes mid convo. People I’ve been talking to our entire conversation disappears, I know I have no been blocked but the whole thing is gone. I did manage to email the developers but I have yet to get anything resembling a response or update for that matter.

Honestly though if you don’t want to be disgusted don’t use SkoutMeetNewPeople.

by Anonymous2two

No one appears to read profiles on SkoutMeetNewPeople. You specifically state, when you sign up, that you want only local and age specific people contacting you, however, you get people from all over the world and a bunch of scammers.

They’ll let anybody post a picture on here, unlike other sites where the pictures have to get approved. It’s disgusting when you open up a profile and see someone’s half naked, bony chest full of hair or 300 pound blob staring you in the face, LOL or no picture at all but a bunch of stupid, miss-spelled words.

Then there’s the guys who want to do nothing but harass you and those that are on here to cheat on their wives. I only wish the admins who run this site would weed out the bad ones and it would be nice if these sites would start doing background checks on its members. I had an ex-boyfriend create a profile under a fake ID and pretend he was my son and I had to write to the people here and get law enforcement involved. You shouldn’t have to do that; you should feel fairly safe when you sign up for these websites.

by Cheyenne™

Age preferences should be fixed. If you have your age preferences set to 18-21 there should be no reason why someone 42 yrs old can message you/appear as a match. Also maybe a setting where you have to accept pictures? Sending nudes is entirely too common on this site. Maybe blocking IP addresses after so many accounts made - the same person can make like 5 accounts and harass you. There’s a guy who’ve I’ve blocked and reported well about 7 times (probably more) and their IP or email should’ve been blocked after the first 2 or 3 times. Also, the location setting is not good at all. Sometimes I get locals but most of the time, I get people on my meet tab from one state over at the closest. Honestly, if you 1. fixed the thing with age preferences (people your age contact you), 2. made it easier for harassers to get blocked and 3. Added an “accept photo” feature MORE WOMEN would use SkoutMeetNewPeople and actually stay :) one of the reasons why there’s more men than women on SkoutMeetNewPeople is because women get nudes sent to them by creeps. Also wouldn’t mind a stealth option

by Badnewsbobbyblair

It’s filled with tons of fake profiles. So many scammers. When trying the Interested feature it tends to show people in all other areas other then the one you’re in. News feed is a joke most of the time and should have an option to be able to choose the feeds from only women or men. Trying to send a pic during chat is hit or miss. Most of the time it will say you have to wait till the other person responds back to send a pic even though they just responded a sec before. You never know if it’s going to let you send them. The location of people is terrible. SkoutMeetNewPeople will often send notifications to your phone and when you log in they disappear. Messages tend to disappear quite often as well. Oh and last but not least the ads on there are put in places where you’re very likely to accidentally touch this directing you to many different places. Overall SkoutMeetNewPeople needs work and needs to crack down on fake profiles.

by Mosliest

I actually really enjoyed SkoutMeetNewPeople. *enjoyed*
I made a few friends and even gave Snapchat and other social media to the few that were *normal*. I then deleted my main account and revisited about 6-7 months later - (even though I deactivated my account and my main email was no longer in use, it would not let me use it again ) so I used a work email.
Some guys on here don’t take kindly when you don’t want to give them social media or fake sugar daddies try to scam you. I don’t think much of it when I see the conversation suddenly disappearing and I know they blocked me. But for some reason my account gets blocked/banned and I can’t log in anymore DUE to a number of people blocking me I assume?? That make sense I guess.
So I try again months after (here we are today) and use various other emails I make up on the spot because I want to use SkoutMeetNewPeople and talk with people again, however every time I log on after an hour or so it gives it the message “Your email has been blocked”. What am I supposed to do when my first two emails aren’t usable anymore AND don’t have an account behind them? There’s other apps out there I suppose. 👋🏼

by Slender55

I starred using this around 2014. It was great, you was a feature where you can shake your phone to talk to a random person or type in someone’s name that you know and want to talk to. I can’t find that here anymore, also the points you get for unlocking people’s photos to see is more challenging. Back then you just have to watch or download things to get points. Not anymore. Also there’s this bug or something where I keep getting messages from my old account and I forgot my password...it’s annoying. Really wish they would have the old version and also it’s really hard to find your support team since your name is SHOUT. Would like to talk about how to get my account back that I lost in 2015. I think that’s the one that’s spamming me random messages.