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Seed Oil Scout: Healthy Dining
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Top complaints - extracted from 76 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"free"
22 negative reviews mention this · 29% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I signed up for a 3 day free trial and within 5 minutes, I received an email from Google saying my Paypal had been charged the annual fee for the app. I can't find anyway to contact Seed Oil Scout for a refund. This is a scam." - Kimberly Stephens
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"trial"
15 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I signed up for a 3 day free trial and within 5 minutes, I received an email from Google saying my Paypal had been charged the annual fee for the app. I can't find anyway to contact Seed Oil Scout for a refund. This is a scam." - Kimberly Stephens
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"subscription"
14 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Love getting to see the restaurants near me, but limiting my views per day on an app I'm PAYING SUBSCRIPTION for is just outrageous." - Hunter Fouts
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"free trial"
12 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I signed up for a 3 day free trial and within 5 minutes, I received an email from Google saying my Paypal had been charged the annual fee for the app. I can't find anyway to contact Seed Oil Scout for a refund. This is a scam." - Kimberly Stephens
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"paying"
12 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Love getting to see the restaurants near me, but limiting my views per day on an app I'm PAYING SUBSCRIPTION for is just outrageous." - Hunter Fouts
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"charged"
11 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I signed up for a 3 day free trial and within 5 minutes, I received an email from Google saying my Paypal had been charged the annual fee for the app. I can't find anyway to contact Seed Oil Scout for a refund. This is a scam." - Kimberly Stephens
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"charge"
9 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I signed up for a 3 day free trial and within 5 minutes, I received an email from Google saying my Paypal had been charged the annual fee for the app. I can't find anyway to contact Seed Oil Scout for a refund. This is a scam." - Kimberly Stephens
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"questions"
9 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "asking me 50 questions just to show me a pay wall.. fantastic user experience..." - Maggie Marques
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"without"
9 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Bait and switch install. Gets all your info then won't you use the app without paying 25$" - Shawn Simon
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"info"
8 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "terrible ... while app gathers all your personal info and then locks it all behind a paywall... terrible way of converting members." - Calvin Pagnotta
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"waste"
8 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Don't waste your time installing this pay to use app." - Colton Medeiros
📋 All 76 negative reviews
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I signed up for a 3 day free trial and within 5 minutes, I received an email from Google saying my Paypal had been charged the annual fee for the app. I can't find anyway to contact Seed Oil Scout for a refund. This is a scam.
must pay - bs long intro process to start using yhe app
App does not load properly, won't work, forces you to subscribe on startup, mines data at startup.
terrible ... while app gathers all your personal info and then locks it all behind a paywall... terrible way of converting members.
started off free and now they are charging. how ridiculous. you don't want to help people get healthy, you are greedy like everyone else. shameful
seems like a great idea but I'm not paying for something before ik if I wanna use it not sure it will help in a little town like where I live. not to mention for someone who only eats out once a month
lmao costs 35 bucks a year. run a few ads or something
They charge for FrREE trial. DO NOT USE THIS APP THE FREE TRIAL IS A SCAM
Requires a subscription to open the app.
EXPENSIVE! Yet not useful. Most places don't have a rating, they expect YOU to research and post an answer. Then, they ignore or downrate your contribution. They push Sweetgreen as seed oil free, which is FAR from reality. Mezeh is actually seed oil free, but we're reluctant to list is seed oil free, despite multiple requests. They seem more interested in corporate deals and some kind of big picture instead of supplying a useful app. I travel a lot and have just given up using it.
They make you rate them before you try it, then try to charge you money.
hi--I just noticed a charge from your app--but I canceled this subscription a year ago. I'm not sure how to cancel it. It is not showing as active on my Google Play store, and when I go to your website I don't see any place to manage the subscription. too difficult to manage the subscription, and there are just not enough locations where I live to make it worthwhile. I deleted the app after canceling last year and was charged again recently, and NO contact info on their website. Too hard.
Bait and switch install. Gets all your info then won't you use the app without paying 25$
I don't think this actually works.
Unfortunately this app is not for people who live in small cities. I canceled before my 7 day free trial, I was charged anyways. so I removed all my info and deleted the app and one year later they somehow charged my account again. I have tried to contact them multiple time with no response. I do not recommend this app to anyone ever.
I don't like how you fill out everything then at the end they say now pay tell us B4 we doing everything
Don't waste your time installing this pay to use app.
it won't let you do anything unless you subscribe even though it claims it has a free option it will not let you get past the point of signing up for the 3 day trial and putting in card info ... no thanks ill do my own research
I hate paying monthly for apps. Just show me some commercials to compensate
wants you to pay to see options 💩💩💩
just a con designed to get people to waste money do your own research
horrible forces so much before forcing pay. will never use this app uninstall after lengthy trapping setup that then tells you it's undisclosed charge. NEVER
$27.29 is a ridiculous amount to be billed. I would like a refund.
1 STAR TO LEAVE REVIEW: 1) THERE'S A GLITCH IN YOUR APP, AND IT SAYS THAT THERE'S A 3 DAY FREE TRIAL WITH THE PAYMENT METHOD THROUGH GOOGLE PLAY. BECAUSE I'M USING AN ANDROID IS TRYING TO CHARGE ME $24. IMMEDIATELY & NOT ALLOWING FOR THE 3 DAY TRIAL TO COMMENCE. FIRST, BEFORE THE INITIAL CHARGE IS PUT THROUGH SO I HAVE A HUGE ISSUE WITH THAT, I FIND THAT VERY GREEDY & IN CONSIDERATE TO THE CONSUMER.BECAUSE PEOPLE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO OVERPAY TO FIND PROPER FOOD RESOURCES.THAT'S COMPLETE TRASH AFFF
No way to access the free version from the start. You have to pay to subscribe then cancel.
says it free nothing works without paying app is new and lacking serious information waste of money
nags for location permission, slow to load. edit: demands payment "free trial"after a needlessly long preference survey.
False and deceptive app! says free, but requires purchase!
I was charged for the first year subscription, even though that I literally installed, discovered that there literally no restaurant around that uses this app and canceled within 3 minutes. I've been trying to find an email address to even enquire what the hell happened and how can I get my money back. No luck, so if anyone can reach out to fix this, might change this 1 star rating.
While I love the idea, the implementation sucks. first, you charge for the app, then you expect us to populate it with data. Then, you make shady deals and deceive users. Sweet green is NOT seed oil free, yet you have them permanently marked so. people can comment but not affect the rating. Sweet green simply had 2 seed oil free dished for 2 months as a promotion. Most of their dressings have Sunflower oil. Many of the user reports are simply inaccurate, yet never checked. I'm not renewing.
giant personal survey before you even get to the part where you find out there's a charge after 3 days. just show me the restaurant info immediately on startup.
Privacy nightmare. Wants to know everything about you. No free version.
need to pay for a subscription before you can see literally any information.
cant even use the app without paying. complete scam. if you want your data harvested and sold for the rest of your life, download this app!
same complaint as everyone else. you clock tons of options to personalize before they finally tell you that you have to pay to see anything at all. sure, there's a "free" 3 day trial. supposedly. but I tried to do that, and the payment screen said they were going to charge me today. you literally can't even look to see if there's any information for restaurants in your area without first paying. utterly ridiculous.
paid for only. survey of questions just to see that you have to pay. waste of time
UTTERLY USELESS. Can only scan items, there is no way to search for restaurants... even when clicking the "Find Restaurant " feature, it still brings up the scan items feature. damn shame it doesn't work.
Don't Bother. Ridiculous setup that takes a good while before then hitting you with a £25 subscription at the end. Uninstalled this scam straight away.
This app is a tease. Asks you all these questions and then tries to sell you on a subscription. Thanks for wasting my time enjoy this 1 star.
not paying, wasted my time signing up for nothing. disgraceful subscription and it's all community driven, so pay and do all the work.
makes you go thru a lot of screens entering personalized info before it tries to sign you up for a subscription at the end. no 👎 waste of time, shame I really wanted to try it
signed up for free trial and immediately canceled when there was almost no restaurants in my area. it charged my card immediately and I have not received a refund still 3 weeks later. no contact information or customer service support to be found.
makes u go thru a whole process before telling u there's a fee
you can't sign up without paying which was not advertised and also it won't let you proceed with sign up without allowing notifications so I just said forget it
only paid. doesnt tell you that till it makes you sign up for emails and answer all these annoying questions. stupid waste of time.
free. trial...
can't use it without paying
im not paying you just to show me a Google maps search of "healthy foods" gtfoh what the hell do you think your doing that values my money? the in app advertising and from the owners is enough. your not running a frickin informational data base lmfao your ligit a search engine 🤣 what could your team possibly be doing/paying for to warrant this necessity of taxation. keep your hands in your own pockets good sir!
have to pay, why even give a free download option?
Nothing without a subscription/payment method added.
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Sentiment summary
87%
Positive (4-5★)
1%
Neutral (3★)
12%
Negative (1-2★)