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IMVU Reviews Summary

The company has garnered a reputation marked by significant customer dissatisfaction, primarily due to inadequate customer service and frequent account restrictions. Users express frustration over slow response times, perceived unfair bans, and a lack of support for harassment issues. While some appreciate the platform's social aspects and nostalgic value, the overall sentiment leans negative, with concerns about security breaches, fake profiles, and a toxic community environment. Customers feel undervalued, especially when financial transactions are involved, leading to a growing sentiment that the service prioritizes profit over user experience.

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40
value
34
shipping
20
returns
25
quality
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California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Scam
October 13, 2022

They scammed me out of my money they have bullied me on there and Iam tired of it I reported and they still don't do nothing

Date of experience: October 13, 2022
Colorado
1 review
2 helpful votes
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NOT A SECURE SITE!
July 26, 2022

My son got his identity stolen from this site and it has destroyed our lives, our credit and our security.

Date of experience: July 26, 2022
Singapore
3 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Give some free credit so we can buy stuff and look better. Less expensive stuff for to look good then second life. More support from imvu. Recommended. No need to pay for land and can have many room as possible.

Date of experience: May 5, 2022
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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IMVU has gotten a little better but still needs a lot improvement the touching inappropriately with others got to stop unless u going for rated x than u should change it to single adults only no children or people in relationships should not be there we shouldn't pay actual money for others to touch our avatars inappropriately without our consent what I luv hh no body can touch us unless they are on your friends list I think this will solve a lot of problems with no costs that's why people are mainly complaining u have it pg version when it's not IMVU is fake advertising too much inappropriate stuff still I get it's a game but u have children on here thinking it's ok to touch random people like this that's why I have problems irl at work I do retail they think this game is real u can blame the parents all u want but u guys are half to blame too
Ty u have good day

Date of experience: April 18, 2022
Pennsylvania
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Scammers
April 7, 2022

You can't even enjoy this game I've been hacked then reported for my identity then my rooms weren't working after paying a lot of credits for it agents couldn't figure out nor fix the issue and now my account is down for false payments never again will I install this app I believe it's the company of imvu hacking accounts and taking peoples money smh

Date of experience: April 7, 2022
Pennsylvania
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Customer Betrayal
December 27, 2021

The attached images will speak for themselves. Betrayal is putting it lightly. They don't care about you. They only care about your money. I was locked out of my account, and blamed for the fact that someone had sent fraudulent sites with my account. Do not trust this corporation. When the going gets tough, they will stab you in the back with a gloved hand.

Date of experience: December 27, 2021
Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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An utterly dishonest company, thieves would be a better word for them actually. They charge you a premium for PA, which allows you to be 'lewd' but you want to hear a good joke? Every penis is flaccid and useless, can you even imagine the thinking that goes into a decision like that? This is deeply fraudulent and they have not even replied let alone given me a refund, this company and everyone who supports them (Menlo Ventures, AllegisCyber Capital, Bridgescale Partners, and Best Buy Capital) should be tried as the petty criminals they are. Shut it down, they are nothing but a scourge on the industry. I am going to personally boycott every single company who has dealings with them and I would encourage others to do the same. Have some respect for yourself, and spend your money elsewhere. They did not even give me a recept, what kind of legitimate company does that? None of them do, these people are criminals and they belong in jail.

Date of experience: December 7, 2021
Tennessee
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Sexist af
November 24, 2021

I got banned for 2 weeks for an AP room being "incorrectly rated" when it was not. I have had many male friends get banned on IMVU for inappropriate names and such and IMVU will give them their account back when they ask, even throwing in free VIP for 6 months. When I talked to IMVU about my account being banned for seemingly no reason, they told me there was nothing they can do.

Date of experience: November 24, 2021
Qatar
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Chat supports are not-so-customer-service oriented at all. They just finding people's reason to ban, ridiculous reason. And took your money out of your card. They won't even bother refunding the on-hold purchases. Well, take my generous donations.

Date of experience: November 12, 2021
New York
4 reviews
4 helpful votes
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IMVU SUCKS!
October 20, 2021

I've been a IMVU member for a year now, role playing getting my coins, the usual and I wanted to sell my credits, I only had $150k so I posted on my page (friends only) weeks ago. I stepped away from my laptop to find out I've been permanently banned just for selling my own credits I worked hard for.

Even if it was against company policy I didn't deserve a permanent ban. Its just funny how jealous these illiterate B****** can be, just reporting me and starting F*** with me. I don't even argue with them anymore I just ignore and report. I even get stalked and harassed and IMVU does absolutely nothing.

The CEO is a greedy S*** who deserves to rot in poverty for his stupid company policy as should the non-English speaking idiots outside of the US. I wanted my credits back and the rep said I couldn't get my creds transferred and I couldn't take them out and that all sales are final. I also asked if they are going to keep my credits she said no it stays on the account, what kind of *** lie is that?.

I encourage everyone to report IMVU for fraud and to pursue legal actions. I reported to my bank that I would like to dispute every transaction I had with IMVU, go F*** yourself!.

Date of experience: October 20, 2021
Massachusetts
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Less than 1 star
September 22, 2021

I disputed an unauthorized charge on my bank card and my 2 accounts were disabled. The customer service is terrible. No help at all. I'am permanently disabled on both accounts for questioning a charge. Don't waste your money on this app. I wish I could give it zero stars.

Date of experience: September 22, 2021
Michigan
7 reviews
4 helpful votes
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I once gave a three star rating and was very informative about the origin, along with the good & bad about Imvu. Recently I had learned new accounts made will become disabled, after a week has gone by. Which is bypassing TOS, that if account isn't accessed after certain length of time, only then is when it becomes disabled. Limits on newly created accounts under Guest were already bad enough. Imvu isn't accredited by the Better Business Bureau cause of it's 1 star low rating. From the reviews there it looks like Imvu is biting the hands that feed it. An estimate of 30,000 or more has dropped out of Imvu and developers don't make up most of the loss in numbers. Who watches the 50 staff workers, whom I believe are largely at fault for such. If I were CEO of Imvu I would be doing some house cleaning in weeding out bad staff workers. As it can hurt toward ruining years of successful business. I doubt complaints made on Imvu tickets is ever seen by the CEO, since workers would never report another worker of any known wrong doing. Contacting current CEO by any means possible isn't available.

Date of experience: September 4, 2021

IMVU is still by far the best virtual world game that can become addictive. There.com is where it originated and still is around. IMVU started out as a game for kids that's why the avatars use to have bobble heads, big feet and hands. When IMVU came to know it's the adults that have the money to spend is when they decided to make it a dress-up-game for adults. The ads that were first put out there on the web caused a misconception of it being a match up or love connection place. IMVU tried to divert them to zoosk.com and later meetme.com. Only very few have successfully made an actual connection outside of IMVU. Others have had to escape or turned up mysteriously missing for going beyond IMVU. Users get to have a homepage where they can change it's look and place stickers any where on it. You can have as many friends as you'd like and put things on your wishlist from the catalog to later purchase yourself or others can gift you. You can change how you look or dress and save them in outfits. As a member are given a room with furniture starting out and maybe a few pets. You also get to see others room in the public area. Unlike, There.com where you have to run all over the place to get some where, IMVU cuts to chase by having yellow spots you go to. There are all kinds of fun poses you can do. Listening to music, dancing and hearing others chats sounds is still most enjoyable to experience. IMVU also has a Walk-Off game where you compete against another player. You have the option through your account section to block anyone you don't like or want anything to do with anymore. If at any time you change your mind you can unblock them. Over long period you can easily forget why anyone has been blocked. Once you get your age verified, you are then qualified to get Access Pass, which is only for adults. This enables you to get more revealing or provocative clothing. The benefits of purchasing VIP is you usually get 5,000 credits along with some gift and more personal poses. With these additional poses you can make it so no one can kick, hit, hug or kiss you any time they like.
As with any game there can be a downside that others should know. There are 50 staff workers on IMVU. Depending on when you create an account on there can put you with a good or bad staff worker when it comes to customer service. A bad staff worker will be careless, persistently pushy, among many other things that isn't good business etiquette. If you experience a staff worker in customer service that doesn't leave their name, then you'll know they are bad and trying to cover their tracks, in what they're doing wrong. You can try making a complaint about customer service worker problems to CEO Brett Durrett on his IMVU homepage, Facebook or Twitter. IMVU claims to have no workers among the community as members and will want you to report anyone
Who makes out they work for them. This isn't exactly true as for years disabled accounts that show up on your friends list or seen in groups happens to be an account manipulated by a staff worker who's up to no good. They are now showing up as followers on Feed. You can also know bad staff workers by actual photos put in place of avatars. Including accounts that have Access Pass but no Age Verification badge. Their avatar names for example have 6 digits after (eg. Johnny345678) They are also those doing the same trend on Feed, showing up daily with impressive screenshots that no regular member can do. Being like they can afford anything for long periods of time.
IMVU now think's of itself as multiverse. Which are many things all rolled into one. Long faithful members stick to it being like a sim's world. Before investing in this game, buyer should be aware that in the TOS IMVU has the right at any time to delete your account and not have a reason to do so.

Date of experience: March 19, 2020
Malaysia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I have been a user for 10 years, after a few years I logged in, and they ask me to upload the receipt of what I have paid 10 years ago, this is just a stupid game, you should not expect your customer, to maintain the receipt after 10 years even the tax is only valid for 7 years, you can not access the case details after 3 years so what I have updated as prof of payment during payment can not be traced, I had spent a decent amount of time to develop the models as creator, beside i spent a lot money on credis, my account was AP, roughly I spent around 300 USD.
Now simply they block my account, perhaps its better you guys do a second thought if you want to spend some money or time on this platform

Date of experience: July 24, 2021
Luxembourg
1 review
8 helpful votes
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I totally switched to http://J4Sex.com
- I have never had any financial problems there.It's way cheaper and I have been really enjoying it. It's also a lot hotter than IMVU, there is more 100% adult-content. On the other hand, there are no pedophiles and predators - you come across them all the time on IMVU. So anyway, keep your wits about you if you use IMVU. What happens when you pay is most often they just ban you for no reason and they simply take your money. My recommendation is to avoid it.

Date of experience: June 11, 2021
Canada
6 reviews
7 helpful votes
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This game/social media is just pure bullsh*t.
The character customization is amazing-ish.
But the rest. Dont waste your time.

Date of experience: June 9, 2021
New York
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Playing since 2018
June 2, 2021

It was good at first now it turned bad.
To many rude People and underage players that be faking there age and toxic people and fake all they way around and more I wish I could give It an 0 stars just don't play imvu what ever you do it's nothing but drama if your looking for drama then play it download it

Date of experience: June 2, 2021
Ohio
1 review
3 helpful votes
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This app has filled me with so much unnecessary anger and range, from the blantent homophobia and transphobia to the struggle to $#*!ing get credits without blowing a $#*! ton of money on the overpriced "deals". I literally took a survey for 30 damn minutes trying to get 6000 credits which MIGHT get me 7 or 8 items, and the survey froze. I love that I get to personalize my character but the $#*!ing app is a joke. It's almost as if it PROMOTES homophobia, seeing as no one does anything to stop it, Ive seen MULTIPLE people get kicked out of rooms including my friends by homophobic and transphobic mods. It's honestly awful the $#*! ppl get away with saying on their honestly.

Date of experience: May 9, 2021
France
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Garbage company
March 26, 2021

Where to start... Awful customer service not even based in the US. Poor excuses to ban people and annoying offer spamming (they don't even listen to the community, only appealing to ideas that could make them earn more money) They should have been out of commission years ago but they know they can milk more cash from that "next" wannabe social media app with all the minors joining. Also, its not safe, adults pretend to be kids and kids to be adults also the staff WONT ban offenders even if you give them proof (not to mention their reporting system is from the stone age and they can't even back up your evidence because of their so called "privacy" BS). They used to be okay around early 2010's now they're just scammers and they don't even try to hide it. Sorry IMVU you used to be cool, but with your poorly optimized website, outdated features, scamming tactics, lack of professionalism and awful customer service, you don't even deserve 1 star.

Date of experience: March 26, 2021
California
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Disabled Account
March 22, 2021

Hello, I'm here to inform people who are questioning getting the app TO NOT GET IT! My account was disabled for no reason! I spent my actual hard-earned money and they refuse to give me my account back.

Date of experience: March 22, 2021
Alabama
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Music...
March 7, 2021

Out of nostalgia, hoping there would be one good thing left on the internet that hasn't become crappy... I re-downloaded IMVU. I remember being able to chat with friends and have MUSIC and videos playing in the chat rooms. That was always amazing to me. Music has been an extremely important part of my life. You USED to be able to play music using a Youtube player... but now, apparently, IMVU has attempted to capitalize on this. Now, you have to BUY MUSIC in order to play it... and you must buy one song at a time. This is not stated clearly ANYWHERE. I bought items using my credits that I *THOUGHT* were supposed to play music. If you're going to remove one of the best features of something and replace it with something stupid - at least make it clear. Remove the items from stores that worked PERFECTLY FINE BEFORE so that people are not mislead into thinking they still work. I understand buying music to support the artists. I don't have any problem with that. What I have a problem with, is that it is EXTREMELY difficult to find information about HOW to play music on IMVU to begin with and if I've ALREADY BOUGHT music from an artist on Amazon or their official site, why do I need to buy it again on IMVU just to listen to it on YOUR website? All I wanted to do was create a digital space to hang out with friends and listen to music / watch videos from Youtube. The internet has become very VERY stupid since I was a teenager. It used to be awesome. What the $#*! happened?

Date of experience: March 7, 2021