Roomster

I signed up for Roomster with my email and now it wants me to use a Facebook account for no reason. I refuse to sign in using Facebook and now I cannot access my account. Total waste of my time. Wouldn’t recommend to my worst enemy.

You can’t put zero stars.
How has this business not been shut down by the BBB? BEWARE this is a SCAM.

Roomster is a waste of time for anyone! They post bogus listings on Craigslist or respond to your ads on CL or BP as if they were really interested. You can’t reach anyone at Roomster and none of their listings pan out because they are false ads. BEWARE!
It’s a waste of time and money!

This is a FRAUD and a SCAM!
So far, I haven’t found a single ‘real’ listing here,
which judging by the reviews of the ‘real’ people who have complained on Unilocal
actually makes sense.
I think they do ‘dummy’ listings on places like craigslist, in order to entice regular people to use their service. Then, as you can read from the reviews, they just keep taking the money that they charge and the only way to stop that money chain is to cancel your vredit card account.
If you are a real person looking for a real place,
stay away from this scam.
If you’re tired of craigslist, try Zllow.
Zillow vets all of their listings and if there is a fraud or a scam and you report it, they take care of it immediately!

Well, I made the mistake of using this website without looking up reviews first, so I’m a little angry with myself. I’ve also fallen victim to the $ 30 scam everyone else is talking about. I cannot express how pissed off I am about this, especially due to the fact that I (as well as I’m sure many of the people using the site) do not have the extra money to pay for the subscription. Moving is EXPENSIVE and Roomster is a piece of crap.

allows you to pay a small fee to start with! Just to advertise that you’re looking for roommates in your area for a few days. Then, without your permission, they auto-​subscribe you to a monthly fee of $ 29.00 that comes out of your credit card each month until you notice. There’s nobody to call at Roomster to confront them about these unauthorized fees. There’s an automatic email that repeats telling you the same thing if you wish to cancel! «All customer service is done via help desk. Please login to your account and contact ²⁴⁄₇ support so an account representative that is familiar with your account can assist you.
Thank you.
Ekaterina Bulat
Director
Business Development
All I could do is cancel the subscription I didn’t sign up for, and close my account. I am so pissed! It’s a waste of time and money! Plus, the people just contact you the same way and words because I established 2 accounts to see if this is done automatically. One person told me she did not even ask to contact me – the website just does it for them? What a scam!

SCAM.
They flood Craigslist with rental ads, and when you reply they tell you to create an account on a site to they can «view your profile.» They use vanity URLs that all redirect back to
.
Each time I replied saying that I can’t sign up there because it requires Facebook to sign up, and I do not have Facebook. I offered my LinkedIn account and my landlord references. Every time, the poster would try to get me to just sign up for a Roomster account.
This is a scam. Report their posts on Craigslist and do not sign up.

SCAM SCAM SCAM!!!
allows you to pay a small fee, around $ 5, to advertise that you’re looking for roommates in your area for a few days. Then, without your permission, they auto-​subscribe you to a monthly fee of about $ 30 that comes out of your credit card each month until you notice. There’s nobody to call at Roomster to confront them about these unauthorized fees. All I could do is cancel the subscription I didn’t sign up for, and close my account. So angry right now!!!

Roomster is literally the worst website ever. Their site refuses to load 95% of the time, especially when you’re trying to cancel your paid subscription. Every time I received a notification via email that I had a new message, I would login and be unable to view that message. I would also receive email notifications of «new listings» that were not even close to my desired area. This site is a giant waste of time and money.

I have used the site extensively. The trick is to be a day or so ahead of the automatic bill pay by canceling it immediately before that time. For this, I recommend using PayPal to insure that your auto billing will be canceled as you wish.
Also, the site is the most terribly designed site in the world. When ever someone responds to your e-​mail and vice versa, the site uses a sliding bar to navigate through the e-​mails. You literally have to hold down your cursor over the bar and slide it down to navigate from one e-​mail to the next. When you wish to delete old e-​mail, you literally have to open up each and every e-​mail and delete it one by one – tedious to say the least. The funny thing is that when using the sliding bar, one can scroll over each e-​mail and there appears an «x», which leads one to believe that you can clearly delete this e-​mail. No such logic, it is to archive the e-​mail. Again, not logical at all.
As well, upon logging into the site, your e-​mail indicator (an envelope at the top left of the page’s site) indicates a substantive amount of e-​mail. This is very deceptive, as this is a list of cumulative e-​mails inclusive of those you send. Remember, it is so time consuming and tedious to delete e-​mail. It has to be deleted by opening each e-​mail and deleting it one by one.
When you receive a message from a subscriber, the site will send you an e-​mail alert on your personal e-​mail. This is a great idea – except clicking on the link takes you to the sending party’s profile, not to the actual e-​mail. Again, design fail.
One last bit of note, I will not blame the site for this, many will e-​mail you requesting housing accommodations for far less than your requested amount. I don’t know if this is because some subscribers don’t read or assume you will like their picture enough to give away the room you are renting. Overall, I would not recommend this site. Good luck to anyone who uses it otherwise.

SITE THAT IS STEALING YOUR MONEY AND YOU WILL NOT FIND A PLACE
I suggest you not to use this site. It has elements of scam, also not worth to put your photo and profile online like that.
Reason I’m here is that I paid 3 day subscription, trying to find another roommate, and I was there all the time, watching 3 days not to expire — but still THEY AUTOMATICALLY
CHARGED 30 $ FROM MY ACCOUNT WITHOUT WARNING. It says somewhere in Terms of use probably but this site has no real contact, no real person, and no refund. And they will steal your money one way or another. I went back to see when I was using it for the first time an they did the same thing. All there on my account. First time I paid 15 days subscription and they still took more money.
When I was still looking for a place, I almost got no replay at all, even though my budget was decent and my personality as well, but when I’ve finally found a place using Craigslist, and went back there to post a free room that was still available in the place I shared with one roommate, I was literally harassed by people, and still getting nowhere. Oh yes you can see weirdos there, runaway kids, all kind of travelers, pain in the asses who send you dozens of messages, drug addicts, but also all kind of other individuals which prevent decent people to find a place. It is not even safe, also there’s lot’s of fake posts as well. Also I was wondering why some rooms are posted for almost 6 months every day and still not rented.
If you use this site, make sure not to pay them anything. Just send people messages with your phone number, your chances to be called are the same.
Oh, and I would be very careful posting position on the map by renting the place. Luckily I didn’t do it otherwise I bet I would have stalkers on my door.