Skype

I use Skype pretty much every day. When I turn video on, sometimes the voice and movie doesnt come together. Its not always though its frustrating. But I like the message icon. Its so cute.

Like, my skype app is so glitchy, I have to constantly get out of it and go back into it just to talk to someone. Also, the CAPS is broke cause I've got to constantly insert the caps function every time, after I enter my text. It's annoying to do and wastes time. Another thing is that some of my messages don't send over skype mobile. Not only that, it happens a lot to my friends trying to respond to me. I don't get calls either when I'm called upon.

The buttons are probably broken too, because ever since the latest update, I'm barely able to send a thing. I can barely press the send button without pressing the emoji one. That's very annoying as well. And when I do press onto the send button, it doesn't even send most of the time. Like, I have to press it a few times to actually get it and avoid the emoji button, but not to miss the send button.

Everything is just so glitchy and stuffed into each other.

Good luck trying to fully cancel your membership. Days are limited for such scamster companies and their practices. This company will never regain trust.

My Skype account was hacked. (I since learned there is a way to do that and I dont want to give too much information as to how that was done. It was very obvious as to what they did when I looked at my account.) Through the auto recharge set up with my PayPal and then with my bank account the hackers managed to take hundreds of euro from me. They ran through my Skype credit and straight into the auto recharge which is linked with my PayPal account. Multiple repeat takings emptied my PayPal balance inside a minute. Then in a domino effect they used the same method with the auto recharge function to get into my bank account. By the time more than 400 euro was taken my banks fraud detection shut it down. In the end the hackers cleaned me out of more than 600 euro. My Bank paid me back as did PayPal. The scam and hack is/was very obvious. Could not be calls as autorecharge went through consequetively within seconds running into hundreds of euro. Skype did not and have not been co operative at all with this. Disgusted with Skype and strongly recommend everyone to not have auto recharge set up with Skype. You are open to the same hacking and scam I was and your bank may not be as supportive as mine was. Skype certainly wont be.

Update 8-2024: Skype is still stealing by making unauthorized credit card charges to your bank. They are either DOWNRIGHT THIEVES or they are so screwed up lacking security that they allow hackers to make unauthorized ccard charges. A class action lawsuit against this ripoff subsidiary of micro$#*! is in order. Voice quality is good, but numbers reported BLOCKED by user were NOT blocked according to the numbers owner. MS is an evil company, they ruin everything they acquire, no surprise their found was the sociopath Gates. Problem is there aRE NO good voip providers online. They are ALL crooks as far as I have been able to determine. So you have to decide: Do you want good quality calls and are you willing to let them steal from you to get them?

2nd attempt, got error message to "contact support" first attempt did not go through.
If you want a more honest idea of skype try looking at trustpilot.
The many users there give it like less than two stars. I really don't see how skype got such a high rating here as it doesn't deserve it.

This is what you can expect from skype and has happened to me on more than one occasion:

Charging my credit card after saying was free trial for 30 days. Then recurring charges that my bank had to stop.

Deleting your account for so called "security reasons" meaning the skype staff didn't get laid the night before. There was no security issue, they just like to delete accounts for no particular reason. Trust me it happens alot.

Many reports of them spying on your chat and they have not denied it when they were asked.

Phone calls are NOT encrypted once they leave the skype servers, so others can hack your private conversations also if they know how.

Skype USED to be a very good program a few years back until Microsoft took it over and ruined it, like they have with so many acquisitions.

Skype is great, but sometimes it becomes a pain. The reason is I bought a single country subscription for one month, but the available minutes I consumed in like 10 days, so I wanted to renew the same package by paying its monthly fee even in just 10 days, they didn't allow me to. All they said is buy our upgraded package of minutes right now, but you can't renew the old one until one month is completed, nor you can add minutes to it nor you can upgrade. Skype's video calls are good, but if your internet connection bugs a very minor or little bit, the call will start disturbance, while at the same connection with minor slow I used Google voice and it works great.

I have used Skype for about a year. It's very convenient to have a way to contact others that is free (if they subscribe to the same service), and the fee for calling outside Skype is reasonable. Sometimes, we run into a problem with different people having different versions of Skype, and this seems to cause difficulty in allowing the video to work properly. After a lot of experimenting, we were able to work it out. Besides this relatively minor issue, Skype is not a bad service.

I've stayed connected with a couple people though skype and made some really good friends. Has a very easy to understand interface and doesn't take too long to start up.

Don't like having to link my accounts though.

And you choose to publish this rant on the very day Microsoft the makers of Skype announce their new CEO. Clickbait much?

Many good points here but the timing is very suspect.

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I have the Samsung Epic Galaxy 4G and it works just fine on my phone. You just gotta remember that just like with any phone you're using a program and if you're in a bad area with spotty reception it's going to be laggy just like anything else would be.

Chat works fantastic, Calling does what its supposed to do albeit a little laggy sometimes with the newer updates. Much better than my experiences with Tango or Oovoo!