Pure disappointment and with no acknowledgement or answer when questions are asked.
Every review I post my account gets blocked. Whether it’s a raving review about a really good experience or whether there’s things I’ve not been happy with. And when my account is blocked, every review I’ve ever posted gets taken down. So even though they were initially happy with some, and happy to share that information with the world. Because their system then decides to doubt one review, suddenly all the other reviews that have been up for any length of time lose all value and get removed also. Each and every time this has happened my review has of course been a fair, honest and factual review so I send in the requested documentation and a week or 2 later my account is unblocked and reviews go live again. After being unblocked I could literally write another review within 5 minutes, usually at the prompt of Trustpilot…and the cycle begins again. Not only that, but for about 2/3 weeks afterwards (maybe longer) I still get emails about whichever the most recent review that caused the blocking is, telling me the accounts been blocked again and asking me to send in evidence. Each time I do send in my evidence I also ask for advice of how to leave a review that wouldn’t flag up or that they would deem to be honest, and surprise, surprise, I just get generic, robotic responses. Not even any acknowledgement that I’ve asked a question, let alone an attempt to answer it and resolve the issue. For a company that claims to care about the customer experience and spreading the word of this…these actions are quite contradictory.
To say I’m disappointed is an understatement, especially when reading how Trustpilot boasts to be the most trusted and largest review database available to the public. You’d think they would’ve by now been able to train their AI bots to better recognise genuine reviews. Or perhaps a they could give people the chance to submit evidence with their review in the first place so the bots can review that instead of taking every review ever posted by a user offline. If this is happening on a large scale, and I have no doubt that it is, then this will be massively changing the actual ratings of stores on this platform and thus rendering it completely useless and biased. How Trustpilot has been going so long is beyond me. I only use it as I want to genuinely support the businesses that I have great experiences with, yet Trustpilot make it near impossible and more of a challenge every time. God forbid I don’t screenshot my entire customer journey with every company I ever interact with, because the day I don’t, all of my reviews will be gone for good.
Sort it out TrustPilot! Or at least take down your smug claims about being the biggest and the best, or better yet, actually look at your system and use the wealth of so called wisdom you have and make a better system that actually does what you’re advertising you do in a fair way. The current system is abysmal and extremely frustrating and disheartening.
4 January 2026
Unprompted review