epal.gg Reviews 183

Huge data leak due to incompetence, looking at a class action. Get involved if you can.

After a long time of being an epal, I've decided to bid farewell to this page and move on to greener pastures.
I registered on epal last summer. There were months where epal was helping me earn good and I was even one of the top epals this past summer. But the changes you constantly make to this page without really consulting the ones who bring people to you and help you earn your income as a company, aka your 'epals' without prior warnings have made me finally leave for good. 'What will they think of now and will or will I not be able to keep earning' is something that stressed me out a lot over the past year. I will talk about the things I have experienced, because that is the only credible information I can give you.

The direction you're going with your page is not the right one. Instead of trying to become the next Twitch, you should have focused on giving your freelancers a better platform, and for the people who spend money ordering people on your page - a better deal. Since you added additional fees for people recharging buff my income from your page has VERY DRASTICALLY diminished to the point where it's not even sustainable anymore - not even as a side hustle. You're turning away people from your page - the numbers might say otherwise, but I'm seeing more and more epals and less and less clients. You're being reckless with how you're adding fees, removing fees, changing rules and adding more and more unnecessary things to your page which are not really a good deal for anyone.

Unpopular opinion, but I did agree with the 10% withdraw fee for epals - I used the platform to sell my services and to earn, so you taking a cut from my money wasn't something that I haven't seen before and this was alright for me. But you've made it unattractive for clients to buy buff because of the crazy high fees they have to pay for it. So instead of increasing your earnings and the earnings of the people who represent your page with the buff price being 1:1 you've made epal a thriving place for people doing (or just boosting) free orders and that's no good for anyone.

I don't like how you always focus so much on 'community'. This is a freelancing/buying companionship page and it's for your own good to keep things seperate. The whole 'community' thing was just something people did to give free orders to each other and unfairly boost themselves. I never cared about making connections to other sellers or to be the most active person on your Discord server. Not many people care about your uninventive events and to be most frank, as an epal what I did care about was giving my clients a real quality experience for their money and ultimately, cold hard cash. Besides, all I've gathered from hearing other people's experiences, was that getting involved in more community oriented stuff just meant more drama as it is expected in a competitive environment. And drama at something I considered work, was not the wisest choice. Don't defecate where you eat sort of thing.

The 'Store Rating' system and the Subscribers system was the worst thing that was ever introduced to the page. Keeping up with the crazy requirements to have a good rating would make epal as time consuming as working two full time jobs. And people subscribing was never really something that took off. Ultimately, getting subscribers made epals lose money. Do the math. Eight dollars income per month for a person subscribing is funny, considering they get a big discount for all your services which you had to keep cheap to get any orders at all.

The 'Matching' lobby is another thing that I'd say is complete nonsense. Being eStar, having good reviews and visibility became absolutely useless after this was introduced. Clients are flooded with messages so they don't even spend time to browse on the page. This is another thing that is making you lose money. Think about it.

I never really minded the creeps lurking on the page. This is not something I blame you for. You actually did your best to protect people from them and I will commend you for that. Where there are anonymous people on the Internet, there is abuse and there are creeps. Epal is no exception. This is fine. The changes YOU made to this page caused me much more stress than any creeper that I could easily block.

To people who are thinking of becoming an epal, it's your choice. Try your luck. It is possible to earn money on this page. Know though, that it's not 'OMG THE EASIEST JOB ON THE PLANET PLAYING GAMES WITH PEOPLE FOR MONEY' but it's much more mentally taxing than you can imagine. And ultimately, you might get some money yet lose a lot of time. Managing to earn on this page takes LOTS of time.

As much as I can't see value in being an epal now, I am greatful for the good times I spent on this page and the good money I used to earn. It's not all good, it's not all bad. So three stars it is.

Frozen my account after 3weeks unfreeze for 24hours to withdrawing now frozen the account is like this people is really confused or their is more to it they just frozen your account without giving you any warning.this site need a lot of improvement because this is really annoying the app bot frozen people account after they work to earned a lot of money from the site hmmm it’s crazy

Don’t even waste your time on here been on the website for 2 weeks and I got my account frozen with no explanation. Keep in mind if your account gets frozen or banned you won’t be able to take out any of the funds you work for so it becomes E-Pal money. While working with them doing orders you’d be constantly having the anxiety of if you’ll get banned or frozen because of dirty men in that website asking for nsfw and if you refuse these dirty men it would cause them to report you as catfish due to their fat egos not being able to get what they want. The website is full of scammers and bots constantly trying to scam you and take your PayPal or credit card numbers so be very careful who you give your information to. Most of the E-Pal front Pages are boosted because there no way someone can do 20k orders in 7 days it’s impossible for one person. As soon as E-Pal sees your growing fast they will shut you down because they like to keep the same people on the leaderboard very biased company. So if you want to make money and lose it this is the right place for you.

Absolute useless website don't even try using it, I used it before but have already deleted my account since then but recently got an email saying there was a data breach on it and that my email might be at risk. Worried about my email now as it was an important one, ridiculous how a website that works with real money has bad security please stay away from this. Not only that but whoever runs it are the most stupid and incompetent people ever.

super awesome if you wanna play league of legends with skilled people, I ordered pgcalm and Rinah, won like 10 games and only lost 2

Joined February 2022 as an e-pal:

As many others say this website can be good if you wanna make money temporarily and have a strong set of self confidence. I can't count how many times I have cried from mean clients, but there are (no thanks to e-pal) a few WONDERFUL clients on this website.
Not sure if my sanity was worth it tho..

The site is full of scammers, trolls, unserious customers that will bully you the whole time they paid for and even stalkers.
However Epal does have a quick ban and report system which is nice...but no good authentication system, so these stalkers can just make a new account and continue.

and I haven't even mentioned that they clearly boost certain girls to be "top e-pal" and any competitions they host are rigged.

Also I'm not sure what e-pal is trying to convey through their social medias but they sure are sending a misleading message about the website. the women in the videos seem very provocative and suggestive, when their guidelines state:

---"Disseminate pornographic content, obscenity and sexual innuendo in the public environment of the platform (Instant, Team, Post, Chat Room)."

This app is one of the most toxic ones out there. Extremely poor customer service and support. E-Pal moderators and event hosts are really slow with giving rewards (Which can take up to 1 week..) and replies (1-2 weeks).

The community is extremely toxic and competitive with each other and the people on the app just act like children and high schoolers that will spread rumors and talk badly about people they don't like or feel afraid of.

In its state right now, E-Pal is supposed to be a friendly, fun, and safe place to be online at. Well, I thought so too, the app used to be really good and had really friendly people and the staff were responsive. Now the app is very booster sided and people get either really toxic if they lose against others in events or they will talk behind your back because other people can't beat boosters right?

Girls pay guys to boost them orders for the amount of money they send them so the boosters can get coupons to boost even more (2 buff coupons). Girls will also boost themselves with another alt account and even get help from E-Pal official staff members to order themselves for coupons (200 orders for 50 coupons or something similar to this.) It's very sad to see the app is in a really bad state and has a horrible community but I guess this is what's gonna happen when you award people that boost their own order page up am I right?

When you want to withdraw the money you have earned from the app that is called "Buff" you will also have to pay a fee in order to get the money on your Paypal account, which will ALWAYS be in USD. If you want to withdraw 500 buff you need to pay 50 buff to get them. (1 buff = 1 dollar) which will be a lot over time.

They will charge you fees for recharging buff too on the page ($1.21).

Since I first started on the app it felt fresh and new to me, the community was very welcoming and nice and genuine to me and everyone else. I've been on the app for 2 years and I'm very safe to say that the entire app has changed and the community too. The E-Pal officials used to ban people that order boosted each other or at least give warnings, the community was also very against boosting and wanted a fair competition without any unfair behavior, now the E-Pal staff will award you for boosting and they go against their own rules. People on this app are obviously boosting and no one cares anymore. We're talking about 6000+ orders in 7 days or 15.000 orders in 30 days.

The amount of catfishes, scammers, trolls, and NSFW accounts on the page is insane. If you get scammed by an E-Pal service you will NOT get the money back and no punishment will happen to the person that stole your money for the order you placed. Luckily this hasn't happened a lot of times for me, but this has happened and I contacted customer support for money back and they told me it wasn't possible because it's been 3 days since. But I had to wait for even a reply within those days so what am I supposed to do then?

You will see a lot of NSFW accounts and girls posting their linktree link in their profiles or on their Instagram that will link to their 18+ page, girls also promote themselves doing such services on the app via the "instant card" page, spam "sugar babe or daddy" accounts every day and users on the page make spam alt accounts to harass other users for no reason.

Over the past months, I've been heavily harassed by a user on the page that made alt accounts over discord and E-Pal and made false accusations and rumors about me that hurt my reputation. Most people didn't believe it but new users on the page did believe these accusations which were very surprising to me. I decided to look into this and I figured out who the person was and he has a "Legend" title on the page and he asks girls for NSFW with alt accounts on discord and some with his main discord account. He delete his messages to remove his traces but I managed to get a lot of evidence against this person. The person has also been asking underaged women for NSFW, I reported this issue to the E-Pal staff and so far it's being ignored by the customer support team which is insane to me. Later my account got frozen for "Harassment" which makes no sense to me, I warned people from getting scammed or potentially put in a bad position because of this person that has been nothing but aggressive and nasty on the app and it makes me sad to say that E-Pal is a very bad app with no easy staff communication. I've met a lot of nice friends on the app over the years and months I've been active on the app but there are always some people that have to ruin it all.

The E-Pal staff also hires you to catfish on platforms like tinder and other dating platforms to gain an audience on the app, they steal other people's photos without their knowledge and ignore most reports and issues.

I hope this honest review was useful to everyone and thank you for reading it all.

Love-

Short on teammates to play a game with you and tired of random players? If you are interested in making money playing video games? Look no further.

(IF YOU ARE NEW TO THIS SITE PLEASE READ THE HELP CENTER AND CAREFULLY READ THE TERMS OF SERVICE.)

MY HISTORY WITH EPAL:
I have been on this site for 2 years, 1000+ orders as a client, and personally promoted this site for a little over a year.

THE POSITIVES:
- You can come to this site to pay people to play video games, talk, or watch a movie with you as a client. It is a real site for those of you questioning it.
- You'll meet some great friends along the way. I have personally made friends with a lot of great E-Pals.
- This is a legit website where you can make money as an E-Pal.

THE NEGATIVES:
- If you care about winning events with prizes involved, there are a lot of E-Pals and clients that are order boosted that win the prizes. There is no way someone can possibly complete 500+ League of Legends games in a day. It is against Epal's rules to do so, but it continues happening anyway. (SOLUTION: Have your moderating team assess the number of orders a client has placed and the number of orders an EPal has received on the various leaderboards. If it looks obviously boosted? You know what to do.)
- The harassments, NSFW requests, stalking, and scammers is an obvious issue here and it's been going on for a very long time. The reporting system could be way better. I've personally witness many Epals being harassed, reported to Epal about the situation, only to have the person who is harassing make a new account to continue doing so. Many Epals leave the site because of this. (SOLUTION: I know there is an IP address ban set for those who have broken the rules, but VPN users have worked around this. I suggest a phone verification system for those who create new accounts.)

Does nothing to protect pals from creepers. They get away with harassing us with very little punishment, if ever any at all.

Epal doesn't even respond to support tickets when you try to escalate. I waited 2 weeks for what should have been a 48 hour response. Nothing. Got the email about deleting my account after that though.

They also refuse to do ANYTHING to discourage the increasingly and very obvious nsfw sales and profiles going on. Seriously, just have one of your staff - NOT a bot, an actual living being - just look down the feeds for 5 minutes. What's usually just a shadey underbelly of most other social platforms has quickly become the main stage of e-pal.

I thought this platform was about gaming and hanging out. You know, like how the app and website description says it is... It is not.

Unless you want to buy or sell feet pictures, stay far, far away.

**Update**

Oh, what irony that this was responded too after and that's it's clearly a bot response...

E-Pal higher ups, ya'll NEED to get some human eyes off your gigantic moneybags and on the platform! You want better reviews? Fix the big issues like abuse of pals!

This is the best way i have been able to make friends

Boosted egirls, no age verification for epals, no support team, nobody cares about reports

Tons and tons of nsfw sellers and buyers only looking for this, who will NEVER be banned
Guys, if you wanna make a 2nd onlyfans, at least just write it down clearly

edit : AHAHAHAH i clearly know your policy, what about you invest a bit of the money you’re making thanks to epals in your sh*** website instead of keeping it for yourselves ? that would be better than writing dumb policies you don’t even follow

The platform itself isn't entirely perfect, but I've found a lot of amazing people to play games or chat with thanks to it! You can also find a lot of teammates or people who just wanna play with someone else for free. Personally, I'd recommend trying to play with people a little further down on the list, as the website promotes certain epals with a lot of orders.

I have to agree with a lot of the other low star reviews here. Asking your following to give you good reviews to offset your bad ones isn't a good look. As an E-Pal myself, I have never been banned for NSFW because I'm actively reporting people who are constantly abusing the system. I will say I have seen users be banned prior for NSFW so we can't act like they aren't somewhat "trying". I still hope they take users feedback into consideration more thoroughly if they're going to be begging for reviews. I'd honestly give E-Pal an overall 2.5 stars for Customer Support, E-Pal Feedback Acknowledgement, System Abuse, and Fees for E-Pals and Clients. Hard 1 star for the amount of NSFW that is still being milked by E-pals and Clients, despite their efforts the amount is so rampant that my messages are 2 out of 3 messages asking for links or advertising.
Hopefully we can see more action against Booster and NSFW users.

Also: The new acceptance terms for games is utterly atrocious. Negative stars. What made you guys really want to remove starting times from game orders? Why is it that even if I'm about to go offline and want to accept the game for the next day, that after a few hours it says CANCELLED? Why is it that I am still being held accountable for orders made while offline? And WHY am I held responsible for losing points and then yelled at by the system that if I don't accept my order in a timely fashion I get my points reduced... WHILE OFFLINE? The system was 100 times better when you could control the starting time of your orders and they didn't affect you while offline. "Just mark yourself as not taking orders", literally no. I always want people to know I'm available the next day if I am, and that I will be on to accept their order. I'm not going to pre-accept any orders anymore either because it counts against me. "Turn them away and decline the order, or send them to come back tomorrow" again.... NO. It goes against my account to even DENY orders. The only time I would mark myself as Not Taking Orders is if I was going away for a week (which also counts against you for not taking orders in a week LOL). People are legit seeing my page say "Not Taking Orders" and hop right back into their hiatus because they think I've quit or something. Removing the initial 3rd star I gave because wow is this awful.

Ok so... I've been an epal for a very long time since it was called egirl.gg. It's like a 50/50 of good and bad experiences.
Good: I've met really cool ppl who I consider my friends and I get money by doing what I like.
Bad: Just like a lot of other ppl just state... Scammers, guys asking for nsfw to girls, 10% of tax for withdrawing, epals boosting 100 orders per hr like Ayla and Paola, etc.

On my personal opinion epal should STOP doing this events where the winner is the person with the most orders done, like... obviously the winner it's gonna be the same boosting girl with the insane amount of orders done per day -_-

They asked their discord community server on september 6th, 2022 to give them a good review here (and called it as a favor), and i quote the mod from discord:" got a minute to do me a favor? I am not allowed to offer any monetary incentives, but you will have our friendship" and I quote again: "Please consider dropping a positive review on the website". Please be careful from the new 5 stars reviews as they are trying to boost them (They don't allow boosting on their website btw but they promote it here lol). They have many issues on their website, service and support team (their email support team is a joke they never help you solve any issue). They just take over on epals money and ban their accounts with their money in it and give no explanation or instructions how they get their accounts or money back, they just stop replying to you and take your money (like they did to me), girls get harassed and asked for inappropriate things there too and many accounts boosted (specially girls with thousands of orders a day) it is so biased. Be careful from this website as it is run by some unprofessionals. ( I wanted to share with you a proof of what i'm saying but trustpilot does not allow links nor pictures)

Edit after epal's reply: This is so not true, once you freeze an account they lose access to the account and they can't withdraw unless they access the account. Don't say what you don't really do just to look good in front of people, my account is frozen for months and your support stopped replying to me and when they reply they reply with an automated answer, i received it like 200 times now. you don't help us get our funds back nor our accounts, you just freeze with no proper explanation and take over our earnings. YOU ARE SO UNPROFESSIONAL AND A BUNCH OF SCAMMERS!!

There's a lot of nice people here, can meet new friends, pals and teammates for ur games. I love has the most beautiful community for games. :)