Let me be crystal clear: Venmo is a broken, unreliable piece of garbage that has no business being used by anyone who actually needs to send money to another human being.
I've been trying to pay my contractor — a real person, doing real work — and Venmo keeps hitting me with "Your payment can't be completed right now." No reason. No fix. Just a wall of incompetence.
I already did their idiotic workaround once before: delete your payment method, re-add it, pray to whatever god you believe in, and maybe it works for a week before it breaks again. This time I added a brand new verified bank account. Verified. By Venmo. Still the same useless error.
Their support is nonexistent. Their error messages tell you nothing. Their app is a masterclass in how to make a payment platform that actively prevents payments. PayPal built this thing and somehow made it WORSE than PayPal, which I didn't think was physically possible.
I'm done. Canceling everything. Venmo is a waste of everyone's time and the fact that millions of people rely on this clown show of an app to conduct real financial transactions is genuinely alarming.
Zero stars if I could. Absolute trash.
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