My son and I used forest bikes in london on friday 1st May, I had to use bank card for my account and credit card for his account. The bikes were ok to use, but 2 days later i have had fraudulent tran... Mehr ansehen
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My son and I used forest bikes in london on friday 1st May, I had to use bank card for my account and credit card for his account. The bikes were ok to use, but 2 days later i have had fraudulent tran... Mehr ansehen
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Forced me to go to a parking zone that's too far away and in order to get there, I had to go through a really sketchy area full of cars and just all around a really unsafe area. I had to stop and just... Mehr ansehen
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If I could give no stars i would. I lived in Brentford for a few years and would always use electric bikes to get around locally. I moved away, and returned to find forest had replaced lime for bike... Mehr ansehen
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I don't usually post trustpilot reviews but this time I had enough. First of all your app is the slowest app out of the competitors I used. It's like you didn't even try on android...most... Mehr ansehen
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We’re Forest. You know, those shared ebikes in London that look like trees. We’re London’s most affordable and most sustainable shared eBike. We give everyone 10 minutes free riding time, every day. It doesn’t stop at 10 minutes though, we offer riders a way to get even more free minutes by watching ads from our conscious-minded partners. We power our operations with 100% renewable energy (which we have done since day 1). We then offset our manufacturing emissions by growing an actual forest, through local and responsible tree planting, in Wales.
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When these rides go well, they are great. And when they go wrong, they are not...
When I started using Forest to cycle to work earlier this year, I did have some issues with the bikes themselves. However, there have been various new ones that have come out since and they are Much better; comfortable, lower seat with better seat adjust mechanism. Once on, I find they are much faster than Lime bikes and the basket fits everything I need it to.
The (android) app has mostly been ok. I have had problems ending and starting rides and do have to open and close it quite a lot. One morning I realised I was walking towards a bike showing available on the app that was definitely being cycled away! My biggest peeve is that the option to report damage is not the first thing you see after you end a ride - you have to remember to do it afterwards - and there could be many more options to choose from to describe the issue. It would also help make it much less likely to hop on a damaged bike, though thankfully this hasn't happened too often.
The main thing that makes me want to chuck the towel in - and what has prompted this review today - is the new "low speed zone" that I pass through every day, twice a day. Nearly every week there is a bike that does not seem to register that it is no longer in the zone and I am capped to half speed for the rest of my journey. Infuriating and exhausting. At the very least, you should only be charged half price for the time spent in the Slow Zone. The slower I go, the longer it takes me, the more minutes I use and the more money I am charged..

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Will never use these bikes again, and will tell all my friends and family not to. Apparently every time you rent regardless of purchasing prepaid minutes, expect a charge on your bank account every time you rent. Just blame your bank for holding the money as pending because forest said it’s their way of making sure the bikes are safe. Great job. So if u ride average of 20 rents per day, expect a total pending charge of £100 on your account that u may need for the day but can’t anymore because of their renting policy.

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Our area Kensal Rise/Queens Park NW6/W10 is littered daily with illegally parked bikes from this company which I report daily get a reply then they DO NOTHING to remove them NOR FINE the riders leaving them:
1. Blocking FIRE exits to public and private building
2. Blocking bin room doors
3. Blocking front gates to homes
4. Blocking cross walks
5. Blocking bus stops
6. Knocked over in PILES in middle of pavement
7. Left in street
8. Impeding the visually impaired and the elderly
9. Blocking wheelchair users
10. Blocking parents with baby prams
11. Blocking cars in street
12. Using PAYG car spaces
13. Blocking legal bikes
14. Thrown in canals
15. And many more...
They are a hazard to every citizen in London, and we MUST remove this company from our city!

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I watched nine adverts to get 9 minutes. In the minute history it shows 9 minutes free but on my app it only shows 7 minutes free.

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They know how I feel. What idiot decides the boundary for use is across the middle of a heath and cuts off an entire Borough from one of its most significant sports centres.
£22 for a journey less than 10 mins form my home. No warning only found out why by nagging customer service.

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Started using Forest when I moved to London, it was great then (over a year ago), but now? Broken bikes..pedals, breaks, alignment, seats. The question is, what works? Oh and the price increase? Absolute joke.

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The app is absolutely terrible. It freezes all the time. The bikes are awful.

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My email is being used with the website for purchases and I cannot get hold of anyone on the phone or email.
I have phoned and emailed many times and no response.
Just an update- apparently email addresses are not verified when you sign up so anyone can use. Managed to get through to someone. This really needs to be verified to stop scams.

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I have just joined forrest and not yet had a chance to use them but what I will say is everyday they give you 3 videos to watch if you watch these videos you get 1 min a video there for 3 mins a day I have been watching these videos for the last 5 days 3 a day which if I am correct should work out as 15mins yet they have only gave me 7 mins so there fore I would say that this is false advertisement so they need to be carefully they are not sued

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After being a loyal customer with 655 rides, I deleted my account today.
The constant price increases are insane, the lack of transparency in pricing is not ok (cannot believe they still have ‘10 free minutes’ plastered on bikes), their customer service has become appalling, parking areas change constantly, and their app has no way of accurately telling you if you can park at your destination.
You check, all looks fine, you get to an area within the zone, you park in a parking bay and then they slap you with a £20 fine.
Lime is now cheaper, more readily available and convenient, and has a much better app.
Goodbye forest!

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If I could this company 0 stars or even minus I would.
The bike quality is terrible, most broken or the electric assist doesn’t work, customer service are more interested in money than customer care.
Do yourself a favour use Lime or Beryl avoid Forest like the plague.

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I used to use Forest a lot. But the steady price increases over the last year or two - both in actual terms and by stealth - (eg free minutes can no longer be used with bundles), the adding of and pushing up prices of daily service fee and unlock fee etc, and now the final straw is the £3 bundle is £3.99.
Granted it now comes with 40 minutes but I don’t actually need that extra time.
I get that businesses have rising costs but I genuinely don’t see who would now choose Forest over Lime anymore as Line Bikes are simply better as is their app. Or for that matter, just taking a bus or the tube.
With all that having been said I will end on a more positive note: I do feel that the costs ARE transparent, you do know what you’re paying if you bother to look, and customer services have always been good on the rare occasions I’ve contacted them.

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The prices keep going up and the bikes are getting worse. No more value for money. Soon it will be cheaper to drive :)

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90% of the time the app either won’t start or won’t let you end a ride. You spend so much time trying to get the thing to function it’s usually quicker to just walk.

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Absolute sham of a company and should've shut down straight away. Their users keep crashing into parked cars on the street and dumping their bikes on top of vehicles causing criminal damage and the company refuse accountability.
Edit- reply to company- I did email and I was told you won't help... I wouldn't mind speaking to the CEO though. Your bikes are a nuisance on my street.

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I would be giving 0 if I were able to. They are scammers, they are charging you with implicit charges. Never ever use it

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Unclear pricing and recent price hikes not highlighted. App laggy and GPS recognition awful. Bikes often broken and can't end ride. Stupid joke messages when waiting ages for ride to end. Stands unstable so often see piles of bikes due to gusts of wind. Price rises now make Lime bundles same price and more reliable.

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Total Scam company.
Their app showed me I had 32mins left to use. So I used the bike to use up the minutes, when I finished the ride 22mins later as expected it showed 9mins left. But just as I closed the app I clocked it had charged me a regular fare. So I reopened to double check and it had and all traces of the minutes were gone, showing now 0mins left. Like wth?
Immediately messaged support and they were like, "we don't see the minutes". No duh, I don't see it either, what is going on with your app?
Never using/recommending them again.
Also the 10mins "free" is a false advertising scam as you pay 2.5£... such a con.
● The definition of "FREE" is, "Without cost or payment". So the fact that you charge, is FALSE ADVERTISING. As that is not "free" as the company is advertertising, that is 10mins for 2.50£.
Also they do not disclose the upcoming 2.50 charge prior to using the bike. So this is clearly misleading clients. Really and truly this is a breach of contract. Stop lying and just be transparent.

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They've decided to hike the 30 minutes price up by 25% with no communication or care. Half the time the bikes pedals fall off seats randomly snap and the battery just stops.
The audacity to raise the price is hilarious. Guarantee they'll be out of business in London by the end of this year.

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I recently used Forest and was shocked by how unclear their system is. I was charged a £20 fee for supposedly entering a “red zone” without any clear warning or real-time alert in the app. At no point did the app make it obvious that I was outside their operational boundaries, nor that I would incur such a heavy penalty.
When I raised the issue with their support team, they refused to refund me and simply pointed to the map yet as a customer, I cannot be expected to constantly monitor tiny map zones while riding. Clear, real-time alerts should be standard.
This was not a matter of misuse, but a failure of communication on Forest’s side. Penalising customers for unclear boundaries feels unreasonable and unfair. The dismissive response from customer service made the situation even worse.
I value transparency and fairness from any company, and unfortunately Forest fell short. Charging customers for something that was not clearly communicated is unacceptable.

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