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by someonenice 3198 days ago
Most negative comments are about people not able to add their bank account in the app but still getting deducted charges for verifying.

Some of the comments -

>> Edit - Moving to 3 from 1 as Google replied stating the official launch has yet to happen and the engineers are working on it. Just wondering why they made it go live publically prior actual launch. I wouldn't complain if they named it beta to begin with. Hopefully, after launch the backend will be straightened up and the app will work as expected. Crossing fingers. Unable to add bank, I just lost ₹1.5 multiple times by the app sending SMS for verification/addition of bank. Why did you pick this way of adding banks to the app when it could have been done differently?

>> Charges Rs. 5 during SMS verification. But can't even fetch bank accounts. #1 useless app for payments. Good luck if you still want to try and waste money unnecessarily
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captn3m0 3198 days ago
It is already on TechCrunch[0], the Google Blog[1], and the Google India Blog[2]. If that doesn't count for an official launch I don't know what does.

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/17/google-debuts-tez-a-mobile...

[1]: https://www.blog.google/topics/google-asia/introducing-tez/

[2]: https://india.googleblog.com/2017/09/introducing-tez-mobile-...

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Manishearth 3198 days ago
There's a ton of annoying stuff around bank accounts in India that makes doing anything online a major pain. Idk if this is Google's fault or the bank's fault in this case, but this is kinda to be expected :|

(AIUI there's a bunch of overregulation over online stuff that most online payments things don't gel well with. But I don't know enough about this, just have been bitten by it enough times)

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