BottleDrop

Wish I had thought of this scam service years ago cuz I’d be filthy rich. Like everything else these days…we pay for convenience. Instead of recycling cans and bottles, we can get paid to turn them in for the state .10 refund. After all, we do pay the extra .10 when purchasing the product. So this company comes along with its cute orange and green kiosks and convinces you to use it because it’s convenient. Create an account and you get: Free card! Free stickers! Oh but you gotta buy their bags. 3x the cost of kitchen trash bags only green in color. Fine. Put the stickers exactly where they state on the bag, fill the bag with exactly what they approve of and transport bag(s) to local store where the bags are accepted. The reality: Bags are often BLANK with no print on them, invalidating the refund of the bag. Drop off centers are filthy and disgusting and you will likely get mugged by druggies wanting your loot. Bag cost rises over time. Refunds not always issued and ZERO accounting and transparency on their part. Break any of the many rules and the bag will not be counted (yet they still get to recycle it for $$) Oh and the online access and tech are very bad. They always lose my account, can’t tie my account number to my account, etc. what year is this? 2026 and they can’t do the basics with account management. App gets updated now account no longer works. Create new account and map to number on card. Works again. App updates…can’t find account. App basics: Login, shows account balance, lets you use phone to scan at kiosks for more free stickers yet cannot display the credit-per-sticker on bags you turn in. THEY have that data but all you get is a big summary page showing your balance. I did an honesty test with these people: I filled 6 bags with the exact amount of empty aluminum cans in each bag. 126 cans. I then turned in two bags and waited for my new balance (which can take them weeks). After making three turn in runs with 2 bags each run, I reviewed my balance at each iteration and the credit they gave me was wildly different. How can they explain that? Remember: You paid for the tax when buying the product. You pay BottleDrop for their expensive and often low quality bags. You receive at best 1/5th face value of credit had you done this yourself. Oh and their tech is bad. Really bad. So one star it is.

Cant contact customer service through app, makes you reset password randomly will Lock you out, all around terribly designed app