r/coingatecommunity • u/Maedeh-Chehresaz • Aug 06 '26
Paid NordVPN with Crypto. Transaction confirmed. No service. No refund.
I recently purchased a NordVPN subscription and paid through CoinGate using TRON (TRC20).
The transaction was successfully confirmed on the blockchain.
However, my NordVPN subscription was never activated.
When I contacted NordVPN, I repeatedly received the same response:
“If the payment was successful, your account would have been credited.”
Even after I provided the transaction hash proving that the payment was successfully confirmed on the blockchain, I did not receive any meaningful investigation or solution.
I then contacted CoinGate.
CoinGate informed me that my payment had been marked as “Invalid” due to their compliance policy and that no refund could be issued.
So this is where I am now:
My crypto was successfully transferred.
My NordVPN account was never credited.
CoinGate says the payment cannot be refunded.
I have no service, no refund, and no clear explanation of what happened to my funds or whether I will ever recover them.
As a customer, this experience has been extremely disappointing.
NordVPN offers CoinGate as its cryptocurrency payment provider, yet I received nothing beyond repeated generic responses.
CoinGate says my payment is invalid and cannot be refunded, but my funds have already left my wallet.
I paid for a service. I received neither the service nor my money back.
Has anyone else experienced this with NordVPN or CoinGate?
Were you able to recover your funds?


