You ask Luxy for a refund in one of two ways: through the customer service inside the app, or by emailing its support address. Either way, send your payment receipt and the reason you want the money back. A duplicate charge from the App Store or Google Play is different. Luxy says you can reverse the duplicate yourself in your phone's subscription management. Like every dating app, Luxy decides the request. Your part is to make approving it easy.
What to send
Luxy's help center lists two things: the payment receipt and the reason for the refund. Give it both, and give them in the first message.
The receipt is the email you got when you paid. Apple, Google and PayPal each send one. Forward it, or attach a screenshot that shows the amount, the date of the charge and the account it came from. Without it, support has to go looking for your payment, and that is where requests slow down.
The reason should fit in a sentence or two. Say what you bought, what the problem was, and what you want Luxy to do. A charge you did not expect after you thought you had canceled is a clear reason. So is a plan bought by mistake.
If you were charged twice through the App Store or Google Play
A double charge is the one case with a shortcut. Luxy says a duplicate App Store or Google Play payment can be reversed in your phone's subscription management.
Open the subscriptions list on your phone and look for Luxy. If it appears twice, you have found the problem. Take a screenshot of the list before you change anything, in case you need to show support what you saw. Deal with the extra entry there. Then check your card statement over the following days to make sure only one charge stands.
If you paid through PayPal
A payment made through PayPal goes back to Luxy by email. Write to support@onluxy.com with your receipt and the account the payment was made from.
Name the account plainly. If you signed up with one email address and paid from a PayPal account under another, say so in the message. Two addresses with nothing linking them leaves support guessing which payment is yours, and the reply you get is a question instead of an answer.
How to write the request
Keep it short and keep it level. A request that reads like a receipt is easier to act on than one that reads like a complaint letter.
A good request has four lines. Who you are on Luxy. What you paid and when. What went wrong. What you want done. That is the whole message. Leave out the history of your time on the app and any opinion about the company. Neither changes the answer, and both make it harder to find the part that matters.
If support replies with a question, answer it the same day, while the details are still in front of you.
Keep a copy of everything in one place, even a single folder in your email: the receipt, your message and every reply. If you need to follow up, you can quote exactly what you sent and when. It also stops you from sending three slightly different versions of the same request, which only makes the request harder to act on.
Stop the next charge at the same time
A refund covers a payment that already happened. It does nothing about the next one.
If you are done with Luxy, cancel the renewal where you paid for it. That means your Apple ID subscriptions on an iPhone, Google Play on Android, or PayPal's automatic payments if you paid on the web. Do that before anything else, including deleting the account. Otherwise you can end up asking for your money back twice.
Before you pay for a dating app again
Most refund requests are not really about the money. They come from a month that felt like it produced nothing.
a dating coach calls most paid dating features multipliers. A paid tier can take a man from one date a week to several, and that is worth far more than the fee. But a multiplier works on whatever you already have, and if what you have is nothing, multiplying it still gives you nothing.
So before the next subscription, on Luxy or anywhere, look at what the free version was doing for you. Were women liking you back? Were your conversations getting past the first few lines? If the answer is no, the work sits in your photos and your opening lines, and none of it costs anything. Fix those first. Then a paid plan has results to multiply, and you are far less likely to be writing to support at the end of it.
Written by Matthew Stevens, Co-Founder & Head Coach. More than half a decade coaching men across the US and worldwide.
Everything here comes out of real coaching work: the approaches, dates, texts and profiles we go through with the men we coach.