Academia Anmeldelser 826

Wish I could give this company a 0. I don’t recall ever signing up for a premium subscription. I first signed up for a free acct in 2014 under my university email, and set up forwarding to a new email, which is linked to my PayPal. This company withdrew 5$ from my acct on Jan 1, 2024, for “signing up for a premium account” (?), then $179 dollars from my account on Jan 31, 2024, then $299 on Jan 1, 2025, and now a whopping $499 on Jan 1, 2026. I’ve never used their premium services. The sent me an email titled “update on academia premium” that plainly states that I could request a refund within 14 days of the auto renewal, but they refused to send back the $499. I work for a law firm and am exploring a potential suit against this company.

After the trial subscription, they charge me 80$. I accepted, and they told me there wouldn't be any additional charges. But in january the charged me other 80$ dollars, saying it was the second payment for my whole year, when in a previous message, they told me they cancelled the subscription. Shitty page. It's definitely not worth it. I'm already seeing if taking legal actions

Academia charged me $299 five times (!), although I kept protesting against the charge. They then removed three of these charges when I had been led to believe they would remove them all.

In the end, I see that I paid almost $600 to these scammers.

I'd give it a zero if I could. I can publish on Zenodo, I don't need Academia. I wanted to submit an article for one of their magazines. I went through the workflow making the submission. There was one section where I could choose a radio button to indicate I wouldn't pay for the publication but when I finished the page after I submitted said I'd be charged $2000 if publication was approved. Fraudulent practices.

As the ensh*tification of everything to do with academia continues, academia.edu takes it to new levels. A once useful resource is now a zombie pirate site. My annual subscription renewed today and they took £216 instead of the agreed £108. When I queried it they refused to engage - just said that was now my subscription price. Luckily I paid by paypal who agreed to refund the money. Just hoping something else emerges that does what academia.edu used to do.

Die reinste Frechheit ... 1$ Test Abo nach 2 Stunden gekündigt und dann bekomme ich die Mitteilung, dass ein automatisch verlängertes ABO läuft.
UNVERSCHÄMT ... Finger weg! Außerdem bekam ich viel zu viele Meldungen ... da sie bei Name "Max Mustermann" nach allen MAXen und allen MUSTERMANNs und allen Max Mustermanns suchen. Völlig irreführende Zahl und die Suchfunktion lässt eine eingeschränkte Suche nicht zu

Avido di denaro, mi fa schifo chi ricatta!!! Spaccia roba inutile se chi aderisce è daccordo con questa politica. Anche se ci fosse l'oro diventa latta ai miei occhi. Questi bidoni in realtà prima ti adescano e poi ti sfruttano, La vera cultura nutre le menti in modo libero.

Great website to make articles accessible but incredibly scummy practices when it comes to premium subscription. On top of the insane subscription price, unsubsrcribing is made hard to do and displayed in such a way to trick you into thinking you unsubscribed only to get a 200$ bill months later that customer service refuses to refund. It's so bad that it made me create a trustpilot account just to slander these practices.

This year, Academia.edu charged me €252.54, which is double what I paid last year (= €126.27) and I do not know why. Since Academia.edu isn't listening to our complaints, I'm making an appeal: Let's find an alternative platform (which I don't know of) and move there en masse. Paolo Rocchi

they refuse to return the money - over 1000 pln - if you forget to cancel subscribtion on time, even if you contact them the same day they took the money. beware.

I unwittingly signed up with Academia.edu, just to get one quote from an academic journal when I was a student, however this was not to be our last encounter! This company has been spamming me ever since.... for years in fact, with "mentions" (apparently somebody thought I had something worthwhile to say, when I had never even shared a paper with them lol!). Tried unsubscribing - this was ignored. I spammed them. This was also ignored. I even tried changing my name to something along the lines of "Fed Up and Annoyed" - who is apparently getting regular "mentions" in the academic works of others, for all the amazing things he/she/it contributes. The spam continues. I'm only sorry that I had to give one star on here. I don't really think they deserve a whole star. It really takes something away from those people who slog their guts out trying to learn things, so they can make better contributions to this world.

Cancellation is challenging. I thought I had cancelled soon after purchasing last year to access a couple of items, but there was an autorenewal increasing the cost from approximately USD 160 to USD 272 on December 22nd. While I had not intended to renew at all, I was even more appalled by the fact that there was a massive price hike without justification of new features and informing customers and giving them an opportunity to cancel as a result. I see from other reviewers that I am not alone in being appalled at this unethical practice.

I went to check my bank account after Christmas to discover that this organisation had made an unauthorised withdrawal from my account of £333.60. I never had a paid service - their premium service, and I definitely did not authorise this transaction. To make things worse when I went onto the website I had not even been granted access to the supposed Premium services.
I challenged the unauthorised withdrawal within 2 days of it being made and received an unhelpful response stating that the organisation did not refund subscriptions (even though I had never had a subscription). I then applied further pressure and can confirm that a full refund was provided. While I am relieved to have had the refund the situation should never have arisen in the first place.
I would caution you not to have anything to do with this business as my experience is completely unfavourable.

I signed to get a free classic literature book PDF (Not some magic procedure)
They are very untrustworthy since they do not play clean, this people keeps sending you unsolicited e-mails and when you try to unsubscribe, they give millions of other options of junk they will sent unless you tick off (Once, otherwise it ticks back on) “After” doing that, you "Have to save” each list of options. and then you have to click the link “Stop All” emails because this dishonest people they put another link close that says “For this Email” this people are using “euphemisms, words with hidden implicatons” etc that they can later show that “You clicked them Voluntarily”
They are obviously trying to trick you into something.
As said they are very untrustworthy.
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I read they even more dishonest answer they give to cover themselves.
Just read my review and realize that they just give you generic information that every body knows but they do not address the fact that they "FORCE" YES "FORCE" to tick off a number of boxes or. "THEY WILL KEEP SENDING YOU JUNK" BUT THIS TIME THEY WILL CLAIMTHAT IT WAS "BASED ON YOUR SLECECTION" but they do not tell you that they "Force" your selection.
So thank you incompentent employee who just made my point when you were trying to justify yourselves.

Created an account in Aug 25. Tried the premium service, and cancelled it during the trial period. Then on 15 Dec 25 they bill me $299 for a premium account. 4 months later? Funny thing, when I went to my account it says that I don't have premium. Contacted them on 16 Dec 25 and asked to cancel my premium account, and refund me. They said they would cancel my auto-renewal, but would not refund my money. Fortunately they charged my pay-pal, and pay-pal refunded me.

Scam. Do not use this "service." I paid for one-time access, and like many others, was scammed with an auto renewal I never authorized, at a much higher price. I was then locked out of my account for "suspicious behavior" (simply signing in with a username and password). Fortunately my bank caught the transaction and contacted me so I was able to block it. It's fraud, period. My bank will be looking into it. This has to stop.

Cancled three years ago, they keep charged me £165 each year since, they now owe me £355 and won’t retirn emails also can’t contact customer services. AVOID

I got an email from these dirtbags and I never even heard of them.

Trash website that gatekeeps academic papers by forcing you to sign up because one cannot do research in peace without this garbage meddling with any attempts to study.