Academia Anmeldelser 826

Even after confirming my account by email I couldn't log on because of infintely recurring captchas. I can't even say this is a legitimate site and not some kind of phishing scam.

I mistakenly left the auto-renewal on after the trial period. I reached out to them as soon as the charge appeared, but they insisted a refund was impossible. I then filed a dispute through PayPal and ultimately received my money back. Very bad way to treat your users

I am very disappointed. ResearchGate is better.
Automatic storage and reuse of payment data.

Garbage scam website that has functionally stolen my papers and locked them behind a paywall. I will never give these criminals a cent.

THIEVES is how I can describe this company . If you have been unfortunate and got onto their mailing list, they email you saying that your company has a new important information on their page ,
And make you click on the link ,if you are an idiot like me and then they actually subscribe you forcefully so that you can read this article that doesn’t exist And then after they take your pound and you can try to cancel and then they take £82 out of your bank account while you are not even registered with them so it is absolute fraud a scam whatever your name is I hope they get shut down and made obselete … They are thieving bastards and there is nothing useful on this website. Avoid like the plague, they are disgusting money, Grabbing scamming so and so’s .

WARNING

they changed their terms on refunds and subsriptions.
1. . Automatic storage and reuse of payment data.
2. Monthly and annual Subscriptions renew automatically by default, using the stored payment method, with no explicit commitment to send a reminder before each renewal (especially for annual plans). The burden is entirely on you to remember to cancel in time.
3. They may change Subscription terms and the Subscription Fee “in our discretion” by emailing you. If you “do not agree” you must cancel; if you don’t cancel, your silence counts as acceptance. This is one-sided, especially if the notice is easy to miss or goes to spam. (THEY USUALLY DO NOT NOTICE)
4. It’s “your duty” to keep your email address current, and if you miss a change of terms/price because of an email issue, that’s your problem, not theirs—yet those changes still bind you unless you cancel.
5. They “reserve the right to modify or terminate Free Trial or Discounted Trials at any time, without notice.” That means the promotional conditions can change mid-stream from the user’s perspective.

THESE ARE THE IMPORTANT ONES. BEFORE YOU WERE ABLE TO GET A REFUND.

When you become a pensionist, you should be aware that subscriptions which have been paid for you by your employer may be charged you privately. That happened to me; a total of 1482 USD was drawn from my Mastercard account by Academia.edu before I really understood the situation and managed to cancel the account (using their 'feedback' email address). My Mastercard was charged twice a year, and I received no prewarnings or other type of information.

When searching for scientific literature on Internet, please note that assistance from Academia.edu can be quite costly. If you leave credit card information on their web page once, you too are likely to get your credit card charged yearly without any relevant information or prewarning.

They charged £165.60 for annual subscription without my authority and with my account showing that I'm not a premium member, so cannot cancel what I do not have. The fee was double last year's. It's most difficult to get any sense from them. From being a fairly useful academic service, it is now an unscrupulous money grabber.

Apres jamais rien avoir entendu d‘eux pendant 2 ans ils chargent une carte de crédit que je ne leurs ait pas donné, 246,99 euros. Le soi disant service consisterai a mesurer les publications- un service que l éditeur fournit donc ca n a aucun intérêt. Faut s abstenir de ce site.

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Be careful when you cancel, their website makes you have to confirm 2 or 3 times but if you dont know you might think you are finished. I know this as I was caught out. As soon as I saw an Auto renewal come through, thinking I was cancelled months back, I jumped straight on and cancelled fully and properly. While I am still unsure how they auto renewed on my cancelled credit card number, when I asked for a refund for my circumstance and cancellation same day. They have refused. This site offers little value and its payment practices are predatory at best. Do not use!

This site is a joke. They lure you in by sending countless emails saying that your name was mentioned in an recent article but to see by whom or to read the article or document you need to subscribe. Then after you subscribe, you get access to a random piece of nothing where is not your name mentioned and it ask you to confirm that is your name or not. Waste of time and money. Then to unsubscribe is another challenge...you are asked 5 or 6 times in different windows if you are really sure about unsubscribing and being warned that you will lose access to a lot of nothing.

Like many others I was charged without notification and then given the generic thank you for your support when requesting assistance. Nobody has assisted the site is a scam they steal money from subscribers and then send unhelpful messages. I’m requesting my account be deleted and data be sent to me but every time I request it I get crickets and nothing is done.

258 francs prélevés frauduleusement.
Pourquoi malgré les nombreux cas, ce site peut encore continuer sans impunité à voler honteusement les gens.
J'ai fait une demande d'annulation via ma carte bancaire, en espérant que cela aboutisse.

Retour : j'ai obtenu l'annulation par ma banque :)

Contenu très redondant.
60€ la 1ere année, 163 la 2e, 333 la 3e.
Des avis de renouvellement envoyés à la dernière minute du délai légal avec un intitulé en anglais trompeur et une petite mention écrite en tout petit au final d'un mail long comme le bras pour vous prévenir d'un prélèvement HT (bien évidemment c'est le TTC qui est prélevé).
À fuir

Academia.edu eröffnet einen Dauerauftrag bei PayPal. Dabei kommt es zu keinen Beschwerden, weil über PayPal bereits 1,00 € für den ersten Augenschein kassiert wurde. Standardisierte Antwort auf meine Reklamation: CHF 193.50 werden nicht retourniert … und dienen als Spende

They push you into a free premium plan for the first trial and then ask you to provide all your credit card information, even if you opt out of recurring billing. They charge you immediately after the trial period and disguise it as a subscription renewal without any prior notice. Yet, they're also so deceitful as to spam you every hour, regardless of whether you've written this or that academic material!

They boast about a supposed 30-day refund period for the initial purchase, but they've created a loophole by charging you as a renewal after the trial period, which, according to them, doesn't fall under their refund criteria! I've seen numerous people on various websites and forums like Reddit complaining about being secretly charged by academia.edu several years later, even deleting their accounts. For goodness sake, if you gave these sick people your card information, contact your bank and get a new card so they can never illegally charge you again! I hope this anti-consumer scam site and those behind it face serious legal charges and are damned forever!

Nel settembre 2024 ho attivato un abbonamento di 1 euro al mese, già il mese dopo mi venivano addebitati 129 euro per un upgrade ad abbondamento Premium, che non ho mai richiesto, e ieri mi vedo attivato un pagamento automatico di 291,58 euro. Per fortuna che Paypal è stato molto serio e mi rimborserà la cifra, dal momento che mi hanno truffato.

Mai ricevuto alcuna mail per abbonamento premium, ho pagato solo un euro per visualizzare un documento (peraltro totalmente inutile) e automaticamente qualche settimana dopo mi sono stati scalati circa 157€, chiesto rimborso a PayPal che mi è stato rifiutato, ho contattato ora l’assistenza e mi auguro di riuscire a ricevere un rimborso per un abbonamento non sottoscritto e non voluto e sopratutto per non aver ricevuto alcuna mail relativamente a tale abbonamento al fine di poter intervenire preventivamente.