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The site is EXTREMELY underhanded and misleading. I was looking for a particular handbook for cosmology, and thought I had found it. In order to access it, I had to go through the trouble of creating an account. After I did so, I go to download the book, all to find out they only had the first two pages of the book!!! What good is that going to do me?!

I couldn't see that it was only two pages until AFTER they made me sign up and AFTER they tried to coerce me into signing up for a membership. That is EXTREMELY shady and clearly intentional. They knew if I saw it was only 2 pages, I wouldn't have wasted my time, which is why they didn't show me it was only 2 pages until after it was already downloaded (that very last window after the download tells you how many pages it's supposed to be, which could've just as easily had been posted on the file itself).

Lack of transparency like that is a perfect example of a company that can't be trusted. Then, seeing all these people on here who made the mistake of giving the company their credit card, all to be locked into paying with an inability to stop it, further drives that conclusion.

Companies like this need to be shut down, and those that conduct these underhanded business practices need to be locked away in prison where they belong.

Même les statistiques de base sont désormais payantes. Une décision regrettable, surtout dans un contexte académique où beaucoup d’utilisateurs n’ont pas le budget pour un abonnement Premium.

BEWARE - They misuse information for selfish gains - do NOT engage - no compassion shown

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Premier contact avec Académia Edu. Je pose une question.
Réponse A: pour voir les resultats de la demande occasionnelle il faut s"inscrire au prix mensuel de 67 eur . Je renonce mais AE me dit de payer 1,euro pour voir la réponse.
Une fois paiement d 1 euro fait arrivele message. Vous avez 1 mois à 1 euro mais dans un mois nous vous prelereverons 67 euros chaque moîs
J essaie de résilier ce genre de contrat forcé impossible de trouver la transaction.
Je pose la question au contact AE :
Dites moi comment résilier ou resiliez vous même !!!
Pas de réponse sauf message on est occupé patientez.
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I was shocked to receive an autorenew yesterday and a price-hike to £250 from a company I mustakenly thought that I could trust. I did not realise that I was signed to a scam. I came here and saw that many others have suffered exactly the same experience. Their subscriotions should fall off a cliff and thisbshould be publicised. We all get those emails from our streaming services apologising for 10% price increases and the produce programming, but this company merely “shop-window” your work and then push you off a cliff with, in my case, an increase, without warning, from £150 (already expensive) to £250 a year. I swore I had cancelled this subscription, but will do so again and block my card. I am looking forward to the automatic reply to this review. I never realise that I was signed up to sucha company using the connotations of “academia.” I have recently retired, and so this payment has taken a lot away from me

I never authorized the most recent charge from Academia Premium, and I was not notified before it was billed. *My credit card number had changed, and they still managed to charge my new card, which I never entered on their site.* That’s deeply concerning and feels like a serious breach of trust and security.
I reached out to request a refund and was told that they do not issue refunds under any circumstances, even for unauthorized transactions. That is completely unacceptable. This constitutes a scam.
This is not a subscription I actively signed up for, and there is no way to manage it through Apple or any standard platform. You are forced to navigate their confusing website just to attempt cancellation, and even then, they make it difficult to confirm.
Avoid this company at all costs. Never give them your credit card as they will use it for unauthorized charges, and their customer support will do nothing to help you.

Wish I'd read and understood the details of the Academia.edu autorenew program. I received notice of autorenewal on the last day of my subscription, and canceled immediately ... only to be told that's not the deal. They say I've now paid for 365 days of nothing I want. In my opinion one gains NOTHING by being on autorenew, so SHOULD NOT do it. Clever-lawyer-drafted language screws the customer. If you think you may want to renew, let them ask you to do so .... I imagine you might get a significantly better price offer.

Erst wird kommuniziert dass man für 1€ Premium bekommt und dann wird fleißig abgebucht. Zusätzlich wurde mein Zugang gesperrt. Hä?! Doppelt gelinkt.

I attempted to cancel my auto-renewal and believed I had successfully done so. However, it turns out the process required scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking “confirm” or “cancel” a second and third time—something that was not made clear.

Frankly, this feels like a textbook case of dark patterning and confirmshaming, which has no place in an academic platform. Academia.edu should be held to higher standards. This kind of design erodes trust and is unbecoming of an institution that claims to support scholars.

Premium subscription taken despite having cancelled my Premium account. This company is a predatory company. Beware

I was charged for an annual Academia Premium subscription on May 18, 2025, despite believing I had canceled it. It could’ve been helpful if they sent reminders or even just receipts for the billing like other ethical websites and companies. Academia.edu has refused my refund request, and their cancellation process is confusing and unclear. As a student, this unexpected charge caused financial hardship. I signed up for Academia.edu Premium and later attempted to cancel the subscription during the trial period. However, I recently discovered that I was still charged an amount of 358,630.37 MNT (~$104 USD) on May 18, 2025, despite believing I had successfully canceled. I received no email notification before the renewal and was unaware that two separate steps were required to cancel properly.

I contacted Academia.edu support immediately after noticing the charge. They acknowledged the payment and confirmed that auto-renewal was turned off but refused to issue a refund, citing their policy. I explained that the cancellation interface was unclear, and I thought I had completed it. As a student, this is a significant amount of money for me, and I never intended to continue the subscription.

Aggiornamento: mi hanno contattato 3 giorni dopo e mi fanno fatto il rimborso senza fare storie. Sono contenta sia finita così, state comunque attenti.. può essere un sito valido se gestito meglio!
Vecchia recensione:
Ho utilizzato anch’io il “paga un euro per il documento per la prima volta” e senza neanche dirmelo hanno attivato una prova gratuita e mi hanno scalato 150€ senza nemmeno avvertirmi qualche giorno prima come un sito rispettoso farebbe.
Sono una studentessa e quei soldi non sembra ma mi fanno comodo, ho chiesto gentilmente un rimborso in quanto non ho mai usufruito del loro servizio ad eccezione del documento da 1€, e non mi hanno ancora risposto, attendo da 2 giorni ormai.
Sono rimasta molto delusa e anche in difficoltà.
Spero in una risoluzione del problema che sia veloce ed efficace.

Truffa. esigo il rimborso. La qualità degli articoli è infima e la cifra dell'acconto è eccesiva. Nessuna mail per segnalare che l'abbonamento sarebbe partito.

Every person here should ban together for a lawsuit if they do not get reimbursed for these sudden hike charges. Horrible, and a shame as i found it to be useful, but not $500 by any means. No one would pay that in any class of society for a website built on the work of the academics on it.

Academia.edu renewed my Premium subscription without clearly informing me of a massive price increase from €107 to €434 per year. That’s almost a 400% jump — and I received no direct notification or warning about this change.

This practice violates European consumer law, which requires that any price increase be clearly, individually, and timely communicated before an automatic renewal is processed. Despite this, Academia refuses to offer a refund.

I've filed a formal complaint with PayPal and will also report this to the European Consumer Centre (ECC).

My advice:
If you’re in the EU, assert your legal rights and file a complaint via your national consumer agency or the ECC. Be extremely cautious with Academia Premium — their billing practices are unethical at best, and potentially illegal.

Doubled the premium subscription cost from $249 in 2024 to $498 in 225 without notice.

SONO SCHIFATA.
Avendo creato un profilo come studente, il sito ha salvato le mie informazioni di pagamento, arrecandomi nel tempo spese periodiche fino ad arrivare quasi a 600 euro. Diffidate dal registrarvi a questo sito.

This is a complete rip off. Very expensive, no value, no refund. Avoid at all cost. For me, never ever again

mi sono ritrovato addebitato automaticamente un abbonamento per un importo di157,38 euro che non ho sottoscritto e senza essere informato, solo per aver consultato una volta il sito academia.edu. Ora pretendo il rimborso. Sito sicuramente ingannevole.

I had the really bad experience of finding out that over £200 had been taken from my account without warning. On closer inspection, in what looked like junk mail entitled "Update on Academia Premium" received 4 days before my money was taken, there was a mention towards the bottom that my fee would now be rising from £69 to over £200.
This isn’t just bad practice — it’s likely to be against UK consumer law (Consumer Rights Act 2015 and the CMA’s rules about fair auto-renewals). Hidden notices and big surprise price increases are not allowed, and terms saying "no refunds" can’t override consumers' basic legal rights.
If you get caught out by this scam you can dispute the payment with your bank (chargeback / Section 75); or otherwise to report the matter to Trading Standards and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Fortunately for me PayPal returned my money.
Ignore the 'customer service' responses to reviews. I will update this review if I ever see or hear of such assistance that is sincere and actually helpful. Those in actual academia can sometimes tend to assume that we can trust organisations that purport to support learning. Sadly that isn't always the case. Avoid.