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ABCmouse

Overview

ABCmouse has a rating of 2 stars from 104 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with ABCmouse most frequently mention credit card, customer service and free trial. ABCmouse ranks 295th among Kids sites.

service
14
value
14
shipping
5
returns
9
quality
11
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Oregon
1 review
3 helpful votes
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What a joke
October 10, 2019

Auto renewed a inactive account that no one was using and started charging me again. After multiple emails asking for my money back and account canceled. I was told they don't do refunds, but have no record of me trying to cancel. I have tried many times. They have no problem taking money for something that's not getting used but wont give the money back. Do not get caught up in their BS this is a joke!

Date of experience: October 10, 2019
Canada
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Thieves!
September 13, 2018

Be careful! They charge your card even if you don't use the service! We never used the abc mouse and out of nowhere I get a charge to my card leaving me with no money. The charge was even $30 more that they say the service is. Ridiculous!

Date of experience: September 13, 2018
Louisiana
1 review
8 helpful votes
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I did not realize that this was auto renewed through paypal. When i noticed the charge for a site that we have not used in over 2 years, i immediately contacted abcmouse... or at least tried. You cannot speak to anyone, only email. They did not offer a refund, instead told me that I should have known. It was an hones mistake and things like that should be resolved or at least let me speak to someone.

Date of experience: April 13, 2018
Texas
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Over Charges
December 10, 2016

We signed up and they billed my credit card 3 additional times. Ove course when you call to speak to a billing representative, you on hold and no one answers. Also called back and submitted a call back number, and they did not return my call. Complete scam, don't fall for it.

Date of experience: December 10, 2016
Bahamas
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Fraud, Scam,
August 30, 2017

I too signed up for a free trial and tried cancelling before the expired date, but have been charged 19.75 for the past two months. Same story unable to reach them via phone or email.

I want my money refunded and the billing to stop, I am very happy I googled this to find so many people with the same story and that I can reach out to my bank to put a stop to it.

Date of experience: August 30, 2017
Texas
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I can not get a response to get a refund. I have been calling sending emails with no response. I subscribed to this membership a few years ago then cancelled it, my daughter was able to resubscribe us yesterday because my credit card info is still in their system. I thought they had deleted it but much to my disappointment it is still there. So now I am trying to get a refund as I discovered this the same day she did it and I am trying to get my credit card info deleted to prevent this from happening again. So far I have not been successful do either because they will not respond to messages. Warning to all parents this could happen to you. Their customer service is very bad. Should they respond and do the right thing then my opinion could possibly change but as for right now I don't advice anyone to join this club.

Date of experience: July 20, 2017
New York
1 review
16 helpful votes
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My daughter kept getting frustrated with this app because of all the glitches. She plays games on her new ipad all the time and nothing else is this glitchy. Two months after I bought it, she won't play it at all, so I go to cancel it... and it is SUPER hard to cancel. The website gives you a circular run-around. Looks like even if I cancel, I won't get refunded even partially for a $60 yearly subscription. I hate them.

Date of experience: May 28, 2020
Texas
1 review
9 helpful votes
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FRAUD
January 8, 2020

Never heard of this company and I have no small children. 3 months in a row they hit my account for 9.95. The bank keeps refunding my money canceling my card and sending me a new card but they can't seem to stop them from hitting me again. One more time and I am going to have to close my bank account that I have had for 20 years. I can't keep having to cancel my card every month because of this.

Date of experience: January 8, 2020
Texas
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Even though I absolutely adored the program for my son as a preschooler, I had trouble with it loading properly. Instead, it would keep repeating the activity, so I notified the customer service personnel, did what they asked, and when I requested a refund, even after I did what they asked, they continued to send me the same response, as if I had not responded at all. In addition to this, like the other party stated, I purchased the annual subscription, and it renewed automatically without my authorization, even though it was a 12 month subscription. I also tried contacting the company directly, and they are conveniently not available after 5 p.m. As a former teacher myself, this did not bode well with me. I am sorry to say that I am very disappointed with this company.

Date of experience: May 25, 2015
South Africa
1 review
12 helpful votes
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My husband and i were looking for an online learning platform for our four year old when i came across abcmouse via youtube. I quickly whent to the sit, filled in my details but didnt go through with the registration. I had a little hunch to further research on other sites for a comparison before committing to ABC. This was two or three months ago, to my surprise im being debited. Went to the bank to do a reversal but later that day they re-debited. Please help, how do i get out of this?

Date of experience: June 19, 2020
Ohio
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Scammers
April 9, 2020

Several years ago I was a subscriber. My grandchildren were small. When they got older, they became interested in other things and they didn't need Grandma to babysit them. So I unsubscribed to site. It has been several years now since then, lo and behold, yesterday I happened to be checking my credit card acct. And saw a $99.00 charge posted for ABC Mouse. I called the support ph. #. Their whole support team are working from home, and I was to e-mail them to have my problem resolved & they would respond in time. So far they have not done so. I will be disputing the credit card charge for this.

Date of experience: April 9, 2020
California
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Somehow, fraudulently, I was subscribed this website I have never heard of. A charge showed up this month on my credit card, what is this?. I have been calling their 800 number to get my money refunded, or at least get the fraudulent subscription cancelled. It seems impossible to reach any customer service representative, they never answer the line, on hold for well over 30 minutes. They sent me a generic email reply that did not address my issue when I reached out via customer support link. This is #@$*%#! They are Scammers! DO NOT SUBSCRIBE! SHYSTERS!

Date of experience: June 30, 2017
California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Thought it would be a good idea for my kids at the start of this quarantining because they'd be missing school. Had it for a while, they always say it runs slow no matter what browser they use. Our WiFi is very fast and we rarely have problems with it. So I said, kids can barely get on, let's cancel. Today, I went to cancel it in the mobile app. I went to "cancellation" and selected: end membership. Minutes later I get an email saying "congratulations on upgrading to an annual subscription!" What the hell? After I went to go check my bank account and there it was, the charge from ABCMouse. I tried contraction then just now, sent an email, wonder what they'll say back. Hopefully I get my money. No one needs to be scammed at times like this, theres already enough crap happening, now ABCMouse has got to steal my money too?

Date of experience: May 26, 2020
New York
1 review
10 helpful votes
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They Hacked my card
April 21, 2018

I never heard about this website in my life. They hacked credit card and keep charging me. I just got new card 2 weeks ago and they charged me again! It is really disgusting how they do business. Just hacking people's card and start charging people.

Date of experience: April 21, 2018
Michigan
1 review
5 helpful votes
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This app would stop working almost immediately, numerous calls to customer service. Months later after we canceled, they say they charged the card and have no record of canncellation. They didn't charge the card, and damn well better not. Worthless. Deserve a -5

Date of experience: December 9, 2018
Illinois
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I called to dispute charges, they said they couldn't locate the account associated with my card, and if they couldn't do that, they couldn't stop charging me. I reiterated that this was unauthorized by me and they said that my only recourse was to cancel my card completely. I'm waiting to hear back from a manager (Sarah or Michaela) who will hopefully be more helpful than Rafael, who was very rude and cursed on the phone with me. Sounds like a great site for kids, right?

Date of experience: April 14, 2016
Colorado
1 review
7 helpful votes
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The worst!
August 6, 2017

Unable to get a hold of customer service, the phone number listed belongs to somebody else that had to file a disclaimer that the number isn't associated with them at all! This is the crappiest kids' app I have ever ever run into! The continued charge has to be stopped thru the card services! I don't have a way to cancel the account thru ABC mouse.com.

Date of experience: August 6, 2017
Virginia
1 review
7 helpful votes
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They will charge your credit card even if you don't used their service, Very bad experience. You need to cancel membership and don't forget to check your statement to make sure, that they won't charge you again, Very bad experience.

Date of experience: July 24, 2018
New York
5 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Terrible service
July 29, 2016

Well i did sign up with abc mouse just to try it out for my 2 children, they didnt use it much so i decided to cancel it and i call the number provided *******331 and they tell me they dont refund i was not aware that i would be billed when i signed up they billed me $1.00 and a month later $7.95 thats not good customer service and in no way did they try to work with me they gladly take your moneu whether you were satisfied with their site or not. Well thank you abc mouse you really did not help my kids with your "Great" site

Best regards, former customer

Date of experience: July 29, 2016
California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Turning this site in for fraud!~ not sure how you subscribed me, but i dont have any children and i wouldn't subscribe! Cant reach anyone at this phone number! Tells me to login to cancel. Dont have a login, didnt sign up for it!
I contacted my banks fraud unit.

Date of experience: July 28, 2017