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ISSUU

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Nevada
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Thieves!
December 10, 2016

This company is absolutely horrible. If you sign up for the free trial, beware. To be safe cancel a few days ahead of time and be sure to get a confirmation in writing. Although I asked to cancel on the same day as I was set to renew, they would not refund my money and charged a FULL Year, which is hundreds of dollars. Any legit business doesn't have to do a bait and switch to get you to be their customer. If it was such a great product, they wouldn't have to steal peoples money. What a horrible way to run a business. Run away from this company, there are other ones that do the same thing and have better business practices.

Date of experience: December 10, 2016
France
1 review
10 helpful votes
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SCAM (?)
January 9, 2019

Dear Issuu,
I'm not satisfied with your politics. I'm really disappointed with your customer service and I regret creating an account at your website in the first place. I feel scammed and truly hope after reading other customer complaints that my story with you will finish soon.

As a student, I really don't have extra money for expenses like that. In this busy world no one is able to keep track of trials or other things we don't even use after creating an account. I feel tricked and it just looks like you're waiting for people like me to get money for nothing.

If you really want to change something for the better, maybe you should send notification email before the end of the free trial?

It would be really nice from your part to send me my money back.
Thank you.

Date of experience: January 9, 2019
Arizona
1 review
3 helpful votes
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This guy is a piece of SH*T
September 17, 2019

Don't even think about signing up. I lost $420.00 to this Piece of SH*T. But I will get $420.00 worth of posting BAD reviews for the next years. At least once a month to make up for this so called company ripping people off. This is first of many to come.

Date of experience: September 17, 2019
New Caledonia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Run away from this software! A thief team.
May 19, 2021

A bunch of crooks, run away to see another alternative.

As a communications agency and after having worked with dozens of plugins, this is arguably the worst company I have worked with.

Now unable to get a refund for an unused service.

Instead, use "Calaméo"

Date of experience: May 19, 2021
California
1 review
10 helpful votes
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I was unaware of Auto Renewal. One year later a $420 charge appeared via email. I emailed back within the hour to refund the charge & don't renew (politely). Nope. We have a policy. It was in the fine print. (You know that scrolling conglomerate of ipso/facto crap you can't understand if you want to.) OMG! Bank reversed the charge & ISSUU produced the fine print to them. Bank told me they can't override that so I'm stuck with the $420 charge. This cannot seriously be allowed in business. I'm beyond frustrated!

Date of experience: March 17, 2018
Issuu I. ISSUU Rep
over a year old

Hi Kim,

We're extremely sorry you had this negative experience with Issuu. Someone on our team would like to help personally address your issue, so please reach out to us at customersuccess@issuu.com and we'll be in touch ASAP.

California
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Website does not work half of the time. NO telephone support - you have to submit a question through their website support page. So what happens when you want to cancel and cannot get on to their site to change your billing/account info? Cannot get onto these items on their website. Really? Shady company and very poor business deallings! I hope they make a lot of money on their unauthorized charges because they will go out of business dealing this way! DO NOT SUBSCRIBE!

Date of experience: October 21, 2016
Netherlands
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Update of poor service
April 4, 2018
Updated review

Dear Issuu, if you just decently follow up your emails you can find my records.

I send you 2 or 3 mails. Starting from February 18, thats 1,5 months ago. Your collegue reached out 4 days ago... I replied the same day. Should I wait 1,5 months once more? :(

Date of experience: April 4, 2018
Issuu I. ISSUU Rep
over a year old

Hi Frank,

One of our Customer Success representatives has just reached out. Thanks for your patience.


Frauds
March 26, 2018
Previous review

This is just the worst company I ever meet. Totally unnecessary subscription hidden in the small letters and they do NOT respond on any communication. Big frauds and strongly advice to everybody not to deal with issuu.

Date of experience: March 26, 2018
Canada
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Disappointing
May 22, 2015

I love the idea of Issuu, but it just too unreliable, too unpredictable. Sometimes I can open a publication; sometimes I can't. When I click on "read", more often than not what comes up is just a blank screen. I'm very disappointed in it.

Date of experience: May 22, 2015
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Scam and basic tool
November 30, 2019

Signed up to free trial - the publishing itself is not great, you're better off uploading a pdf file. The functionality is basic. But worst of all, unethical practice not to notify customers when free trial ends, bill immediately and not offer refund or partial refund if you cancel the subscription before the end of a billing cycle. I'm out of pocket 400USD despite cancelling the first day of the billing cycle. Highly unethical no care for customers.

Date of experience: November 30, 2019
Wisconsin
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Terrible
January 23, 2017

Card is charged the very day you need to cancel. Be sure to get in there before they "close" which is not the end of the day. Will not refund any money... very expensive. Terrible, automated customer service. DO NOT USE.

Date of experience: January 23, 2017
Maryland
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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This Issuu site has placed my name, my business and the name of my publication up saying that we were a scam. First and foremost, I never, ever, ever signed up with Issuu. Therefore, they should not have anything representing my publication, my name or anything else. I reached out to Issue on March 5,2019 and they said that they were addressing the issue. Today I go through Google and find something very uncomplimentary about my publication which lists my name. Issuu is now a party in a Libel and Slander matter.

Date of experience: September 11, 2020
North Carolina
1 review
11 helpful votes
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We have been paying customers of ISSUU for a number of years. ISSUU has a product that works quite well. It's great as long as you don't mind the fact that there is virtually no customer service and no communication between the business and its paying customers. There is NO phone customer service. The only contact is through email and a "normal" wait time to get a response is 72 hours. I recently asked a question and did not receive a response for seven days. Let's say there's a particular ISSUU service you have been using for quite some time. It's not uncommon to visit the ISSUU website and find that the service has gone away because the company simply decided to get rid of it. Without warning. Without any indication that the company was considering making a change.

Date of experience: November 3, 2014
Germany
1 review
0 helpful votes
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What a great support!
January 12, 2022

There was an issue in displaying a document correctly and with Sara's support, I was able to find the reason for it (no issuu issue). Thanks a lot for this support!

Date of experience: January 12, 2022
Canada
2 reviews
14 helpful votes
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You have to enter your Credit Card to get the free trial, and there is no way to cancel it. Supposedly you can delete the account but it doesn't delete. Once they take your money they say as per terms and conditions there is no refund.

Date of experience: March 20, 2017
Israel
1 review
0 helpful votes
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ISSUU is a wonderful way for our gallery to showcase our artists and exhibitions to a worldwide audience. We also use their social media tools which gives a cool way to share our catalogs.

Date of experience: February 2, 2022
Issuu O. ISSUU Rep
over a year old

Thank you so much for your review, Moria! We are glad to hear that you are enjoying Issuu's possibilities for showcasing and sharing your catalogs!

Singapore
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Day light rubbery
November 22, 2018

I am a student and use this site as a reference, they charged me $420USD, that money consider my savings for my exam now how can i take exam i dont have money left... u ruin my life because of this,,, how can u be so heartless... dont dare check there website totally bogus

Date of experience: November 22, 2018
Michigan
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I signed up for a free trial for a school assignment. Then after I finished the assignment I tried to cancel my subscription. The website would not load the last page for me to cancel. So then I tried for the next 6 days everyday multiple times. And the day before my free trial was over I thought it finally worked. But I received a $420 charge the next day. So then I tried again and it did the same as the day before, saying I cancelled it. I contacted the support email and it took weeks before they answered. Once they did it sounded friendly. Saying they will "apply me for a refund". But then they never did. So I contacted them again, 6 times! And they never answered, I called every number I could find associating with them. And my credit card said they would not refund the money.

Date of experience: June 17, 2019
New Zealand
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Avoid
February 27, 2019

I have never posted a critical review before, but I want to warn people to avoid this site. I had a free trial which I thought I had cancelled, I contacted the company on the day the free trial expired but they have charged me an entire year of premium membership at $420US and refused a refund. Any potential benefit from the tool is vastly outweighed by their scamming practices

Date of experience: February 27, 2019
Hawaii
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Scam
October 1, 2019

Like others here, I signed up for a free trial. I entered the date into my calendar to make sure that I canceled in advance of being charged. When I logged on to cancel, it appeared as though I was signed up for a free version of the program and there was nothing to downgrade. When I looked for my payment info on their site I couldnʻt find it, nor could I find any upcoming payments. So, I thought I was good. This morning I checked my email to find that I was charged $500. Even after that charge, their site says Iʻm on a free plan and my payment info isnʻt to be found, nor are there any invoices on my account. Their website says NOT to dispute the charge through your credit card, and if you do, they will not issue a refund. I personally do not trust this company enough to go that route. I have found the same thing--the number available to call goes to some guy named John--the voicemail is completely unprofessional. I will be disputing the charge.

Date of experience: October 1, 2019
Issuu I. ISSUU Rep
over a year old

Hi Rebekah, I tried to look for a ticket to further investigate under your name to no avail. We would like to help you to resolve the matter. I will privately message you, we hope you respond back.

California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Does not resolve issue
October 23, 2017

No one was able to resolve my issue. I pay for this site, and was not able to upload my files. The customer service said, they couldn't find the solution and left it there. They DO NOT resolve their issues and are NOT responsible. How come several representatives could not help me with my account?. Fraud compnay. Closing my account.

Date of experience: October 23, 2017
Issuu I. ISSUU Rep
over a year old

Hi Sandy,

We're sorry you had this negative experience with Issuu. Could you please reach out to customersuccess@issuu.com and provide more details about your situation? Our team would like to get to the bottom of this. Thanks!

Overview

ISSUU has a rating of 1.4 stars from 81 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with ISSUU most frequently mention customer service, free trial and credit card. ISSUU ranks 199th among Magazines sites.

service
25
value
23
shipping
6
returns
8
quality
20
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