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Chegg

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Chegg Reviews Summary

Chegg has a rating of 1.7 stars from 456 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Chegg most frequently mention customer service, credit card and free trial. Chegg ranks 107th among Textbooks sites.

service
181
value
175
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101
returns
129
quality
165

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California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Very poor service
August 29, 2021

Poor Service. I asked for a refund because I couldn't get my answer and I kept mailing them. I haven't received my refund yet.

Date of experience: August 29, 2021
Pakistan
1 review
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Stole my money
August 15, 2021

I paid for chegg subscription yesterday through MasterCard and now today they your transaction was declined. My money is already deducted from my account and they say they cannot do anything about it. Its just $#*!, dont fall for it.

Date of experience: August 14, 2021
Illinois
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Scams College Students
August 14, 2021

Terrible site. Bought a subscription to use for my summer class and was banned for having a "shared account twice within the span of 48 hours. I NEVER shared my account with anyone. I travel between my college town and my hometown and was apparently flagged because I was on two different wifi networks. I only used the chegg app on my phone. You would think they could see I am only using one device. Complete garbage. Do not use.

Date of experience: August 14, 2021
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I don't have a Chegg account and have never used its service, but I had recurring billing in my bank account for 1 year. I contacted Chegg and they told me to contact my bank for a refund as they can not locate any Chegg acount associated with my name/bank info. But Chegg refused to issue a document stating that I don't have any accounts with them. So I can't get a refund even I have reported a dispute to the bank.
After charging me every month for a year, they admitted that it is a case of fraudulent use of my financial information. However, they only provide me a refund of USD22 due to their '90 days refund policy like the bank'. They had been charging me USD22 every month for one year, more than USD 350 in total. At the end, I only got back USD22 from them.
I had been communicating with them on this recurring billing issue for months, none of their staff told me anything regarding the '90 days refund policy'. I asked them which day was first day and last day of the refund period of my case. They never answered and just ignored my request.

Date of experience: July 16, 2021
GB
1 review
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Stolen Card Details
July 12, 2021

Someone was fraudulently using my card for months on this site.
Contacted the customer service team. Awaiting a fraud investigation.

Date of experience: July 12, 2021
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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THIS APP IS A SCAM
June 25, 2021

THIS APP MAKES ME SO SUICIDAL! 1111! 111 THEY MADE ME SIGN UP FOR 20 MINUTIES IM PRETTY SURE THEY SCAMMED ME FOR MONEHY AND THEY DIDNT EWVENM HAVE THE ANSWEER TO MY QUESTION! DO. NOT. EVER. SIGN. UP. FOR. CHEGG! *******! The facts that im such a useless individual to the point where i signed up for a goddamn math answer makes me suicidal and sick to my stomch. I seriou; y regret my existence because of CHEGG. IF YOU ARE READING THIS AND YOU ARE THE CRERSTOR OF CHEGG... JUMP OFF A BUILDING WITH CEMENT BLOCKS TIED TO YOUR FEERT. $#*! U $#*!U $#*!U D$#*!U! 1! I WISH I COULD ONLY RATE THIS EXPIERIENCE 0 STARS BUT CHEGG IS SO GODDAMN SELFISH AND GREEDY THAT THEY ONLY ALLOW 1 STAR. I DO NOT MEAN THAT. THIS APP IS 0 STARS

Date of experience: June 25, 2021
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Do not subscribe to these guys, it's a scam, I canceled by subscription last year and just found out they were still charging my card every month, they should not be allowed to have people card details

Date of experience: June 13, 2021
South Carolina
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Horrible company!
June 11, 2021

I failed to get a cancellation done on both my Chegg subscriptions in time. My bank charged me $49 overdraft fees. I quickly went into Chegg to cancel both subscriptions and thought I would be fine. No! Chegg continued to send my charges in after the cancellations! I am now out $98! Unscrupulous thieving company. I would give 0 stars if that was an option.

Date of experience: June 11, 2021
Utah
1 review
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As far as receiving books before classes start and getting answers online, this site is great. However, my biggest issue revolves around returning my books and the customer service. I've been trying to download my shipping label to send my books back for the last TWO WEEKS and have run into the same issue. When I use the custom shipping label on their site, they send me the shipping label... that can only be downloaded. I've also tried calling their number and all I get is "go to chegg. Com/contactus", which doesn't allow you to actually ask questions about anything involving the company (ironic, I know). If you need books for your next semester, try to buy them digitally so that they at least don't charge extra after.

Date of experience: June 5, 2021
Oregon
1 review
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I have submitted a statistics problem for five times now, every time I submitted the problem/function is completely omitted out of what I am submitting. Customer service doesn't know what to do, and the people be on them don't seem to care. I suspect they know there's a bug in their system and they're not willing to admit it.

Date of experience: May 14, 2021
Ohio
1 review
0 helpful votes
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With the amount of security present on the site you would think they were trying to protect the nuclear launch codes and not just a website to help students with homework. Have to register as a device every time you log on no matter what device, but only let you register two devices per month? Used to be a lot better.

Date of experience: April 19, 2021
California
1 review
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Scammers!
April 7, 2021

21 DAYS TO RETURN A BOOK FOR REFUND, UNLESS ITS AN EBOOK THAN 14 DAYS, THEY DONT TELL YOU THIS 14 DAYS RULE THOUGH, SO I CALLED TODAY AND MY 14 DAYS WERE UP SUNDAY ( TODAY I WEDNESDAY) AND THEY WONT REFUND THE 30$ FOR THW BOOK BECUASE ALTHOUGH IM IN THE 21 DAYS, IM OVER THE 14! JOKE! 11

Date of experience: April 7, 2021
Pakistan
1 review
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Chegg
April 3, 2021

Keeps on suspending the account without any reason. Even without violating the policy. Experienced several time during study :(

Date of experience: April 3, 2021
Greece
1 review
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So I bought Python homework solution, paid a fair amount and it even didn't pass! [---Your review contains inappropriate language here ---]... And they don't want to refund. This is awful.
I am sharing my good experience (on homeworkhelponline.net) on purpose, to screw chegg, because they did it to me.

Date of experience: March 15, 2021
New York
1 review
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Worst service ever
February 27, 2021

Stay away from these guys, they only want your money, they do not care to help you at all!
According to their policy, you are only allowed to have access to your Chegg account on two devices, so I logged in my account on my laptop and my phone, and immediately I got restricted from using my chegg account due to "violation" their terms. I have been trying to reset my password to regain access to my account and I have chatted with many Chegg agents but none of these were helpful. Everytime I wanted to look up for an answer a message would pop up and say to subscribe with another account. Why do I need to subscribe again when I already have a subscription. All what they want is our money. I highly recommend to not use Chegg.

Date of experience: February 26, 2021
New Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Unless you have a substantial amount of time to attempt to cancel this service, find another service. I have attempted to cancel this subscription for one year, and was forced to file disputes through my credit card. This is my third attempt to cancel this service. If anyone has the amount needed to cancel this service directly through Chegg, you're doing something wrong with your life and have entirely to much free time.

Date of experience: February 21, 2021
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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THEY ARE THEIVES
December 29, 2020

ISSUE #1: I was charged for another month's membership (Jan 2021) when I had canceled it in December 2020 (around the 12th) right after my semester ended. Cheggs sent an email stating that they had charged me by mistake and will refund my membership fee.

ISSUE #2: The card they charged was NOT the card I had on file. The card Cheggs charged was my bank card that I had them remove in November (I have the chat log in writing).

Now the customer service from Cheggs was giving me BS about how I had canceled my membership wrong thus it incurred another charged even though I RECEIVED THEIR EMAIL STATING THAT THEY ARE THE ONES THAT MADE THE MISTAKE. This "mistake" that was charged to the WRONG CREDIT CARD (not the card I have on file) incurred an NSF fee which they Cheggs customer service representative tells me that they "don't reimburse nsf fees" not even if it was their mistake that caused it.

THEY ARE THIEVES. DO NOT USE CHEGGS EVER!

Date of experience: December 29, 2020
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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They keep texting me for returning the book before due date or they will charge me with extra fee plus taxes that was almost 1/4 of book price. And in other scenario, when I was returning my book after 23 days(their return policy is 21 days) all they say was thank you, what I mean to say that they charge you if you keep the book 2 days above due date but no compensation if you return it 3 months earlier. That's not fair at all. The book was in great condition. No complains about that.

Date of experience: December 16, 2020
South Africa
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I have been trying to close my account but they can't let me to. They keep on debiting my bank card.

Date of experience: December 14, 2020
India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Worst
December 14, 2020

Not so good experience, totally waste of time. I thought to use their service on my friend recommendation. Book never arrived at my venue.

Date of experience: December 13, 2020