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Course Hero Reviews Summary

Course Hero has a rating of 1.4 stars from 357 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Course Hero most frequently mention customer service, tutor account and credit card. Course Hero ranks 1070th among Homework sites.

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Georgia
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Horrible Website
July 17, 2019

Can't pull up review materials. Pages are blank. Customer service won't refund money. Don't use. Go to Chegg.

Date of experience: July 17, 2019
Kenya
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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I love the UX and design of the website. It definitely feels a lot more trust worthy than others. I recently purchased the 3 month subscription and the only thing is that they have a lot of low quality documents, but they also have SO many Universities which is great for my friends are I that live in different states. I've already found a few unlocks that I used.

Date of experience: July 17, 2019
Washington
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I decided to sign up since every question from my homework appeared to be on the site but it was a mistake. I signed up for the cheapest option because I am on a tight budget. I used the sight for maybe 30min and decided it didn't help me at all, it gave you the same versions as if you didn't sign up and I had to unlock everything and most of the time I couldn't find what I was looking for. So I went to unsubscribe thinking that it would only charge me $10 for what I used, but it charged me the full $119 so now I'm negative in my bank account and with no help on my homework. Long story short, don't sign up unless you're in desperate DESPERATE need of help and if you don't have the money in full at the start.

EDIT: After sending 4 emails complaining and explaining my situation they gave me a full refund the next day, but they said the only reason was that I didn't use it and I signed up and unsubscribed in one day, less than an hour. So if I waited more to write to them or waited longer to unsubscribe I probably wouldn't get the refund.

Date of experience: July 17, 2019
India
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Total Fraud
June 25, 2019

The site is total fraud- you don't know what documents are you unlocking, most of the solutions available of the problems are incorrect, and if you ask a question, rest assured it will not be answered on one pretext or the other. Further, even after taking paid membership, you need to pay for unlocking documents. I have no idea as to how the law enforcement authorities are turning blind eye to such brazen fraud perpetrated on unsuspecting students. Hope relevant authorities will look in to it sooner than later.

Date of experience: June 24, 2019
Texas
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Scam!
June 15, 2019

To truly "Access more than 25 million study documents", you can either pay millions of dollars or pay the monthly fee alone for 833,333 months.

You're only allowed 30 documents per pages per month, beyond that you'll have to pay extra on top of the $40 monthly fee.

Date of experience: June 15, 2019
Pennsylvania
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Terrible service. First of all, they didn't mention you have to pay on top of your membership fee. If you need to view more than 28 documents in a month, you'll need to pay more. Most of the documents don't have proper identifications so you don't know for sure what you are unlocking before you unlock it. This service is like casino, they have cover charges that is redeemable for 28 turns at the roulette table for you to gamble on the documents you unlock. After your 28 turns, you have to cough up money again to gamble if you need to unlock yet another document because you didn't find what you were looking for at the first 28 tries. After I realized that, tried to cancel my membership, but they denied because I had already used up one unlock. They advertise "Access to millions of papers". You have to be a multi-millionaire to view them all.

Date of experience: June 9, 2019
Washington
1 review
14 helpful votes
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I purchased a $39.95/1 month membership in order to view the documents I thought would help me with my courses. The entire website (I have screenshots of the website and registration process) leads you to believe that once you "complete your membership for instant access", you will have "instant access to over 25 million documents". Nowhere does it state that even after you pay for a membership, you will have to earn "unlocks" to access the 25 million documents you were guaranteed to have instant access to! After discovering this "service" is completely useless, I requested a refund which they immediately denied because I already used an "unlock". WHY IS THIS NOT ADVERTISED? NONE OF THESE RESTRICTIONS ARE ADVERTISED. They are taking full-time college students hard earned money and scamming them! This service is disgusting and dishonest and needs to be SHUT DOWN!

Date of experience: June 5, 2019
Canada
1 review
13 helpful votes
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So disappointed in this website, iv has nothing but trouble with them since the day I bought it, not only is it a scam but it's a money grab. None of the content is accurate or right. Also they make you pay and then you only get to look at 30 documents a month! Do not pay for any of this! Ridiculous

Date of experience: May 28, 2019
Washington
3 reviews
20 helpful votes
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Worst of the worst
May 22, 2019

Delete my account without warning, after I just upload a tons of documents and received a lot of unlocks. They still keep those documents and get money without any effort. Evil!

Date of experience: May 21, 2019
Indiana
1 review
11 helpful votes
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What a scam
May 19, 2019

This is literally the worst website to get help on anything. They charge ridiculous amount of money and don't refund it to you even if you decide to cancel your subscription right away because of "activity on account." This is a huge scam and I would never recommend course hero to anyone.

Date of experience: May 19, 2019
Australia
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Worse ever
May 2, 2019

I am so regret pay the money, they are stupid, I bought on 2/05, but receipt show its 1/05. And worse things are after searching for 3 hours, you got nothing useful information at all, they make your course more complicated. I canceled!

Date of experience: May 1, 2019
Texas
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Please dont give these people your money. They are thieves and I really dont know how they are in business. I canceled the day I signed up because the info is not helpful at all and still got charged for a whole year. I wish I would have read the reviews before I subscribed.

Date of experience: May 1, 2019
California
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Wanted ONE single solution to a question. I subscribe because it SAID $9.95 PER month. It ended up charging me $113 in a single day for the year. NO refund for activity!

Date of experience: April 29, 2019
Illinois
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Qorst service ever. I doubt they have what you need the fokens they give you for free to use with submissions prevent you from getting a refund if you do decide to get the subscription and end up wanting a refund. Dont bother the peoppe posting about it working are probably employees of the company bc none of the classes myself or a buddy of mine who was in all gen ed courses were on there. And anything we did find was from someone else posting an assignment you had to uncover to even see that it wasnt usefull
Which also takes your ability to get a refund away.

Date of experience: April 28, 2019
New York
1 review
4 helpful votes
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HORRIBLE!
April 26, 2019

Horrible platform. Its a scam. They canceled my student account because I create another account to sign up as a tutor. PLEASE DON'T SIGN UP HERE, JUST USE CHEGG its WAYYYYYYY bettter!

Date of experience: April 26, 2019
Missouri
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Pretty much a scam
April 22, 2019

This is a site made to seem legit and seem like it will help you as a student, but really as soon as you're suckered into it, you get shafted and their refund policy is explicitly made so that as soon as you use one "service" which it barely is a service, you cannot get a refund.
Stay away

Date of experience: April 22, 2019
Kansas
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Do not
April 17, 2019

This website blows. Big click bait. I hate this website so much that i specifically took time out of my day to write this review. Dont give them your money :p

Date of experience: April 17, 2019
Viet Nam
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Tutors really have problem about their attitude and some of them really just copy their answer from the GG search without knowing it right or not when related to the content of question. The price for the unlock really expensive when comparing with the document's content.

Date of experience: February 2, 2019
Maryland
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I am very pleased with CourseHero's services and customer support team. I pre-emptively signed up for course hero and although will be using it in the future was concerned about having purchased my subscription too early. I called and spoke to someone live with no wait time, and was given a full refund despite it being my mistake. Also having had a sneak peak inside of what I will be using down the line, I am pleased with the information they offer that pertains to the classes I am enrolled in. This kindness will not be forgotten!

Date of experience: January 14, 2019
Tennessee
4 reviews
20 helpful votes
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A lot of the assignments that get submitted are broken English or plagiarized. There are a whole lot of things that are uploaded that don't have any answers or work done that explains how they got to the answer which would be extremely helpful for those of us not wanting to cheat but needing some added guidance and direction. Too often I get some strange questions that need faster clarification than my instructor can offer and CourseHero has usually been pretty good about that. And then they changed their unlock credits and price structures. Now, you have three pay options: Pay up front the whole year for $120, pay 90 days at a time for $60, or pay monthly for $40. Chegg charges $14.95 per month and that's it. Chegg has almost all of the same assignments I am always looking for AND the people posting the answers almost always offer the explanations how to get to the answers. CH is only good if you have a full year left. It is nearly useless without a subscription. The work available is awful, btw, because you are forced to submit 10 documents to get 5 credits and how many of us have that many documents - especially the new students? And what the heck is an almost graduated student going to do with all the credits? Revise, CourseHero, REVISE PLEASE!

Date of experience: December 10, 2018

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