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Online art course
This is a scam. I signed up to this and stupidly gave my PayPal details. I then immediately cancelled as upon further research the company didn’t look right. I was then charged for course materials which I didn’t purchase and when I complained they said I had been taken through a two step verification which is a lie. This is a complete scam and I want a refund. I want to give zero stars for this review but the site won’t allow me to
Zero star. 4 week free trial
Unfortunately with their aggressive marketing strategy they lure many students to take their 4 week free trial.
During the free trial they use many sly ways to get money off vulnerable students and use all sort of legalities of why they cannot refund the money.
Because advert sound legit and it seems straightforward to cancel before 4 weeks, many students enroll without reading reviews. But during the 4 weeks they are conned enough via various strategies so they end up paying unwillingly for 1 thing or another.
I was getting calls at least3 x a day everyday from them. Each time you turn a page on their website while logged in, a big pop up of selling products come up with a small almost invisible button.
I spoken to one as she said she was calling to see how I am getting on with my studies. The accent was difficult to understand and amidst that she was slyly selling products. Like’ let’s upgrade your package and you will benefit etc... No wonder many non native English speakers fall for this as they may not understand and shockingly find unexpected monies taken out of their account.
In the Uk we have regulated bodies so I hope something can be done. Unfortunately, this is not the case in other countries where people are more vulnerable. I hope this company shuts down soon.Course Tool kit (unwanted purchase)
Hi set up a 4 week free online course, from a link sent from a friend. You had to put your PayPal details in and I clicked on an instant purchase internet tool kit that helps with the course, but I didn’t want it anyway as I decided that I had most of the qualifications the course offered. I sent an email ASAP asking for a refund as I purchased in error anyway. They said no. I sent another email they said no even though id cancelled my subscription. I had to open a dispute with PayPal to make sure it wasn’t taken out of my account. 0 stars
Nothing free about free 30 trial period
This is a fraud. I signed up for a 30 day free trial on Jun 13. I had until 2nd week of July to cancel at no cost. What do you know?? I cancel on Jun 25 but had already been billed on Jun 23. I have asked for a refund multiple times. 1st I was offer 6 month access free worth $399, I declined so they offer it again, I declined and now they are offering 12 month access worth $699 + a toolkit worth $199 again i decline and now they are ignoring my emails as there is no tel number to call re: refunds. They are willing to offer $800+ worth of access but refuse to refund $79.99
2020
Keep well away from these scammers. Easy to sign up, near impossible to cancel. Took £50 for nothing from me should have been a free trail.
Do waste your life at shawacademy. There are some decent alternative online schools.Search Results
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DO NOT PURCHASE FROM SHAWACADEMY! It's a scam and your money is better spent elsewhere. They lure you with free trials, then they do not cancel your subsription and they start to issue baseless payments on your card. AVOID and REPORT them and if you have had a negative experience with them, WRITE IT ON ALL PLATFORMS!!Free Trial
This Academy is nothing but a scam. I signed up for a free trial and rang days later to cancel it prior to being liable for any payments and yet I was wrongfully charged £49.99 last week and it’s been impossible to contact them. (I would give 0 stars if I could).
4 week Free Trial
This is a scam. I signed up for the 4 week free trial I cancelled the subscription prior to the cancellation date and I was still charged. When I called to cancel the rep offered me 6 months free worth of courses to which I declined. She also mentioned that I had been billed 2 days earlier and I would be refunded. They came back now twice saying they cannot refund. Not sure what they call FREE TRIAL
Scam!!!
Any positive reviews you are seeing are fake! The learning material is pretty limited and here’s the best part - to sign up for the free trial they take your card details. They then charge you £49.99 after the four week trial period with no prior warning advising that free trial is running out. I have been trying to get a refund from them for best part of a week with back and forth communication on the basis that I haven’t used the site after the first week and they don’t pre warn of charging like most reputable companies would - they are refusing. Absolutely disgusting company who bank on people forgetting to cancel their subscription and take your money without your consent. Shameful at a time when many are struggling to feed themselves. Please do yourself a favour and don’t sign up to these scam artists. I will be reporting them
If you are in the UK phone your bank and ask for a chargeback. You will get the cash back. Tell them about these reviews and the bad reviews on trustpilot. I just did it and the money is back in my account now.
Excel
Boring, not good content. Inferior teaching. But worst of all they continue to take money from my account and don't respond to my request to cancel. I'm going around in circles while they pay themselves directly from my account.
Monthly subscription
My first advice to ANYONE signing up is cancel any authorised payment immediately after you access. Their website is like a mine field of “we will take all your money”!! If I could give 0 stars I would.
These reviews are fake by the way they won’t let me review below 2 stars
My daughter clicked on buy a certificate for a class I hadn’t even attended and they took almost £40 from my paypal like that no verification no second confirm button bam, my whole weeks grocery money gone before I could blink.
When I contacted them to explain what happened they gave some lame excuse that since I had access to it they couldn’t refund it. Now I can’t access the certificate till I finish all modules and I haven’t even taken one yet so total bs! Then they just stopped replying me. I escalated it with PayPal I think they should loose access to PayPal as they are abusing their one click payment system there are probably £3-400 worth of one click buttons on their website.
Total garbage. Save your money and your sanity I’m now having to decide what groceries I will buy and won’t buy since I’m a single mum without income. Thanks a lot you scumbags.If it makes you feel any better the same thing happened to me Victoria. I lost 99GBP. Making education a scam business is one of the most horrible things anyone can do. They know exactly what they're doing.
Website development course
It is seriously unbelievable the hoops you have to jump through to cancel your subscription with Shaw Academy. First, you have to click through about 5 pages on the website while they try and convince you to stay. Then you need to call a number where an automated voice tries to convince you to stay. You need to listen to about 5 or 6 messages of the AI trying to con you into not cancelling, and after each one you press 2 saying you want to cancel. It takes forever and seriously makes me think this whole business is a scam. The reason I cancelled in the first place is because I don't like how the courses are set up. I like to be able to do online courses at my own pace and when I want, not on a set schedule. That's the whole reason I do online learning.
Free trial
You are constantly bombarded with notifications and promotions on every platform (email, push notifications, text messages) several times every day. They make it impossible for you to cancel - first you go through the website and have to click through 3/4 screens of ‘are you sure you want to cancel? Here’s an offer’ so they can finally tell you that you have to call them to cancel. At this point, you have to listen to 6/7 recordings that try to manipulate you to stay with messages like “Don’t give up on your dreams”, “Education is important, invest now”, and promotion after promotion.
Pathetic. It almost comes across as a scam.Annual membership
BEWARE OF SHAWACADEMY SCAM!
If you take any membership they'll save your card details and also auto select subscription option without giving you option to deselect. They'll only give you option of canceling membership, you will assume if you cancel membership you won't be able to access the account even after paying membership charges so you will wait for membership to get over and then cancel but these fraudsters do not give you any notification or don't ask if you want to renew or now they'll directly deduct money from your bank account. If you reach out to support saying you do not wish to renew you want refund they'll talk about policies and immediately solve the ticket they do not care if we want to renew or not they just want our money. Once they get our money there's no way to get back the lost money. I've been cheated by shawacademy they might be cheating more people like me. Content is very basic you'll get better content on YouTube. They don't have expert educators one person teaches many courses without having any expertise on subject. Be wise don't make the same mistake I made. SAVE YOURSELF FROM SHAWACADEMY SCAM!
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