My $7 one off purchase is a $239 subscription - i wasn't told. --update-- At the end of this review I explained my alarm bells were ringing about the positive reviews. Upon further inspection, one of these suspect reviews has been posted by one of the founders pretending to be a happy customer but failing to hide his name - Scott Moran. He and his brother are the founders of this business, NOT customers with positive experiences to share. Be very careful everyone. --------------------- After checking the reviews i have seen that many people have been signed up to a subscription without their knowledge. I have just checked my account to see whether these claims are true and I can see they will be taking $239 in April 2025 - this for me verifies the complaints made over any claims from the business. To make it very clear: there was nothing to inform me of this, and if I hadn't checked my account to validate what others are saying I would be in the same boat as other customers. I was offered a $7 deal with no mention of a recurring annual subscription. I have looked at the option to cancel this subscription but this will then apparently deactivate the CreatorU account. You are forced to watch a video before being able to deactivate your account. I have held off while I exploit the available resources over the next day, and take whatever I can from them as this seems to be their strategy employed on all of us. I signed up for a 5-day course creator challenge, the materials appear to have been made without due care and attention - e.g. the pdf on chatGPT prompts has pre-written prompt templates, but if you look carefully the prompts in steps 2,3 and 4 (out of 4) are missing the end of the prompts and are therefore incomplete, which in my mind removes a lot of value and implies they are focussing on making money without focusing on providing high-quality materials. Further to this, the most recent reviews seem false and have set my alarm bells ringing. I am inclined to suggest that these are false claims.

It’s the biggest mistake I’ve made It’s the biggest mistake I’ve made. They lure you with buying access for 7$ and then they have hidden subscription which charges you 229$ and more after you do not cancel it. They have hidden methods to rip you off! Don’t trust them

Couldn't run my business without it. Couldn't run my course/coaching business without it. 1-Click upsells are 20-30% of our revenue. No other payment processor could do it, other than Samcart. I recommend it to any coach or creator. Awesome support too.

SamCart has perfected the checkout process I had no clue that my checkout experience was THE #1 factor that took my online course beyond the $100K mark. And SamCart got me there. SamCart has perfected the checkout process. I tell all of my online business friends to install this checkout system onto their websites. And watch the magic happen.

Very poor business ethics and misleading deals A year ago, I bought a downloadable PDF from SamCart which did cost me $19. Little did I know that by doing so I signed up for an automatically yearly renewable membership subscription. Last month I got charged with $220 for a membership renewal - totally by surprise. I did not know I was a SamCart member nor did I received an email notification or anything telling me about a subscription renewal being due or that I would be charged $220 soon. Within a few hours after receiving the PayPal notification, I contacted SamCart’s support team explaining the mistake but without luck. Refund was denied. Given this experience, I would say SamCart is having terrible business ethics and highly misleading deal agreements. PayPal rejected the dispute telling me that I was in a binding billing agreement. The membership is of zero value to me but regardless my money was taken without warning.