Like most people surprised at being… Like most people surprised at being charged (today) - I've never used the service my reading history is blank. So I've cancelled on the scribd website, and also then logged into my payment service (paypal) to cancel future payments. I've also emailed scribd asking them to reverse the payment. Now checking here I see others have been charged even after cancelling, which was not my initial concern. So I'll start with 3 stars assuming good intent on their side, but I will update this review when I hear back from scribd. I do hope they won't try taking any further payments and they reverse my one surprise payment.

I’m giving them a 1 star review because… I’m giving them a 1 star review because the website popped up when I was looking for something and it gave me the option to download what I was looking but it asked me to make an account. I made the account and then it asked for $11.99 and said it would be free for 30 days. Here’s the issue. Scribd uses the word free for click bait. The other issue is I DONT WANT TO GIVE YOU MY BANK INFORMATION! This information should have popped up right after I clicked on the link but it didn’t and now I have to unsubscribe and figure out how to delete my account. Y’all are not worth the inconvenience especially after I found the SAME THING for FREE on another site! Part 2: your response was generic and unacceptable. I specifically said I do not want you to have my bank information. I specifically said that the 11.99 and free trial crap should’ve popped up when asked to make a account.I specifically said this was a waste of my time because I was not able to download the file without the free trial that includes the MY bank info that I don’t want you to have.

This website is all about monopoly This website is all about monopoly, it forces you to subscrive, why can not i read a single document without waiting 30 seconds for ad to skip, which will reappear in every 10 seconds, why do this people blur rest of the document if i have not subscribed. "OH SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE TRIAL AND THE CANCEL" what the point in this. some of the people are pupils and students who desperately needs one document for their assigment and does not even have the damn credit card to subscribe for free trial. and also i have to upload 4 documents to download one document? this website is forcing you to pay, the devs are monopolists. if i got this much bad reviews i would change something.

Theft and Fraud Facilitators This company has been fraudulently taking money from my account for months. I never signed up, the email isn't my email but they are using my credit card. No way to contact the company if you don't have an account - which I don't, although I seem to be paying for someone else's. Criminal.

Unauthorised charges on my credit card! Unauthorised charges on my credit card! I followed some links to "free" documents on scribd a while back. Now there are charges appearing on my credit card. Did I give them permission? Well whenever I sign up for an account anywhere I do these things: 1) I use the "+" feature of gmail to identify the company eg myemail+scribd at gmail. This great feature makes it easy to sort my emails and keep track of things. My alleged account at scribd did not have this addition. 2) I use a particular pattern for my user names to make them easier to remember. My alleged scribd username did not follow my pattern. 3) I use a password manager to store the website and username, and generate a unique and VERY secure password for each site. There is no entry for Scribd in my password manager database! 4) Then I paste the password from password manager into my browser. I checked my browser and there is no password stored for Scribd! So I accept I have opened links to documents that the linkers said were free, but I can be pretty sure I _didn't_ give Scribd permission to charge me. So how did they manage to charge my credit card? I am querying Scribd about this.