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ABCmouse.com helps kids learn to read through phonics, and teaches lessons in math, social studies, art, music, and much more. For kids age 2 to Kindergarten.


abcmouse.com
Glendale, CA, United States
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ABCmouse Reviews Summary

ABCmouse has a rating of 2 stars from 104 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with ABCmouse most frequently mention credit card, customer service and free trial. ABCmouse ranks 289th among Kids sites.

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Don G.
Illinois
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Scam!!!
December 10, 2019

Charged me CC without me ever going on their website. Scammers. FTC should shut them down. Cause many people problems, yet where is govt regulatory response?

Date of experience: December 10, 2019
Iowa
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I did the trial back in 2016, CANCELLED it, and they've charged me ever since! They said they have no record of me cancelling, although I've been cancelling about every 5-6 months. They won't refund me either.

Date of experience: December 4, 2019
Massachusetts
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Like others on here I canceled my account last month and they still charged me just 2 days ago. I emailed them and politely asked them to stop charging me and refund my money. I'm going to have to go to my bank and dispute charges. Save yourself some aggravation and avoid them at all costs. The app was horrible it kept crashing. So not worth $9.95 a month to be aggravated.

Date of experience: November 13, 2019
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Please do not fall for this, i signed up for a one month trial period, through a survey site, i signed up for the deal nothing today and then £9.95 a month for a year there were 3 options on the payment option 59.95 speecial offer then payments and the 3rd i had thought i dodged a bullet with this one- no thanks with a box to check and tiny writing underneath saying you would be charged today for the full year,
I checked the box saying payments then a popup with a pic of a mouse and a box with next appeared i clicked on next and was taken to a page which said speacial offer for new customers only it was for a special assesment add on which i wasnt interested in again the price list looks familiar this time with two choices the1st £39.95 for a year with special offer and then no thanks with tiny writing saying if u checked this there would be a oayment of £99.99 taken out of your account today. I thought ok how do i get out of this page without paying the short answer is i couldnt! I couldnt use abc mouse to get in to the parent part to my cancelation, at this point i knew the worst was happening, so i opened up my online banking and there it was in pending payments two charges from abc mouse the first for a small 89p and 2nd was for £15.99 i moved all my money into my savings account placed freezes on my card and am waiting on my bank calling me back to report the fraud and take the next steps, i usually check companys out before using them i got complacent as it was a survey site recommendation, please don't make the same mistake as me.

Date of experience: October 23, 2019
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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What a joke
October 10, 2019

Auto renewed a inactive account that no one was using and started charging me again. After multiple emails asking for my money back and account canceled. I was told they don't do refunds, but have no record of me trying to cancel. I have tried many times. They have no problem taking money for something that's not getting used but wont give the money back. Do not get caught up in their BS this is a joke!

Date of experience: October 10, 2019
Louisiana
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Fraud Alert!
September 23, 2019

Signed up for a assessment of ABC Mouse. They double charged and auto renewed without our permission. Cannot get a hold of anyone by calling. My wife signed up last year... unfortunately I didn't notice last year that a few days after they charged the initial $39.95 for the so called first year trial subscription... they turned around and charged us a few days later for a full subscription... an additional charge of $59.95! This year we my wife told me she needed to renew with ABC Mouse. So when I saw the $59.95 charge I thought it was here renewing... however a few days later they also charged us another $39.95 again! We only have one child and one subscription but they have double charged us for two years now. This second charge caused me to investigate and that is when I notice how they double tapped us for two years in a row. According to the Bank statement there is a customer support number to call at: *******331... I've called many, many times and can never get anyone to answer. My guess is it's just an automated line used to appease the bank but no one is ever intended to answer that line. I've scoured their website looking for a contact number to call but no number is present. All they give you is a cheesy website submission form which took a few days just to get a response... and the only thing they responded to it was directions in how to cancel! This is the absolute worst online experience I have ever had... very, very un-reputable. I had no idea a child site like this would be such scam artists!

Date of experience: September 23, 2019
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Stay away
September 10, 2019

This website was very boring for my young children. They will not stop charging you and do not give you any warning that they will automatically renew. They are crooks!

Date of experience: September 10, 2019
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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So disappointing!
June 1, 2019

Does not can not support 2 kiddos in creating the avatar. Both couldn't use it at the same time. Customer service sucks! You can only Emil them and I assure you they do not email in response. In the 18months I paid for it I never got a survey! Nor did anyone call me! Oh I did get an email asking me not to cancel!.

Date of experience: June 1, 2019
South Carolina
5 reviews
21 helpful votes
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Won't stop charging you
February 17, 2019

I signed up on promotion for a 1 year membership. Then without ANY communication from them they charged me a second year without my authorization or knowledge. Of course they wont give me back my stolen money and won't respond to numerous emails. The app is useless and nothing like they advertise which is why I did not renew my subscription.

Date of experience: February 17, 2019
Michigan
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Shady company
December 29, 2018

We liked the service and the games; however I have a very bad taste in my mouth due to poor customer service and business practices. We paid for a yearly subscription in December 2017 and then I believe I cancelled so as not to incur unexpected charges. Well, I was charged again this week without warning and told that unless I could produce the cancellation email from a year ago, they would not refund me even though we haven't used the service at all in probably 6 months. Clearly they don't believe in their product enough to sell it honestly and have to resort to sneaky money-grabbing. Stay away.

Date of experience: December 29, 2018
Michigan
1 review
5 helpful votes
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This app would stop working almost immediately, numerous calls to customer service. Months later after we canceled, they say they charged the card and have no record of canncellation. They didn't charge the card, and damn well better not. Worthless. Deserve a -5

Date of experience: December 9, 2018
Australia
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Crap!
October 4, 2018

Absolute crap especially for the price. Plus the way the pricing l model is set up its a rip off to begin with

Date of experience: October 4, 2018
Nevada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Many of the reviews read accurately. Fraudulent company with sneaky billing practices. The whole company is a darn sham.

Date of experience: October 3, 2018
Canada
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Thieves!
September 13, 2018

Be careful! They charge your card even if you don't use the service! We never used the abc mouse and out of nowhere I get a charge to my card leaving me with no money. The charge was even $30 more that they say the service is. Ridiculous!

Date of experience: September 13, 2018
New Jersey
1 review
8 helpful votes
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This company is condescending. I cancelled thought their site days before my free trial ended. I had to do 3 screens to verify I wanted to cancel and provided a comment in their comment box. They still billed me, Upon follow up I was sent a condescending message stating my request to cancel did not come until my email. I was told I would still be billed for the month and have access, mind you I never once logged in during the free trial upon learning it was for children second grade or lower. My child is a very advanced 5th grader. Their customer support emails contained grammar errors. I mean come on, they had every opptunity to make this right before billing me yet didn't. This company is a sham w/bad customer and site problems they will blame on you. Run away. If you got a free trial cancel

Date of experience: August 21, 2018
Virginia
1 review
7 helpful votes
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They will charge your credit card even if you don't used their service, Very bad experience. You need to cancel membership and don't forget to check your statement to make sure, that they won't charge you again, Very bad experience.

Date of experience: July 24, 2018
Georgia
1 review
11 helpful votes
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I don't have a kid. I'm in college myself and had never even been to ABCmouse.com. So you can see where I was quite confused when a charge for them showed up in my statement. Luckily I caught it Day of. Credit/ debit card skimmers are using this site as their gateway to see if your card is valid. Once they skip your card they charge through this site before selling your card information. If you found a charge for this site and have never been there, cancel your card immediately. Luckily they only got $40 worth of wine before I could shut my card down but it could have been much worse.

Date of experience: June 15, 2018
New York
1 review
5 helpful votes
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This is an automatic renewal service. I saw the $59.95 renewal fee on my bank account and immediately called to say I didn't want another year and their response was, "Sorry, it's our policy not to refund your money once the renewal year has started". "You need to cancel the membership before the renewal date." This company would not refund my money, even when they saw that the service was not used. There is no notification (email or otherwise) from them letting you know that you account is about ready to renew for the $59.95! His response to that was, "You have access to your billing at any time to look when your renewal is coming due!" What a racket they have going!

Date of experience: May 28, 2018
New York
1 review
10 helpful votes
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They Hacked my card
April 21, 2018

I never heard about this website in my life. They hacked credit card and keep charging me. I just got new card 2 weeks ago and they charged me again! It is really disgusting how they do business. Just hacking people's card and start charging people.

Date of experience: April 21, 2018
Canada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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It's a Scam!
April 14, 2018

Whatever you do, do not register for a free trial. It's impossible to unsubscribe! I had to cancel my credit card!

Date of experience: April 14, 2018