Coursera

I have paid in full for the Specialization which content was not available at that moment. There are 5 Courses. 1st one was under 1 hour of material. Just the intro. 49$ cost. 2nd one was just above 1 hour in length and most of the materials are just tutorials of open-source tools read to you.
I realized something is wrong here and I'm not getting what was advertised. It is just a quick-wrap 'google it' overview. Which I could do myself. And when I asked for a refund, after 2 weeks of not getting back to me they just blatantly said 'we are sorry you don't like but our system cannot issue a refund'. Since it is over 2 weeks after my initial payment.

And those two Courses you could apply for free!
Beware. It is 'Big Data' Specialization by University of California, San Diego.
Don't waste your time and money

Very hard to contact and completely unwilling to help solve issues with its very poorly organised subscription system. Some courses are good but some are truly awful and these awful examples make up coursera plus. Save your €51/$59 and go elsewhere.

Spent a week doing a course to finish within the free trial period and earn a certificate. Got to the very very last step where I submitted my essay and had to peer review 3 other essays. When it came to the last and final 3rd essay to peer review, the message came 'there are no submissions for your to review at this moment'. With an hour to go until free trial ended I had no time to wait and have since cancelled my subscription and deleted my profile.
Any future business you may have got from me has evaporated and I'll make sure to let everyone in my circle know what a huge harem of scammers you are.

I signed up for 2 courses. Cyber Security and IT Support, When giving my credit card number, their system was rejecting it and asking for another card. They charged both cards and deleted my accounts progress of over 66 hours of course work and test. No phone numbers to call, no accountability, response letters will Gaslight you to the 10th power. No professional correspondence, A BOT is used to convey messages. After reading ALL OF THE LIES that they are telling their customers, Leaves me no choice but to report them. I am like Popeye, I've had ALLS that I can stand and I cant stand NO MORE!

This a waste of time and money in using this "Trump University" type education site. They offer you a "free" trial, that is billed after 7 days, and is continued to be billed monthly, unless you cancel your subscription.

I took a course in "Memoir Writing" that consisted on watching a Wesleyan University visiting professor give somewhat useful advice, along with weekly assignments. The assignments were somewhat useful and supposed to be "peer reviewed." I received zero feedback the entire course on my submitted assignments that I put time and effort into! This site somehow cons Universities into participating. I would only recommend this site if you want to learn some skills for an inexpensive fee, but keep track of your subscription status! You will be automatically be billed unless you cancel! Confirm the cancelation! Good luck.

To their credit, they gave me a refund, in spite of the refund deadline being passed! I wasn't expecting one but already got the refund.

Expensive, exploitative and useless. Most courses are filled with useless complex information just to make them longer and leech off longer subscription periods from users.

Complete waste of $50 to earn a course certificate. I waited over 2 weeks for them to finish 'grading' and then they deny my certificate due identity verification. But they had no problem verifying my credit.

First, thank you for registering to earn a Course Certificate in Programming Mobile Applications for Android Handheld Systems: Part 1 on Coursera.

Unfortunately, our review shows your identity wasnt verified for enough assignments in this course to earn a Course Certificate. This can be caused by skipping webcam photos or typing pattern samples, or submitting blank webcam photos.

In order to receive your Course Certificate, you can try to resubmit the assignments that were initially unverified with verification. If youre unable to submit assignments again or otherwise need assistance, please contact our support team.

We hope to see you in another class soon.

Coursera is a ripoff. They use shady business practices to make a buck. You sign up for a free trial and if you don't cancel in time they charge you $50 with no refund. They don't send any notice before charging you the money. You are only notified after it is too later. A significant amount of their income comes form people who don't want or intend to use their service, but Coursera hides behind their TOS to screw these people out of $50. They should focus on the people that want to use their service instead of spending so much effort screwing people that don't.

Signed up for a marketing course. Content was overly simplistic and didn't learn any practical knowledge about market research which it was supposed to be. Passed alll courses within first month and stopped monitoring the course. However, after 5 months when I checked my e-statement, I realised Coursera has charged me unknownig for 5 months although my course has already completed and I have received certificate. Didn't even bother to send email regarding the billing and didn't even allow refund when the bill was only charged 3 days previously. Have hence deleted my credit card details and will never sign up any course again and will advise whoever I know not to do it. Your company is a scam and I hope you pay for scamming students who merely want to make their lives better

I wish I could give zero stars to this just only cause of the awful customer service. I had a subscription for a very reasonable price which I couldn't keep to use cause I failed to have the funds ready at them right time; even tho I contacted them 4 times about the matter and they assured me that the system would charge me before the date my account would expire it didn't happen; they suggested to resubscribe at almost double the price. Contacted customer service for email and been dealing with 4 different people that couldn't be bothered to read any of my email where explained 4 times what was the matter. The courses may be good but man they have no clue of what customer service is!

Stay away from this commercial operation. Just stick with the simple MOOC operators. Coursera distributed my email address to academic institutions who are relentlessly bombarding me with spam inviting me to enroll in their courses, of course each of them coming with the usual (and insulting) invitation to unsuscribe:
"To opt-out of receiving emails from this Partner, unsubscribe here."

Moreover, their user interface and control pannel is $#*!ed, overly complicated and just plain inefficient.

My 2 cents,

PR

I was trying to finish my certificate with the last labs. Qwiklabs kept saying I could not do another lab while one was running, nothing else was running. I was almost done with the IT Google Support certificate. In an Ironic instance, I contacted the IT support for Coursera, they blamed it on Qwiklabs, the third party they chose to partner with and took no responsibility, I asked for an extension of only a few hours, but they told me there was nothing they could do even though it was a technical problem on their end. They wanted my money for the subcription continuance. What a joke. It's a money grab for them. From what I looked up online, this was a common occurrence. I would not trust Coursera, look elsewhere.

You can't get a refund past two weeks even though you find out later that they mislead you by saying C and C++ courses are graded by teacher or professor. Nope. They are peer reviewed and you have to review classmates' work. So, how can someone who failed C++ at school, know that they have graded someone else's assignment correctly? How can you know that your assignment is graded correctly? You can't know so you don't know if you are learning the topic. If you have ADHD and sometimes you miss part of the instructions in the assignment, you can't peer review someone else's assignment correctly. And there is a chance that someone will grade yours incorrectly.

I think it is pretty clear when you sign up for the trial period when you will be responsible to pay. I signed up for 2 separate courses, both as free trials. When you log into your account you can see clear as day what courses you are enrolled in and when the trial expires. Canceling is easy as clicking your mouse literally 1 second of your life. I studied both courses within the free trial and canceled both as well with no issue. I love how most of the negative reviews it is somehow the company's fault that you don't cancel within your free trial window. That is not an error on the company's part but rather a lack of attention on yours.