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I subscribed to the trial. Before ending, I tried to cancel it.Both the app nor the web don't allow me to cancel the trial.I contacted the support, and they were not able to help, the account is still there and tells it will renew and convert to payment.I also contacted support to cancel my credit card info and they did not delete it.I am contacting my bank and Visa and will alert them about the unwanted payment that will come, and dispute it.DO NOT insert your credit card info with this company before ending the trial as I did
I wanted to see available subscription plans, as I was going back to renew one. Instead I was given confirmation about resuming subscribtion without any confirmation or information about the price. I had to check their invoices and my banking app to see amout of money taken. Additionally I am unable to delete my credit card information to prevent further mistakes. Fortunately cancelling subscription (does not work on mobile phones) works so I am only 1 out of 6 months of money short. This is horrible paying experinence and this alone made me stay away from them.Edit: Packt Support helped me with issue (before they replied here, which is nice). Still bad experinence but they came sqaure.
Shady business practicd. Even after canceling subscription, they enable from their side without consent and charge to your account.When you write to them to requesting refund, Jagan shamelessly responded that once money taken they don't have any policy to refund.
Reading Modern CMake for C++ and absolutely loving the book. It's really well-written in a way that is both succinct, but explicit, so you're never left guessing as to the author's lesson. I'm not sure if it's a feature of the Online Reader or something that authors explicitly have to do, but loving the stylized text to help emphasize important concepts, and love that I can take notes online. Can also access the book on my iDevices so I can read it anywhere.
The subscription model is based on, to put it mildly, highly dubious 'business practice' where you can't stop subscription, the only option provided is to pause is for up to three months, then they continue to charge your credit card. It seems that the only way to stop it is to send a request to help desk and wait. Advice - make sure you use prepaid credit card with limited amount of credit when dealing with Packt to avoid abuse.
I signed up for the free trial. Packt said that my free trial would end on 2/2 and I'd be billed, which with I was fine. However on 2/1, a day early and during the free trial window, they tried to bill the card. I got lucky that my card flagged it as potential fraud and didn't allow the charge. I came here to see all the other billing reviews and it seems consistent with what I experienced and I won't be joining based on that experience.
Examples don't work. Purchased "Learn Three.js - Third Edition", contents of the book do not match the source code. Default examples flat out don't work, and there is no activity or maintainer in the Github repo. There are a few PRs to address some of the broken examples but they've been ignored for the last 4 years. I was honestly hoping Packt would be decent, but its pretty terrible all round.
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