Course Hero Shady auto-renew, refunds nearly impossible Internet

Given my experience with your customer service representatives in the past, and today, I completely expect this message to fall on deaf ears.  Which is unfortunate, given your service provides substantial value to the educational community.  At any rate, below is the transcript from my conversation with your online chat rep, Emily.  To set up this conversation, my situation was that for the 3rd time, my subscription auto-renewed when I did not want it to do so.  Each time I come back as a customer, I pay for a subscription and am forced into turning on this auto-renew feature.  Well, I forget to turn it off each time (because 3 months pass) and then have to deal with members of your unpleasant staff to have my refund processed.  If you are going to be require auto-renew be turned off, make it easy to refund the service if it doesn't get turned off.  Otherwise, it is perceived as a sham.

Side note: I emailed support@coursehero.com and coursehero@coursehero.com and waited 1 business day regarding this issue with no response. 

Anyway, not only am I auto-renew enabled against my will, but the setting is relatively difficult to find under the account settings.  While "Emily" disagrees, I am the customer and I say that it is not easy enough.  If you have anyone in leadership that understands business administration and marketing, you should understand the problem.  This sends out a vibe of unethical behavior, whether it is intended or not.  In addition to me, I have personal friends who have had this same problem, as well as others on websites providing negative reviews of your company (see below links).

http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Course-Hero/Redwood-City-California-94063/Course-Hero-Some-how-without-my-knowledge-they-set-me-up-with-automatic-renewal-This-is-1172270
http://www.bbb.org/greater-san-francisco/business-reviews/internet-services/course-hero-in-redwood-city-ca-381001/complaints

Emily: Hello, my name is Emily. I will be assisting you.

Me: Hi, I am Aaron.

Emily: Can you please provide me with your registered email address?

Me: *****@gmail

Emily: We do not provide refunds for the recurring charges however after reviewing your account I see that the subscription has not been used since the renewal date. As a one time courtesy, I have reversed those charges. Please note that in the future we would not be able to make any other exceptions since we have issued you a refund twice already.

You will be required to cancel prior to the renewal date.

Me: I appreciate the refund, but I am really discouraged that this keeps happening. I do not want the auto-renew to ever turn on. However, each time I come back as a customer, it re-enables.

Emily: All of Course Heroes memberships are based on a recurring one.

Me: When I pay for the service, I only want it for the time specified. Not only is it difficult to remember to turn it off, but it also is buried rather deep within the account settings and not easy to disable. It is frustrating and unethical.

Emily: You can cancel your recurring payment through the account settings at anytime.

We remind you that the services provided are recurring on the signup page as well as in the welcoming email.

This information is not hidden on our website anywhere.

Me: I never said "hidden". I said buried rather deep.

You can argue with me, the customer, all you want. The fact of the matter is this keeps happening to me, and others. There are comments from other customers who have repeatedly experienced the same problem.

Emily: No at all it is in regular print on the welcoming email.

Me: Alright. Fine. Please just process the refund. Thank you.

Emily: The refund has been processed, in the future we highly recommend reviewing the terms of service prior to making any purchases. As a consumer it is your responsibility to review the information prior to purchasing.

The refund will take 2-7 business days.

Have a great day.

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