I was using Preply to take English and French lessons from two different tutors. As a student, I often paused lessons during exam periods and allowed my unused lesson credits to accumulate. Today, I noticed I had 4 unused lessons with each tutor, and since I won’t have time to use them, I contacted customer support to request a refund only for the unused credits — not for my ongoing subscriptions.
I clearly stated that my active subscriptions and scheduled lessons should not be canceled, but the support agent went ahead and canceled both anyway, including upcoming booked lessons. When I followed up immediately, I received no response from the original agent, and a different representative took over. This new agent said I “should have known” subscriptions would be canceled — even though I was never informed of that during the initial conversation.
Now I’m being told I have to manually re-subscribe, and worse, I’ll need to pay again — both for the subscription and any associated fees. Even after explaining that this issue was entirely caused by Preply’s mistake, they refused to take any responsibility.
As a result, I’m being forced to pay out of pocket for a problem I didn’t create. Preply must reinstate my subscriptions without additional charges and own up to this error immediately.
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