Elsevier Avis 44

Utilized their services for my business. I attempted to cancel services a month before renewal and was told that I could not as the contract stated I could not cancel within 30 days of renewal. I reviewed the contract and no where in it, did it say that. I refused to pay for the service another year as it was not needed. Because I did not pay, they sent my company to collections over a little bit of money. I'll never use or recommend them to any other business. Would leave ZERO stars if I could.

Greedy money grubbers who only care about profit at the expense of learning and knowledge. Truly a scumbag company run by scumbags.

Pirating anything they publish is the only ethical recourse for these slime balls.

I paid a lot of money for a text book that advertised access to an enhanced digital version; however, when I entered the access code from the inside cover of the book, I received an error message indicating "Sorry--this code is no longer recognized". Unacceptable!

Where do you even start with a company this bad. The product that students have to use is just terrible, the support is aggressively bad, the prices are inflated for books that haven't changed in almost 20 years except for the edition number. Elsevier is bad for the very science written about in the pages of the overpriced textbooks.

The customer service quickly helped resolve my issue of accessing the online copy of a textbook I purchased.

Ordered a book that I needed for my studies and was told when I ordered that it was a print on demand title and would be ready to ship within 10 days.

10 days come and go and I query the status of my order to be told that it's actually on back order and out of stock and I will have to wait a further 2 weeks which is subject to change.

At no point is it made clear when ordering that items are out of stock, they will happily take your card details and issue your invoice but not communicate with you that the item is actually not in stock? When the agent told me this I checked the book on the shop again and, again, there was no information that it was out of stock.

Overall, very misleading shop. Absolutely no clarity about stock yet happy to take your order anyway. I won't be using them again.

cant seem to understand why there are bad reviews, but let me give them 5. no hate cause I was able to receive a good service from them.

Absolutely terrible company and customer support. Misleading access code support, would never recommend to anyone wanting to buy books. Purchased new book with access code that does not give you access to ebook, only useless summaries and a few practice questions. And the company is full of apologies but no help. Want another $150 to get access to an ebook when spent $150 on new book with access code that was expected to include the ebook. No where on the book or description does it say it does not include ebook. Miserable experience with this company. Full of misleading and false advertising and company does not care, just lip service, almost laughing in your face apologies. Horrible company

Absolutely amazing and understanding customer support. High quality, would recommend to anyone wanting to buy books.

company with two philosphies
First earn money - then, create barriers for science distribution as much as possible.

Pre-ordered a medical book Elsevier online in the UK at the beginning of March 2025 to be published in May 2025 … then delayed until 5 June 2025 … now towards the end of June 2025 Elsevier UK are unable to tell me when the book is to be available in the UK … meanwhile on amazon.com I could have the book (same ISBN) in stock sent to me in the UK by Thursday (2 days time) … what is their problem? … when asked, they apparently don’t know … big company … little substance … pull your finger out Elsevier!

Absolutely horrible company. They will take your money and run with it. Other reviewers concur.

Sinds 5 maanden abonnee. Nu al 3 keer niets ontvangen. Van kastje naar de muur bij klantenservice. Uiteindelijk opgezegd, geen enkele bevestiging ontvangen. Heel jammer, blad is inhoudelijk goed.

Elsevier is a terrible company. It has taken over good products and Journals and made them unusable by non existent support services.
I use Compete Anatomy - an excellent program but since elsevier became involved cannot launch program.
The 'chat bot' does not work -ever. And the sign in system does not work at all. AVOID if you can

Bought books at Elsevier's bookstore at eu-elsevierhealth-com. Two days after purchase came extra bill to pay 25% moms/VAT. All other webshops in the EU have to advertise prices that include moms/VAT of the destination of the order. Unbelievable that a company of this size can be so unprofessional.

Terrible customer service and terrible decision to stop publishing Practice Update permanently. This keeps vital medical updates from lay citizens who have been benefiting from vital insights into medical developments!!! Shame on you Elsevier.

Bad customer service. Ordered a bundle of books for $475.00 there was no email saying order when through so ordered again the following day. Then all of a sudden both order when through. Call customer service Jennifer told me since it was an accident I would get a refund but since the books were on their way I’d have to send back( at my expense). They got the books back and only refunding me a partial refund because several books were ebooks. Jennifer didn’t tell me I wouldn’t be refunded for the ebooks, she failed to tell me that, she said since it was by accident that I wouldn’t get a refund not a parcel refund

I purchased Naturheilpraxis Heute - Lehrbuch and Atlas" from Elvira Bierbach , 7. Edition because it was advertised as usable both as a printed book and an e-book. While the content of the book is helpful, the e-book functionality falls far short of expectations.

The e-book code provided was invalid. Despite reaching out to the retailer, the publisher, the issue remains unresolved. Even after providing proof of purchase, the only response I received was vague statements like, “We would like to assist you further however,” followed by no real solution. Their only advice was to keep replacing the book—an impractical and frustrating approach.

The customer service was unhelpful, offering no meaningful support to resolve the issue. It appears I am not the only customer experiencing this problem, as similar complaints can be found on platforms like Amazon. If the e-book functionality is important to you, this issue and the lack of adequate support could be particularly disappointing.

We recently had a disappointing experience with the journal Energy. After submitting a manuscript that required only minor revisions, we chose not to include a particular author initially, in order to expedite the review process. Knowing that many colleagues have successfully added authors at later stages, we didn't foresee any issues. However, after resubmitting the revised version with the additional author, the journal rejected our paper outright, without any prior communication or explanation from the editorial team.

This decision, made solely on their judgment, felt unjust and unprofessional. We dedicated months to producing a high-quality piece of research, only to have our efforts dismissed in an instant. Furthermore, when we reached out to the editorial office for a clear explanation, they failed to provide a satisfactory response. This experience has left us questioning the professionalism of Elsevier's editorial practices and the transparency of their policies. We believe their management should reconsider such rigid policies that overlook the time and dedication researchers invest in their work.