IEEE Avis 

TOTAL SCAM. After paying $49.95 for an annual digital subscription of IEEE Spectrum, I received nothing at all. I have already opened two support tickets (mail threads), but I was simply forwarded from one email address to another without receiving any explanation or assistance. Such a waste of money.

Please be aware that this service takes your money without providing the subscription in return.

It is extremely disappointing that such a reputable publication (IEEE Spectrum) has such poor management handling its subscriptions.

For an organization that is supposed to promote innovative technologies, it is a shame how poor their services are. Their website is still in the early 2000s, with constant "This service is unavailable right now" messages due to the extremely high number of glitches. Their customer support is the worst I've ever experienced. You have to manually give your card details so they can change the card you use for the subscription, like it is the year of 2004.. TERRIBLE

I paid the membership but did not received the magazines. Then I wanted a refund but since a half year I am in contact with them and I think I will never see this money again...I thought IEEE is professional but that is to 100% scam. Be careful.

If you wish to get rid of your money, IEEE is a good way to start.

First off, I love IEEE their magazines are great read. The structure is great, I love it love it. However, I used the paid ieee.org email account for a government resource. Because my membership had lapsed or expired I no longer have access to the email. I completely forgot that I had connected the ieee.org email account with my government. So, when I called hoping that they would activate so that I could get the codes and move on. No can do, they wanted money right then and there. I hate to leave on such a bad note with 91 percent of the time IEEE was okay. I know that if the shoe was on the other foot and a customer called me with an urgent issue, I would have enabled the email account for a time frame but still no questions asked. But, an org has got to be able to work in a crunch and IEEE was not able to that. So, make sure that you do not link your IEEE email account with your government account. Because if something should happen with your IEEE email account you will really be out of luck.

Poor value for membership

I was hoping a membership would give me access to journal articles in my field, but the few resources that were made available were not particularly relevant.

There are some ancillary benefits of membership like special insurance policies you can buy, an online forum for professional networking, and discounts on workshops/seminars. I haven't found any of these to be worthwhile.

Sent these guys my diploma to be evaluated,after weeks nothing.Contacted them and they tell me they need some more staff from,CANT YOU EMAIL ME IF NEEDED IT??????????????????waste of time,now waiting on my refund

They charge authors too much money for publishing their hard work, and then sell the authors' works to universities and libraries for too much money. All in all, authors don't get any returns or royalties for their hard works, and IEEE puts the authors' works behind expensive pay walls to charge the readers, who are in most cases the researchers themselves who publish with IEEE.

Not only the authors don't get any returns, but also the reviewers and editors don't get ANY share from IEEE profits. They all in fact work totally for free.

I don't know how this oppressive business model that steals other people's efforts and charges its contributors (the researchers) is functioning up to these days !!!