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December 19, 2025
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Absolutely Atrocious Customer Support

  • December 19, 2025
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I have/had a subscription that was yearly pre-paid.  I purchased a redemption code for another year (of the exact same plan - CC Photography 1TB) from a 3rd party retailer (Newegg), and like any normal sane person would, expected that when I redeemed the code it would extend my current plan.  Instead however it started a new plan, which created an overlap of about a month between when the old plan ended and new one starts.  So I contacted customer support, and the first rep told me that he/she would cancel the new plan and then send me a new redemption code within 5-7 days that I could then redeem when the previous plan ended.

 

That was on Nov. 20th.  Since then, I have heard nothing.  On Dec. 2nd (nearly 2 weeks later), I checked my account and saw that the new plan was still associated with my account, and that the support case was still showing as active.  So I replied to the support case detailing what the previous CS rep had said would happen, and included a screenshot of the conversation.

 

Fast forward another 2 weeks, on Dec. 17th, when my old plan was about to auto-renew, I checked again and found that the new plan had disappeared.  I went ahead and cancelled the old plan because I definitely did not want to be charged for another year, and then checked the support case and saw there has been no updates to it at all.  So I contacted CS again, and the only response I got was that my support case has been escalated and I would get a response in 24-48 hours.  It's now been two days since, and I once again have had zero communication from customer support, and since I had to cancel the old plan, also no access to the apps that I've paid for.

 

This is possibly the absolute worst customer service experience I've ever had, and I continue to have no way of actually reaching anybody who's capable of helping, because like every other tech company Adobe is doing the damndest to make sure you can't find a phone number to call, but instead have to deal with a useless AI virtual assistant.

2 replies

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 20, 2025

Promotional offers from 3rd parties are typically for New Customers only.

Did you read the fine print before purchasing?

Have you contacted the 3rd party vendor about this?

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
GokieKSAuthor
December 20, 2025

It's not a promotional offer, it was a regular sale of a digital product, for one year pre-paid of the CC subscription: https://www.newegg.com/adobe-creative-cloud-photography-plan-with-1tb-1-year-subscription/p/N82E16832505518

 

Speaking of fine prints, the description specifically mentions that the 1TB plan "is a different subscription than Creative Cloud Photography Plan 20GB. Purchasing this will NOT extend or renew Creative Cloud Photography Plan 20GB subscription with Adobe", which implies that it WILL extend/renew an existing 1TB plan.  Which, once again, is what any reasonable person would assume would happen when you redeem the code, instead of what actually happens (it creates a new plan on the same account), which is what lead to this mess in the first place.

kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 20, 2025

plans that are exact matches extend current subscriptions.  plans that are not exact matches create new plans.

Jeffrey_A_Wright
Legend
December 19, 2025

GokieKs, sorry for all the problems you have encountered through your purchase of a redemption code to use our services. I see that your support case ADB-42676510-G5H9 was updated yesterday. Please use the steps listed at https://adobe.ly/3MN2BOX to review your active case and provide any additional feedback. ^JW

GokieKSAuthor
December 19, 2025

Then there must be something wrong with the website because I see absolutely nothing on the support case details page except the comments that I added on Dec. 2.  I checked on two different browsers (Chrome, Safari), and found it was the same on both (screenshot attached).

Jeffrey_A_Wright
Legend
December 19, 2025

There is nothing for you to respond to right now, GokieK. The request is still being processed. I know this is a frustrating experience.

Please make sure that you check the return policy for any future redemption codes that are purchased, in case they are duplicate subscriptions or invalid.

Please bookmark https://adobe.ly/3Y8JMbo for more information. ^JW