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July 6, 2022
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The rare communication or how is Adobe loosing regular customers

  • July 6, 2022
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Hello community!

I want to make you just know that I am a customer of Adobe from the time when I was kid. It was more than 20 years ago. I am russian, that time we were installing programs from CD, which were buying in the shop. Than when Adobe opened Creative Cloud I started to pay for the service of Adobe. I pay fro the plan around 8 years, have my account history and all the data on Creative Cloud.

 

I am a russian, but now for more than two years studying in Spain. I am a student, the student price is 19 eur for a minth but the last 3 monthes I paid more than 40 eur for a month just because Adobe cannot recieve payments fron Russia (doesnt want to open legaly russian company and recieve money in rubles).

I had understood everything and put my spanish credit card to pay for a plan, but bank change rubles for eur with incredible price. 3 monthes ago I have paid 30, now it is 40 eur for a month. I asked a help in a chat several days ago, but they told me that I cant change the country and for that I have to create new account and move all the settings, fonts (typekit), and data from a cloud by myself and that I will loose the history of our relationship.

I asked for a help the guy called me 3 days ago, agreed with me that it is quite rare situatuon and promised me that he will find the solution in 24 hours. They gave me a callback after 72 hours and it was another girl which didnt know antthing. I spend 30 minutes for the first time and then I spend more time with that girl which didnt say me nothing - was absolutly silent and didnt want to answer my questions. This manager before was lying to me that he will find a solution.

Then they call me back one time more I couldnt recieve the call and recieved the message that I need to organise call one time more. Ok, I went to the website and in a chat told my story again, showed transactions from my bank in eur and explained that I am a student and I cant pay in 4 times more than it looks on a website only because I have russian passport!

I have asked to make a call, choosed all the tume date and explained everyting one time more. Finally I asked to delete my credit information, becuuse I cant pay this amount 40 eur for a student plan (all the apps, 100 gb). After that the chat was cancelled and when I get back with the same case there was no history. But I have screenshots of the conversation.

 

I am asking community to help me, I was in love with Adobe all my life, I used Photoshop 4 or 5 it was my first app which I was using with so much love. But service is look like i am not a customer at all.

 

The main problem that I have a lot of data, typekit setting for the websites and I cant change all of them with a new account (I dont have access to them). I was asking to change the country, make the price like on a websites but they only took my time and nobody wants to explain me what should I do.

 

After more than 15 years with Adobe I have to cancel the plan and say Adobe goodbye. 
I am very dissapointed, hope this information will help Adobe to make their service and communication better.

 

Atentamente,

Mikhail.

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3 replies

John T Smith
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 7, 2022

My understanding is that this is not Adobe's decision, Adobe is doing what the US Government says

 

https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2022/03/04/adobe-stops-all-new-sales-in-russia

Participant
July 7, 2022

Yes I am russian citizen, but I am a spanish resident with all the documents for a lot of time! It is racism if they choose people with race. Why they didn't stop americans when they were doing war in Iraq or Azerbaijan when they attacked Armenia? They could disable all the americans users for that? And as I see in the article it is about new sales, I am not new.

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 7, 2022

Fellow product users can't help you with account & billing matters.  Only Adobe staff can assist you with that.

 

Sadly, the situtation with Russia and Ukraine has put a great strain on everyone in the world, not just you.  You're caught between a political rock and an economic hard place which is unfortunate. 

 

My advice is to cancel your old account and start a new one with Student rates if you are still eligible.   The student rate is USD $20/mo for 12 months. After that it goes up to $30/mo for 12 months.

https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/buy/students.html

 

CONTACT ADOBE SUPPORT:
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Online Chat: https://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html?rghtup=autoOpen
Phone M-F, during normal business hours: https://helpx.adobe.com/contact/phone.html

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Participant
July 7, 2022

Thank you for the answer. That is a bit crazy, I am free of politics and dont want to comment anything about it. But I am totaly against of all the wars: Sirya, Iraq, Ucraine or other countries. We must live "in paz", together and do our planet better. And some group of people manage wars, I feel that we cant do nothing only keep our psycics far away from these things. As I think Adobe cant stop wars, it is a regular business they are looking for money and I hope there is no any political context here... Thanks for the participating in this topic, Nancy. 

Peru Bob
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 7, 2022
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I am asking community to help me,


By @Mikhail G.

 

Unfortunately, we are not able to help you here.  Only an Adobe employee can do something about account issues.

You might have to keep trying Adobe Chat in hopes that there will be an agent that can help.

 

Participant
July 7, 2022

Thanks Peru, they always say different. I am waiting maybe some respresentative of Adobe will see this post and do something. It is incredibly crazy experience which I have first time with Adobe. Looking like Adobe lost their principals and dont care about their customers. We have to know that, thank you a lot for your answer.

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 7, 2022

Adobe support doesn't read these posts.  You must contact support directly.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert