As a preface, I am now aware that apparently Adobe asks you every year to renew your student plan. And when talking to customer support, I am aware that policy indicates they cannot award refunds and instead give credits for future months, the total of which is 3.
Having said that, let me explain my situation. I first suscribed to Adobe CC on May 31, 2016 for the student plan of £15.49. At some point between 2016 and 2019, the price changed to £25.28 and then £24.96 which I was completely fine with, just stating this for transparency. Within that span of 3 years, I was never asked to prove my student status, and were not informed of changes in charge amounts. All I did was change my email from my sixth form college to my university's and update the name when I started attending in 2017. Despite not doing anything else, I remained with a student plan until April 2019. However, suddenly, this changed and I began being charged for a full plan. Again, I received no direct information from Adobe and only found out after checking my bank. I looked into it and was told that this is because for student plans to be renewed, they require annual confirmations. I was told no refunds were allowed to be reissued, but they would correct this. All seemed fine and I even provided a document proving my position as university student. The over charging continued. Again, I tried to contact someone about this in March. They said no refunding was available, but could at least fix the issue. I went through the process again and they confirmed it should resolve the problem. However, the charging continued. I spoke to another employee and instead of changing my plan, he started a new one (?) – Not sure how to describe but it seems a little different than previous times in which I just had to provide validation. He offered 3 months of credit, but if you compare pricing, I lost a total of £324.87, which is 13 months. This is a lot of money, especially for a university student. Since 2016 I have been an art student, first in sixth form college and later university.
I asked the customer service worker whether there was somewhere I could open a claim or pursue this request but he basically said that's the best I will get. I've wasted so much time this last year just trying to fix this, let alone get refunded for it. Any suggestions? I don't know where else to turn. Almost cancelled my account during the time this was happening but it is essential as a photo student. I would be incredibly grateful if I could retrieve it somehow, or even get awarded more credit than just 3 months as I am being charged for an internal error I had no part in, and policies being the way they are really shouldn't be enough reason for this to occur, especially in such large companies where errors like this can occur to many customers.
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