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Pearson Education Canada has a 1.1 star rating from 11 customer reviews and consumers are mostly dissatisfied, citing poor customer service, billing problems, high price level and frequent refund requests.

Key Takeaways for Future Customers

  • Expect difficult account access and glitches when using subscriptions or eText.
  • Prepare for long hold times and limited support if you need refunds.
  • Consider alternatives before relying on Pearson Education Canada reviews for course materials.

Negative Feedback / Risk Areas

  • Repeated customer complaints about technical glitches and login failures.
  • Billing issues, double charges and slow or no refunds.
  • Poor 24/7 customer service and unhelpful tech support.

Positive Feedback

Some users note usable textbooks when accessible and a well laid out web site in isolated cases.

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Basic Technical Mathematics with Calculus: SI Version, Twelfth Edition is Horribly Constructed

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AI Highlights
  • - The book assumes calculus knowledge and skips steps.
  • - Only odd-numbered questions have answers and no explanations; copy/paste is blocked.
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This textbook is what happens when you don't actually care about providing educational material. It operates on the presumption that you already know the contents and are quite comfortable with calculus, as even in the educational portions of the text, where it is explaining how to do things, they just cut straight to the answers or skip steps without explaining how they got there.

God help you when you get to the actual sample questions, as you'll see that the examples provided earlier were laughably easy by comparison. It gets even worse when you want to check your answers because, surprise, only the answer is provided, again with no explanation, and only for the odd-numbered questions at that! Not sure if you got question 6 correct for a chapter? Too bad!

You'll have to figure it out for yourself!

Forget this book and company. You're better off learning what you need from a free online resource. I fully intend to demand a full refund once I no longer need it.

I only bought the thing for the tax credit in January. If I had a physical copy, I would go to the Pearson head office, defecate between the pages, set it alight, and throw it at the first employee I saw so that they could understand just how terrible their work is.

I can't even show you examples of how bad it is because opening the screen locks you out! You can't copy, paste, nothing!

Loss:
$105
Cons:
  • Textbook is expensive trash

Preferred solution: Full refund

User's recommendation: If a course requires you to buy this book, I would recommend beating whoever made it necessary and taking the prison sentence. You will probably find prison more tolerable.

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Can't login after I register and can't login afterwards.

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This is a disgrace that schools still use this company after scamming people. Also, I contacted customer support (garbage and was on the phone for 2 hours) and gave up this is worse than banks!

Loss:
$400
Pros:
  • I have to use it to get my education degree
Cons:
  • Bad service
  • Bad website
  • Bad costumer service

Preferred solution: Price reduction

User's recommendation: Don't use it!

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Anonymous
map-marker Cottam, Ontario

Dissatisfaction

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AI Highlights
  • - The program causes mental and physical pain due to abstract input.
  • - Questions are poorly worded and confusing, not the subject matter.

In all my years of schooling, I have never felt this much contempt towards an educational program. It only grants me great mental and physical pain when inputting answers in such abstract forms for such poorly worded and structured questions. When multiple students have no clue what the majority of questions are even asking - not caused by confusion towards the subject matter - but confusion towards what's even going on, it's time for the program to make a shift towards clarity instead of frustration.

User's recommendation: Don't expose yourself to such perdition.

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Anonymous
map-marker Halifax, Nova Scotia

I book ebooks on your webpage and was charged in US Dollars instead of Canadian Dollars and was asked to repurchase same books from my school's bookstore which I did.

AI Highlights
  • - Refund in USD delayed four months.
  • - Toni and Lawrence aware.
  • - W9 issue; Canada refund details sent.
  • - Email blocked; no reply; may pursue action.

now they have to refund the US Dollars to me and the ordeal I'm going through has been 4 good month and still no feedback from them.Toni of the technical team and Lawrence of the order management team are all aware.

now they have asked me to send them W9 and my bankers TD bank said W9 is only used in US but not in Canada so they gave me a signed bank details for refund which I sent to Pearson through the same email I recieved for that request.

it was later I was informed that my mail has been blocked because the mail has vital information.

I have sent several mails for another alternative but no response.why am I been purnished for no fault of mine.

I have to talk to my legal people to demand my money and interest for how long they have kept my money.time valu for money

User's recommendation: I will never recomend Pearson to any customer being it a student or a school to avoid going through such a horrible customer service from pearson.m case number is 4957**** all documents and proof will be linked to it

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Musfirat S

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Looking for the pearson book's copyright permission to use in our business.

AI Highlights
  • - Tried calling Pearson copyright development with no answer.
  • - Seeks copyright department contact; asks about hours and best times to reach.

This is not a complaint. I tried to call twice to reach Pearson copyright development but it seems like no one is on the other side of the phone.

I would like to have a conversation with the person copyright department.

Please provide me some information about available business hours and when is the best time to reach you guys. Here is my email id:- Sadimusfirat006@***.com

Phone number:- +1-64*-***-****

Thank you

Preferred solution: Copyright permission of the person books.

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Kjell

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I am not able to do any of my assignments

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AI Highlights
  • - Tried contacting customer service, but initially no one answered.
  • - I was told the issue would be solved in 2-3 days and a callback would follow.

I have tried to contact the customer service department but no one is answering at the first and when someone finally answered the call the lady told me that my problem will be solved in 2/3 days because I am losing my marks and if Im losing then i will fail the course and she also said she is going to call me back but Im still struggling.

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Resha M

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Bought an access code through my university for an eText. Guess what? I found out it DIDN'T come with the purchase. Requires me to pay an additional $61.09 CAD just to buy the *** *** eText!

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AI Highlights
  • - The eText for the Java course is not included with the $96 purchase and costs an extra $61 CAD.
  • - Only interactive exercises are included.

I'm a computer science student, so I'd like to think I know my way really well around computers. When you buy a product that SAYS it includes the *** eText for my Java programming course, I expect it to be included with the $96 purchase!

Lo and behold, I get into my account, only to find out that the eText is NOT included in my current subscription?! I have to PAY an additional $61 CAD just to get access to the electronic version of the textbook?! *** no!

Only interactive exercises are included in this *** purchase! Pearson, fix your *** customer service system AND your definition of customer service!

Loss:
$96

Preferred solution: Deliver product or service ordered

User's recommendation: DO NOT BUY ANY ETEXT FROM THEM. IF YOU HAVE THE OPTION TO BUY THE PAPER VERSION, BUY THE *** PAPER VERSION! SAVE YOURSELF THE HEADACHE.

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Kev T

Literally extortion

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AI Highlights
  • - Pearson exam fees for assigned courses range from $50 to $200+.
  • - The fees are seen as extortion toward lower-income students.

I am not happy that sometimes, even if a given course is assigned, that the student has to pay $50, $100, $200+ solely to take the exams for the course, because it's on Pearson.

It's extortion towards lower-income students, e.g. me.

Loss:
$1000
Cons:
  • Prices are almost extortion
  • I did not like their overpriced online software

Preferred solution: Full refund

User's recommendation: Avoid professors who use Pearson, at all costs.

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Hossam A

Poor customer service

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I've been on hold for hours, customer service representatives keep transferring my call to where I have to start all over again. This is ridiculous.

Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution

User's recommendation: Avoid if you can, although Pearson monopolize almost everything related to education. This is ridiculous!

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Wayne S Xrn

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On line textbook inaccessible

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AI Highlights
  • - Daughter can't log onto Revel online.
  • - COVID-19 causes the test to be home-based and open-book.
  • - The book has disappeared again.

My daughter is using the online version of your cognitive psychology textbook but often she can't log onto Revel. Because of COVID-19, her test is going to be home based and thus open book, and the book has disappeared again. Unbelievably bad product.

Cons:
  • Log in issues

Preferred solution: Deliver product or service ordered

User's recommendation: Avoid Pearson Revel

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Merv A Cok

Course not working

AI Highlights
  • - InformIT.com courses do not work.
  • - They were asked to call digital site support at 800 567 ****.

I was trying to find out why my courses on InformIT.com do not work.

This was a good start. I have been asked to call the digital site folks @ 800 567 ****

Let’s see what happens. Been talking to the Phillipines tech support & they have not been trained to solve such issues

Preferred solution: Deliver product or service ordered

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Milen O

Customer care service need to be improved

AI Highlights
  • - I contacted Pearson about my Edexcel Higher National Diploma by email and called, but got no response and toll-free number says it doesn't exist.

I contacted Pearson for my edexcel higher national diploma several times, through email. Nobody contacted me yet.

I tried calling the numbers provided there including the toll free number. All I get is a message saying the number doesn't exist.

Preferred solution: Im requesting for my higher national diploma from edexcel

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Orel Jpo

To solve an issue concerning my certificates

AI Highlights
  • - Charged $114 to send certificates to Concordia University Montreal.
  • - Delivery is 5 days; order failed yet charge posted; need urgent grades.
Pearson Education Canada - To solve an issue concerning my certificates

I have been charged $114 to send my certificates to Concordia University Montreal using a courier (which would apparently take 5 days). I need to be assured that the certificates are on the way since I received an email saying the order was failed, yet I was still charged.

I need my A level and GCSE grades to be sent urgently. The photo attached shows I’ve been charged.

Pros:
  • Well laid out web site
Reason of review:
Poor customer service

Preferred solution: Deliver product or service ordered

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Anonymous
map-marker Calgary, Alberta

Best services

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AI Highlights
  • - Took temporary access and purchased the economics lab.
  • - Called customer support and provided information.
  • - All activities now appear in the account.

I have taken temporary access and also purchased my lab for economics. I call to customer support services and provide information and all the activities that I have done are appearing in the account now

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Anonymous
map-marker Montreal, Quebec

I do not recommend this at all to anyone, absolute ***

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AI Highlights
  • - I paid twice and haven’t been refunded yet.
  • - Certificates aren’t sent to the university.
  • - Deadline is near and the issue remains unresolved.

All I want it for my certificates to be sent to a university. I have payed for the application twice already, was told there was an issue with their system, and still haven't been refunded over a WEEK later.

Without my certificates sent from Edexcel I may not get into uni, and the worst part is it is completely out of mr control. First, I get a confirmation of my order then in another email I'm told it did not work for some reason. I called customer service for the 8th time probably to be told that it is an issue with the email login? This is causing serious unnecessary stress for me because I still have no idea what the problem is and do not want to be charged again without the order coming through.

This is very serious, my deadline is coming up and Pearson have done jackshit to help. I may not get into uni because of this, so Pearson, please get your *** together and help me.

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Javan Nri

I can’t acess my eText

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I’m being directed to call another line and I just want to speak to someone who can help me

Reason of review:
Poor customer service

Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution

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