PDF Guru Reviews

Summary: How the hell can you be okay with making money like some two-bit crook? Have you no shame whatsoever?

You're gambling your entire reputation for a few lousy dollars?

This isn't business, man — this is straight-up highway robbery. You're a con artist, plain and simple.

Positive: PDF Guru stole $50 from me. No warning, no refund. Pure predatory billing. Avoid at all costs.

You're gambling your entire reputation for a few lousy dollars!

Negative: DO NOT subscribe to PDF Guru unless you enjoy being robbed quietly.
They renewed my subscription for $50 without sending any prior notification - no email, no reminder, nothing. By the time I noticed the charge, it was too late to cancel. The service was not used during the entire billing period.
When I contacted support and politely requested a refund as a goodwill gesture, they hid behind their terms of service and refused. Apparently, silently charging customers is perfectly fine in their book.
This is not how legitimate businesses operate. This is predatory billing designed to catch you off guard. They count on you not noticing.
I have initiated a chargeback through my payment provider. I am also reporting this practice to consumer protection authorities.
Stay far away from PDF Guru. There are dozens of free and honest alternatives that don't need to trick you to make money.

Summary: Horrible. Spent a whole day trying to get my money back and to unsubscribe. Scam !

Positive: Nothing. Scam.

Negative: They sign you up for a lifetime subscription and take the first month fee without your knowledge.

Summary: Scam, avoid, Be careful.

Positive: Removed password from one pdf file. This is it, didn't want anything else. Be careful, it has secretly added subscription service

Negative: Secretly charged £49.99 on top of official £2 foe the service.

Summary: I needed a W-9 form. It initially stated the form was free. Then when trying to print said it was $.80. A week later they charged me $46! Luckily my bank caught it

Positive: Non! It's a rip off! Do not recommend at all. Don't sign up they will charged you without your knowledge

Negative: Charged me for a subscription when I never saw it!

Summary: I feel I was robbed. This is just an internet scam for the unwary. Beware, and please spread the word

Positive: It did what other free pdf converters do. It is mediocre at best. It exists solely as a basic product to trick people into $50 per month automatic renewal charges

Negative: They steal by hiding a $49.99 MONTHLY automatic review for their mediocre program that you can get for free elsewhere

Summary: Poor on all the fronts. Nothing good to say. Polite customer service that reiterates the fraudulent practice.

Positive: Scam tactics to get subscriptions, which it then won't refund. It is not enough that it charged for the pdf it made, it automatically subscribed me.

Negative: Refusal to refund. Fraudulent practices. Seems legitimate but ultimately a way of scamming people through prescription.

Summary: TERRIBLE WORST PLACE I HAVE EVER DEALT WITH. VERY DECEPTIVE. BUYER BEWARE. YOU WILL BE OUT OF POCKET WAY MORE THAN WHAT YOU THINK

Positive: I purchased a one off limited 7 day access for 0.99 usd. I only required the product for the one time hence why i purchased the lowest possible. Mind you it advertised as FREE conversion but obviously that is just one of many loop holes this company has found. A week late i was charged a further 49.99 usd for nothing. The fine print is not clear. As if you look at reviews you will see many of us caught out by this deception. PDF Guru refused to refund so I have had to now escalate this with my bank in the hopes of getting my $73 aud back. They refused a refund but offered me 2 years FREE access? WTF? Do not use this company.

Negative: Will not refund for services that you never purchased and didn't know would happen. Make random automated payments from your account. BUYER BEWARE

Summary: Please be careful! I have been charged for £49.99 for service which I don't need. Fraud action force charge your card!

Positive: N/a.

Negative: Scam domain.

Summary: In my personal experience, the app was useless for my needs, and the billing practices left me feeling deceived. I recommend staying well away from this company and its app.

Positive: There is nothing to report positive about such a fraudsters. The pros is they are good at many people fool.

Negative: I had an extremely negative experience with this company and strongly advise others to avoid them. I signed up for a service and paid a small initial fee, but the service did not deliver what was promised or what I reasonably expected.

On top of that, I was charged €49.99 for an annual subscription that I never knowingly agreed to. This charge came as a complete surprise and felt deeply misleading and unfair.

Summary: Avoid at all costs.

Positive: Nothing.

Negative: I spent 0.99 as a one off payment for a PDF to word document which wasn’t useable. A week later they ‘stole’ £49.99 from my account and have refused to return it to me. I now have the unfortunate task of looking at taking legal action. Please don’t use this company.

Summary: Complete scam. You sign up for a trial and then they scam you and keep charging you. Do not trust or use.

Positive: Nothing – they charge you for things that you didn't agree to, and obfuscate that they are doing this and try to hide behind this. No answers to repeated emails. Scammers.

Negative: They initiate recurring payment which you do not agree to.

Summary: Beware of this deceitful, cunning scam, trickery at its finest, get a once off file converted for $1.99, months later you find out the crooks have been stealing money from you bank account monthly $50USD for absolutely nothing in return, then they have the hide to tell you you missed the fine print, and that you actually signed up for a monthly subscription to be stolen from your bank account at their will, and to top it of PayPal says it's fine, you're on your own buddy, nothing to see here, absolute brazen theft by these slimey crooks and PayPal to boot.

Positive: Nothing to like about this thievery. They've developed a cunning plan to extract a lot of money from trial users without their knowledge. It's criminal.

Negative: Their deception in order to steal money from unaware victims.

Summary: Terrible thieves.

Positive: Nothing.

Negative: Any company who enrolls you into a subscription without your consent is a scam specially if you are paying for the services …just because I go to a restaurant once this restaurant doesn’t enroll me into their minimum charge every month

Summary: I'd rather not!!! I have absolutely nothing good to say about this company. Wish I had read these reviews before donating to them.

Positive: Service was great for the one page I converted but it wasn't worth $52. I would never trust this company again.

Negative: I didn't mind paying for the trial period of $1.99 but they don't operate like other sites. They CONVENIENTLY add "fine print" hoping no one reads it. After being charged a non-refundable $49.99, I tried to cancel so they charged AGAIN for $.99 For every person scammed, they make $52 then send an email telling you "sorry"! They make a lot of money off of this scam.

Summary: I was scammed by this company as so many others. I had a one time need to translate a PDF form. Tried PDF Guru, and before showing me the result of the translation, I was asked to pay 1 Euro for a 7-day trial. Big letters about what I was opting in for, and only after the scam occurred to me did I go back and discovered how they have hidden the monthly subscription of 50 Euros per months in the footer text with nearly invisible font (grey and small, inside the typical terms and conditions that they know nobody reads!). Of course, nothing like a confirmation by email or anything else that would induce me to cancel within the 7 day window...

I contacted customer service within minutes of my card getting charged, and of course there's no refund. So clearly, this business is based in tricking people like me to click and pay for a one time need, and secretly lure them into a crazy subscription that no sane private person would accept.

Perhaps with mentioning: The translation I needed completely failed!

Positive: Nothing!
I used the service for a form translation, and I was asked to pay 1 Euro for a 7 day trial. Which I figured was ok, so I was dumb enough to do it. The result was piss poor, the "translated" version of my PDF was identical to the original form! No translation.

Negative: THIS IS A SCAM! They make you sign up for a 7 day trial, and in invisible font in the footer, it is hidden that they will charge you 50 Euros per month per the end of the trial. Once you sing up, there is no confirmation per email or other receipt that makes it clear they are scamming you. Stay away from this company! There are other options that don't screw you over.