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DO NOT USE THIS SITE, recurring £49 charge will come out of your account without notice every week. Luckily HSBC were bang on with noticing and I was able to cancel my card.
CON!! "Free" my backside. I was trying to convert a PDF document, and found this website. However unfortunately the site didn't convert anything for free, and took my card details, and ever sinc... See more
It is a scam. Pdf condenser did not work. I was desperate so I paid the 10c it charged me twice then a week later billed me $50 no way to log in and unsubscribe or get full refund DO NOT USE
It is a scam
It is a scam. Pdf condenser did not work. I was desperate so I paid the 10c it charged me twice then a week later billed me $50 no way to log in and unsubscribe or get full refund DO NOT USE
DO NOT USE this site
DO NOT USE this site - they will automatically take out £49.95 out of your account each month.
DO NOT USE THIS SITE
DO NOT USE THIS SITE, recurring £49 charge will come out of your account without notice every week. Luckily HSBC were bang on with noticing and I was able to cancel my card.
Fraudulent Money Grabbing MFs!!!
I Needed a PDF Compression for my job application, since the company's website didn't take resumees with over 1Mb in size. Googled PDF File compression. sent my resumee. they charged me € 0.10 for the compression. it wasn't a lot, so i paid it. Hadn't subscribed to anything or bought anything on their website. Woke up this morning, - € 49.90 from my bank account. That's theft - straight out of the dictionary definition.
PDFdirect is a scam website
PDFdirect is a scam website, they'll ask for your upfront fee for the conversion, which I had paid, however 24 hours after the transaction they charged me for a subscription I hadn't consented to and to unsubscribe they sent me an IP grab link. Don't trust these guys and export your image based work through Photoshop or Photopea to avoid dealing with this
FRAUD - Paid for a pdf compression
Paid for a pdf compression. Next day they tried to withdraw £49.90 TWICE!!! without authorisation.
Trying to take money every week 49.90£…
Trying to take money every week 49.90£ now I completely emptied the account hsbc saying they can’t do anything.
CON!
CON!! "Free" my backside.
I was trying to convert a PDF document, and found this website. However unfortunately the site didn't convert anything for free, and took my card details, and ever since has been trying to take out a subscription fee from me. Thankfully I bank with Monzo who successfully identified and blocked the payment. Ive emailed the support email address twice and had no response.
A pure money grabbing site that delivers F all
DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE
DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE
as others mentioned, it says free, then says it is 10 cents per page to compress. fine. Then the next day tried to charge me $70 australian dollars. Luckily my bank blocked it!
This company is a fraudulent company
This company is a fraudulent company. It asked me for 10p for reducing size of my passport photo,I paid. But after 24 hours they took £49.90 , without my consent, without letting me know what it was for. Total and utter fraudsters.
Scammers
Scammers.
Every few days they are trying to take money from my account.
Do not use
Initially charged me 0.10c but like…
Initially charged me 0.10c but like everyone else. I was charged $69aud 24 hours later. Scamming dogs! Avoid at all costs
Worst ever and they deduct money from…
Worst ever and they deduct money from my account without my consent I never had account on pdf direct and they deduct 50£ for membership when I tried to contact you there was no response.. So probably a Scam
FRAUD
Exactly the same experience as everyone, taking £49.50 (plus £0.1 charge) 24 hrs after using the site. I ensured I unsubscribed immediately after finishing using the site and took a screenshot for proof. I also received an email confirmation that I had unsubscribed on the day of use. Still they took £49.90.
Today I contacted my bank who agreed to refund the full amount. Coincidentally, today pdfdirect sent me an email saying that I didn't unsubscribe within 1 day and therefore layment was valid.....and then later today, received another email confirming that they fully refunding the money!!
I wouldn't recommend anyone to use them. Too much palaver!!and last 3 month still cut my account automatically. I use 16/10/25 next day cut 49.90e and again 17/11/25 and now 16/12/25 three time
it mean 49.90+49.90+49.90=149.70e
is it shit.....
FRAUD‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️STAY AWAY FROM THESE…
FRAUD‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️STAY AWAY FROM THESE SCAMMERS🚫❌
This is a criminal SCAM
This is a criminal SCAM
24 hours after paying €0.10 to compress a PDF file I was charged €49.90
Opportunist scam
Exactly the same experience as everyone, taking £49.50 (plus £0.1 charge) 24 hrs after using the site. I ensured I unsubscribed immediately after finishing using the site and took a screenshot for proof. I also received an email confirmation that I had unsubscribed on the day of use. Still they took £49.90.
Today I contacted my bank who agreed to refund the full amount. Coincidentally, today pdfdirect sent me an email saying that I didn't unsubscribe within 1 day and therefore layment was valid.....and then later today, received another email confirming that they fully refunding the mone!!
I wouldn't recommend anyone to use them. Too much palaver!!
‼️SCAMMERS‼️CONTACT BANK FOR REFUND
‼️SCAMMERS‼️ CONTACT BANK FOR REFUND IMMEDIATELY PEOPLE‼️
All of the reviews on here are true i have had the same issue apple paid 10p no subscription mentioned then i received email to say payment successful 10p + 49.90. i emailed immediately and said what is going on did not agree they fobbed me off telling me cancel subscription despite me telling them i didnt subscribe they ignored me for days so i went direct to bank and now the bank have pulled money back they want to email me offering 50% i refused and told them leave me alone. this is daylight robbery i mean if i subscribed it would show in apple subscriptions or on my bank subscriptions they are stupid scammers to be honest l. STAY CLEAR
LOOK AT MY PROFILE PICTURE IT IS A EMAIL TRYING TO DETER ME FROM REQUESTING REFUND THROUGH BANK with contradictions because i already got refunded by the bank so email is a joke as it clearly states at the end of email:
⚠️Please note: If you also submit a refund request with your bank at the same time, the order will be locked and we will not be able to process your refund.
what they really mean is the bank will BLOCK THEM from going back in your account, and they clearly had intention to charge again for fake subscription
DONT LISTEN TO THEM THE BANK HAVE TO REFUND YOIR MONEY emails are clear evidence of fraud.
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