Scholastic Book Clubs Reviews

Name: Scholastic Book Clubs
Address: Scholastic Ltd Windrush Park Range Road Witney, OXON
Rating: 1.10

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About Scholastic Book Clubs:

Our Book Fairs and Book Clubs offer schools the chance to earn Scholastic Rewards whilst encouraging pupils to get excited about books and reading. Scholastic Book Clubs is a trusted brand with schools and parents. We offer the best in children’s books at great prices starting at just £1.99. For every £1 spent we give 20p to the school of the customer’s choice to spend on books.

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Scholastic Book Clubs 1 star review on 28th September 2022

Kassie

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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“I looked at the Scholastic Book Club flyer that my grandkids brought home...There were very few, if any, books that I would buy for them. I am so disappointed with the selection of books and the price is way too high. My daughters also agree.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“The app and the website are extremely hard to use. Very confusing and hard to navigate through. Puts me off buying books at all!”

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Posted 1 year ago

“I’ve been a customer since 2001. Over the last few years I have observed how the quality of the books offered has decreased significantly while the prices have steadily increased. Gone are the $1.00 books. The parents of my students cannot afford the outrageous prices. Book order forms are filled with poor literature. Many of the books are tied to movies or cartoons. Where are the Newberry and Caldecott books? On the rare occasions that I do have parents submit an order, which allows me to earn $10 of free books, it’s a struggle to find one that I want in my classroom. Now Scholastic is pushing teachers to campaign and raise funds- asking more from parents and others- to purchase books. This company is disgusting and has clearly demonstrated that they do not care about children.”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Books like five nights of Freddy should not be available to our children they are not educational and the fantasy story telling is undermining our Children’s beliefs and giving them the wrong imaginations of wickedness it’s filth take it Down”

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Posted 1 year ago

“Run away from Scholastic Book Clubs... run, run as fast as you can. These folks are rude, their accounting department double charges, and then only offers a credit for more purchases on the overcharges (no refunds!), and they take months (and months!) to send out orders. I regret the day I ever heard of this company. Ugh.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“I have stopped ordering from the Scholastic Book Club, because they have REPEATEDLY failed to deliver my orders. Their customer service is appalling; they always refer me to the school and of course the school staff help as much as they can, but it’s not their responsibility to chase up these orders. Now I purchase the books my kids want from elsewhere.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“HORRIBLE!!! STAY AWAY!!!! Placed order March 2022, check cashed April 2022, it's now July - and NOTHING! Followed up June 1st and was promised a check would be mailed. Called again July 12th & same story check will be processed. SCAMMERS!!!”

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Posted 2 years ago

“I have been a customer since 2001 and have never had issues like I did this past school year. Every month I had to deal with missing books, delayed orders, wrong item sent, etc. Teachers don't have time during their recesses to deal with customer service, requesting for their mistakes to be fixed. I also had an outstanding balance, which I know was not my mistake but probably a charge for a missing book they sent separately. Totally frustrating to deal with......”

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Posted 2 years ago

“At the beginning of the year Scholastic was sending our teacher orders to the wrong address. After countless hours on the phone, it was still not resolved. I ended up having to physically go and pick up the books myself. On top of that, my order included books I did not order. I only placed one more order after that, which was placed at the end of the year and I had them sent to my home address. The order I placed was for a set of 10 books of the same title to give as gifts. When I received the books, I noticed on the first page a boy was saying that they hates school.😩 On the second page, the child said they hate another classmate. This is not something I wanted my first graders to read. I called Scholastic and they said I could return them but I would have to pay the shipping. I indicated to customer service my dissatisfaction and said I probably won’t be ordering anymore and she said “ok”. Not I’m sorry this happened or let me try to make things better. I have been ordering from Scholastic for over 15 years and I have never had this much trouble. I doubt I will be placing any orders very soon.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“I ordered my sons books in September (Halloween/fall books) and we did not get them until December. The books were paid for at the time of ordering them. Now it is April (seven months after ordering) and they are saying I owe for the books. I’m definitely not troubling myself with this absurdity and we won’t be ordering from scholastic book fairs ever again. The books are over-priced anyway.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“Lousy customer service!”

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Posted 2 years ago

“Overcharged several months after placing multiple orders similar to other reviews. Company refuses to return phone calls or respond to emails. Considering forming class action suit as it seems this is intentional given their lack of response.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“This company has gone completely down the toilet. I have been a member since 2006 and ordered all the time. A few years ago some of my colleagues started have issues with Scholastic saying they didn't receive part of the checks sent. When they tried this with me, I had made a copy of the order and all of the checks that were mailed together. They didn't charge me further. I now have an order that has been "In process" since January. I have e-mailed 3 times and have gotten a zero response. I do not have time to hold on the phone for an hour while trying to teach. They were already losing business to tablets and I pads, but if this is how they are conducting themselves now, they will be out of business soon.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“Horrible company. They refuse to refund my 9 year old daughter's money after they said they would. She attended one of their book fairs but put way too much money in her eWallet account. After countless calls including being kept on hold for OVER AN HOUR they said the best they can do is a gift certificate to buy more of their books. They are keeping her money. If you ever buy from this company which I DO NOT recommend at all, definitely do NOT use their "e-wallet" account because you can kiss your money goodbye. Next time I will go to Barnes and Noble. Also I did not get a refund it's impossible to get a refund, so the form below asking me "how easy it was to get a refund" is completely pointless, just like buying books from them.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“Delayed shipping books for two months due to china delays. Has been constantly removing money from my bank account for the books for four months. Today they took out another 480 for I don't know what.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“Ordered books 9/2021 did not receive them until 11/2021 after trying to contact customer service multiple times and no answer. I paid for books at the time I ordered like I do everything on the internet. Received an email last week saying my card would now be charged for the books 6 months later!!! Do not order from this company. Now I am told to return the books my daughters have been enjoying for 6 months. What kind of heartless company is this? Some people are on a budget ridiculous. Never giving money to them for bookfair or online orders again. Very disappointing.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“Teachers beware: If a family orders an item that doesn't meet Scholastic's requirements for free shipping, the company charges YOU, the educator, for the shipping costs. Personally, I think this is absolutely shameful. Before you enter orders online or send in flyer orders, be sure they're not going to charge you out of pocket for the shipping!”

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Posted 2 years ago

“I order my kiddos books clear back November 6th and just no receiving an email almost 3 months later stating they only book partial of the payment and they are gonna be taking the rest out of my account..... That is not okay. Yes i have the money to pay for my books I received but not everyone will and at a time in my life i wouldnt of had the money to pay the rest. What if they took my bill money??? and then have to hear we are so sorry it was our systems fault????? How does that become my fault??? The company should of lost out.... NOT THE CUSTOMER almost 3 months after GET REAL...”

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Posted 2 years ago

“I find it odd how scholastic charges there customers. I placed an order back in early October. Received those books sometime in November and have just now been charged for them, 3 months later?! I swear I was already charged for them. The way the charge customers and ship the items is not matching up. I feel like I was scammed into something here. We will not be using scholastic book club again. How can you charge someone for something they already were charged for and have had for months or weeks already. Just take the initial charge and keep it! Don’t do a customary charge, disappear that and than charge when you feel necessary.”

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Posted 2 years ago

“I have been ordering from Scholastic for years, but this year takes the cake! I had orders taking 2+ months to arrive. I also had a pending balance on my account randomly. I tried to inquire about it, checked my account information, tried chatting, calling, emailing, with no help. I finally get ahold of someone and they say that it will resolve itself and go away in a short while. I wait and wait and nothing changes. I try to email and chat again. No responses. I just chatted today and they are trying to say now that it is my bank's fault. I asked them why I wasn't told this before and they could not provide me with answers. BUT apparently my bank account will work just fine to pay off the balance they claim that I owe, but just not my orginial order? Make it make sense Scholastic!”

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Posted 2 years ago

Scholastic Book Clubs is rated 1.1 based on 48 reviews