Getting a refund for subscribing twice by mistake

I’ve been trying to get CCleaner to respond to me for the past 2 days having first been in contact with them on 27/2. The details are below: please can someone sort this out or contact me.

11/3/2026 Called at 14:00 Your case ID: 24514313 – cancelled at 16:15

10/3/2026 Called at 15:05 Your case ID: 24514313 – cancelled at 15:30

On 27/2/2026 I contacted CCleaner via an online chat and texted with someone called Jennifer with this explanation of what happened and the details of the two transactions - I’ve included them again below. I said my query was about having inadvertently bought 2 licences for CCleaner as your browser doesn’t support credit card verification but relies on a subsequent email to verify payment. I explained that it was a mix-up by me but that I am only using the paid-for version on one laptop and asked for a refund. Jennifer said she’d pass my query onto an engineer who would call me. I waited and after a while I asked how long the engineer would be and she said “Between 2 and 5 minutes”. After 15 minutes I asked again and again a few minutes later and again … Eventually an engineer called James McCahaul called and asked me what the problem was. I said that I’d already typed it in to Jennifer and he could get them from there. He insisted on me talking through the problem again which I did and he eventually said he’d contact someone in Sales (it might have been Billing, I can’t remember) who would arrange a refund “within 48 hours of receiving the request”. Because this happened on a Friday I thought the request might not have been seen until the Monday so I waited all last week for the refund to appear in my bank account but it didn’t. Again avoiding the weekend I have left it until now to contact you again. I would like to speak to someone about having this matter resolved quickly now.

Thanks, Tony Cornah

Payment information

Your credit card (xxxxxxxxxxxxx5510) has been successfully authorized. Please note that the charge on your credit card will appear as “CBA*CCleaner Piriform.”

Your products

Qty. Product name Delivery

1

CCleaner Professional

1 Year, 1 home PC Professional subscription, billed annually

           electronic

Your CCleaner Professional registration details are below. Please use these to activate the Pro features:

License Key: {Removed by mod}

You will need to enter the license key into CCleaner exactly as shown above.

Please use copy and paste to enter the details in the registration box. heCCleaner

Your Cleverbridge reference number: {Removed by mod}

Payment information

Your credit card (xxxxxxxxxxxxx5510) has been successfully authorized. Please note that the charge on your credit card will appear as “CBA*CCleaner Piriform.”

Your products

Qty.

Product name

Delivery

1

CCleaner Professional

1 Year, 1 home PC Professional subscription, billed annually

electronic

Your CCleaner Professional registration details are below. Please use these to activate the Pro features:

 License Key: {Removed by mod}
 
 You will need to enter the license key into CCleaner exactly as shown     above.
 Please use **copy and paste** to enter the details in the registration     box. 

Your Cleverbridge reference number: {Removed by mod}

Payment information

Your credit card (xxxxxxxxxxxxx5510) has been successfully authorized. Please note that the charge on your credit card will appear as “CBA*CCleaner Piriform.”

Your products

Qty.

Product name

Delivery

1

CCleaner Professional

1 Year, 1 home PC Professional subscription, billed annually

electronic

Your CCleaner Professional registration details are below. Please use these to activate the Pro features:

 License Key: {Removed by mod}
 
 You will need to enter the license key into CCleaner exactly as shown     above.
 Please use **copy and paste** to enter the details in the registration     box.

Multiple licence keys and Cleverbridge ref’s removed for security.

@Laurence_CCleaner should be along tomorrow to help with this query.

Hi @polytone,
Sorry, you are experiencing this issue.
I am only able to find support request 24514313, and based on your description of the interaction, I don’t believe the person you spoke to, Jennifer or James McCahaul, represents CCleaner, as we don’t offer telephone support. May I ask how you contacted them?
I have sent you a DM to follow up on your purchase refund request.

Hi Laurence, Reading your reply and the other email you sent me:

  • Please retry to contact our live support team via the Contact Us form on the CCleaner Help Centre.
    If you are connected to the virtual agent, please request that you be transferred to a live agent.
    If you have any issues, please message me back so I can investigate this issue further.

I realise that “Jennifer” must have been the virtual agent you refer to. From there I was passed to James McCahaul who promised me the refund.

As you are a member of CCleaner staff and have all the details of my two payments is there any reason why you can’t now arrange the refund for me. It will save me time at my end - waiting to get through and then explaining everything for the fourth time - and it will save one of your staff’s time in checking my case before acting on it.

Thanks for your 2 replies and your help but I really think that I have given CCleaner everything you need to sort this out.

Sorry, I didn’t say in the last message that my original contact on 27/2 (and my 2 failed-with-long-wait ones) were all via your suggested method “via the Contact Us form on the CCleaner Help Centre“

@polytone, the CCleaner virtual agent is called Kate, and I am not aware of anybody in the company called James McCahaul, so I don’t think these people represent CCleaner.
Please could you let me know how you contacted these people os I can investigate this further.
Unfortunately, I don’t have access to process refunds. I just assist people on the forum.
Contacting the live support team via the Contact Us form on the CCleaner Help Centre is the best way to get your refund processed.
Sorry, I am not able to help you directly with your refund.

Hi Laurence, and thanks for your help. I will (when I have some spare time to wait for a reply) contact the CCleaner help centre.

I thought that that was what I’d done on 27/2 but when you said that it doesn’t seem possible I tried to check my browsing history but … I’d used CCleaner at the beginning of March - I do so at the start of each month - and so I don’t have a record of websites I visited. The only thing I can think of is that I cpntacted the Cleverbridge help page. I remember that it looked a lot like CCleaner’s initial help contact page. If it helps I do have th number that the engineer called me back on: +1 (231) 936-8225 and the info on my phone says “Scottville, MI United States”

Thanks again for your help, Tony

Hi Laurence, I tried again today to get through to the Help Centre and again gave up after 2 hours. SO I have tried 3 times and waited 45 minutes, 2 hours and 2 hours. Do you have a suggestion as to how I can get through or whether there is a mechanism for CCleaner to be asked to deal with a particular case - case 24514313 for mine - given that they have all the details. WHile I am waqiting I get the following diplay in my browser:

Thanks for this screenshot @polytone, I have sent this to our chat team to investigate, as chat should initiate instantly.
Have you tried a different browser?
I have escalated case 24514313 to our senior team to follow up on.

Hi Laurence, I just sorted it by using Edge instead of Firefox, which is my default browser for following links. Th chat did initiate almost instantly and I was thrugh to an engineer within minutes and they have initiated a refund.

If you want further information to assist the team investigating the chat please ask and please let me know if there are settings I should have different values for - I already allowed automatic popups when trying to access chat

Many thanks for your help and patience.

Take care, Tony

Thanks for this update @polytone, I am glad to hear you were able to connect with the support team and get the issue resolved.
I will follow up if I need more details on the chat initiation issue.
If you have any questions, please let me know.