Ancestry.com 2-day sale. World Deluxe Membership £79/yr (+ TAX ?) until 19th Jan.

Flimber

Be warned that there are horror stories about what happens when trying to cancel and there's no guarantee (or possibility ? !) that you'd get that price for subsequent years. Usual price is $350/yr.

This offer has just come through to me via email and I'm trying to work out how to post the link which I've been sent.

Back in a tick...

biglugs

Not sure about cancellations but my wife has dealt with them on the phone with no problems whatsoever, and the site itself is a godsend if you are seriously into family history.
We currently pay about £69 for the UK only membership so Worldwide for £79 is an absolute bargain.

Gabriel-Ernest

This isn't showing up in the special pricing on either ancestry.co.uk or ancesry.com; Annual World Deluxe is showing as £199.95. If it turns out to be genuine, I'll certainly consider it.

Flimber

The link appears to be unique to me but I'm trying to jabberwongle it so it works generally. Will post back ASAIC.

Flimber

Gabriel-Ernest wrote:

This isn't showing up in the special pricing on either ancestry.co.uk or ancesry.com; Annual World Deluxe is showing as £199.95. If it turns out to be genuine, I'll certainly consider it.

It is genuine. The offer is for World Deluxe Membership at $155.40 and according to the small print that is an annually recurring price but when I go through to checkout they're also adding $27 for an unspecified tax. Am just trying to get my head around it...

Gabriel-Ernest

I wonder why I can't see it then? I'm an Ancestry member but unfortunately I can't seem to see the offer you've highlighted. When I go through to checkout to upgrade, I'm only offered the prices I've quoted.

Flimber - are you in the UK? Don't American businesses sometimes add small taxes for residents of certain states?

Flimber

Gabriel-Ernest wrote:

I wonder why I can't see it then? I'm an Ancestry member but unfortunately I can't seem to see the offer you've highlighted. When I go through to checkout to upgrade, I'm only offered the prices I've quoted.

Flimber - are you in the UK? Don't American businesses sometimes add small taxes for residents of certain states?

I'm in Yorkshire. Have just been on a live help session with Ancestry and they say that they have to charge VAT on all sales for "internet services" at the rate of the originating country. Hmmm...is that correct ? They're not based in the UK and you have to wonder if a Utah-based company is really going to write a yearly cheque to Her Majesty to the value of 17.5% of every UK order.
So, all in it's £92 and they said I can post the link :j

Mike.

Flimber

Hope this helps someone anyway. Am just going out. Can someone look into the Tax thing ? Are Ancestry.com acting lawfully ?

tlck9

I forgot the date that my trial ended and they had debited my account, I rang and told them I wasnt sure about using the service and they gave me a full refund, no problems, in fact got a email nearly immediately to say the cancellation number was x and it would take up to 7 days.

May be worth joing if they've got special offers, the other one I like is 1837.com, think its changed its name though now to find my relatives or something like that, but wow the cost

inkie

Prompt cancellation for me with ancestry. Would recommend

Babylonian_2

Amost on topic - on 16 Jan ONS announced the closure of the Family Records Centre and the transference of the BMD indexes online, probably by April 2008.

The current indexes are free to look at at the Centre, so here's hoping they remain so when put online
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/16012007/344/family-records-archive-online.html