Friends Reunited drops its £7.50 subscription fee

lannyloo

gentlepurr wrote: »

Ive been getting free messaging on genes reunited for 2/3 weeks now . thought it was a glitch, or just a free few days or something, but it makes sense now, reading about friends reu

hth

xx

Ive just checked out messages on genes reunited, it wont let me send without subscribing.

gentlepurr

lannyloo wrote: »

Ive just checked out messages on genes reunited, it wont let me send without subscribing.

hmm, the plot thickens then !

For anyone else, it might be worth a try, i can receive and send messages on genes reu, and definately have never paid any subs, perhaps im just lucky, or perhaps its a selective thing? either way, i never knew i had the facility until i tried to reply to someone and it worked...

xx

mintymoneysaver

Thankyou OP, just spent a happy evening messaging all those people who had hoped never to hear from me again!!!
I'm not a facebook person so this suits me down to the ground!

irisrose

Thanks I know that there is someone in Canada that I used to go to school with, so know I will send her a message it would be good to catch up.

srichards

Cool! Am very glad to hear of this!!

VIJAY_FROM_KENT

Friendsreunited's whole business model has been screwed up by the likes of Facebook, so they have had to make it free!

withabix

It's owned by ITV.com these days anyway.

dc

gentlepurr wrote: »

hmm, the plot thickens then !

For anyone else, it might be worth a try, i can receive and send messages on genes reu, and definately have never paid any subs, perhaps im just lucky, or perhaps its a selective thing? either way, i never knew i had the facility until i tried to reply to someone and it worked...

xx

AFAIK you (as a non-member) could receive messages from members and reply to them, but only once to their query. If you forgot something and tried to send an addendum, you would be immediately asked for your credit card details, to send the 2nd message. Well that is the way ITV worked it.

You could not originate a message, nor look at others trees even if they (member) gave you permission. However they could look at your tree if you had given permission, which is a bit mean imho.
Has this now changed??

janaltus

jockettuk wrote: »

it's now free to send a message on friends reunited. used to be you had to pay a fee but not anymore

www.friendsreunited.co.uk

This is brilliant! Thanks to your posting I checked and I had messages in my inbox dating back to 2005 and 2006 - that I hadn't/couldn't reply to. Now I can - for free. Let's hope the senders are still alive and kicking!:j

Teak

Anyone remember a long time ago when it first started, they sent an email offering a £5 life-time offer? They never honoured it and started charging £5/year.