Friends Reunited drops its £7.50 subscription fee

krish

surprised folks still use FR, let alone pay to subscribe to it

its a clunky old site now, owned by a company known for crap TV and telephone fraud; I de-subscribed my free subscription ages ago

a certain other site will do for now, simple, free and, as long as you're sensible with the privacy settings (and SET THEM STRAIGHT AWAY), works like a treat

dangleberry

I was only logged on a couple of weeks ago to retrieve a message, but I've tried today and I get a request to "revalidate my email address"
it's been more than 30 minutes so far and no validation code. I've checked both inbox and junk and the email address is definitely correct.
Did anyone else have to "revalidate" and how long did you have to wait?
:mad:

Doc_N

Making it free is the only way to revive this site. All the rage a few years ago, but hardly anybody uses it anymore (apart from a few over 50s).

justintrick

Yep, they charged a fair amount in order to contact old school friends! If social networking websites incorporate 'family tracing' functionality, Genes Reunited will have to stop charging.

MoKa_2

I was happy to pay the £5 per year charge as my schooling was split between England and Scotland and there were quite a few friends I'd lost touch with.

Got that out of my system and then just popped in occasionally to see what they'd done to the site.

I noticed on my last payment that it was £7.50 but had a niggly feeling it hadn't been a year since my last payment. Too bad I didn't listen to my 'moneysaving' intuition and investigate at that point, as the 'twice yearly' charging totally passed me by (ie, I'd been paying three times the amount per year than I originally signed up for, and hadn't even noticed). Baaaaadd moneysaver!

Being a 'glass-half-full' kinda gal, I'm going to have to go with the 'now I'm saving three times as much as I originally signed up to pay' mindset.

:rotfl:

I did have a Genes Reunited account way back when it was free to set up (or maybe I paid another £5.. sheesh - I should check) but in any case, I don't seem to have that account any more so it must have lapsed.

royeee

SqueakyRat wrote: »

I recently paid a subscription !!! :mad:
Wonder if they'll give me it back

Me too (drat!), let me know if/how you get it back.

poppy10_2

LOOOL, who uses Friends Reunited these days? It's so 90s!

seaglimpses

I am going to request a refund too - you can't sell something and then say - oh, now its free!! Using Friends Reunited I have only got into contact with a couple of people from school - using Facebook I have got in touch with loads so wasn't worth the money anyway! ::rolleyes2

kittykong

I recently joined friends too & paid the £7.50 after reading this I sent an email & they are gonna refund my £7.50 "as a gesture of goodwill" get on the cart before its too late !!!! ACT NOW ...................

rizla01

uh Oh!


Now watch the divorce rate rise.:)