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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Ellenmai on Friday 19 January 24 14:29 GMT (UK)
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I have had a bit of a shock at this years subscription price for Find My Past, the Pro package has gone up to £184.99. They are offering a 15% reduction for auto renew, but that still seems a lot more than I have paid before. Has anyone else renewed recently ?
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Mine is due at the end of March and is the same as last year - £169.99, including discount.
In 2022 it was £135.99 for same package (Premium).
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Yes, £169.99 in December, the same as the year before. Both supposedly include the 15% auto-renewal discount, but I make £169.99 an 8.1% reduction on £184.99, although it is exactly £15 less.
Ah! I'm on a premium sub with a pre-discount price of £199.99, so that explains it. I thought I'd been robbed for a moment :(
It's been the same for the last two renewals though. I'm not aware of any way to get any further reductions though, unless renewal happens to coincide with one of their special offers, in which case I once previously cancelled my subscription and purchased the offer as a "new" customer.
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Thanks for your replies Gadget & Phil it appears they are offering all sorts of prices to different people. Two other people I know who have subscribed recently had different quotes to the ones mentioned here. Think I will give them a call & see what they offer.
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My subscription expired late November after I cancelled auto-renew. I have just renewed my 12 months Premium subscription with a 40% discount after receiving an e-mail with that offer. It stated the offer was available until 31st January so might be worth a call to anyone wanting to renew to see if they can also get the same discounted price.
justmej
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Mine expired 9 Dec 2023. There has been a yellow banner offering me 20% off for a week or two when I logon as I have still being doing some searches, but today it was blue and 40% and I paid.
Come back today and get 40% off! Exclusive to lapsed customers.
Was available on all selections monthly, 3 monthly, or annually.
12-month subscription: Plus £81. Pro £111. Premium £120 (instead of £200), all less a penny.
I didn't get an email, maybe I would have.
If you don't auto-renew there is a 30 day grace period when can still avail of the 15% standard offer eg if happy to take a short break and catch up on other things. T&C. 4. Subscriptions.
"If you allow your 12-month Subscription to lapse but then renew it within 30 days of lapse, you will still receive the Discount."
The 20% banner offer came after that then the 40%. Whether that happens always or is co-incidental I don't know.
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By coincidence, I just renewed on the 40% discount offer, and came to make a new thread about it.
I'll just add to this one.
My old sub expired 27 Nov 2023.
(Screen shot of offer and subsequent prices attached)
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Good to hear others have also renewed with the 40% discount offer. I have never auto-renewed my subscription, always cancelling the option, and find by waiting over the usual 30 days then a better deal is offered to me... I've never paid their full advertised prices since my original subscription a good few years ago, which back then was a half-price offer! This subscription discount matches others I've had in previous years. It works well for me as I can find plenty to keep me busy until that better offer comes along. I may have received their recent offer, via e-mail, as I had not logged into FindMyPast for a while since my sub expired on 27th November.
justmej
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By coincidence, I just renewed on the 40% discount offer, and came to make a new thread about it.
I'll just add to this one.
My old sub expired 27 Nov 2023.
Ditto, I’ve just renewed on the 40% discount offer :)
My old sub also expired 27 Nov 2023
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By coincidence, I just renewed on the 40% discount offer, and came to make a new thread about it.
I'll just add to this one.
My old sub expired 27 Nov 2023.
Ditto, I’ve just renewed on the 40% discount offer :)
My old sub also expired 27 Nov 2023
Sounds like they may have a 2 months window for "lapsed" status.
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I complained to FindMyPast about the unfairness of giving 40% discounts to recently lapsed customers, while only giving 15% to loyal customers on auto renewal. In response they have offered me 40% off my next renewal.
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I complained to FindMyPast about the unfairness of giving 40% discounts to recently lapsed customers, while only giving 15% to loyal customers on auto renewal. In response they have offered me 40% off my next renewal.
TBH I think they are all desperate to keep us. Yesterday I cancelled MyHeritage so it didn't autorenew on 14 June and was immediately offered a 60% discount to continue; I didn't take them up on it.
I recommend that no one lets any susbscription site autorenew.
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You've done pretty well to get 60% off MyHeritage that quickly. I cancelled my sub in the middle of December last. First offer was I think 15% off, and I was invited to renew at 32% off yesterday. Still sitting on the sidelines though, as the subscription that I've just let lapse was taken out at 75% off (Complete sub for £57) after cancelling and ignoring other offers for 6 months.
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Wow - 40% off!!! :o
I subscribed to FindMyPast for the first time on Black Friday (i.e. Nov 2023) and, with a 25% discount, the Premium sub cost £149.99.
Everything I'd seen online up until then suggested that's when they gave the best discount, and it's been ages since I last saw them give more than 25% off (if I ever did).
The discount I received was, I guess, the best available to non-subscribers (and I was quite pleased with it)...but now I'm a subscriber, the information in this thread will hopefully prove very useful.
So my thanks to everyone that contributed - I now have a plan for next time! ;D
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40% is good going, the misers at FindMyPast only offer a token discount when I rang them as a new potential subscriber.
My Heritage, not worth a bag of peanuts after one has had a month Subscription.
Ancestry at £89.99 for Worldwide is IMO still the best value.
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40% is good going, the misers at FindMyPast only offer a token discount when I rang them as a new potential subscriber.
My Heritage, not worth a bag of peanuts after one has had a month Subscription.
Ancestry at £89.99 for Worldwide is IMO still the best value.
Yes - but I need(1) access to the BNA, so I either need a FindMyPast sub or a BNA sub.
BNA for a year is £100, so FindMyPast Premium for only 20 quid more is an easy choice.
(1) "would be much less happy without"
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Thank you all very much for passing on your information. I contacted FindMyPast & mentioned they had offered other subscribers 40% off & that I felt the 15% & then 25% off they had offered was unfair as I had been with FindMyPast for over 10 years. I got an email straight back offering 40% off & would I like to upgrade to Premium, so at that price I did ;D
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Thank you all very much for passing on your information. I contacted FindMyPast & mentioned they had offered other subscribers 40% off & that I felt the 15% & then 25% off they had offered was unfair as I had been with FindMyPast for over 10 years. I got an email straight back offering 40% off & would I like to upgrade to Premium, so at that price I did ;D
Glad you got a good deal ;)
Rosie
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Thank you all very much for passing on your information. I contacted FindMyPast & mentioned they had offered other subscribers 40% off & that I felt the 15% & then 25% off they had offered was unfair as I had been with FindMyPast for over 10 years. I got an email straight back offering 40% off & would I like to upgrade to Premium, so at that price I did ;D
Bingo! Well done, Ellenmai...great result...all's well that ends well. :)
theirchild
ADDED: Apologies...I obviously didn't use the 'Quote' facility correctly...the above quote is from Ellenmai at 14:31. (The second set of inverted commas/quote marks are missing too!)
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Thank you for your Good Wshes Rosie & theirchild ;D
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Sounds like they are finally coming to the realisation that it's better to have some of our money than none of our money ;D
Common sense should tell them that there comes a point where you can't make as much progress as before, and then it's hard to justify an annual sub.
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Sounds like they are finally coming to the realisation that it's better to have some of our money than none of our money ;D
Common sense should tell them that there comes a point where you can't make as much progress as before, and then it's hard to justify an annual sub.
Yes it's definitely the law of diminishing returns for me:
Ancestry:
- Very few new collections being added that are relevant to me;
- Updated collections are basically useless and are rarely (if ever) major updates (I don't think I've ever found anything in an updated collection that was missing before),
- Hardly any new high-cM DNA matches in the last year and most new matches have either unlinked trees, no trees at all or trees with only 1-3 persons and the owners probably received their DNA test as a Xmas present are are not in the least interested in Genealogy. Hardly any Common Ancestor links in the past year on any of the three trees I manage.
FindMyPast:
-Again very few new collections of interest to me;
- The 1921 census being included at Premium level was key for me.
MyHeritage:
-Very few collections of interest to me have actual documents available to view and I have no interest in transcriptions;
-The DNA tools were of some interest to me initially, especially AutoCluster, but most matches have proven difficult to tie down to actual family members.
My conclusions:
Ancestry: When my (50% discounted) 12-month Worldwide membership expired at the end of December I decided to take a year out, but did sign up for the 4-month premium membership for £20 offer (and immediately cancelled it to avoid an accidental autorenew). When that expires at the end of June I'll give it a rest for (at least) the rest of the year.
FindMyPast: I took up the 3-month Premium membership for £44.99 offer primarily to blitz the 1921 census, which I've done. I've found a few other useful bits and piieces, but not enough for a longer subscription. Cancelled immediately and won't renew in March when it expires.
MyHeritage: I signed up for a Complete Plan for one year after getting an offer for a 67% discount. In my opinion it's certainly not worth the full whack though. Cancelled and won't renew when it expires in June.
So by the middle of the year I'll be without any memberships for the first time since at least 2008.
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FindMyPast were not interested when I said to them that £100 for premium for a year was better than nothing, they were not interested. So I just took out the limited deal and blitzed the 1921 census, newspapers and add hoc records, then I had no further need for FindMyPast
Ancestry for £89.99 for a years worldwide is on borrowed time, its only high cM matches that keep us there.
One gets to the stage of diminishing returns with all Subscription sites.
I’m not really interested in spending hours researching a 10cM or less DNA match, I see very little value in that.
As my research will go to all my first Cousins in some ways going back to 1800 or as far as I could approaching said date will give each of them a pretty good starting point if their offsprings become interested.
So it becomes time to consolidate and write those stories, make the videos, catalogue all the images.
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I bit the bullet and got FindMyPast for the Newspapers and 1921.
I've found the interface/search for Newspapers not as fruitful as BNA. I'm really not sure why.
It's getting proper expensive now as I have Ancestry worldwide as well.
Does anyone know if you lapse Ancestry what access do you have for your tree?
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I took the 3 month Black Friday offer at 40% off.
When that expired they offered me another go at 20% off. I didn't respond.
Now they are offering me 30% off (for 3 or 12 months) but offer expires at midnight tonight. Email only came today.
What do you think are the chances of another 40% offer if I ignore this one?
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I took the 3 month Black Friday offer at 40% off.
When that expired they offered me another go at 20% off. I didn't respond.
Now they are offering me 30% off (for 3 or 12 months) but offer expires at midnight tonight. Email only came today.
What do you think are the chances of another 40% offer if I ignore this one?
Have a read here :) :)
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=881509.0
Sandra
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My sub ran out on April 1st and I'm doggedly hanging on to see if/when the 40% offer comes back.
I was offered 30% a week or two ago, but I think that was a general promo rather than for "lapsed" members.
Come on FindMyPast, you can do better than that.
When was the last time anyone got 50% off??
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For me it was c2017. Happy days. I'm a lapsed member, and just received a 20% discount offer to re-join. It was 30% a few months ago. Hmm.
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14/03/2025 I have a yearly full subscription runing till November this year. Yet they want me to pay for another version and I am stuck in a loop. Just e mailed them to ask why as there prices are getting ridiculous.
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I took the 3 month Black Friday offer at 40% off.
When that expired they offered me another go at 20% off. I didn't respond.
Now they are offering me 30% off (for 3 or 12 months) but offer expires at midnight tonight. Email only came today.
What do you think are the chances of another 40% offer if I ignore this one?
Well, it was worth waiting a year because last month they offered me 12 months Everything sub for £99.99, so half price.
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I took the 3 month Black Friday offer at 40% off.
When that expired they offered me another go at 20% off. I didn't respond.
Now they are offering me 30% off (for 3 or 12 months) but offer expires at midnight tonight. Email only came today.
What do you think are the chances of another 40% offer if I ignore this one?
Well, it was worth waiting a year because last month they offered me 12 months Everything sub for £99.99, so half price.
That is a good price for FindMyPast.
Mine is set not to renew in late June so lets see what happens.
Have to say though that apart from the 1921 census and Newspapers I find Ancestry vastly better but as I have had to have my DNA tested to help solve Brickwalls then FindMyPast would never has been useful for me in my own case because of its lack of this feature.
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I like both sites. Sometimes when I google Ancestry for individual Australian or American databases I get that stupid message pop up saying "We recommend you go to Ancestry.co.uk" due to being in the UK but I always still click for the US or Australian versions. I can use their index of databases but for me sometimes it is quicker to google them.
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I stopped the auto renewal for my annual subscription to FindMyPast in March. On 8th April, as expected, my access to their files came to an end. Today (11 April) I received an email offering me 50% discount so I have now renewed for a year's "Everything" for £99.99 rather than the standard cost of £199.99.
A point to note - when I tried to renew by clicking on the link they provided with the email and then filling in my email and password it would not let me as my password does not conform with their latest rules - not enough different types of Numbers, Upper case and Lower case letters and Special characters.
To get round this I did not use the link but just logged on as normal. So to avoid this minor hassle you may want to (before your sub runs out) update your password to fit the new requirements. 8 characters or more long and at least 3 types of Number, Uppercase, Lowercase, Special Character if i remember right.
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Today (11 April) I received an email offering me 50% discount so I have now renewed for a year's "Everything" for £99.99 rather than the standard cost of £199.99.
I got this offer too, via a British Newspaper Archive email.
"Use code VEDAY30 to save 30% on 1, 3 or 6-month subscriptions, or VEDAY50 to save 50% on a 12-month Everything subscription."
"Terms & Conditions: Offer applies to Findmypast subscriptions only. Get 50% off a 12-month Everything subscription with code VEDAY50, or 30% off 1, 3, or 6-month subscriptions with code VEDAY30. Valid until 23:59 BST on 22 April. The discount is only valid for customers who received this email, can be used once per user, and requires a valid payment method. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renewal is turned off in your account settings. Not valid for subscriptions purchased via the Findmypast app."
Worth a try.