My subscription to MyHeritage ran out a couple of months ago. I usually cancel the automatic renewal of subscription option because I don't want to pay the full price to renew. Within a couple of days I was phoned by a pushy marketer from Israel offering me a piddly discount off the full price of the $AU349 to renew. This has been followed up over the intervening weeks with several emails offering other smallish discounts. On the last occasion my renewal was due I hung out for a discount of around 50% before I renewed. I renew when the price represents reasonable value to me.
I only use MyHeritage for DNA Matches and Searching for Records. I totally ignore the other features like photo enhancement and others' online trees. Without a subscription I can still see my DNA matches and access from home the subscriptions from a genealogy society and public library to which I belong to explore the records on MyHeritage.
A full subscription of MyHeritage is not worth $AU349 to me. It is a nice to have but not a must have subscription. Recently there was a discount of around 50% offered to Rootsmagic users which I was going to take up but I missed the closing date. Currently there is a discount offer of around 50% through the Family History Federation which I have been considering.
I like to have a basic tree on MyHeritage to make it easy for DNA matches to work out how we might relate but one of the emails I received from MyHeritage recently told me my tree was too large and I would have to renew to keep my tree in the site. I also received an offer on 12th August to renew at up to 49% discount. I ignored that offer and put in a request for my tree to be removed and received confirmation that this would happen in the next few days.
You'll never guess what was in my email box this morning.
Awesome discount! Patience has its reward. A friend of mine buys herself a gift subscription (ok according to their website) & gets a great discount that way.
ReplyDeleteSmart idea, I'll remember that one, Janelle.
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