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.
2 comments:
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.
Smart idea, I'll remember that one, Janelle.
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