General Chat

JUST SEEN ON TIPS FROM APRIL GRO CERTS
£7 TO A WHOPPIN £9.95

IN THESE TIMES ITS DISGUSTING INCREASE

Yes, it's steep



...................... but the price hasn't changed since I ordered my first certificate from them back in 2004


so it was about time for an increase.


Maybe they should have made smaller increases years ago, then we wouldn't all feel so mad about it.




sylvia

Geneaology is a lucrative business so another way (snide) to get money for the government. About 42% increase
Pat

it might of gone up but we will still pay it

we have no choice and they know it

I wonder if that's the true meaning of April fools day. Everything goes up then, new income tax year, Council tax etc in other words make the fools pay more LOL.

Pat

i think a £3 increase is disgusting! and it should have gone up slowly over the years, xx

At Leeds City Council Register Office the Certs went up last November to £10 if you want to collect the certs,but people can phone or post a request for a cert and still pay the £7.

They tried to tell me it is Administration fees, Yeah right,,,,They still have to doe the same search on the index and type the cert out and post the cert.

While I was there the other week another woman tried to tell a guy that the price had gone up because they had broke away from the GRO in Southport.
What a load of C**p they are just making more money for Leeds City Council..

look at it another way, its the cost , for a piece of our personal history, for the same price as 2 packs of cigarettes, 2 bottles of wine, between 2 and 3 takeaways from McDs... If it had gone up more slowly over the last couple of years it would perhaps have been better, and I know it is frustrating when you can't afford...but it is a 'hobby' not an essential, even if it often seems the other way round lol.

£10 to find out who your gt gt granddad was doesn't seem too much to me?

£9.25. That's about 32%.

Well, they will have a rush of applications during March to deal with ...

I bought my first cert from GRO in about 2000/01 at £7 so an increase is probably well overdue.

Just means that you will only get 3 certs for what was the price of 4 certs.

Assume it means that the service will be improved / speeded up? LOL

Jill

Are you also aware that all these certificates are printed on specialised security paper (made by De La Rue if you want to research that), which is not cheap by any means.

Genealogy has increased in popularity over the last 10 years, and with the extra staff no doubt needed, the cost of keeping the original record in tip-top condition, which involves the use of electricity, the price of which has gone up year on year during this time, and the administration required to keep these documents available to the public generally, with a fast turn-over, all costing money, lots of it. If they have to raise their prices once every seven year, then who are we to quibble about it.

As Rose said, it's a hobby, not an essential. But it takes 'essentials' such as electricity and man-power to keep them available.

Yes it's a large jump, but it's not as though that price has risen every year is it? So 32% price rise over SEVEN years, is not really that bad.

I agree with you Rambling Rose and TeresaW,

£10 for a cert is a fair price considering the information you get off them.
£10 not a lot.

i am so glad i have most of mine already


special paper
i would of settled for a photo copy at a fraction of the price

but on saying that what can you buy for a tenner

If you remember the minimum wage - if they haven't been given the exact reference it must be at least an hour's work to process any of our requests and get the copied certificates back to us - before adding on the office overheads. I'm not saying its easy for us to accept!

I'm just relieved that I have the majority of my certs now...it's pre 1837 I'm tackling on most of my lines now .

If it hasn't gone up for so long then I guess there's a fair case to make for an increase... xx

I agree Budgie and am glad we've got away with out a price increase in the last 7+ years. I've still got 100s I could do with buying:)

Its good value really,

£9-95,,cert,envelope,stamp,man power to get it all together,,,,,

The thing is they don't have to justify it do they? They could justa s easily take the facility away and say only next of kin can apply for certificates or something. I don't think it is too bad, it is the shock of the leap from £7 to £9.95

Like it or not, it is still a legal document...and a cheap one at that.

Check out Australian prices for BDM certificates and you will see why we are so pleased our ancestors were born in your neck of the woods.

We pay double and more for all certificates. Our transcripts cost the same as your certificates.

I bought an Irish marriage certificate recently. It had taken me years to track them down, they were my husband's maternal grandparents.

I had the option of a photocopy for just 6 euros. I don't need special paper, just the information.