General Chat

There are other sighs that offer so much more and as such are better value for money.

This sight does not seem to work as well as it used too.

The Gen.....st is currently £120 and Worldwide is £155. I expect they will increase a lot between now and 2018. Think I remember having to buy vouchers to access some sites on A...y even though I subscribed at highest level

So I don't think £150 fixed for 5 years is so daft a suggestion for "Access all Areas" - if areas are a bit more exciting than now :-) But pricing does need to be clear and not the confusing mess it is now.

John I got 20% discount with Ancestry and FMP 10% discount

I do not have platinum infact I did'nt pay for my standard sub I have at the moment it was a free month they gave me a couple of weeks ago...when it expires on the 25th I will probably leave this site as they now want me to pay £12 for 6 months...where as 3 weeks ago it was £7.98 ish

Apologies to John, I misread the subscription charge for Platinum earlier.

£159.36 is the sum to be saved if subscribed for one year rather than on a monthly plan of £19.95 per month.

Joeva. Yes, I fully understood your point. I was just agreeing with Island's point about huge variation of costs. As can be seen from Jax's post. I am paying a lot lot more than her for worldwide A....y, for example. :-S And she is paying half price for Platinum, it appears. Very confusing :-S

A years Platinum is £80 plus extra for newpapers, parish records ect

I have full FMP for just under £100 a year which is adding new stuff all the time at no extra cost

World wide Ancestry for £125 and again new records added on a regular basis

My Suggestion for names
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Free (Tree and boards)

Basic (as per platinum now)

Full (to include all records)

Did you read my post correctly John, I was pointing out that the Platinum subscription ion GR is already more than the £150.00 in your suggested costs. :-S

Joeva. I think it is right to charge a lot of money for free access to all records - if records are a bit different to competitors. I just agree with Island that pricing needs to be clear and fair.

If it was £150, that means we could subscribe to 3 major sites at top level for just over £400 pa. When I started doing genealogy, I was spending more than that on petrol alone to get to record offices and graveyards. :-)

£150.00 as John suggested is too much ?

Reading the current subscriptions for Platinum it is £159.36 per year on GR :-S

Reading through this thread which asked a specific question, we now know why Genes normally lock their threads :-D

John, you 'just picked on one detail' of what I posted so stop lording it over others.

150 quid? Don't be silly.

I think they need to have all of the so called add ons included for the Platium members it just stupid as it is now.
You have the free basic members, then there's the ones who pay a reasonable amount depending on when they joined etc and they have some access and then there's the Platium members and then there's the Platium members who pay extra for add ons.
The foolish ones are the ones who just buy credits sorry folks but you're wasting your money buy a 6 month membership, credits go like money in a teenagers pocket.
Stop worrying about what you call the membership and start to provide a good service every day...stop messing around with it every 5 mins.

I don't think it particularly matters whether you call it 'basic' or 'standard' or 'here to chat' or ANYTHING else. What DOES matter is that new members KNOW what they are paying for.

I've noticed a fair number of Newbies posting in the last few months who have assumed ( ie it wasn't perhaps made clear enough) that they can access all records for their standard payment .

Also I think the FB page team need to be much more pro-active with the people who post on there looking for directions..... each one is a potential payer! and it really has been left to regulars to tell them where to come and explain what they can do for the money ( or free). I know the links are there in 'about' but that is not easy to find if you don't know it's there in the first place! ( it's like instructions with flat packs...who looks at the small print !)

This is relevant to the OP I think because without new blood it won't make any odds tinkering with the package titles :-)

'Basic'... Access tree. Search indexes.Talk to fellow members.
'Access all areas'.... Use all facilities and records on the site.

John you have just talked yourself out of any arguement with such silly provoking notions.

GR need a much wider range of material to warrant £150,other sites have a vast database for very much less.

Well , all i'm going to say is this ....
look after your members GR , your pricing is way out
your charging everyone differant prices .
i have always paid £9.95 unless you have given me a reduction
now your asking me to pay £19.95 for the year , NO CHANCE ...
my renewal is up on 25 march and at that price i will not be renewing.
Hazel

Kay? Nothing ridiculous about £150 if you get your money's worth. Not compulsory to upgrade, but notice other competitive sites are now hovering round £200 mark and £150 might sound like a bargain basement price by 2018. But you are just picking on one detail of what I am suggesting. It may be wrong and unworkable, but presumably Genes are looking for ideas rather than negatives and flak :-)

£150 is half the price of smoking 20 cigarettes a week, same price as two bottles of beer every week, sausage and chips once a week. Need I labour point?

£150! how ridiculous,!,,,,GR would price its self out the market when other sites offer more research material for far less......in fair terms GR has very little to offer where records other than basic buliding material.

The GR tree,,,the provisons for recording a family tree are is not part of a paying membership....it costs nothing to tree build at GR.

Island. I also think costs are so important to be open.

On my 4 options, I would charge:

Bronze - free
Silver - £10 (some of us are paying £7.96 currently,m others are paying vastly more)
Gold - £80
Platinum - £150

And not inflate any of those costs for 5 years.

They would get loads of advertising revenue with the number of active members currently.

But, more importantly, if the tree was better (and old pre-July 2012 tree was fine for most of us and I am still sure could be resurrected) and the search facilities were simple and designed for non teckies, I reckon a lot would upgrade to gold and platinum.

Particularly if we were given free "tasters" of what delights awaited us if we upgrade.

A clear description of what exactly is included in each level of membership would help - as would an honest, out in the open display of costs! The current differences in fees for the same level of membership are very unfair.

Dear Team,

Before you worry about renaming packages,get the basics right first.

I am unable to add or change any details to my tree.It is a waste of time trying to do anything on it.I have reported it to you but you have done nothing about it.Keep the current members happy before you worry about useless name changes.

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