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Yeah, I watched it.
I thought they were a bit hard on Ancestry.com.
They use very much the same model as most online subscription services - offer a free trial and then hope you forget to cancel so it rolls over on to a paid service, it actually involves a little bit more work that they lead you to believe, and your privacy may be compromised unless you are careful.
If that's their standard then they will have lots of targets for this season.
Anyways, I get Ancestry for free so I can't complain.
http://www.ancestry.com.au/cs/offers/subscribe?sub=1
I would definitely say they are guilty of deceptive advertising by placing the majority of charges in the fine-print:
Special Introductory Price †
1 Month
AU $49.95
12 Months
AU $24.99*
Save AU $299
*Billed in one payment of $299.88. The annual price saves you $299 compared to the monthly price over 12 months.
I didn't see anything deceptive in your link.
The price is clearly shown with an asterisk and the asterisk clearly leads you to see the conditions.
The discount is given for a lump-sum up-front payment.
Again, this is hardly unique - even my car rego is discounted if I pay annually in a lump-sum.
@BigTed: According to the dictionary:
adjective: deceptive
giving an appearance or impression different from the true one; misleading.
The website states "12 Months AU $24.99" - which looks like it is $24.99 for 12 months worth of access. If they did not want to give "an appearance or impression different from the true one" they would have stated simply "12 Months AU $299.88" but they didn't.
By the dictionary definition, what they have done is deliberately deceptive. It is a lump sum, not a monthly charge, so that $24.99 charge technically does not exist. You cannot pay $24.99 per month for the service.
@greenie4242:
I don't understand your complaint.
I am looking at your link.
It says:
"1 Month - AU $24.95
12 Months - AU $17.95*
*Billed in one payment of $215.40. The annual price saves you $84 compared to the monthly price over 12 months."
If you could not read or had never encountered additional conditions under an asterisk before, sure, you could be misled. Otherwise I see this as no different than what lots of service providers do and not likely to mislead or deceive the average punter who can read and understands an asterisk leads them to the additional conditions.
If you want to pay by the month you can - for AU$24.95 - four cents cheaper than what you seem to be complaining about. Again, this will roll-over if you do not cancel. A monthly option does indeed exist - you can pay $24.95 for the service.
You can even choose a 'pay as you go' option - again, from the page in your link.
Would your concern be allayed if it said
"12 months - AU$17.95 per month*"
This would still lead them to the lump sum details but would it satisfy you? Because to me this seems like its even more misleading since of course it is not a monthly payment at all. Again, I go back to my point that offering a discount for a lump sum annual payment over pay-by-the-month is common.
My grandfather lied about bombing Cologne in WWII. Happy Anzac Day.
See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Cologne_in_World_W…
About first 1000 bomber raid as propaganda to promote dubious effectiveness of Air Command but both sides maybe could have done a better cost/benefit analysis of killing so many airmen and civilians?
another company trying to make money off ANZAC day, truly messed up
(and before you downvote me, please see this is a FREE trial and after that you will get charged)
and its only 24 hours free access. this is just a rip off to gain customers who will likely forget about their subscription
What's wrong with making money off of it? It's not like the ghosts of dead soldiers who went overseas to kill people are going to be pissed off about it.
It's not a day to celebrate the events that took place. It's a day to honour the memory of the men and women who died serving Australia in battle, be it warranted or not.
Downvote not so much for ignorance of history as irrelevance to the deal being offered.
ANZAC comes from words Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. It's not a day to glorify war, it's a day to remember them. I'm sorry you can't see or acknowledge that.
A reminder that all (I think) WW1 service records, and a lot of other records as well, are available free at the National Archives. More info available here https://www.awm.gov.au/research/infosheets/service-records/
Why does the search engine require a first name? Why can't I just input my family surname and see where that takes me? Stupid.
Thank you, last night's The Checkout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C61tKCkR8Nk