Newspapers Bewertungen 

Continual upselling. Whatever i want to see suddenly requires additional purchase.

Same problem as many people on here. I did not know that I signed up for this service. I contacted them and all they kept saying was "you signed up...blah blah" and I said that I hadn't. I intend to go back to my credit card and claim for fraud. Maybe they will take a further look into their dealings.

I didn't know the newspaper.com bunch were owned by Ancestry. ANcestry is pricey and not brilliant, but I find it more useful than not, so I keep using it.
I have used newspapers.com a few times a couple of years ago, and it was quite good for 19th century Irish newspapers then - but very limited. It still is. But the service offered is certainly not worth the money.
I was not aware that I had signed up to pay anything when I availed of the free week offer last January.
But by reading in this forum, I see that there is some small print somewhere...in Europe, this would be illegal, so there would be no problem getting your bank to simply block all payments from such and such a company. Indeed, the bank will even repay you the money that has been taken, or will pursue the company to do so. If the company is European, that is.
It is also illegal to have very clear and obvious conditions if any payment or money is involved and it is also illegal for websites based in the EU not to have very easy 'unsubscribe' buttons.
It's a disgrace that there is no 'cancel' option on their website.
It's not feasable for me to phone Ohio from Ireland, so I rely on emails. To date, they have not responded to my one email from three days ago, so I sent them another one today, along the following lines. I'll let y'all know if I get any kind of response!

Dear people,
I have been reading some online forums around your company's subscription practices. You can look at the negativity yourselves on trustpilot.com.

As I am based in Ireland, unfortunately the European Union's consumer protection legislation does not apply to your dishonest operation. However, the EU's General Data Protection Regulation DOES apply to US companies.
"The applicability of the GDPR to a non-EU organization is determined by the so-called ‘targeting’ criterion, which stipulates the processing of personal data of data subjects in the EU, when the processing activities are related to the following:

offering them goods or services (may be free of charge), or
monitoring their behaviour within the EU"

As a result of your robbery of me, I hereby formally request that you provide me with, according to the stipulations of the GDPR any and all date you, and/or any of your partners with whom you have shared my data. According to the legislation, you have six weeks to provide such to me. If you do not do so, I will contact the Irish Data Protection Commission which will demand the US National Data Protection Authority and/or the FCC to oblige you to do so.

Failure to do so will eventuate in penalties affecting your ability to target EU citizens online.

Further, as you know, in your own country scrutiny is taking place over the renewal of subs. The recent Californian law empowering citizens to prevent thieves such as you will soon become federal.

You would want to change your aggressive practices, or your business WILL suffer.

That you are a part of Ancestry is so strange. It is, while expensive, generally a reliable company.

I will be posting on a number of blogs and fora about you. I have ordered my bank to block reject any future attempts by Anc Newspapers to go near my account.

And I demand that you refund me the money that you have taken to date back to me: after all, your system still considers me as a 'registered guest', with ZERO access to any of your paid-for content.

So, why have you been taking my money without even bothering to at least upgrade my account?

That's your problem - refund all of the money or I will launch a 'fraudulent transactions' procedure against you with my bank.

My bank, Allied Irish Banks, will then put the name of your company on a 'blakc list', a list in which they regularly advise their customes about dodgy online operations.

I look forward to your PROMPT reply,

David Mahon

I can't access anything on newspaper.com. Ancestry users are you aware, if you die, your tree is dissolved and the only way to save your family information is to make a will, place your family tree's name, you're PASSWORD and NAME, choose the person you want to give it to and make it a legal. After 15yrs of hard work and precious family info; my tree will be obliterated, unless one of my nephew's or niece's want to take my tree. I am totally crushed! I never dreamed that a Christian company would do this, and they have never ever explained any of this to me I when started back in 2007. I am trying to make a will and give it to my niece. My cousin informed me of this policy when a relative died, that relative tree disappears. So sad and current users BE AWARE! Thousands of dollars given, just for my tree to be deleted when I die!😣

The information they have on the site is good, what is bad is the complete lack of customer service. I signed up for an account (I had had a previous account), and they where happy to take my money, but when it came to accessing the site I was told I didn't have an account, this was followed by three weeks of repeated calls and emails to them, no call was ever returned and at no point was I ever able to talk to a real person. The Emails where mostly ignored, however one got returned where they informed me that I had an email listed from a company I worked at over four years ago. They didn't bother to offer to change it to my current email or even explain how they ended up with that email, as I certainly didn't put it in. Any follow up emails asking for this simple change where also ignored. To date I have no access to their site.

Unless you buy the most expensive subscription you can't see anything. They use 'copyrighting' as the excuse, but I consistently find articles 80 years old that I can't see.

At an additional $12 a month I feel they are unreasonable.

Updated my review as they seem to have listened to my previous review. Much more UK and even Welsh newspapers on the site now and added the option to pay in pound sterling rather than dollars.
I found this site very handy, but they want to charge you extra for some newspapers. Lacks a lot on UK Papers.
The search feature is not very good. Only works good on one name.

I wish I had browsed others’ newspapers.com reviews sooner. I’m into the third week of asking for help with zero response from the company after leaving an email and two phone calls. They have had plenty time in between to respond. Never have I experienced such terrible tech support! In the meantime, I’m not able to fully use my subscription and feel I should be reimbursed for my lost time.

Prior to this, I was finding lots of good info on my families through the site. I was given the extended version for Christmas and, to this point, haven’t had problems with being locked out of articles due to only having a basic membership. Knowing that I won’t be able to afford to keep my extended membership forever, I have been linking articles to Ancestry but also saving them to my computer both as pdf (includes citation) and jpg (a clean clipping). All worked beautifully until the jpg download function stopped working, and I began getting an error message instead - the pdf download feature still works fine. Apple says they can’t help as does Ancestry, and both say I need to talk to Newspapers. What a joke! I wish an ethical and interested company would buy this current group out and make it what it has the potential to be. Meanwhile, if anyone has experienced my same issue or has any ideas, I would be very grateful for your thoughts. So far, I have not been able to find a help group online that addresses problems rather than just normal search suggestions.

6/30/2021 - After this review, I reached out to newspapers.com again on 5/7/2021 by email and finally got a polite response from "Alexis". She said it was a known issue that was being addressed. After no fix, I followed up with Alexis on 5/19 and 6/13 and again got polite prompt responses that repair was still in the works. Today, I checked and it's finally working properly! I'm happy it's done and pleased with the service from Alexis, but why did it take so long and, mostly, why did they completely ignore my requests for help for over a month? Hoping for a better experience next time there is an issue.

Beware "free trial" to look at a newspaper
auto-enrols to "6 month subscription" at £50 / $75

trap is in the small print
billed in different name "ANC newspapers"
"free trial" is 7 days, £50 on day 8
hard to find T&Cs
if you find T&Cs they give 30 days for cancellation but cancellation page only offers "at the end of your subscription"
....
UPDATE: Writing a COMPLAINT / consumer rights letter to support-at-ancestry got a response + refund.

This is your basic upsell scam. Sign up for a $8.00 subscription. They offer a "Premium" version for $20.00. Now they've gated most of their content behind their premium. I suspect this is the newspapers up charging you for their information.
Ancestry.com own Newspapers.com. Ancestry is sort of the ultimate uncharge site. Also really expensive for selling public records. they've also paid off competitors to eliminate

It is virtually impossible to speak to anyone. You get an answering machine or an automated reply to your e-mail. This is the worst customer service I have ever experienced.

Terrible. They promise to send newspaper vouchers at a vastly reduced price. I have had the paper delivered by my newsagent but no vouchers have arrived almost a month after!

I have had an Ancestry.com subscription for years. Sometimes I let it lapse for a month so I can get a new member discount. It does not delete my tree; I just have a better price. I am not sure when I first got Newspapers.com. For a year or two before I subscribed, I would call and ask if they were planning on getting the Red Bank, NJ papers. They finally got them a year or two ago. I did not renew last year, but I had some extra money this year. I went to search for my mom and dad's wedding articles, and all but one article are now Publisher's Extra articles! They are articles from the same newspapers! I think articles with photos are now considered extra. I'd like to see the pictures, but I feel duped.

To everyone writing a review, did you know Newspapers.com is owned by Ancestry.com? I have had numerous problems lately with customer service at Ancestry and there is no phone number, that I can find, for Ancestry HQ in Lehi, Utah. I suggest you check Chronicling America - part of the Library of Congress where you can search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 - FREE. Just search for CHRONICLING AMERICA. Surprisingly I have found some interesting pieces - articles and business advertisements regarding family (one from my 3rd great grandfather advertising his blacksmith business from 1840 in Ohio). Shocked me because I did not find that info on newspapers in the local area of those ancestors. Newspapers.com is not worth the added money on Ancestry. It's used to attract newbies. As to Fold 3, I sign up independent of Ancestry. Fold 3 is good.

The only reason that I give it 2 stars is because I was able to find some information that I was looking for regarding my birth parents. That being said, I was only able to see a little bit about anything that I would look for, with the cheaper subscription. I got enticed by being able to see more information, if I upgraded my subscription. The upgrade was outrageous, and honestly didn't show anything additional. I canceled the upgrade and now, I cannot really see anything that I could before I upgraded.

Terrible. It tells you that "some" articles "may" require a Publisher Extra upgrade. Then you login with the basic package and realize you don't actually have access to anything. Everything requires a Publisher Extra upgrade. Ancestry is in on this scam. Both were great services seven years ago. Not anymore.

I enjoyed my newspaper subscription a lot. But when I got laid off I had to cut back on expenses. I tried numerous times to cancel my subscription. But they still 6 months later are taking $19.90 out of my account every month. The worse part is now they say I am registered as a ‘guest’ and can’t really access any articles!! I got another job and wouldn’t even mind paying for the subscription now as long as I could enjoy the service..but now I can’t do either one!! And customer service says they have no record of my account. But I can sign in on it!!?

I have given honest feedback to a phone operator and asked for a refund. I had purchased two years and the only thing she could offer is not to automatically renew. I have yet to find anything, or anyone, I am researching, on this site. I live in Tennessee. I get things from California, Nebraska, New York. I have the very newspaper article in my hand and give an EXACT date. Newspapers still cannot find the article. This is not a company anyone should invest money in and think they are going to be helped along with their research.

This is about the newspaper

“The Independent”.

Note: I am (unfortunately) a new subscriber!!

Hello

I posted a comment on an article on the day it was published (about the Labour Party’s “fury” against the ‘misleading anti-vax info on the press’ - to be banned (?!).

After posting my comment, it showed “awaiting moderation”.

However it never appeared to be published (?!)

No comment was saved in my (premium) account.

Following that, I sent three emails to their customer services email address.

Simply asking why it wasn’t published and what are their criteria for ‘moderation’.

I received no response!

The latest one I sent to another email address - which I found on their website - bounced back with a ‘postmaster -undeliverable’!

(It may have bounced back because they had blocked me(?)

Very frustrating and infuriating!
There was absolutely nothing inappropriate in my comment.

And anyway if that was the case, at least the courtesy of a response??

I feel cheated and totally undervalued.

I shan’t renew my subscription. No way!

Please STAY AWAY from this newspaper. You’ll waste time and your money.

This is a SCAM. STAY AWAY!! There is no visible way to cancel your 7-day free trial and now I have been charged for a 6 month subscription. Customer support doesn't even exist. I am hoping I get an email back. UGH.