MyHeritage

For a company to auto renewal, with no reminder email, no reminder text, no obvious notification on log-in pay, is sneaky. And when that auto renewal is for over £200 I think it should be illegal.

In the UK at the moment, we are being squeezed left, right and centre and to have £230 taken out of my account, a few days before my pay day is pretty dire. I have been left overdrawn, which will cost me.

A reputable company shouldnt need to use the rather underhand tactic of auto-cagey auto renewal. I mean, I think the site is brilliant, it shouldnt need to rope us in and grab money in this way. Considering it is a family history site, and utilising our very own family records, it seems rather immoral.

I have contacted customer services (I should have a hotline considering how much I am paying them). I have just received an auto reply about cancelling the membership, nothing about a refund.

I was going to buy DNA kit (and I did), and to buy one you have to be registered on their website. To register you need to provide your credit card details and then miss the subtle notification of annual subscription and then you are charged with 128 eur.

I tried to contact support on live chat, got a ticket [protected] with a promise of someone contacts me back. Never happened.

I called and left a voice message in the refund section. No any replies.

Its been more 11 days

I ordered my DNA kit on 11th April and I have never received it. I want a full refund of £47.00. I contacted My Heritage and left a voicemail over a week ago and no one has even contacted me to issue a refund. Disgraceful service.

My Heritage- POOREST SERVICE EVER!

We ordered our DNA Kit in March this year. The kit arrived mid-April. We did the registration and returned the samples the following day! The kit arrived a couple of days later in the USA via UPS express. We requested and paid extra for the package to be delivered directly to the address provided by MyHeritage! They then refused to accept the package and send it back saying that someone will collect the package from UPS directly! We contact MyHeritage and they say that they do not provide such services! They then ask us to contact UPS and ask them to deliver the package, UPS again attempted to deliver the package! AGAIN, MyHeritage refused the package! We then had to contact the warehouse in our country, they contacted UPS USA and instructed them again to deliver to MyHeritage. In the meantime, we’ve been in contact with Claudia from MyHeritage, she totally ignores our questions and keeps telling us about “We can resend you a new DNA-kit” WHY WOULD WE WANT A NEW KIT IF WE’VE JUST RETURNED THE SAMPLES! ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS ACCEPT THE PACKAGE FROM UPS! It has been over a month that we’ve been sent back and forth WITH NO PROGRESS! IT BLOWS MY MIND THAT A SIMPLE INSTRUCTION CAN’T BE EXCECUTED! It is highly unprofessional and frustrating! It is taking the joy out of what was supposed to be an exciting experience and discovery! Very disappointed with the poor customer service and ignorance from Myheritage staff !

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On the 15th may 2022 i found that My Heritage had charged me for a years subscription which i knew nothing about. They took £226 out of my account without informing me of doing so, No text or email stating the charge, I have phoned them but could only get automated response and asked to state my name and number and the issue at hand. I explained that i want a full refund of the money taken from my account and do not wish to subscribe to them. I then got an automated message that i will receive a phone call Six hours later I'am still waiting.

This is ridiculous, its taken me all my time to find a way to even contact you. My I'd is [protected]. I paid a yearly subscription yet you have taken £56.40 out tp on 11th May, cam you please tell me why? After reading through these other complaints I would like you to cancel my subscription, therefore do not help yourself to anymore money from my account after this year

Same story as others had - I was not aware that I subscribed to a yearly service, didn't get any notification about the trial period and got charged over 100 euro. Their policy says that they guarantee a full refund by contacting Customer Support within 30 days of the purchase date. I followed the instruction and contacted them the same day I was charged, but I haven't received any answer until now. It seems that the whole process is designed to discourage people from fighting for their money. I guess I would need to file a chargeback.

On May 11th, 2022 I was checking my emails and discovered My Heritage debited by checking account via PayPal for $315.00 and $25.20 tax, leaving my checking account with a balance of $1.79 I received no prior warning that this was going to happen. I called their customer service line and talked to Juliet. I told her to close my account and issue a refund for the debited amount, she assured me that it would be taken care of and that one of their representative would contact me. So far all I have heard from them is nothing.

I did get an email from them saying the automatic debit would be discontinued which is not what I told her to do. I have since deleted all my dat with them, and again requested a full refund, so far nothing from them.

Russell Windle

Somehow they sneakily signed me up to a free trial through my social media account (which had my card details connected). Ended up paying them hundreds of pounds in subscription fees. The person I spoke to in customer support was incredibly rude and seemed super angry before I had even said a word. He seemed like he was reading from a script which to paraphrase was `we are not a scam company'. I felt kind of sorry for him to be honest. I ended up getting a 1/3 refund... I couldnt be bothered to argue. I am leaving some bad reviews everywhere now. Looking online at other peoples reviews this company is a total scam.

I signed up for a free trial on May 8th and after having difficulty seeking the information I was looking for, decided to cancel on May 9th before a paid version kicks in. I went to "purchases" as I was instructed and then clicked on cancel but the next window that popped up said nothing about my cancellation. It was an effort to upgrade my free trial to a paid subscscription. I tried the chat window but that was of no help, I tried find a customer service email but found nothing and finally found a phone number on the internet for customer service: [protected]. The message I received there was that the number is no longer in service. How can I cancel this before I get charged for a subscription? They make it too easy to sign up.

My email is [protected]@aol.com and my phone # is [protected]

MYHERITAGE_LTD have taken £226.80 from my account. I bought a DNA test kit for my Father from Amazon, as it couldn't be used it was returned and I was refunded. Now this company is charging my account. I didn't sign up for a subscription, I certainly wasn't told of any recurring charge. I have informed my Bank. However, due to Covid they are dealing with backlogs and said it will take 8 weeks until they can investigate it.

I have not used or logged into MYHERITAGE_LTD website since purchasing the DNA kit, which turned out to be unusable in the UK. Please refund my account the full amount and remove me from any subscriptions or recurring costs IMMEADEATLY.

Today 5th May I had my dna delivered but because I wasn't in it wasn't posted properly and someone came and pulled it out of letterbox opened package and took some of the contents then left it on the path not happy it could of fitted through letterbox. I would also would of liked results on paper not email I dont use my email

Today I received a call from one of your employers. The conversation started verry calm but as soon as I said that I wanted a refund, The conversation became very agressive. The employer started to acuse me from the fact that I didn't cancel the automatic subscribtion in time. When I explained my situation, she started to offer me other solution that I didnt want. So I kept repeating that I want a refund. She didn't like this and began to correct me like i'm a little child. Don't repeat this, dont interupt me, this and that. The tone was very attacking and condescending. I felt verry bad. I couldnt believe that a big company like yours, train people to behave this way. I felt very sick after the conversation. Finally the supervisor agreed to give full refund

I was charged 200$ for a membership I did not want. Called to cancel membership that I did not order and was told they would send information to accounting and someone would get back with me through email because they do not talk directly with customers. So I called bank to stop transaction.

I have bought DNA Kit and tria packet for from your page for 65 Euros on Feb 13th(I am in Turkey so maybe it is Feb 12th in your country). I bought these in the name of “Wicounselling online psikolog”. I send you my kit and you recieved the kit on March 19th(Turkey time, maybe it is March 18th in your country). After a few weeks later for trial packet you have purchased 99 Euro automatically from my credit card than I have cancelled that trial payment from my bank. But the DNA Kit didn’t come and I haven’t recieved any email about why it didn’t come. Than I called your customer service on April 22th (maybe in your country it is April 21th) I told I didn’t recieve my DNA Kit on time than she said as my bank account cancelled both my DNA Kit and application trial package so they didn’t send me the kits. Than I bought one more (this time I bought in the name of Selin Tabak) and I recieved an email that I should continue my payment, I thought you didn’t recieve my payment and send me a confirmation link than I pressed on it and I continued my payment again. In the morning I realized with your demand by continuing my payment you took two payments from me. Than I called my bank and asked about the the payments and they said you took two payments and also in previous payment on Feb 13th you also took that payment they only cancelled 99 Euros for trial package. So in this case I have paid DNA kit on Feb 13th the lady in your customer service told me wrong I have bought the DNA kit and you didn’t send me I just cacelled your application payment of 99 euros on March,15th. Also because of these mistakes you have now I have cancelled last night’s two payments and as I didn’t get my Kit I wanted them to cancell my very first payment on Feb too. Why are you taking my money and not sending the kit and why don’t you send an email about this and why your customer service is so distracted and tells wrong reason and why are you sending me another confirmation mail after you took my payment and take another payment again?

I receivediIt an email from "[protected]@myheritage.com on 16/4/2022 13.51.

It was about someone accessing my account and advised me to change my password. however i cannot access my account so how do i access my account please advise

regards charles mccann

Good evening

I paid for a DNA test with MyHeritage for a sum £43.99 through my Paypal account on 7 February 2022. On 7 March 2022 I received notification that my month's free trial had expired and that I had been charge the yearly subscription of £114.

I had absolutely no idea that I had any further connection with MyHeritage once I had paid for the basic DNA result. I was shocked to receive this notification and that the money had been taken from my account. What did I click to make them think that's ok?

My cousin did the same application with you about a week before me but she had no such subscription payment taken from her account.

I emailed MyHeritage about this on 7 March, 11 March and 30 March and have not received any response at all - not even an acknowledgement to say they had received my email.

My email is [protected]@gmail.com

Kind regards

Sharon

I’m am on my family tree as my father

My mother is my wife. My brother is my son

My grandparents are my parents

Can’t edit it anywhere

Just change the name from my father Albert f Moylan to Ellen Moylan cahill

But stil. Read the same

Or I’ll just delete the whole thing I find it irritating

Your account ID: [protected]

On 4/2/2022 a Sunday I noticed a text from bank when went into acct online there was a charge for 315.00$. It has been months since went to this site and I sure didn't order or authorize anything. I would not spend this much anyway on nothing from genealogy site.

I received a $299 charge despite me cancelling my account.

I want this immediately refunded otherwise ill be forced to take further action. I did not approve this subscription and have contacted you to cancel.

You only emailed me to say it had been extended but i already spoke with a customer servant and they said it was cancelled after my free trial.

Please respond to me at [protected]@gmail.com