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Texas
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BOA must have interest with this SCAM. BOA conspiracy must be obvious part of the scam... call was transferred to 3 associates trying to stop us from getting the victims' money refunded. The Bank Card services should be alarmed with all these credible complaints and file charges against SCAMMING ARCHIVES.COM... BEWARE.

Date of experience: May 26, 2018
Australia
4 reviews
30 helpful votes
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Cheap Scheme To Skim Your Bank Funds
May 15, 2018

So I tried the "one week free trial" and after 5 days I tried to cancel my account so that I wouldn't start getting billed. There was no option to do this on the website, so I contacted them through the website to request confirmation that my subscription had ended, which went unanswered. Six months later when I changed my bank card, I received an email saying "we were unable to bill you this month" from them and realised they had been billing me $15 per month for the past 6 months so I asked them to refund me. They said if I could provide any email evidence of my attempt to cancel my account they would do this, so I found a six month old email to their customer service team which clearly spelled out that I wanted my account cancelled before any costs were incurred and sent that back to them, but then they replied to say it didn't matter, they were unable to provide a refund regardless. I'm not sure how I ended up in a battle for my own money after somebody stole it out of my bank account.

Date of experience: May 15, 2018
Montana
2 reviews
13 helpful votes
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You will never EVER EVER be able to get them to stop charging you. I'm going to turn them in to BBB. Do yourself a favor and avoid them like the plague!

Date of experience: April 8, 2018
Florida
1 review
17 helpful votes
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Worthless and a ripoff
March 8, 2018

They lure you in with an ad that promises to provide records you are searching for. Then you are forced to sign up for a trial period and provide your credit card information. Once in their site, the RECORDS ARE WORTHLESS. I completely forgot to cancel the trial subscription. After reading other reviews here, I see that cancelling may have become another issue altogether. A month later they, of course, charged me for a service I didn't use, I canceled and asked for a refund, but they must be desperate because they fought tooth and nail for the $9.99 and got it. STAY AWAY! You can most definitely find better info elsewhere on more reputable and customer-friendly websites.

Date of experience: March 8, 2018
GB
1 review
15 helpful votes
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RIP OFF
March 7, 2018

Free trail over. Account says i have no subscription but ripping me off every month for money. Cannot cancel the subscription as they say i don't have one.

Date of experience: March 7, 2018
Texas
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Terrible
January 24, 2018

Every resource that was free after I paid for a subscription is free on other sites. They state they have access to newspaper archives but what they don't say is that you must also pay newspapers.com to access them. A waste of time and money.

Date of experience: January 24, 2018
Georgia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Never found what i needed.
November 22, 2017

I was in a rush to get a copy of my birth certificate so i found this website archives.com thinking they would help me. I know there are alot of women in the world with my name but my bday and social is who i say i am. They did NOT have any record of me anywhere. Okay i made sure i tried my married name (pointless) but i had to try, also made sure my city and state hospital i was born at was all in there and guess what? NOTHING they wanted me to sign up for a monthly thing okay i just needed it for that one time and i can Always cancel. Well wen i didnt find what i REALLY NEEDED they charged my card $9.99... so i complained with my bank received a new card and everything and now just today i see a charge ON MY NEW CARD $9.99! Not to mention they didnt have my email on file what kind of $#*! it that? I signed up with my regular email and they dont have it on file? So i called them of course they have no one to talk to other than a stupid robot so they never canceled the first time i asked them to. Im beyond pissed off and im actually going to be passing this along to my lawyer & the fbi as well as the BBB... for anyone please listen to the other reviews this isnt worth your time or anything. Let alone they do not deserve any money!

Date of experience: November 21, 2017
Alaska
2 reviews
14 helpful votes
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I couldn't cancel my trial period.
November 7, 2017

When I tried to cancel my trial period, which they make a bit difficult, the link led me back to the search page. What the hell is that? So I emailed them with screenshots of what happens when I try to click on the cancellation link. No response... then my Paypal gets debited and so I email them again regarding this issue. Silence is all I get. I have since disputed the charge with Paypal so hopefully I will get some progress with them and hopefully before Archives.com debits my Paypal account again.

Date of experience: November 7, 2017
Louisiana
2 reviews
14 helpful votes
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Totally Worthless
July 9, 2017

This site is totally worthless. I attempted to find the records of 3 ancestors who I definitely knew were in the Civil War and 1 ancestor who was in the Revolutionary War, this site had NO records for all 4 of my ancestors. Total waste of money and time.

Date of experience: July 9, 2017
Washington
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I would say that this informtiion was very helpful in honestly educating me About this website and providing pure thought of interest in saving a curious and unsure soul from being at the clutches of being the prey of a corporate cyber bot programmed to provide as little information as possible about why your card payment is needed and to let consumers assume that it's q safety net just like YouTube red and put an ongoing payment on there that's not traceable because there is not any documents showing proof of approving these contracts and therefor going through legal loopholes with criminal activity enough to be within legal rights of the law just barely, if u are not educated on the fact that a written document should always be saved on both end then the consumer freely cknowldges that they are providing a set payment after there free trial legally bonded in the authorization notes to electronically submit the monthly payments directly from the consumers bank account every month without any notice before hand, your litterally saying here's a key to my house you can crash for about a month and help me out around the house and then they move in permenatley start wearing your clothes eating all of your food and asking for money because they will pay u back but really they are squatter scammers that find loopholes in the law to legally move in your territory and legally build a case aginst u and resulting them to legally take your assets because of the rights of others, $#*!in a man same $#*! it's all a scam no matter what terminology it is and a good lawer will go to bat for you if u are being screws and have legal evidence so save and document everything because we the people will not be scammed!

Date of experience: July 5, 2017
Florida
1 review
15 helpful votes
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Ripped-off!
July 3, 2017

I too have been scammed by archives.com they have been charging me 19.95 per month as far back as my online bank statement gives out. I wonder if anyone knows if we have any legal recourse to prosecute these people

Date of experience: July 3, 2017
Illinois
1 review
21 helpful votes
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Almost impossible to cancel
June 5, 2017

Completely unscrupulous. I cancelled their service, got a confirmation email, and then they still tried to bill my card for a renewal. If you are somehow in their clutches, I seriously recommend that you cancel your credit card - I don't know another way to be sure.

Date of experience: June 5, 2017
Australia
1 review
16 helpful votes
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I singed up for the free trial but could not access the site. When I contacted them to cancel, they responded that they had no registration for me, I must not have completed the registration. A month later they deducted $14.99 from my account which appeared as a payment to Dublin Archives. I emailed telling them to refund me and cancel registration and they replied saying they have no record of my email address and could I forward more details. I tried to ring the number they provided but it's incomplete or incorrect! When I contacted my bank I was told the only way I can stop them is by cancelling my debit card which I am doing asap. I was also advised that because I didn't receive a receipt I probably wont be able to get my money back. Total scam! Only gave them 1 star because I couldn't post without it.

Date of experience: May 18, 2017
New York
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Hate archives.com
May 7, 2017

I hate archives.com. On hold for 20 minutes to cancel. Not the same as ancestry.com. Originally signed up for ancestry.com; tired to use for professional research. Terrible.

Date of experience: May 7, 2017
Florida
2 reviews
18 helpful votes
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Never ordered
April 18, 2017

Just realized they have been taking money out of my checking account for months. Shame on me for not being more vigilant. Don't know how they got my account. Something very fishy. Spoke to a rep instead of selecting the number to cancel. Want my money back. May call my bank to claim fraudulent charges.

Date of experience: April 18, 2017
Louisiana
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Need to prosecute these guys
March 24, 2017

Add us to list of the scammed. We already contacted the bank and they credited us the first time but they allowed them to continue to take out the same amount AGAIN this month. And adding to that, our bank is now refusing to help saying we should have contacted the company which everyone seems to agree is next to impossible. Is there anyone of legal authority that would be willing to take them out?

Date of experience: March 24, 2017
GB
1 review
14 helpful votes
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Avoid like the Plague!
January 27, 2017

This site is still taking payments from my Bank even though I cancelled(or believed I did) my free trial.
I want to apply for a refund of the money they have taken however when I attempt to sign in I get the message that they do not recognise my email address.
How on earth do I get through to these people?

Date of experience: January 27, 2017
Japan
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Bungled Business / Unhelpful Customer Service
November 21, 2016

I sent away for a certified copy of a divorce decree from the state of Arizona, and 4 weeks later received a copy of someone else's distribution of assets after death? I lm confused why their customer service refuses to respond.

Date of experience: November 21, 2016
GB
1 review
13 helpful votes
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DO NOT USE
November 15, 2016

I cancelled my membership or so I thought until today to find they had taken a further subscription got in touch with my bank who are now in the process of cancelling this for me I feel this is the only way to go

Date of experience: November 15, 2016
Mexico
1 review
14 helpful votes
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Buyers Beware of Archives.com
October 24, 2016

This site is definately committing fraud. They charge way too much for something you can do yourself. Many are not aware of this. Stay far away from them. They ripped me off good and then hid in the "free trial" language that they charge a recurring fee. Total fraud. When I called them about it, archives.com was arrogant too and refused to credit my card. I got them though with my bank... who will not tolerate the likes of them. Hasta la vista archives.com.

Date of experience: October 24, 2016