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Vital Records Online has a rating of 1.1 stars from 138 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Vital Records Online most frequently mention birth certificate, customer service and credit card. Vital Records Online ranks 84th among Government Records sites.
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Ordered what I thought was a BC but only got a form that I could have got for free from the state, cost: nearly $50.00. Tried to call the company, phone number listed in email sent was to someone in Spain. Called my bank and the payment processing had already taken place, in Spain.
Cleaver but dishonest way to get both your money and vital personal information.
This above mentioned Company, advertises online to get your Government Documents,
For $47.00 Dollars billed to a Credit Card! However, they will never attempt contacting
You, and there's NO NUMBER! In which to contact them either! This is a SCAM!
Don't fall victim to there online promise to deliver your Documents". Go to your City or
Government Agency, and apply for it there! Stay away from " VITAL RECORDS"!
There are LIARS! And THIEVES! Check out the BBB"
Beware of another company using a web site very similar to vitalrecordsonline.com - I had a very nice conversation with a gentleman in Atlanta representing vitalrecordsonline.com - the company I purchased a NY birth certificate from and within 1 hr cancelled it was vitalrecords-online.com. NOTE THE DASH. They are based in Badalona Spain and are a scam outfit - that denied my refund (by email) no phone #. While I cannot vouch for any transactions with vitalrecordsonline.com, I will certainly say that vitalrecords-online.com is a SCAM, fraudulent company, and that is the company that took my $47 and denied a refund.
This site is a SCAM - to not even attempt to use is as you will waste your money. All they do is prefill an application (something you can do yourself and get from the state or government agency) charge you $50 approx to prefill it andyou still have to pay the agency for the certificate. When I asked for a refund as I found my original birth certificate within an hour of applying, they refused saying they are not responsible for mistakes.
The mistake I made was going to this site in the first place.
This is a scam please don't use this service there a scam please don't use this I tried to get a birth certificate and was scammed by them you will never receive a birth certificate and where is FBI and Google shut them down before more people are ripped off
So my daughter used this service to try to get her birth certificate. It hasn't arrived yet so I called to see when it would arrive. I was told 4-8 weeks from the time vital statistics cashed her check. I stated it was a money order. So the answer is 4-8 weeks from some undetermined date in the past. When I asked what she had spent $70 on, I was told a shipping label and customer service. I asked if this was the customer service and was told yes. What a total ripoff.
After paying my $49.00 fee for Vital Records Online, they sent to me a wrong detailed "return envelope" that was to be sent to my state record office. All you had to do was include your application and other necessary paperwork, place in return envelope. After it was sent to post office for delivery, it was returned to me. Vital Records used my name as a mailing address instead of a return address. It was returned to me; I had to fix THEIR mistake, in order to remail. I lost time in their mistake. If you can, call your OWN state office and go through them directly.
You pay them for the application form only. You have to submit the form that has to be notarized with an additional payment to the government agency. Do not use them.
The application had a section for a mailing address, I put my current mailing address there. They sent the records to my old address and argued with me over the fact that what I was telling them was not correct. This company could have sent my information to an unknown person. I am very disappointed in how I have been treated and will do my best to avoid them until I have to use their services again.
I paid for a copy of a marriage certificate, which I did not receive. I should have known something was incorrect after I printed out the application for the marriage certificate and mailed it to the address that was provided. The address that the request should have been mailed to is incorrect. The service is a fraud and I would like my $55.00 returned. Oh did I mention that I had to pay an additional application fee of $15.00? The turn around time, from the time is extremely long. If you have money and time to waste, this service is for you. Otherwise STAY AWAY!
This company is a joke in November I paid $118 for two birth certificates through this "simple in minutes" scam of the company. I didn't receive ANYTHING until I contacted them for a refund 2 days ago (4 months had passed) they sent an email informing me that I needed to complete 3 more steps including paying more money! And the original email from months must be in my spam folder (which would be my fault). I responded explaining that I'm not paying anymore money to receive nothing once again I shouldn't have to do more including faxing and mailing copies of my documents and that I would simply like a refund since it has been months! They responded this morning with a very generic - no refunds at all for any reason. Waste of time and money!
I live across the country from my home state. I know from experience that some sites can get the certificate delivered to me upon the initial request. I thought this site did that. NO! I paid 69 dollars to receive a pretty packet of envelopes and a form to send to the state of my birth, along with another 15 dollars! I gave my information for the form electronically, thinking that would get the birth certificate sent. Instead I get an application form with the SAME information I gave this site. It came in a pretty envelope with nice writing and instructions to do it myself. WTH!? So, I now have to send this packet to my birth state, with MORE money to get my certificate of live birth. I waited a week to get an application to send and now will have to wait another week or more. I needed my birth certificate to get an enhanced drivers license to use for flying in our country now that my present drivers license will not be suitable for that soon. My license expires in a week, so the heck with the enhanced for now. Now I need to get just the regular license, fill this stupid form out from these fun loving bait and switchers, pay 15 MORE dollars for the certificate, then go BACK and get ANOTHER license at an additional charge. The site said it's easy to apply online for my certificate. I now find out its easy and expensive to apply for an application for my birth certificate. Great. Good Job. Enjoy my money. You ain't getting any more from me or anyone else I can tell; my family, friends and all the social media exposure I can give you. And it would be GREAT for someone at the site to refund my money. I will gladly send all this pretty paper back to you.
The Vital Records Now is a scam, they will state you didn't send appropriate form of ID and even though I sent my 6xs and various different ways they charged my account the $11 and never approved my ID to get the birth certificate I needed, you have to go through their automated phone and email service and no one can ever help you stating you agreed to their terms. THEY ARE A SCAM! I don't understand why they are in business, don't use them.
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We paid $69 to receive the application to get a raised seal marriage license. We completed the application and spent another $12 for the required money order to send it to us. Our tracking number shows they received the application to process This was mid November 2018. It is now mid January and we have not received it. We have sent made numerous emails and calls and no one ever follows up. I would NOT recommend this service. We could have driven to SC and got it faster than this service.
They charge you $80 to fill out a free form they are a complete and total scam do not use. Their customer service is horrible they provide you know service whatsoever that you can't do for free. Definitely a scam
I'm not sure how I arrived at vitalrecordsonline.com--I *thought* it was through a link on the. Gov site--but somehow I must have clicked on the wrong link on Google. At any rate, I filled out all of the information at vitalrecordsonline.com, paid my $39.95 (after receiving a 15% discount) and downloaded an electronic file with a birth certificate *application* which required me to copy my state I.D., get the documents notarized, and include *another* $15.00/certificate. Confused as to why I had to pay even more money, since I had already paid $40 to download what turned out to be merely an application, I went back online to find their telephone number. This time I ended up at vitalchek.com--the only *approved* service that the government uses to process birth certificate applications.
The nice lady I spoke to on the phone said that vitalcheck NEVER: gives discounts, asks for notarized documents, or provides the kind of expedited service described by this site.
Needless to say, I will not complete their version of the application. And because I'm freaked out, I'm going to the office in person, where the nice lady said I might even be able to get my birth certificate while I waited.
So, vitalrecordsonline.com now has all of my personal information and my credit card number ( which I immediately canceled).
This is an accurate description of my interaction with vitsalrecordsonline.com.
Come to whatever conclusions you like about the legitimacy of this service.
Vital Records is trying to double charge me. I have two payments pending, and I'm receiving more emails requesting another payment.
I would suggest searching for the vital records office in the city/town you were born and ask them which online service they suggest you use. For me, it was a different company and in 3 days I received notification my birth certificate was in the mail to me. This company says my birth certificate is scheduled to arrive in two months (forms received on May 11, expected delivery July 30)! Terrible service.
Answer: It was a report to send to state to pay fees to get a document. This site is making false statements
Answer: If you paid through our website you should have a phone number to call on the confirmation email that was sent to you. You would reach out to our Customer Service department at 1-844-218-4825 Monday-Friday 9:00am to 7:00pm EST.
Answer: Dear Dan, By using our service you will receive your official Birth Certificate from your local Health Department. This document will allow you to get important document such as driver license, passport or social security card. We are making sure to request the most detail Birth certificate from the agency who has the best version of your record. Also, we will make sure your application is free of mistake before sending to you and we provide a detail custom-made notice to avoid any delay with your birth certificate processing by the health department. You can review our birth certificate process on our website: https://www.vitalrecordsonline.com/birth-certificate
Answer: Dear James, We understand your concerns about our website. We provide the best service of document preparation assistance in order for you to get your birth certificate, death certificate or marriage certificate without hassle. Some people may find our services not suitable for them and be rough on our online reviews even before trying to contact us. Our customer's satisfaction is our priority and any of one of our customers doesn't like our services, we will be glad to cancel their purchase and refund their application fees. Our well-trained customer service agents are available MON - FRI from 9am to 7pm and WILL answer your call in less than 5 minutes to assist you with your application. Outside business hours you can use our customer support interface: https://www.vitalrecordsonline.com/support and we will get back to you in 1 business day.
Answer: You can get an emergency one if you go to the government website and download everything there an pay the fees. All this site does is prefill your application, like how pdfs do it. It doesn't do anything unique to get that done but they charge a lot for it.
Answer: Hi, We provide every customer our phone number in our email confirmations. We do not provide our customer service phone number to non customers. You can reach Customer Service at 1-844-218-4825 Monday-Friday from 9:00am to 7:00pm EST
Answer: Hi, We provide every customer our phone number in our email confirmations. We do not provide our customer service phone number to non customers. Y Ou can reach Customer Service at 1-844-218-4825 Monday-Friday from 9:00am to 7:00pm EST
Answer: Am I able to use an expired I.D., I would like to know before I spend the money
Answer: You probably won't sadly. They claim to have a customer satisfaction policy where as long as you cancel within 72 hours you can get one. HOWEVER I tried THE SAME DAY and was told me sent you the application already. Service was done oh well. Even though their false advertising made me think I was ordering a birth certificate not paying $50 for a dumb application. They blocked my email when I asked for a refund. This place is a joke next time use vitalchek instead and good luck on your refund.
VITAL RECORDS ONLINE provides the best document preparation assistance for your birth certificate, death certificate or marriage certificate request. We are proud to have gathered more than 3000 state or county applications to process in order to use the fastest agency to get your vital records. We have the experience and the system to ensure you will get your Vital Records Application forms custom made to your needs.
Our process is simple, fill out our simple forms online to generate your application then get your vital records application documents without hassle directly at your doorstep. Follow the instructions to complete your application and mail everything with the pre-paid provided envelope to your local post office. You will only to track online your application on USPS website and get notified when your vital records are ready.

