There’s been a bit of Internet traffic the last few days dealing with the fact that Ancestry offers a 30% discount on their “World Explorer” package to AARP members – for one year. Click here to see their website and get the discount.
Since memberships expire at different times, and the AARP/Ancestry agreement is also set to expire, using the discount can be confusing. Mathew Deighton sent out an email explaining how it works. Following is a copy of the explanation.
There has been some confusion recently concerning the AARP discount. I wanted to reach out and clarify a few things. Part of the confusion is the difference between the agreement with Ancestry and AARP expiring and an individual account expiring. For simplicity I’ve listed the facts:
AARP Agreement with Ancestry.com
· The original agreement with AARP was for one-year and we are working to renew that contract now· The current agreement with AARP will expire March 31st but we are almost certain we will have the new contact signed by then so members will see no lapse in opportunity to sign up for the discount
· The contract with AARP does not affect ancestry’s agreement with our members in offering the discount. Even if the agreement was not renewed with AARP, we will still be offering the discount to our members who already signed up for the time agreed upon
Personal Use of the AARP Discount
· You can only use the AARP discount of 30% one time (the discount only works for World Explorer)· Regardless of what duration of membership you have, the discount will last up to 1-year
· After receiving a year of the discount, you will be billed at the normal rate
· If you are already an Ancestry member, simply call into our customer support line no more than 1 month before the end of your contract and we can migrate you over to the AARP discount (if you are monthly we can change you over at any time)
· You can move over at any point but you will lose the remainder of your current subscription… so better to just wait until it runs out.
