Service-Demarches.fr is a waste of money
I used Service-Demarches.fr and I would rate it extremely low. I should never have fallen for this unecessary 'intermediary'. I should have selected the right official administrative website in the first place to deal with a French birth certificate demand. They charged 37 euros for 3 copies of a birth certificate from Perpignan townhall that I sought for my daughter, to be sent by post. I asked them to cancel the demand in order to reapply immediately for exactly the same birth certificate demand but with a correctly NAMED delivery address: The reason being because my homeless daughter is now living at my house following a fire at her home. I paid twice for the same service, ie: 74 euros, and instead of cancelling one of the two demands they refused stubornly to reimburse the 37 euros overcharged, arguing that the bank did not authorise the reimbursement: Nonsense: I told this to my bank who replied that I had authorised these credited transactions and I should just contact Service-Demarches.fr to ask them a simple reimbursement of 37 euros. Service-Demarches.fr obfuscated about the whole thing, repetedly calling me by my daughter's name: all my communications were signed with my name and Pro Persona with my daughter's name. Finally I received a letter including only 2 copies of my daughter's birth certificate instead of the 3 their accompanying letter noted had been sent. I questionned this and they told me it was the same price for one or more copies and that I had only asked for 2: this is not correct, and the letter says 3 copies have been sent. In effect I have paid Service-Demarches.fr 2 demands of 3 copies each, that is 6 copies, but only received 1 batch of 2 copies!! The rest is not being sent because I said I did not need them. So why are they keeping the money?? The more open and honest I am with these people the more difficult they become.
I phoned the Perpignan 'Service de l'Etat Civil': they told me that their delivery of copies of birth certificates is free online, and that any other so called services to obtain copies are 'fraudulent'.
So I am 74 euros out of pocket for a service that was in fact free all along. DO NOT USE Service-Demarches.fr : it turned out to be quite a racket!! Spend a little time enquiring with the official French administrative services, do not fall for these ruthless intermediate or 'harnaqueurs' as they are called in France. I should have looked at Trust Pilot this time again: I am not in the least surprised that 87% of customers are sorry to have dealt with such services. Should Service-Demarches.fr read this and reimburse me 37 euros for a service I did not need but did not get I shall immediately inform Trust Pilot of their change of heart.

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