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Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:57 am

will-g wrote: Under the old "birth certificate" system, your credit card would not be charged until the museum actually had your information ready to go, so you would see the charge on your credit card and 7 days later you would have your birth certificate...

Under the new automated "birth certificate" system your credit card is charged immediately. i imagine that you will be refunded once the alloted 6 weeks has expired with no results in finding information. I know that my credit card was charged around a month ago and i still have not seen the certificate :x

so...once again we are back to sqaure one with the whole "birth certificate" process :cry: good luck...... Mine was charged the old way then. I placed the order and 2 months later i got charged. A week later it came in.

Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:42 am

I live in Australia and have just ordered mine today for my 1959 bug.
The order process was quite easy! The translator is a must for us non German speaking folk! :?
I will post again when I recieve the birth certificate. 8)

Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:51 pm

Got my certificate today,Ordered it on March 28 I think.

Of course the color is not mentioned (Which I was hoping for) or the engine number,and I have a m code that is unknown (050)but the rest of it is cool.

Makes me want to order more for the other ones :D

Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:00 pm

I hear really old VWs don't work since they never kept records up until a certain year, started from the late 40's I'm guessing?. Anyone knows if this is true or not. I want to try with my '44

Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:34 pm

Just got mine.

Took 10 months to get here...

Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:47 pm

55reasons wrote: Just got mine.

Took 10 months to get here...

10 Months :shock: when were you charged for it though? was it a week before it showed up?

Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:35 pm

Yes. 10 months.

Yes I was charged.

And no it did not contain any information about the car except the VIN that I already gave them.

No color, no interior, etc...

But I'm not surprised, it was shipped as a CKD and the factory 55 paint was bright orange. <-- Not a typo...

It got from them to me in like 5 days or so.

Mon May 01, 2006 2:22 am

Do they shipp it or they just send it e-mail?

7 weeks ... and counting

Mon May 01, 2006 2:32 am

Skaravaios wrote: Do they shipp it or they just send it e-mail?

7 weeks ... and counting

You will get a nice document in the mail, see below

Mon May 08, 2006 1:29 pm

daves68 wrote: If you want the process to go smoother, call your credit card company ahead of time and tell them to expect a one time German transaction for approx. $XX Euros.
They should put a note in your file and the charge should slide through.

Ditto this, my card blocked the charge and VW sent me an email. I made the call and my credit card company put a note on my account. Should go thru now.

Sat May 13, 2006 4:20 pm

Sent away for another Birth Cert. and received this email reply:

Dear Mr. Serra,

Thank you for your interest in our birth certificate. The price is 35,- EUR
since 1st May. Please confirm that this is alright for you.

Yours sincerely,

Susanne Wiersch

Stiftung AutoMuseum Volkswagen
Dieselstr. 35
Brieffach 0903

D-38446 Wolfsburg

Tel. 00 49 53 61 92 49 54
Fax 00 49 53 61 5 20 10

e-mail: extern.susanne.wiersch@volkswagen.de

Sat May 13, 2006 6:02 pm

jrserra wrote: Sent away for another Birth Cert. and received this email reply:

Dear Mr. Serra,

Thank you for your interest in our birth certificate. The price is 35,- EUR
since 1st May. Please confirm that this is alright for you.

Yours sincerely,

Susanne Wiersch

Stiftung AutoMuseum Volkswagen
Dieselstr. 35
Brieffach 0903

D-38446 Wolfsburg

Tel. 00 49 53 61 92 49 54
Fax 00 49 53 61 5 20 10

e-mail: extern.susanne.wiersch@volkswagen.de

Yep the price went up, and now you get cgarged for it right away no matter how long it takes to find, but at liest you send your credit card info through a secure transfer now, it used to be you would just send it and hope for the best :?

Sat May 13, 2006 6:13 pm

Not so sure about the charging the credit card right away. I faxed them a request with my card number back in February and just got it this week. They ran mine thru the day they mailed it.

I would have preferred that they charge it right away. At least then you would know they actually received it and have it in the system. The waiting and wondering gets old.

Sat May 13, 2006 6:49 pm

coad wrote: Not so sure about the charging the credit card right away. I faxed them a request with my card number back in February and just got it this week. They ran mine thru the day they mailed it.

I would have preferred that they charge it right away. At least then you would know they actually received it and have it in the system. The waiting and wondering gets old.

The "charging right away" thing is new too, only if you use the new system setup on the museum webpage does it charge right away

Sat May 13, 2006 11:41 pm

will-g wrote: coad wrote: Not so sure about the charging the credit card right away. I faxed them a request with my card number back in February and just got it this week. They ran mine thru the day they mailed it.

I would have preferred that they charge it right away. At least then you would know they actually received it and have it in the system. The waiting and wondering gets old.

The "charging right away" thing is new too, only if you use the new system setup on the museum webpage does it charge right away
Yes, it does.

Sat May 13, 2006 11:59 pm

Has anyone actually recieved a "Birth Certificate" using the new online ordering system???

I am starting to lose faith in the new and improved birth certificate ordering system, and on top of that they have my money :? :? :evil:

Sun May 14, 2006 7:25 am

will-g wrote: Has anyone actually recieved a "Birth Certificate" using the new online ordering system???

I am starting to lose faith in the new and improved birth certificate ordering system, and on top of that they have my money :? :? :evil:

I got mine using the new way.I sent the info the old way and got an email telling me to use the new way,It took about 4 weeks to get it.
I did email asking about the lenght of time it would take and was told about 4-6 weeks.

Mon May 22, 2006 8:04 pm

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Much easier than the copy/paste method. I just ordered mine.

Tue May 30, 2006 3:21 pm

Sitting here tapping my thumbs, awaiting my birth certificate. I can't register my bus as the shipping papers were wrong, and a birth certificate is all that they will take. Four weeks and counting! The sun's coming out, temperatures are rising and I can't use my samba. Should be a law against it!

Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:03 am

Finally got it after 11 weeks. When i took it in my hands i was surprised when i saw the dates. The car seems that left the factory 10 months later than the date i have in my registration license :shock: :shock: probably there must be some mistake on the certificate because the registration can't be wrong. I'm so pissed off for waiting that long and finally got a wrong certificate :twisted: :twisted: