The trial is good.
Went on there and traced family back, got all the info, and now unless I want to know about my 23rd cousins, or my great great great great great (you get the idea) I don't use it. I've done what I wanted, and yeah it was fun for a while.
Think our subscription expired over a year ago. We can still go on there and see our tree, but thats it now.
As Asset said, not a con, as there are loads of records on there.