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Posted by jg70124@gmail.com on October 12, 2007, 4:27 pm
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I've been using Q'05 H&B, and it seems its about time to upgrade so I
don't run into Intuit's sunset policy.
John B. wrote in a recent post he bought Q'08 H&B on ebay for ~
$20'ish. I see that there are many sellers at roughly that price,
most of whom are offering digital delivery only.
Although I was a frequent eBay buyer and seller for many years, I
stopped earlier this year after several fraudulent transactions, and
after my account was high-jacked by someone who used it to sell non-
existent golf clubs. And so I'm a little gunshy.
Anybody have any experience with these fellows selling Quicken for
download only? Are they for real? And where does their inventory
come from?
Thanks
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Posted by John Pollard on October 12, 2007, 4:59 pm
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jg70124@gmail.com wrote:
> I've been using Q'05 H&B, and it seems its about time to
> upgrade so I
> don't run into Intuit's sunset policy.
>
> John B. wrote in a recent post he bought Q'08 H&B on ebay for
> ~
> $20'ish. I see that there are many sellers at roughly that
> price,
> most of whom are offering digital delivery only.
>
> Although I was a frequent eBay buyer and seller for many
> years, I
> stopped earlier this year after several fraudulent
> transactions, and
> after my account was high-jacked by someone who used it to
> sell non-
> existent golf clubs. And so I'm a little gunshy.
>
> Anybody have any experience with these fellows selling Quicken
> for
> download only? Are they for real? And where does their
> inventory
> come from?
My understanding from Intuit is that there are no legitimate
"download only" copies of Quicken "for sale" (except from
Intuit).
I have purchased several copies of Quicken at eBay, but always a
CD, always unused/never registered. Always from sellers with
very high numbers of sales and very high satisfaction rating.
Never had a problem (and I registered all those purchases). I
would purchase that way again if I had the need.
--
John Pollard
First initial underscore Last name at mchsi dot com
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Posted by gklatv on October 12, 2007, 6:37 pm
Please log in for more thread options just a couple of weeks ago I purchased Q2008 Dlx CD to replace my soon-
to-be-sunset Q2005.
I got it on eBay, with no problems whatsoever. Install was quick,
easily converted my old files.
Already registered it. Runs fine.
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Posted by Bob Fry on October 12, 2007, 9:41 pm
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gk> just a couple of weeks ago I purchased Q2008 Dlx CD to replace
gk> my soon- to-be-sunset Q2005. I got it on eBay, with no
gk> problems whatsoever. Install was quick, easily converted my
gk> old files. Already registered it. Runs fine.
How much did you pay? Because I'm thinking if it's a lot less than a
normal discount price, it's probably bootleg, and you might as well
just steal it with a p2p or torrent.
--
One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going
to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him
to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said, "Disneyland
burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he
thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the
real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.
- Jack Handey
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Posted by John B in CA on October 12, 2007, 9:45 pm
Please log in for more thread options I'm the "John B." who mentioned buying '08H&B on eBay for a little over $20.
I agree with John P. that I would NOT buy a download-only version of Quicken
on eBay. I have always bought a CD version and always from sellers with
very high positive feedback ratings. My recent $20+ purchase was a bit
lucky -- most other sales were for quite a bit over that amount, but I was
patient and watched lots of auctions, waiting for the right one. (I find
eBay to be lots of fun.)
Having said all of that, I will confess that a few years ago I bought
Quicken on eBay from a seller with only a few feedbacks, though positive.
The price looked too good to be true, and it turned out to be bootleg. I
discovered this when I examined the disk contents and found three or four
movie files that didn't look like Quicken file names. They turned out to be
porn movies!! It was good for a laugh, didn't cost me much, and the seller
was off of eBay before you could spell the word "fraudulent." (Footnote:
Quicken installed just fine from the disk!) All other eBay Quicken
purchases have been completely legitimate as far as I could tell, and all
registered without any problems.
Bottom line, I suppose, is that for piece of mind you might want to buy
Quicken at Office Depot or the like. For a "deal," and the sport of it,
eBay has worked well for me.
John B.
> I've been using Q'05 H&B, and it seems its about time to upgrade so I
> don't run into Intuit's sunset policy.
>
> John B. wrote in a recent post he bought Q'08 H&B on ebay for ~
> $20'ish. I see that there are many sellers at roughly that price,
> most of whom are offering digital delivery only.
>
> Although I was a frequent eBay buyer and seller for many years, I
> stopped earlier this year after several fraudulent transactions, and
> after my account was high-jacked by someone who used it to sell non-
> existent golf clubs. And so I'm a little gunshy.
>
> Anybody have any experience with these fellows selling Quicken for
> download only? Are they for real? And where does their inventory
> come from?
>
> Thanks
>
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