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Does Intuit/Quicken really have us over a barrel charly@earthlink.net 02-14-2008
Posted by pyotr filipivich on February 17, 2008, 5:56 pm
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 I missed the Staff meeting, but the Memos showed that "Calab"
alt.comp.software.financial.quicken :
>
>> John Pollard wrote:
>>>
>>> What you better do is thank your lucky stars that Intuit (and Microsoft)
>>> continue to provide their PFM products, because it's very clear that you
>>> couldn't replace them with any other product, and you couldn't create a
>>> product of your own.
>>>
>>
>> I just love to see these rants each year when Intuit drops the 3+ year old
>> versions for on-line support. It amazes me how people seem to think that
>> $40 should get them financial software that will work *FOREVER*.... For
>> crying out loud, we're talking about $10 - 15 per year for some pretty
>> sophisticated software!!!
>
>My rant isn't that I expect it to work forever. It's that I expect the new
>software to be at least as good as the old software - which it clearly
>ISN'T.
>
>I'd rather pay the same money just to get another three years out of my old
>program.
>

        Hear, hear.

        I found Q2005 so useful, that in 2006 I found nothing better.
Which is what I've been using since then - nothing.

tschus
pyotr

--
pyotr filipivich
Monotheism, someone has said, offers two simple axioms:
1) There is a God.
2) It's not you.

Posted by Hank Arnold (MVP) on February 18, 2008, 5:19 am
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 Calab wrote:
>> John Pollard wrote:
>>> What you better do is thank your lucky stars that Intuit (and Microsoft)
>>> continue to provide their PFM products, because it's very clear that you
>>> couldn't replace them with any other product, and you couldn't create a
>>> product of your own.
>>>
>> I just love to see these rants each year when Intuit drops the 3+ year old
>> versions for on-line support. It amazes me how people seem to think that
>> $40 should get them financial software that will work *FOREVER*.... For
>> crying out loud, we're talking about $10 - 15 per year for some pretty
>> sophisticated software!!!
>
> My rant isn't that I expect it to work forever. It's that I expect the new
> software to be at least as good as the old software - which it clearly
> ISN'T.
>
> I'd rather pay the same money just to get another three years out of my old
> program.
>
>

OK, this thread has finally reached the "Ignore" level.... :-)

--

Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services

Posted by Calab on February 18, 2008, 6:28 pm
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>>> I just love to see these rants each year when Intuit drops the 3+ year
>>> old versions for on-line support. It amazes me how people seem to think
>>> that $40 should get them financial software that will work *FOREVER*....
>>> For crying out loud, we're talking about $10 - 15 per year for some
>>> pretty sophisticated software!!!
>>
>> My rant isn't that I expect it to work forever. It's that I expect the
>> new software to be at least as good as the old software - which it
>> clearly ISN'T.
>>
>> I'd rather pay the same money just to get another three years out of my
>> old program.

> OK, this thread has finally reached the "Ignore" level.... :-)

Hard to argue with the truth.



Posted by chas on February 17, 2008, 8:53 pm
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Hank Arnold (MVP) wrote:
> John Pollard wrote:
>
>>
>> What you better do is thank your lucky stars that Intuit (and
>> Microsoft) continue to provide their PFM products, because it's very
>> clear that you couldn't replace them with any other product, and you
>> couldn't create a product of your own.
>>
>
> I just love to see these rants each year when Intuit drops the 3+ year
> old versions for on-line support. It amazes me how people seem to think
> that $40 should get them financial software that will work *FOREVER*....
> For crying out loud, we're talking about $10 - 15 per year for some
> pretty sophisticated software!!!
>
> BTW, many of the rants are about how they can't get stock quotes and
> download from financial firms. Yahoo! Finance still provides downloading
> of quotes in CSV format,(still supported by Q08). Just about every
> credit card, bank and brokerage firm supports downloading transaction
> information to Q. You may lose the "One Click Update" feature. but you
> can still get the information pretty easily....
>
thanks, That is useful advice.

Posted by Mortimer Schnerd, RN on February 16, 2008, 11:07 pm
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chas wrote:
> Q. What does the Quicken Service Discontinuation Plan mean to you?
>
> A. It means that after April 30, 2008, online services (such as
> downloading financial data from your bank, credit card accounts, or
> investment accounts) and live technical support will no longer be made
> available through Quicken 2005.
>
> Now to me that means you can't really say "It will continue to work". I
> has no value to me if I can't use it with my bank account.
> Sure they gave me a couple of chances to upgrade. Now, since I didn't
> take advantage of the "chances", I am being forced to.


As am I. To make up for the screwing I'm taking from Intuit, I cancelled my
subscription to TurboTax and used an online service this year for my income
taxes, Taxslayer.com. For a few pennies less than $20, I got my federal return
along with state returns for both Carolinas filed electronically. I received my
tax refunds about three weeks ago.

They've lost me forever with Turbotax. One good screwing deserves another.

What a sleazy outfit. I cancelled my subscription three weeks before they
shipped and they shipped Turbotax anyway, then tried to hit my credit card. Too
bad. I stopped payment and have free copies of Turbotax that I don't need.
Maybe I'll post them on Pirate's Bay.



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com




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