Mint and Quicken

Posted by John on September 14, 2009, 5:48 pm

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Intuit bought Mint.com and I was wondering if anyone here has used Mint
and what the advantages and such might be with the merger?

john

Posted by Andrew DeFaria on September 14, 2009, 10:55 pm

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John wrote:
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Mint.com and I was wondering if anyone here has used Mint and what the
advantages and such might be with the merger?
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As somebody who has given up on Quicken and embraced Mint (and now
banks pretty much with his bank's web site exclusively) I think Mint is
just great! It basically does most of what Quicken does from a
reporting perspective that most people will need. Now surely people
will chime in and say "But Mint doesn't do X, Y or Z" to you I say "So
what! Most people don't need that". Mint is more Web 2.0 than Quicken
can hope to be. I now enjoy freedom from many things because all my
stuff is truly centralized better with much less demand of me micro
managing my finances while still keeping a good enough hold on them.
Quicken can be an addiction - going with a more Web 2.0 approach can be
very freeing.<br>
<br>
It's obviously not for everybody but my opinion is that it's for most
people, which pretty much excludes most people posting to a Usenet
newsgroup like this one. IOW for most normal people, this'll be great!<br>
<br>
IMHO, Mint will teach Intuit to move past it's model and into more
exciting web models.<br>
<br>
Just keep Mint free or I'm going elsewhere...<br>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<a href="http://defaria.com">Andrew DeFaria</a><br>
<small><font color="#999999">Funny, I don't remember being absent
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Posted by John on September 15, 2009, 5:58 pm

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Andrew DeFaria wrote:

> John wrote:

>> Intuit bought Mint.com and I was wondering if anyone here has used

>> Mint and what the advantages and such might be with the merger?

> As somebody who has given up on Quicken and embraced Mint (and now banks

> pretty much with his bank's web site exclusively) I think Mint is just

> great! It basically does most of what Quicken does from a reporting

> perspective that most people will need. Now surely people will chime in

> and say "But Mint doesn't do X, Y or Z" to you I say "So what! Most

> people don't need that". Mint is more Web 2.0 than Quicken can hope to

> be. I now enjoy freedom from many things because all my stuff is truly

> centralized better with much less demand of me micro managing my

> finances while still keeping a good enough hold on them. Quicken can be

> an addiction - going with a more Web 2.0 approach can be very freeing.

> It's obviously not for everybody but my opinion is that it's for most

> people, which pretty much excludes most people posting to a Usenet

> newsgroup like this one. IOW for most normal people, this'll be great!

> IMHO, Mint will teach Intuit to move past it's model and into more

> exciting web models.

> Just keep Mint free or I'm going elsewhere...

> --

> Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>

> Funny, I don't remember being absent minded.

The good news is that the Gent who started Mint.com just three years ago
is now the CEO in charge of all Intuit's retail products including
Quicken. So, hopefully things maybe change for the better for both products.

john

Posted by Pam on September 16, 2009, 9:12 am

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> Intuit bought Mint.com and I was wondering if anyone here has used Mint

> and what the advantages and such might be with the merger?

> All,

As a registered Mint.com user I just received a notice from
Aaron Patzer who is the founder and CEO of Mint.com who is now slated
to be the GN of Intuit's Personal Finance group responsible for
online, desktop and mobile consumer personal finance offerings. I
took the opportunity to respond via mint.com to cheer on this merger
and tell Mr. Patzer how dissatisfied I have been with the support
received from Intuit and how I look forward to any positive changes he
can stimulate within Intuit. I encourage all interested parties to do
the same and let this company know how we feel as consumers of their
products. I attach my comments to him below for your consideration.

I look forward to your taking over as GM of Intuit=92s Personal Finance
group responsible for online, desktop and mobile consumer personal
finance offerings. I hope you will have a free hand to resurrect
Intuit's Quicken.com that has slowly deteriorated as a premier
personal financial management website to a non-functioning piece over
garbage over the last ten years. As a loyal Quicken customer I
watched in dismay as Intuit slowly let this product disintegrate into
something that no longer has any value to it's Quicken customers.
With many other long time Quicken users we sat by the sidelines as
Quicken's support team and upper management seemed to disregard the
complaints of hundreds of its users when they "upgraded" their system
with no backup in the beginning of 2008. Despite many pleas and
complaints the product still seems to languish without any updates to
address the numerous non-functioning features of the product. I
myself simply gave up over a year ago with hoping that any corrective
action would be taken. It was the quicken.com product that drew me to
purchase Intuit's desktop product for the first time in 2001. Without
this website I have little use to ever need to invest in the desktop
product again. Maybe with some new blood they can lure back some of
its customers.