Quicken 2006 downloading going away

Posted by Nathan Gutman on February 26, 2009, 5:44 pm

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I am using Quicken 2006 and it's doing everything that I need. Intuit
want to force me buy Quicken 2009 so they are stopping to support the
downloading of quotes.
Has anyone come with a workaround?
Maybe download the quotes from some site then import then to Quicken 2006?
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Nathan Gutman

Posted by R. C. White on February 26, 2009, 6:13 pm

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Hi, Nathan.

When your 3-year subscription to a magazine expires, do you accuse the
publisher of forcing you to re-subscribe? Or do you recognize that you got
what you paid for and, if you want to keep getting the magazine, you'll need
to pay to renew your subscription?

I'm using Quicken Deluxe 2009, but I still have the packaging for my copy of
Quicken Basic 2006. Nowhere on the package do I see any claim that it will
download stock quotes, even for one day. There is a promise to "Download
bank and credit card information", but that has a footnote in very tiny
print that says, "Online features require Internet access and are subject to
change."

The 3-year "sunset" policy for Quicken quotes has been well-known for
several years and has been discussed here many times. It SHOULD be
disclosed on the Quicken package, but I don't see it.

If I choose not to buy another Quicken package before the Spring of 2012, I
will not be surprised - or feel cheated - if it stops downloading quotes at
that time. I won't be "forced" to do anything. I will be able to continue
using Q2009 for the rest of my life, but without the convenience of
downloading quotes. I will have received what Intuit had promised me (even
if it was less than I had hoped for).

Having said all that, I agree that it would be nice to have available a
source to continue downloading quotes into Quicken. And free would be nice.
;<}

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Using Quicken Deluxe 2009 and Windows Live Mail in Win7 x64)

> I am using Quicken 2006 and it's doing everything that I need. Intuit want

> to force me buy Quicken 2009 so they are stopping to support the

> downloading of quotes.

> Has anyone come with a workaround?

> Maybe download the quotes from some site then import then to Quicken 2006?

> --

> Nathan Gutman

Posted by Nathan Gutman on February 26, 2009, 8:36 pm

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R. C. White wrote:

> Hi, Nathan.

> When your 3-year subscription to a magazine expires, do you accuse the

> publisher of forcing you to re-subscribe? Or do you recognize that you

> got what you paid for and, if you want to keep getting the magazine,

> you'll need to pay to renew your subscription?

> I'm using Quicken Deluxe 2009, but I still have the packaging for my

> copy of Quicken Basic 2006. Nowhere on the package do I see any claim

> that it will download stock quotes, even for one day. There is a

> promise to "Download bank and credit card information", but that has a

> footnote in very tiny print that says, "Online features require Internet

> access and are subject to change."

> The 3-year "sunset" policy for Quicken quotes has been well-known for

> several years and has been discussed here many times. It SHOULD be

> disclosed on the Quicken package, but I don't see it.

> If I choose not to buy another Quicken package before the Spring of

> 2012, I will not be surprised - or feel cheated - if it stops

> downloading quotes at that time. I won't be "forced" to do anything. I

> will be able to continue using Q2009 for the rest of my life, but

> without the convenience of downloading quotes. I will have received

> what Intuit had promised me (even if it was less than I had hoped for).

> Having said all that, I agree that it would be nice to have available a

> source to continue downloading quotes into Quicken. And free would be

> nice. ;<}

> RC

I respectfully disagree, buying a software product is not a subscription
to a magazine. It should continue to work as it worked the day that I
bought it. How would you buy a toaster that would stop working after
three years with a stipulation to buy another "improved" version. the
only reason Intuit is doing it is to squeeze out a few more dollars from
you.

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Nathan Gutman

Posted by John Pollard on February 26, 2009, 9:17 pm

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Nathan Gutman wrote:

> I respectfully disagree, buying a software product is not a

> subscription to a magazine. It should continue to work as it worked

> the day that I bought it. How would you buy a toaster that would stop

> working after three years with a stipulation to buy another

> "improved" version. the only reason Intuit is doing it is to squeeze

> out a few more dollars from you.

You are wrong. It does not matter what you "think" you bought.

First: you did not BUY anything except a license to use Quicken: a license
defined by Intuit. And that license is the equivalent to a subscription
when it comes to downloading.

Toasters do not connect to the internet. If, and when they do: you will
face some version of the situation you face with Quicken. If you can't
comprehend this ... you are doomed to your self-inflicted dissatisfaction
and anxiety.

You DO NOT OWN Quicken. Period.

If you do not like the arrangement: use some other product.

[Your ignorant comment that "the only reason Intuit is doing this" is that
they want to make more money shows how little you understand about how the
world works: corporations are in business to make money ... not to give
away their product. Find another product that serves you better: you will
never change the way this product works, because you are totally out of
touch with reality.]

--

John Pollard

Posted by R. C. White on February 27, 2009, 10:06 am

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Hi, John.

>> the only reason Intuit is doing it is to squeeze

>> out a few more dollars from you.

> how little you understand about how the world works: corporations are in

> business to make money

And so are we all! And rightly so.

What always amazes me is any person who condemns a business for wanting to
make a higher profit - and then goes on strike, or changes jobs, or angles
for a promotion, all for higher wages! Doesn't he see that his own
motivation is exactly the same as what he condemns the business for?

It's just human nature, I suppose, to fail to connect the dots to see that
the business owner's profit motive is exactly the same as the worker's goal:
to support his family. And the shopper's goal is also the same: to buy
that support as economically as possible.

One of my favorite quotes is from The Twelve Cannots, often attributed to
Abraham Lincoln:
"You cannot help the wage earner by putting the wage payer out of business."

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Using Quicken Deluxe 2009 and Windows Live Mail in Win7 x64)

> Nathan Gutman wrote:

>> I respectfully disagree, buying a software product is not a

>> subscription to a magazine. It should continue to work as it worked

>> the day that I bought it. How would you buy a toaster that would stop

>> working after three years with a stipulation to buy another

>> "improved" version. the only reason Intuit is doing it is to squeeze

>> out a few more dollars from you.

> You are wrong. It does not matter what you "think" you bought.

> First: you did not BUY anything except a license to use Quicken: a license

> defined by Intuit. And that license is the equivalent to a subscription

> when it comes to downloading.

> Toasters do not connect to the internet. If, and when they do: you will

> face some version of the situation you face with Quicken. If you can't

> comprehend this ... you are doomed to your self-inflicted dissatisfaction

> and anxiety.

> You DO NOT OWN Quicken. Period.

> If you do not like the arrangement: use some other product.

> [Your ignorant comment that "the only reason Intuit is doing this" is that

> they want to make more money shows how little you understand about how the

> world works: corporations are in business to make money ... not to give

> away their product. Find another product that serves you better: you will

> never change the way this product works, because you are totally out of

> touch with reality.]

> --

> John Pollard