http://www.fivecentnickel.com/2009/01/05/quicken-2009-discounts-for-the-new-year/ personal finance tips, tricks, and commentary Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:49:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.fivecentnickel.com/2009/01/05/quicken-2009-discounts-for-the-new-year/comment-page-1/#comment-127682 Jack Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:13:51 +0000 http://www.fivecentnickel.com/?p=2518#comment-127682 I've been using Quicken since the DOS days - use to love it, now I tolerate it. Its still the best value in personal finance sw out there, but its the small things that have started to irritate me. Like the constant embedded ads - never seen that in purchased sw before. And the 2 year support cycle - that is incredibly short. And now the latest discount offer - "$20 off and free shipping" - but if you want the CD-ROM they charge shipping! The shipping is only free for the download option, where there is no shipping! I've already switched from Intuit TurboTax to H&R TaxCut because I got tired of the Intuit mail-in rebate scam. Now I find myself looking for an alternative to Quicken as well. The sw is good but I hate being jerked around and deceived by excessive marketing and sales deceptions. I’ve been using Quicken since the DOS days – use to love it, now I tolerate it. Its still the best value in personal finance sw out there, but its the small things that have started to irritate me. Like the constant embedded ads – never seen that in purchased sw before. And the 2 year support cycle – that is incredibly short. And now the latest discount offer – “$20 off and free shipping” – but if you want the CD-ROM they charge shipping! The shipping is only free for the download option, where there is no shipping! I’ve already switched from Intuit TurboTax to H&R TaxCut because I got tired of the Intuit mail-in rebate scam. Now I find myself looking for an alternative to Quicken as well. The sw is good but I hate being jerked around and deceived by excessive marketing and sales deceptions.

]]> http://www.fivecentnickel.com/2009/01/05/quicken-2009-discounts-for-the-new-year/comment-page-1/#comment-127494 thomas Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:38:00 +0000 http://www.fivecentnickel.com/?p=2518#comment-127494 thanks for the deals! thanks for the deals!

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