changing from 2 dongles (2 databases) to 1 dongle (2lanes)

We recently bought MS RMS 1.3a, even bought support on it. But, our needs have changed we went from thinking we would have 2 seperate databases to just 1 database and needing 2 lanes.

Now, our reseller who thought Microsoft would accept a return and exchange us or allow us to buy the 2 lane dongle informs us Microsoft has denied our return request. Has anyone else had similiar problems? I want to know before i call MS myself to discuss their reason for denying us. I had not know MBS to be unreasonable to customers but this is flat out rude to not allow us to do what we need and waste our 2 database license.

In case i am using the wrong terminology we thought we would have 2 stores with 2 databases now we want 1 store with 2 registers running concurrently.

Regards,

Reply to
Cole Naus
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The policy is no refunds, no splits, no merges. I think it's unreasonable too, but there it is...

You can certainly add a lane to one of the licenses, but they are unlikely to give you a credit for the extra you currently have.

Glenn Adams Tiber Creek C> We recently bought MS RMS 1.3a, even bought support on it.

Reply to
Glenn Adams [MVP - Retail Mgmt]

Yea I got the same problem the VAR over sold me licenses and MS refused to split them. There is a solution, seek out one of the emulator vendors, most will work with you on distributing you licenses as needed. (it's not a violation if you paid for the lanes)

The dongle situation is not good as Safenet (was rainbow) is discontinuing prodution of the sentinelpro so MS will have to do something in the near future...

1: leave people flapping in the breeze like most other software vendors who had obsolite hardware keys 2: or dig into your wallet again (my guess)
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Ron Reyes

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