Buying Quicken '08 on eBay - any issues?

My understanding from Intuit is that there are no legitimate "download only" copies of Quicken "for sale" (except from Intuit).

I have purchased several copies of Quicken at eBay, but always a CD, always unused/never registered. Always from sellers with very high numbers of sales and very high satisfaction rating. Never had a problem (and I registered all those purchases). I would purchase that way again if I had the need.

just a couple of weeks ago I purchased Q2008 Dlx CD to replace my soon- to-be-sunset Q2005. I got it on eBay, with no problems whatsoever. Install was quick, easily converted my old files. Already registered it. Runs fine.

gk> just a couple of weeks ago I purchased Q2008 Dlx CD to replace gk> my soon- to-be-sunset Q2005. I got it on eBay, with no gk> problems whatsoever. Install was quick, easily converted my gk> old files. Already registered it. Runs fine.

How much did you pay? Because I'm thinking if it's a lot less than a normal discount price, it's probably bootleg, and you might as well just steal it with a p2p or torrent.

I'm the "John B." who mentioned buying '08H&B on eBay for a little over $20. I agree with John P. that I would NOT buy a download-only version of Quicken on eBay. I have always bought a CD version and always from sellers with very high positive feedback ratings. My recent $20+ purchase was a bit lucky -- most other sales were for quite a bit over that amount, but I was patient and watched lots of auctions, waiting for the right one. (I find eBay to be lots of fun.)

Having said all of that, I will confess that a few years ago I bought Quicken on eBay from a seller with only a few feedbacks, though positive. The price looked too good to be true, and it turned out to be bootleg. I discovered this when I examined the disk contents and found three or four movie files that didn't look like Quicken file names. They turned out to be p*rn movies!! It was good for a laugh, didn't cost me much, and the seller was off of eBay before you could spell the word "fraudulent." (Footnote: Quicken installed just fine from the disk!) All other eBay Quicken purchases have been completely legitimate as far as I could tell, and all registered without any problems.

Bottom line, I suppose, is that for piece of mind you might want to buy Quicken at Office Depot or the like. For a "deal," and the sport of it, eBay has worked well for me.

John B.

I just bought H & B off EBay for about $35 including shipping "Unopened in a sealed package". Seller has a very high rating. We will see..

Sounds like the same seller I bought from -- 'yousaveonsoftware' -- with well over three dozen positive feedback comments for Quicken '08 alone.

John B.

I bought a digital copy for $12.99 on eBay.

This is the seller's ad:

I have problems with the software but they appear to be the typical Quicken bugs.

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