OK to buy Quicken H&B 2006 from eBay?

I use Q99. Have been for years and its done me well

I want to upgrade to Quicken Home and Business 2006 cause I want to use "savings accounts feature.... and also maybe start a small home based business

Having said that I was ready to order from buy.com for $80 when I decided to se what eBay had.

To my amazement I can get Home and Business form eBay for abt $25! Is this true? Its says a sealed package as well.

I've never ordered anything from eBay. Do I have to setup and eBay account to BUY something? And will I be OK getting it from eBay?

Thanks in advance!

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me
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I've bought many items from Ebay over the course of several years. In fact, I just picked up Quicken deluxe 2006 from ebay for about $15. Just check the seller's feedback rating. Also, you should either pay by money order or PayPal (much faster, as they get their money right away, so they ship it right away). You set up an account with paypal and designate a credit card for payment. They do the rest. It's more secure than giving strangers your CC#. Once your account is set up, anything you buy on ebay can be paid for via that account (providing the sellar accepts paypal).

It's also very satisfying that Intuit didn't profit from my transaction. I like that a lot.

Hark

Reply to
Harkhof

A disgusting motivation ... and an incorrect evaluation. When people stop buying from eBay sellers, eBay sellers stop buying from Intuit. Hope you dislike that a lot.

Reply to
John Pollard

Yes, you can buy with a significant degree of confidence from eBay (though there are never any guarantees). Look for sellers with many thousands of sales, and an extremely high satisfaction rating (at least 98%, but you can do better than that). Make sure you buy a product guaranteed to be new, and one that can be legally registered ... legitmate sellers will provide the guarantee.

Reply to
John Pollard

If its a legal copy, Intuit most certainly did 'profit' from the sale. A distributor may not have, a B&M retailer may not have, a rebate processing company may not have, but Intuit certainly derived some revenue from the sale.

Reply to
Clark W. Griswold, Jr.

That is such a base and idiotic statement. For starters, if it is a legit Quicken CD, Quicken must have sold it or else it was stolen. In which case you consort with criminals just to have the dubious pleasure of driving the company whose software you use out of business.

If you don't like the software or the company that makes it - stop using it.

You seem to reject a basic, fundamental principle of a capitalist society - that an institution should be rewarded if it produces what the market wants. You would be better off in a socialist or communist society - oh! I forgot. The USSR collapsed under staggering incompetence and the Chinese are liberating their economy - so you can't find a working model of a socialist economy anywhere on the planet. Which really defines what you are - an outcast from human society with the basest of motives.

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Mike

If Intuit profited from the sale, it can't have been their full profit margin, given that the reseller had to make *something* out of the $15. Unless, of course, you're contention is that Intuit makes very little profit as a rule :). I would find that very hard to believe indeed.

As for my motivation, given Intuit's record of poor customer service, their agenda to squeeze every dime out of the customer that they can and their deceptive pre-sales reps, I'd say my motivation was entirely justified. If you or anyone else doesn't like that, too bad. They are fortunate in that their software is the best out there, but that won't carry them forever. In the interim, I'll never pay Intuit's full price. Of course, I'm not an Intuit groupie.

Hark

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Harkhof

As I told John, the software is all they have going for them, but competition will eventually catch up, and when it does, they'd better change their act if they want to continue doing business.

You seem to reject a basic fundemental principal of American society - freedom of speech. A company should receive reward for its efforts. It's greed and lack of integrity that I take exception to.

Heh! You compare me to a socialist simply because I dislike being mistreated by a company whose lack of integrity has reared its ugly head too many times? Have you considered the possibility that you spend entirely too much time in this group?

Hark

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Harkhof

"The software is all they have going for them"? You are a moron; that is all they intend to have going for them.

How long were you planning to wait for the competition to "catch up"? Obviously you have not been paying attention.

Mike can speak for himself, but you are clearly deluded; we are just as entitled to expose your ignorance as you are to express it. THAT is freedom of expression.

You have absolutely no proof of any lack of integrity by Intuit; but your unsupported claims definitely fall into the lack of integrity category.

How could Intuit "mistreat" you? If you use Quicken, you use if voluntarily. If Quicken were such a terrible product and Intuit such a terrible company, and you just continued to use Quicken ... that would make you a complete ignorant hypocritical ass.

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I consider the possibility that you have spent too little time getting in touch with reality.

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John Pollard

Perhaps you are just pretending to be ignorant ... but I doubt it's pretending.

I like the fact that you are a fool who is badmouthing the product you keep buying and ignorantly telling yourself that you are taking advantage of Intuit. And they say there is no justice.

You mean "they are fortunate" by accident? Oh you do expose yourself.

I am so happy to tell you how wrong you are.

You're not anything.

Reply to
John Pollard

Heh! A fool is one who makes statements when he knows not what he's talking about. I speak of Intuit regarding my personal experience with them on more than one occasion. You, however, speak without experience other than this and one other thread in which I refused to see your point of view, yet in one paragraph you label me 'ignorant' and a 'fool'. Shall I label you an Intuit nazi?:) I much prefered it when you were their groupie. Please be a groupie again, J.P.

I "ignorantly" buy their software because it *is* the best out there. Their customer service and marketing practices, however, are steamy piles of excrement. Given that you seem to consistently respond defensively, I imagine you must sell or somehow represent Intuit (if not, you've got bigger problems than my opinion of Intuit...). If so, perhaps you could put a bug in their ear about their marketing practices and the way they treat their customers. I'd really appreciate that. Thanks in advance.

No. They make great software. They suck at customer relations. Why are you unable to make the distinction between the two? Are you unable to form objective opinions?

If that's a request, you should know that that sort of act is considered indecent and illegal. And anyway, my nature goes against such things.

There you go drawing those flawed conclusions again. It's a principal, J.P. Nothing lasts forever and all empires fall. You can read all about it in any history book you like. There are those who ride the wave as long as they can and those who hasten their own fall. I suppose you can guess as to which camp I believe Intuit falls into...

I'm wounded. Deeply.

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Harkhof

More namecalling? Please, John. I don't condemn you for endorsing Intuit. Why should you be so offended that I hold an opinion that differs from yours? Why do you take it so personally? These are questions you should take up with your therapist. Is it your contention that anyone who disagrees with you is a 'moron'? If so, you should consider the reality that those who believe such are generally self deluded fools. Please don't be a self deluded fool, John.

I see. You believe it's all over, huh? Intuit sits on the throne and shall forevermore? Rather shortsighted. Again, John, hit those history books.

Am I really John? Then what's with the nazi bit? I expressed my opinion and you immediately attacked me. Something's wrong with that, don't you think? And if it is my ignorance, what is it to you if I expose it? A fool will always expose himself eventually. If I am such, why are you so defensive? After all, as all can see, I'm just a ranting fool, right? Won't everyone see that without your attacks? Why are you so threatened by a simple difference of opinion?

I need prove nothing, JP. This isn't a courtroom. It's a forum. You know, where people come to express their opinions?

Please John. Try to show a little class. If you are unable to make the afore mentioned distinction between technical savvy and poor relational skills and marketing integrity, perhaps you should spend less time proclaiming the 'ignorance' of others in order to address your own. Could be a good thing.

Perhaps. One can always benefit from a reality check. I suppose it's be asking too much of you to make the attempt as well? Do please try.

Hark

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Harkhof

{snip}

oops - game over, you loose (by rule). Alas, you were doing well :-) {snip}

-- Pete Gebel pfgebel(deletethis)@crisperiodcom Have the best day possible - all things considered

Reply to
tanstafl

And who exactly is their competition?? Microsoft??? ROTFLMAO!!!

Reply to
Hank Arnold

OK.... This thread is officially boring................

Reply to
Hank Arnold

Ok thanks

is it true that Q Home and Business 2006 wont work with Win XP service pack 2?

Reply to
me

I'm running it without any problems on XP Home with Service Pack 2.

Reply to
The Streets

You know how the competition usually catches up? By people actually

*buying* the competition's software. Your way, you are not funding the competition, you are funding Intuit at a level that makes it *impossible* for them to provide decent customer support.

Go spend your $$ with Microsoft or Moneydance or any one of the other vendors. That way you can put your money where your mouth is.

"Greed is good" - Gordon Gekko.

Briefly, but then I considered who asked the question and decided that the questioner is so morally confused that I need not consider any question originating from such a dubious source.

Think about it - you buy Intuit software, yet you complain about them abusing you - yet you continue to buy their software. What does that make you? Intuit's monkey? I bet when you have problems with their software you call up the helpdesk and then complain because you get the lowest-cost support. Arrgh! oh well...

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Mike

Does anyone know if MoneyDance has savings accounts/goals like is in the new Quicken?

What I mean are quasi accounts one can setup when saving for new car, refrigerator, furniture,etc

I don't have that in Q99 and think I could REALLY get use out of it

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me

AFAIK, moneydance allows you to setup sub accounts under accounts and you can then transfer balances into the sub accounts. Never got as far as experimenting with that.

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Mike

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