Purchase Q2008 Premier on Ebay

For one thing, based on online reviews, a LOT of people think it's junk and are very unhappy with it. Claims are that Intuit doesn't fix known bugs and they do not reply to customer complaints.

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Umm... because it costs just a dozen cents to create a counterfeit CD?

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I bought the subject package as Les mentions, to migrate from Q05->Q08...not because of features (Q99 would still serve me well)...but because of "subscription" renewal. Yeah, Intuit sunsets the online services every 3 years. How long will it be before they do it anually?

I'm not convinced that my eBay Q08-Premier CD is counterfeit. Perhaps you might expand on how one tells, other than the obvious of finding p*rn video clips in the subdirectories.

Cheers, Jim

Les wrote:

Ebay is pretty miltant about unlicensed software sales, so I suspect it's OK.

-- "Tell me what I should do, Annie." "Stay. Here. Forever." - Life On Mars

One thing you can do is to check "the inner circle of the CD. If it is an authentic CD, the Intuit name, logo and the word "authentic" will appear in a hologram around the middle of the CD."

Hmmm. Mine just says "Intuit", "310077 "- and type to small for my eyes. It does not say "authentic. There is some kind of design and what looks like a bar code.

I checked again with better lighting and it does also say "Authentic". Cost me about $35 including shipping on EBay. Could it have been stolen from a store? The box also has one of those little white things that I think are scanned to catch shoplifting.

That's interesting John, thanks for the info. So..."You are bidding on a brand new version of the 2008 Quicken Premier. These are Brand New, Factory Sealed RETAIL Discs ONLY!" does raise questions about whose "Factory", if what you say is true.

Thank aga> Jim Larkey wrote:

The Intuit link below has images of what the hologram should look like.....interesting.

A high-level Intuit support person has said that Intuit believes that CD's sold in the box on eBay are generally authentic; while no downloadable versions of Quicken sold on eBay are legitimate.

I have made 4 Quicken purchases on eBay; never been disappointed. I didn't even require that they were in the box; just not pirated, never used, never registered, seller guarantees. [I had no problem registering any of them.]

Yeah, so what else is new?

People have been saying that for years, and Intuit does not seem to be at all concerned about it.

Look for the Trojan that sends your financial account info to a server in Russia. If you find one, then I would say it is counterfeit.

John P.,

Just curious... did the four versions of Quicken you bought on eBay all have the Intuit hologram logo on them?

As I reported here before, a couple of years ago I did end up with a bootleg disk from eBay. I discovered that when I noticed a few extra files on the CD -- p*rn videos! Nothing like that on the current disk.

John B.

Two of the products I bought were for others and I do not have the CD's for them. But I don't think they would have the hologram because they were older versions; see below.

I have CD's for the other two and if there is any hologram on them it is way too small for me to read. The two versions I purchased on eBay and that I have CD's for are Q2002 and Q2004.

I think it's possible that the hologram only began appearing later, maybe as late as Q2006 (which I have a CD for and which has the hologram).

Have you tried registering your Q2008 eBay purchase?

Yes, I registered the '08 program without difficulty.

Per the Intuit site, they started the hologram program in July, 2005, so it's no surprise that your two disks don't have the hologram.

John B.

I'm not sure if Quicken really has any way of checking for legal copies. A friend of mine got a copy of quicken from a relative and was able to install and register it without any problems. There is no serial number to enter (unlike most other programs) so there is no way of Intuit checking to see if your copy is legit.

"Laura" wrote in news:hEsSi.245938$ snipped-for-privacy@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net:

You're allowed nowadays to put the program on 3 machines from 1 CD (at least that's what I remember from my latest purchase of Q2008 US (Deluxe). I installed on 2 machines and registered them at the intuit site (from within Quicken). I have no idea what information was sent to intuit. I do have an intuit.com ID or whatever, which I almost never use, certainly not with financially useful data.

I think there is a unique number for each copy of Quicken. You may not manually enter it in the registration process, but I think Intuit has access to it.