Quicken 2008 rebate?

Anybody know if the boxed versions will include a rebate? Trying to decide between pre-ordering from Intuit or waiting for Costco to get stock.

Reply to
Tracy McKibben
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I'm still running and still relatively happy with Quicken 2002. What, pray tell, is the BIG rush to get Quicken 2008? Reminds me about something that P.T. Barnum was alleged to have said.....

Reply to
sharx35

there have been significant new features introduced since Q2002 that, for a lot of people, are well worth upgrading. I'm personally also anxious to see the next round of improvements and bug fixes in 2008.

Reply to
Steve Larson

Although I run a later version you do, I completely agree with your point. I look at what's new each year and decide whether to upgrade or not. I typically upgrade about every other year.

One new feature that I find useful is the ability to attach scanned images to registry entries. I'm now storing a lot less paper.

Reply to
Ken Blake

The major new feature this year, at least to me, appears to be PayPal integration...

Reply to
Ben

If you are running 2002, I'd guess that you don't use downloads from your financial institutions. It is definitely worth upgrading for that alone. Personally, I'm going to buy 2007 on EBay for $12.50. That also has the advantage of having been debugged for a year. 2008 will probably have problems for the first six months.

Reply to
JimH

The reasons for upgrading vary depending on each person's needs. I'd never be able to manage with Quicken 2002.

What Quicken 2002 does not have:

- No saving of check/bill images

- No downloads from financial institutions and the PayPal integration in

2008 will be very useful for me. Even if Q2002 had some downloads, it's for a far smaller list than Q2008

- The download format used in Q2002 for whatever it can import is older and less detailed.

- Lamer stock management tools. Personally I think the Q2006 stock tools were better than the Q2005 tools, so I can only imagine how lame Q2002 stock tools are. Been so longer I don't recall.

- No nice profit/loss projection tools if you use the H&B version.

- None of the improved catorization of home and business expenses if you use the H&B version.

- No easy catorization of deductions if you use the H&B version. (It's improved in Q2008)

- No new calendar gadget that works outside of Quicken.

And if you're using Q2002, I figure you're not planning to move to Vista anytime in the future?

I guess I could have stayed with the first release of Quicken that I used many years ago, it's been so long I don't even know when I started. Probably before Q2002. But having used newer versions I know I'm not looking back. You'll never know what you're missing if you never try something new. They do have the 60-day trial period.

I did skip Q2007 because of all it's issues, but the suggestion of considering a purchase every other year is probably the best advice.

Reply to
Hawk

Ben - where did you see this new feature listed for Q 2008? I'm curious to see what else is new if indeed there's an authoritative source about the contents!

Reply to
Andrew

Never mind - I didn't realize that Intuit updated their website already. Geez, this looks kind of a dull release. Since I don't use Paypal, doesn't seem terribly exciting.

Reply to
Andrew

BOOOORRING.

Reply to
sharx35

After hearing about all the problems people have with such downloads? I think not. It takes me, on the average FIVE minutes a day to ACCURATELY enter that data the old-fashioned way, MANUALLY.

It is definitely worth upgrading for that

Reply to
sharx35

The above reasons are just so much bullshit--the result of SUCKERS buying into Intuit's marketing hype, i.e. creating a BULLSHIT need where there wasn't one before.

Reply to
sharx35

Every other year? Not a chance.

The only reason I update is to prevent "sunsetting."

Reply to
Notan

Well, for me, I'm currently running Money 2006, and next year will be forced to upgrade to the latest version of Money, or switch to Quicken. Money 2007 offered absolutely nothing new, and Money Plus brings along the joys of product activation. Not to mention, thus far the trial version of Money Plus is PAINFULLY slow.

I'm "kicking the tires" with a trial version of Quicken 2007, and the speed difference alone vs. Money is worth the pain of switching. I'm anxious to try out Quicken 2008 so that I can settle on a product and start feeling it out before having to make a decision next year.

Reply to
Tracy McKibben

Tracy, I never have tried Money. I started on Quicken back in 1994. It seemed like a Godsend at the time, it so helped me organize my finances. Warts and all, it serves my needs.

Reply to
sharx35

Wait. It's never cost effective to order directly from Intuit.... Best if you can wait until TTAX comes out (Nov?). Most places like Staples bundle discounts and rebates that, in some years, amount to a free copy of QD....

Reply to
Hank Arnold (MVP)

Because it's there....... ;-)

Seriously, many of us will try a new version of a program just to try it..... It's called "bleeding edge"... :-)

Reply to
Hank Arnold (MVP)

Time for you to get a life. Living on the edge, based on some finance software, isn't exactly earth shattering. Software manufactuerers..indeed, almost ANY manufacturer, depend on people of questionable intelligence who just HAVE to have the latest model of something...even though it may indeed be a lesser product. Bankruptcy attorneys and accountants make a good living off these people, too. By HAVIING to have the latest and not necessarily the best, they all too often end up bankrupt. GET A LIFE based on something more profound than finance software.

Reply to
sharx35

Based on what the web site said is new, I've pretty much decided to skip the 2008 version of Quicken. But since I always buy TT anyway, I also always check to see if there are good package prices for the bundle of the two. If there are and it comes close to being free, I may change my mind and get QW2008 after all.

Reply to
Ken Blake

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