Quicken Sucks!

[LSB]

Do not buy quicken. They charge for support after the sale.. It is
ridiculous

[SAx]

I know. The nerve. How dare they charge for a service they provide.
And how dare a mechanic charge you for work done on your car after you buy
it.

LSB <lbe...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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[EMattson]

You mean that you pay for warranty repairs? Intuit wants to
charge you just to tell them that their software doesn't work.

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[SAx]

You're right. The software doesn't work. That's why so many people,
including myself, use it without any major problems. Tell you what - if
it's so bad, why don't you just return it and go back to tracking your
finances without it.

EMattson <emattson...@eznet.net.invalid> wrote in message
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[Bob Flaminio]

"EMattson" <emattson...@eznet.net.invalid> wrote in message
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> You mean that you pay for warranty repairs? Intuit wants to
> charge you just to tell them that their software doesn't work.

Intuit does not charge for bug reports or fixes, the analogical equivalent
of warranty work. If you call the support line, and the answer turns out to
be "bug", you will not be charged. If you call, and the answer is "RTFM",
you will be charged.

That seems fair to me.

-Bob

[Vic Markey]

RTFM ?
"Bob Flaminio" <b...@flaminio.com> wrote in message
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[EMattson]

Let's see now. When I ask for a capital gains report sorted by
short vs long term, Quicken gives me short, medium, and long
term.
Medium gains haven't existed for several years now. When I want
transactions for investments limited to an "OTC" in memo, I get
all transactions. It ignores my selections. My portfolio report
totals for stock accounts don't match the totals shown in the
account report. Quicken really works great doesn't it? I won't
even mention the bug that they finally fixed where they
multiplied
the cost of a stock by two instead of dividing when there were
stock splits.

I wrote software for 40 years and I know bad software when I see
it. I don't have to do my finances manually. There is other
software available, or I may write my own.

[Bob Flaminio]

"Vic Markey" <mar...@erols.com> wrote in message
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> RTFM ?

"Read The (Friendly) Manual". In this context, a question that could have
been answered merely by reading the manual or help screens, but the user
chose instead to call Intuit.

-Bob

[Fred H Smith]

So why are you still using Quicken? Why don't you switch to Money or design
your own spreadsheet?

Regards,
Fred.

"EMattson" <emattson...@eznet.net.invalid> wrote in message

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[Bob Flaminio]

"EMattson" <emattson...@eznet.net.invalid> wrote in message
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> There is other
> software available, or I may write my own.

Please let me know when the demo of your personal finance application is
available.

-Bob

[Ken Schumm]

Quicken is very useful. That doesn't mean it doesn't suck.
All kinds of useful things suck. Quicken has gone from a
non-sucky usefulness to a sucky usefulness over the last
five years. If the current trend continues I figure that
Quicken will be simultaneously useless and sucky in about
five more years.

Previously, Fred H Smith wrote in alt.comp.software.financial.quicken:

> So why are you still using Quicken? Why don't you switch to Money or design
> your own spreadsheet?
>
> Regards,
> Fred.
>

> "EMattson" <emattson...@eznet.net.invalid> wrote in message
> news:3ad76699...@usw-ex0105-040.remarq.com...

> > Let's see now. When I ask for a capital gains report sorted by
> > short vs long term, Quicken gives me short, medium, and long
> > term.
> > Medium gains haven't existed for several years now. When I want
> > transactions for investments limited to an "OTC" in memo, I get
> > all transactions. It ignores my selections. My portfolio report
> > totals for stock accounts don't match the totals shown in the
> > account report. Quicken really works great doesn't it? I won't
> > even mention the bug that they finally fixed where they
> > multiplied
> > the cost of a stock by two instead of dividing when there were
> > stock splits.
> >
> > I wrote software for 40 years and I know bad software when I see

> > it. I don't have to do my finances manually. There is other

> > software available, or I may write my own.
> >
> >

[Gan...@pobox.com]

Still Sucks! Worse then ever!

Any idiot could automate the tasks that quicken separates into multiple
tasks.

Only a moron from Intuit could forget that computers were invented to
automate receptive tasks.

[Michael Brunner]

I am using the German Quicken since version 3 and have not really seen many
useful features added to it in the meantime but a lot gimmicks which make it
more and more difficult to understand especially for a new Quicken user.
When looking at the manual the opposite has happened: it used to cover
nearly everything and is now about one-third of the former size and hardly
worth the printing cost.

[Dan Kimble]

Unless you do as I have. Still running version 6 with no thought of
upgrading. I installed a trial version of 2000 for about 10 minutes before
uninstalling it and going back to 6.

Dan Kimble

Ken Schumm <kwsc...@qsolv.com> wrote in message
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