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Article #435Re: PC Mag Tax Software Review
From: Christopher Browne
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:52
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:52
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After a long battle with technology,"pissed off" <p@p.com>, an earthling, wrote: > "JA" <nspam@quest.com> wrote in message > news:v4kv1fq1q14n84@corp.supernews.com... >> I'm complaining and letting others know there are good alternatives - >> taxcut and taxact > > I'm aware of those alternatives. I'm just waiting until the end of > the month in case Intuit should decide to reverse themselves. I'd > hate to go out and buy one of those other programs, learn it and > then find out that Turbo Tax has been freed of this albatross. If > Intuit sticks to its decision, then I will abandon them for one of > the alternatives, and start looking for an alternative to Quicken as > well. It may be well and nice that they reverse themselves; it is still fair enough to punish them for having treated customers shabbily. That they reverse their position does not diminish _one iota_ that Intuit management were entirely prepared to treat you and others badly. For you to, in turn, abandon them as a result of them having such disrespect for their customers is a /totally just/ recourse. -- To err is human, to really screw things up requires a computer.
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From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.financial.quickbooks,can.taxes,us.taxes,alt.accounting,alt.privacy.spyware,misc.taxes,alt.biz.accounting
Subject: Re: PC Mag Tax Software Review
Date: 12 Feb 2003 23:52:32 GMT
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