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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:39:28 GMT, Victor Roberts
<Vic@RobertsResearchInc.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:49:44 -0500, "David J. McCartney"
><djm@novadirect.com> wrote:
>
>>I know that this was/is primarily a concern for TurboTax users, but it is
>>refreshing that for once Intuit responded to the vocal objectors:
>>
>>http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,826594,00.asp
>
>I really like the part that said:
>
>"Gulbransen said a sales agent had mistakenly told at least one
>customer that the software could not be transferred from one machine
>to another, setting off the controversy. "
>
>This policy was POSTED on www.turbotax.com. I made a copy. Does
>Gulbransen mean to imply that their Web site was written by one
>employee and never checked by anyone else (like their legal
>department), or is he lying, or does he really not know what is posted
>on his own companies Web site????

Intuit also responded quickly, in the same way, to
vocal objections before. They dropped separate 
QuickBooks 2000 tax table charges for each company 
using QB, instead of for each copy of QB, when we 
boycotted.

Despite my leading the attack against this practice, 
I am now one of 11 founding members of the QuickBooks 
Advisory Council, which Intuit formed to help it make 
QB better. I respectfully submit I got my post partly 
because I have long felt that pressuring Intuit is the 
best way for us to get better products AND by far the 
best way for Intuit to make more money from more users 
in the long run.
 
This time Intuit responded even faster, but like many 
I do not feel it has gone far enough. That is why I 
have two new web pages calling for a continued boycott 
of the U.S. version of TurboTax 2002 & the Canadian 
version of QuickTax 2001 & QuickTax 2002. All wrongly 
infect systems with C-Dilla, in the same way many
time wasting viruses infect computers.

http://blocktax.com/turbotax_2002_boycott.htm
http://blocktax.com/boycott_intuit_canada.htm

I am also calling for a boycott of QuickBooks Canada.
It wrongly couples forced frequent tax table updates,
which are rarely needed, with program updates. This
results in excessive base prices for Canadian small
business users. I would not say so if Intuit Canada 
had responded to my prior posts. Even worse, the 
Canadian license agreement has a provision that lets 
Intuit disable access to user payroll data.

I will gladly add prior & current TurboTax C-Dilla
web policies there, as soon as I get them. This is
not a matter of wanting to damage intuit, on which
my clients, I and most small businesses depend. It
is matter of matter of aggressively working with it
so that users and Intuit get more from each other.

After all, who among us has done enough right to have
the 88.2% market share QuickBooks has in the U.S., 
with its other products close behind? 

Please help yourself and TurboTax with feedback at
www.intuit.com/support/turbotax/ttaxwin_feedback.html

Please also help Intuit Canada with your feedback at
www.intuit.com/canada/quicken/support/support_feedback_product.html

We can and should protest unequal treatment and bad 
business practices everywhere, especially to friends
like Intuit.


   Mike Block, QuickBooks Tax Cut CPA, 954-566-7540
     Charter Member:  QuickBooks Advisory Council
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