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On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 16:26:42 -0400, "Schooner"
<schooner@accesswave.ca> wrote:

>Mr Block - Please remove me from you mailing list.  I did not request the
>email you sent on this subject nor do I want to discuss this issue via
>email.

Sorry, I emailed this to only 2 users that
I thought would be particularly interested.
Schooner and I exchanged email before.

>"Mike Block - Tax Cut C.P.A." <mblock@blocktax.com> wrote in message
>news:131e2v45nt4abrjjh9iegp4teee85k4185@4ax.com...
>> 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
>> Lowest QB Prices   http://blocktax.com/lowest_QuickBooks_prices.htm
>> Free 462p QB Book  http://blocktax.com/free-quickbooks-book.htm
>> Error Codes/Fixes  http://blocktax.com/quickbooks-errors.htm
>> Shortcuts Download http://blocktax.com/quickbooks_shortcuts.htm
>> 200 QB Add-ons
>http://blocktax.com/quickbooks-addons/quickbooks-add-ons.htm
>> admin@localhost,abuse@localhost,webmaster@localhost,postmaster@127.0.0.1
>


   Mike Block, QuickBooks Tax Cut CPA, 954-566-7540
     Charter Member:  QuickBooks Advisory Council
Lowest QB Prices   http://blocktax.com/lowest_QuickBooks_prices.htm
Free 462p QB Book  http://blocktax.com/free-quickbooks-book.htm
Error Codes/Fixes  http://blocktax.com/quickbooks-errors.htm
Shortcuts Download http://blocktax.com/quickbooks_shortcuts.htm
200 QB Add-ons http://blocktax.com/quickbooks-addons/quickbooks-add-ons.htm
admin@localhost,abuse@localhost,webmaster@localhost,postmaster@127.0.0.1