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Sorry but I do not want unsolicited email on these issues.  I read the group
for a reason and get enough spam as is.

"Mike Block - Tax Cut C.P.A." <mblock@blocktax.com> wrote in message
news:b16e2vgg6qasa4puo5n7q3dqdqil9t1hfu@4ax.com...
> 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
> >>
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> >
>
>
>    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
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