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List Price: $59.95
Our Price: $35.00
Your Save: $ 24.95 ( 42% )
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Intuit
EAN: 0028287019133
Feature: Bring all your personal finances together in one place
Format: CD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Intuit, Inc.
Manufacturer: Intuit, Inc.
Model: 406483
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Intuit, Inc.
Release Date: 2008-09-09
Studio: Intuit, Inc.
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Features
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Bring all your personal finances together in one place
Get a snapshot of monthly spending, set savings goals and track your progress
Never miss a bill— stay on top of bills due and paid
Connect to online banking and credit card accounts with one password (on services require Internet access and are subject to change)
Make tax time easier— capture all possible deductible expenses
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Greed Kills!
Comment: I can trace the start of my disappointments to about 7-8 years ago. This was when they started what I now refer to as "Relentless Marketing".
How many Quicken mail and email offers did I get each year? Dozens.
Phone calls? Lots.
For a (deluxe) product selling for about $60.
But that wasn't enough. BESIDES that there was constant blunt instrument pressure: "you should upgrade for only..."
And the marketing icons on your desktop.
Auto-installed trial software and demos.
And more.
This is the state of business today. Customer service, support, maintenance, innovation, value: pretty much out the window. The strategy of the day is MARKETING uber alles. Short term thinking to make money this minute; the heck with tomorrow!
Nowhere was Quicken's change of philosophy more evident than when they started Quicken Loans. Low monthly payments. Look how much house YOU can really buy. You CAN have it all!
How many interest-only loans do you think they made?
Think they're making a lot of loans right now?
Do you think Quicken will be a "mortgage-crisis" casualty?
I'll bet there were a lot of mouths in that trough - how to feed them now?
I speculate that the 2009 release is an effort to generate more cash, fast, before things get worse. Even if it doesn't "save" the business at least the execs will get their bonuses and golden parachutes.
Somewhere I think I still have a set of floppies from 1996 or so.
Used to upgrade about every 2 years. Some new heights in the some revs, but agree with the consensus: the trend has been diminishing returns.
I will maintain hope but it's sad to watch a formerly great company to continue go down the tubes.
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Summary: good product
Comment: The only reason I gave this only 4 stars is because I found it a bit difficult to use right out of the box. I used Money for so many years that I found Quicken a bit confusing a first. Made many errors in the beginning. Quicken help desk is great which I would give them 5 stars.
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Summary: Worth the Money to Upgrade, Even from Deluxe 2008
Comment: I recently upgraded to Quicken Deluxe 2009 from the 2008 version of the same product. I have no regrets, and believe it was well-worth the money. I find the program works smoother and faster for me than 2008. Converting my data files was a snap, and I have experienced no problems downloading transactions from my bank. Not purchasing Quicken 2009 immediately upon release may account for my lack of issues with it. I always wait until my bank insures compatibility with a new version before I buy it. The delay also gives Intuit time to correct any bugs that existed initially.
The graphics are fresher and brighter for 2009. The task bar is a welcome addition. Navigating through the program is easier than in previous versions.
If you use personal financial software several times each day, as I do, then this upgrade is easily worth the price in the improvements present. If you are considering Quicken for the first time, I am aware of no other financial management package that comes to close to the quality and features found here.
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Summary: Quicken quagmire
Comment: I have used Quicken for longer than I can remember. The most recent version was 2004 Deluxe on a Windows XP Home SP3 PC, and I made a grievous mistake when I blindly chose to buy Quicken Deluxe 2009 for my new Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 PC. My condolences to the folks troubled by transaction download problems. Quicken Deluxe 2009 is an obnoxiously gimmicky and propagandized interface that foists numerous links to Intuit products and services which distract from the use of the software. It stubbornly ignores stored preferences. Its backup fails capriciously. It stores memorized transactions like a deranged hoarder. Quicken's technical support staff make long-maligned DMV clerks look like five-star waiters. If I am lucky enough to get through to a live (leaving definitions of life aside for now) chat agent, they eclipse the ability of teenagers to procrastinate, misunderstand and break away. Email support offers an equally courteous and misguided approach to problem resolution. Blame the Vista OS and reinstall the program after scrubbing the hard drive with a belt sander are the preferred responses, usually after deciding that my stated backup hard drive is a CD drive and my carefully worded questions are unworthy of direct response. This product and its service are disgraceful.
Customer Rating:
Summary: 1 Star is probably too generous
Comment: I've used Quicken for personal finances for 12+ yrs. It always worked OK despite occasional bugs. It ALWAYS downloaded transactions from my VISA card bank and other banks. To me this is the most important feature of Quicken. My current version is Quicken 2008 Deluxe. After we had to switch to Chase VISA this summer, I was successful at downloading transactions from within Quicken only once. I've tried using their suggested work-around (go to Chase and download from there). That option worked once or twice, then quit. For the past 6 months, I have used the Windows VISTA operating system. I'm sure this is part of Quicken's problem, but not much I can do about that.
I have regularly upgraded the software in hopes of getting around problems, but after reading the reviews here, I'm not upgrading to 2009 any time soon. It looks like I am stuck entering transactions by hand for the foreseeable future. Any suggestions will be appreciated--ALOT!!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Quicken 2009 Deluxe Win CD Retail Small Package MIR.
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