{"id":4094,"date":"2009-09-15T09:44:29","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T14:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2011-08-15T23:37:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T04:37:02","slug":"im-glad-im-not-the-only-one-who-hates-intuit-quicken-and-quickbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/im-glad-im-not-the-only-one-who-hates-intuit-quicken-and-quickbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Glad I’m Not the Only One Who Hates Intuit, Quicken, and Quickbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months ago, I posted a rant here about my hate for everything Quickbooks and Intuit<\/a>. The problem is, however, that a lot of people use it (so that means I have to use it in many of my investigations) and there aren’t many good alternatives.<\/p>\n

Intuit immediately got their PR people on my situation, and in no time flat I had my refund and a free piece of Quickbooks software. It didn’t make me like them any better<\/a>, however. I knew it was simply an attempt to appease a loudmouthed blogger. (Yes, me.)<\/p>\n

Now that Intuit has purchased mint.com<\/a>, consumers are certain that the currently free (and apparently pretty good) personal finance software will become crappy and not free<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are some great comments posted on Consumerist about Intuit’s acquisition of Mint.com:<\/p>\n

PhilFR: “Ugh. This is a sad day. Mint has made my personal finances infinitely more organized. The only question is which will happen first: will Quicken screw up the product, or start charging for it?”<\/p>\n

Blueoysterjoe: “What, Intuit will buy Mint and suddenly have great ideas about how to run a personal finance website? No. Intuit will apply its crappy ideas to Mint and turn Mint into crap.”<\/p>\n

calchip: “Long ago and far away, Intuit made a great little product called Quicken that sold for 10 bucks. Then they came out with Quickbooks, which in its original incarnation, sold for maybe 100 bucks and did everything.<\/p>\n

More recently, Intuit has turned into a complete and total piece of sh*t company that gives you the privilege of paying $250 for a crappy, bloated, crippled piece of software that nags you every single time you use it to buy more of their overpriced crap, refuses to support a product that’s more than 2 years old, and basically makes a product that is almost unusuable unless you’re willing to pay hundreds of dollars a year for crap that you either don’t need or should have been (and was at one time) included in the basic product.<\/p>\n

I wish the management of this company would shrivel up and die and be replaced by people that actually believe in *earning* a customer’s business rather than shoving services fees down their throats.<\/p>\n

This can only be a bad, bad sign for mint.com. I wonder how long till they ruin it?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, management keeps saying nothing will change with mint.com. I doubt anyone believes them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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