The said:
You protest WAY TOO MUCH John. One reason this group exists is
because of the lack of support from Intuit as you well know.
You
have supplied many a user with patience and understanding in
helping
them work through or solve a problem (that they were not able
to get
help for elsewhere).
You yourself run older versions of Quicken until all the bugs
have
been discovered or make it to the knowledge base. You spend
untold
hours paralleling Quicken 2005 before trusting to use it
yourself.
This is only partly right; I did want to know how newer versions
worked, but as much to see for myself which value judgements
made here corresponded with reality as that I was fairly certain
that one day, I would have to start using some new version.
I highly suspect you do all of this because you feel Intuit
support
is crap.
Not really; I never think of that. I think the comments about
Intuit's support here are largely meaningless. They have no
context; little or no relation to reality. I believe that
Quicken users are basically getting the support they pay for.
Personally I am not willing to pay a lot more money for Quicken
so someone can get stroked by Intuit's tech support staff. My
sense of it is that the vast majority of those whining about
Intuit's support haven't got a clue how difficult/expensive it
would be to provide unreproachable support.
Ever notice how many people adamantly refuse to pay Intuit for
support ... under the false assumption that it is owed to them.
And what limits do you suppose they would ever accept on what is
"owed" to them. I believe that the number of questions posed
here represents a very tiny fraction of the number of questions
that would be posed to Quicken support if it were "free". And
how many of the questions posed here should be paid for by
Quicken users who took the time to either figure it out for
themselves or to look up the answer at Intuit's support site, or
to look up the answer in the archives.
And when you read the level of nastiness demonstrated by many of
those complainers, you might also remember that no one likes
hearing that sort of hateful derrogatory insulting and often
profanity laced speach. You're not going to find a lot of
highly qualified people who will sit around a take that crap ...
definitely not me. Here, I do not have to worry about Intuit's
reputation one way or the other; no one can run me out of here
because they think I am not acting like a subservient Intuit
employee. If I leave it will be on my own terms.
Also because of this, I suspect you have had little
experience dealing with Quicken "support" on new and unknown
problems
in recent years (post USA).
You are correct, I have not had much experience with Intuit's
Quicken support. Virtually everything I know, I learned by
trial-and-error, and by reading this group. The closest I come
to knowing the specifics of Intuit support are the transcripts
of chat discussions that occasionally get posted here.
But I wonder how much any person knows of the total quality of
Intuit support; how many "issues" are dealt with by Intuit each
day; what percentage of those are issues posed by people posting
here? If Intuit were dealing with 5000 issues each day, and 5
of the results were posted here, would you feel you had a good
insight into the quality of Intuit's responses?
You have been here long enough to know their support is not
highly
thought of, ESPECIALLY for new problems.
Can't argue with you there. Doesn't mean I must agree with the
underlying notions expressed by those who are unhappy. As I
said, I think the entire issue is a crock; the quality of the
support is closely related to the price being paid for it; and I
don't believe the whiners would be willing to pay for the level
of support that would end their whinings - they've certainly not
offered any evidence to the contrary.
If you ignore every other consideration, could you say "Intuit's
support for Quicken could be better"? Of course; but it is the
context that matters. I could say the exact same thing about
every company that I ever dealt with that has ever provided
support; and I got some very good support from a couple of
companies (and in one of those cases of good support, there was
still a separate, non-company-sponsored newsgroup to supplement
the company provided support).
But like I said, the comments here are *necessarily* out of
context; we are missing all the pertinent information to include
in the cost/benefit analysis. Without a *lot* more information,
we have no benchmark to compare to. For example, it would be
silly to compare the desired "free" Quicken support to the
company support I referred to above - it cost my company
something like $1200 a year for that good product support ...
and while we liked what we did get, that didn't stop us from
turning to the newsgroup for even more (and more economical)
"support".
I will at this time say "Baloney" back to ya guy

I will
followup
in the next couple of days explaining my view point on
Intuit's
"corrupted data scenario" and why I believe it is not at all
necessary (especially in this close group) to document this
with
transcripts. Don't be silly, John
Sure wasn't trying to be: just trying to point out the level of
hyperbole that gets thrown around here: lots of statements, very
little support for them. And some comments do not deserve quite
the same level of consideration as others.
The bottom line: even if the poster was correct, even if Intuit
*required* every support session that could not be resolved to
be ended with the sugggestion that the problem could be
corrupted data ... what is the problem with that? What would be
a better alternative? What if the opposite was true, what if no
mention was made of the possiblity of corrupt data? Then what
if the problem really was corrupt data? Isn't it better to
suggest that people with unresolved problems consider the
possibility that they might have corrupt data, rather than say
nothing about the possibility?
Most of all, thank you also for being as helpful as you have
been to
the members of the group.
You are very welcome.