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Summary: Quicken 2003 is a disaster!
Review: I have had Quicken for 15 years and just upgraded to 2003 version. I have had nothing but problems with it. I just purchased a new computer and have tried to backup my quicken files on a floppy and a cd without any success. Though my original backup is there, I have tried to transfer and copy the
data without any success. It will not allow me to get that infomation. I have lost precious time in what used to be a simple procedure. There is no helpful technical support. I do not recommend this version at all and as soon as I can get out of it, I will go back to an earlier version.
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Summary: Quicken 2003 is a disaster!
Review: I have had Quicken for 15 years and just upgraded to 2003 version. I have had nothing but problems with it. I just purchased a new computer and have tried to backup my quicken files on a floppy and a cd without any success. Though my original backup is there, I have tried to transfer and copy the
data without any success. It will not allow me to get that infomation. I have lost precious time in what used to be a simple procedure. There is no helpful technical support. I do not recommend this version at all and as soon as I can get out of it, I will go back to an earlier version.
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Summary: A software user
Review: I have used Quicken Deluxe for over 5 years, and recently updated from Quicken 2002 to Quicken 2003 Premier. The organization in Q 2003 is much cleaner and informative. The new features in investments are worth the extra cost
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Summary: Do Not Buy Quicken 2003 Premier
Review: I have used Quicken for years and dutifully upgraded each time one came out. Premier 2003 is so horrible I cannot believe I'm stuck with it. It will not let you pay bills online using two checking accounts and the payee list. Instead you can either pay bills strictly from one account or use the payee line to try to fish up the right payee so a PacBell bill could go to the right place if you only have one phone number but if you have more than one then you're just hoping you got the account number right. There online help is a joke, there isn't any no matter what they say. When I finally got through to the company after a lengthy telephone tree they told me they knew there was a problem but that is why I had to use the "get around method" which I described above. They had no idea if or when it would be fixed. And you cannot revert back to your previous version because the software won't let you. Then a couple of months later my payments stopped showing up where my register said they went and had cleared my bank. Today after writing several letter to the online site with no response, I again got through the telephone tree only to be told that I could either use the "get around method" or pay them a dollar ninety a minute to open me a "case" even though they again said it is a problem with their software. I give. Now I'm going to see if I can get MicroSoft Money to import my data and never buy another product from Intuit in this lifetime or the next.
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Summary: Do Not Buy Quicken 2003 Premier
Review: I have used Quicken for years and dutifully upgraded each time one came out. Premier 2003 is so horrible I cannot believe I'm stuck with it. It will not let you pay bills online using two checking accounts and the payee list. Instead you can either pay bills strictly from one account or use the payee line to try to fish up the right payee so a PacBell bill could go to the right place if you only have one phone number but if you have more than one then you're just hoping you got the account number right. There online help is a joke, there isn't any no matter what they say. When I finally got through to the company after a lengthy telephone tree they told me they knew there was a problem but that is why I had to use the "get around method" which I described above. They had no idea if or when it would be fixed. And you cannot revert back to your previous version because the software won't let you. Then a couple of months later my payments stopped showing up where my register said they went and had cleared my bank. Today after writing several letter to the online site with no response, I again got through the telephone tree only to be told that I could either use the "get around method" or pay them a dollar ninety a minute to open me a "case" even though they again said it is a problem with their software. I give. Now I'm going to see if I can get MicroSoft Money to import my data and never buy another product from Intuit in this lifetime or the next.
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Summary: Essential Software
Review: I have used quicken since 1989 and have recently updated once again. The product has improved each time and has become an essential software for folks, from investor to checkwriter. Excellent product! I haven't seen all these pop-up ads one reviewer recalls - possible they were requested during installation...
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Summary: Quicken 2003 no longer has billboards
Review: I read that Quicken recently removed their ads from the product - I just bought the 2003 version and it's true, the ads are no longer there! They replaced them with financial tips and links to features - some of which I didn't even realize were in the product. I upgrade almost every year and this is a welcome change - those ads were a little distracting.
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Summary: Ads and More Ads
Review: I should have bought Money 2003 in the first place. This "redesign" is a joke. The interface is pretty but doing almost anything takes twice the number of mouse clicks as did Quicken 2002. The "improvement" the customer will notice right away is that large Ads have been placed within some of the windows. And there is no way to turn the Ads off in the options menu. I was so disgusted with paying money to get a product that spammed me that I went out and bought Money 2003 Deluxe. Big improvement!! Money 2003 also has spamming ads but they can be turned off in the options menu. The program does everything Quicken 2003 does and has a more attractive interface.
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Summary: Used them all....Quicken is the safe bet
Review: I'm a long time (more than 10 years) Quicken user. My only beef has been that the interface has always veered away from the Windows standards. But it never lets me down. I recently took a mistaken journey and converted to MS Money. What a let down. Money is sexier than Quicken but is missing basic functionality and can't hold my 10 years of quicken data...slow as a snail unless i purged years of transactions. The final straw...the portfolio tracking does not allow for the most basic asset allocations. Doesn't show International asset category. If you only do simple checkbook tracking either product works fine...but if you want to track your whole financial picture...run to Quicken! I ran back to quicken and life is good again!
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Summary: A Monumental Pain
Review: I've spent the last three evenings trying to get accounts properly set-up. I've had a horrendous time importing my brokerage data even though it download all of it from my broker. It doesn't create reports, tells me the data for my stocks are unavailable because the symbol is wrong yet, though the symbol is corrected, it remembers the incorrect one! Nothing to do but delete and re-enter. I've already uninstalled and re-installed the program twice because it doesn't completely erase transactions that are incorrectly entered. Further it doesn't integrate my paychecks properly. After entering year-to-date information and latest paychecks it determined I've earned $-342. from my job! I know I'm not paid nearly what I'm worth but jeez.... It came to this conclusion DESPITE the fact that I cross-checked each entered paycheck and they were entered correctly. And heaven forbid you're a wage earner with different statements every 2 weeks, Quicken likes to assume all your paychecks will be the same. Your company changes its pay schedule? You're screwed. It will demand a statement on dates which are no longer valid. Have a taxable benefit from your company that isn't listed in your pay? No way to enter it! It doesn't import TurboTax 2002 data either! This has been a terrible disappointment. For what I paid, $$. I feel I've been completely ripped-off. The online help is a joke. I hope MS Money is better than this.
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