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Instant Home Design (4 CD-ROM)

Instant Home Design (4 CD-ROM)

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS
Review: DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY WITH THIS PROGRAM!!!!! I cant believe that the manufacturers of this thought it would be something that someone would buy! I wish I had read the reviews before I bought this, but mistake learned, and I will NEVER buy Topics Entertainment CD program AGAIN!!!!!!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: ABSOLUTELY WORTHLESS
Review: DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY WITH THIS PROGRAM!!!!! I cant believe that the manufacturers of this thought it would be something that someone would buy! I wish I had read the reviews before I bought this, but mistake learned, and I will NEVER buy Topics Entertainment CD program AGAIN!!!!!!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: horrible software
Review: Dont know who created this product. That team should be ashamed of creating such a good-for-nothing software. the pictures are very poor quality. Even the kids games have better quality pictures. DO NOT BUY EVEN IF ITS FREE

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT
Review: I bought this software (at Best Buy) thinking it was going to have many of the features that it advertised such as "instant" home design. I just wanted to have fun and build my fantasy dream house. Boy, what a lemon product. My computer froze EVERYTIME I tried to embark on a project. None of the disks worked. Directions were confusing. It was such a disappointment. DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT. (Note: Best Buy has the WORST return policy of all. Avoid shopping there. In addition, their credit card department is a sham. Bad customer service.)

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT
Review: I bought this software (at Best Buy) thinking it was going to have many of the features that it advertised such as "instant" home design. I just wanted to have fun and build my fantasy dream house. Boy, what a lemon product. My computer froze EVERYTIME I tried to embark on a project. None of the disks worked. Directions were confusing. It was such a disappointment. DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT. (Note: Best Buy has the WORST return policy of all. Avoid shopping there. In addition, their credit card department is a sham. Bad customer service.)

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Not worth it
Review: I thought it sounded great....but I couldn't figure out anything. I am returning it to get something better. It's almost like you just take pictures of different sizes and try to make them work. If I wanted to do that I would just use clipart. Not worth it!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Awful! Not meant for modest home owners...
Review: I thought this might help me with plans & ideas for remodeling my cape. Well, this program doesn't acknowledge modest, middle-class homes. I read the back of the box, and this seemed to be a good program. I was so disgusted & frustrated by the time I was done trying to use it for my home. I would have been better off trying to use the good old-fashioned pencil and paper approach.

What a waste of my money and time.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Useless...
Review: I thought this would have more potential based on what the back of the box said and how this program "compared" to the other similar programs! I was so frustrated and disgusted by the time I was done! Not everyone out there has a big, sprawling house... I have a simple cape that I want to do some remodeling on and this program basically ignores any thing of reasonable/modest size - so if you have a modest size house DON'T waste your time or money with this you're better off drawing it yourself with paper and pencil!!!!!

If I could I would give it "0" stars.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Instant Home Design Isn't
Review: I'm getting ready to have a house built and I wanted to do some planning for options, upgrades, and furniture placement. I was looking for an inexpensive software package instead of having to draw the house with pencil and graph paper. I ran across this as a cheap alternative to the more expensive "CAD" type programs. "You get what you pay for" is very true in this case. My first complaint is in the packaging of the product. While the product tells you it can perform many functions, it really doesn't inform the buyer of the extent of it's functionality. I should have realized something was amiss when the comparison chart includes the stat that this product has 4 CD-ROMs while the others only have 1! It claims you can start a room from scratch, but don't even try starting with a 2D floor plan. If you don't have a photo, this program is pretty much a boat anchor. I decided to try and model a room first. The installer program installs the first disk and then runs the program. There are no follow on links to install the rest of the CDs. After loading the first CD, I searched for the room design function and couldn't locate it. Realizing it must be on CD#2, I tried to install it, but the autorun program for installing #2 crashed. It installed fine using the start menu Run command. This program is very non-intuitive. For instance, once you set a room size, there is no indication of where to go and change the room properties. While searching for it, every time you click on an icon, a movie-tutorial starts up, which really doesn't seem to explain what you want to do, but what you are doing. Even the help index brings up a movie. No wonder it takes 4 CDs. Most of learning this program seems to be mouseclick trial and error. This program doesn't even have a mouseover explanation of what the icon does prior to clicking. I'll be returning this and spending a little bit of money on a better package.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: ** LEMON AUCTION **
Review: I'm putting this piece of garbage up for auction just too see how low of a price i will get for it.

1 cent bid ? it's your's LOL.


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