[octobersky]

Thanks for posting this info! Tax Cut it will be this year!

[VMI70]

Question I have: I have used TurboTax forever. Can those files be transferred to TaxCut?

[FR_addict]

I have been using TaxCut for many years. I almost decided to give TurboTax a try. Glad I stuck with TaxCut.

[Sir Gawain]

This is old news.

[johnandrhonda]

And I recently found TurboTax Deluxe at Sam's club for a lot less than I paid buying it direct from TurboTax as a repeat customer. Really pissed me off.

[George W. Bush]

More spying defeated. Intuit should know better than to try it. The real pirates weren't going to fall for any lame ancient C-Dilla spy scheme anyway. Hard to believe Intuit was stupid enough to think this would go unnoticed. They've given themselves a black eye for no good reason.

[newgeezer]

TaxCut has always been the better product.

This spyware thing is just the latest in a long line of glitches and gotchas in the lousy history of Turbo Tax.

[gatex]

TurboTax failed to send me the $10 rebate last year -- and then returned as "undeliverable" my second request. I was already peeved, since they were offering me a direct order, as an old customer, at $10 more than I could buy TurboTax two weeks later at Office Depot.

This year I bought Tax Cut ---the box says "seamless imports from TurboTax, Quicken, and Money."

[jpl]

How thoroughly depressing; a once respectable company turns into a scumware propagator. They'll lose most of their business for this.

[dpwiener]

I sent the following email to the executives listed on Intuit's web site:

-----Original Message-----
From: Wiener, Daniel
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 1:37 PM
To: Steve_Bennett@intuit.com; Scott_Cook@intuit.com; Bill_Campbell@intuit.com
Cc: Dennis_Adsit@intuit.com Sonita_Ahmed@intuit.com; Tom_Allanson@intuit.com; David_Belle-Isle@intuit.com; Mark_Bercow@intuit.com; Steve_Blundell@intuit.com; Craig_Carlson@intuit.com; Elliot_Cooperstone@intuit.com; Caroline_Donahue@intuit.com; Linda_Fellows@intuit.com; Brooks_Fisher@intuit.com; Jim_Grenier@intuit.com; Jennifer_Hall@intuit.com; Brad_Henske@intuit.com; Bill_Hensler@intuit.com; Kozo_Hiramatsu@intuit.com; Russ_Hobbs@intuit.com; Bill_Ihrie@intuit.com; Bruce_Johnson@intuit.com; Larry_King@intuit.com; Lisa_Lang@intuit.com; Jeff_Langston@intuit.com; Bob_Lasser@intuit.com; Bob_Lawson@intuit.com; Ginny_Lee@intuit.com; Dan_Levin@intuit.com; Miles_Lewitt@intuit.com; Dan_Manack@intuit.com; Bernie_McKay@intuit.com; Bob_Meighan@intuit.com; Bill_Mirbach@intuit.com; Ken_Mudge@intuit.com; Lorrie_Norrington@intuit.com; Carol_Novello@intuit.com; Michael_Potts@intuit.com; Enrico_Roderick@intuit.com; Pankaj_Shukla@intuit.com; Melanie_Singer@intuit.com; Fran_Smallson@intuit.com; Tom_Spencer@intuit.com; Raymond_Stern@intuit.com; Jill_Ward@intuit.com; Donna_Wells@intuit.com; Sherry_Whiteley@intuit.com; David_Windley@intuit.com
Subject: Insulting software

I just finished reading Walter Mossberg's column in today's Wall Street Journal. I am appalled.

For many years now I've been a loyal Intuit customer, as a quick check of your computer records will reveal. I've regularly purchased the federal and state Turbo Tax packages for individuals, as well as the Corporate Business packages. They all worked very well at very reasonable prices, and I had no reason to even look at your competitors. I was just about to again purchase your products to prepare our 2002 returns.

Now you've lost me, just as I'm sure you have lost many, many others. I shall instead buy from one of your competitors who demonstrates more respect for its customers.

I shall not use Turbo Tax again.

Sincerely yours,

Daniel Wiener

[meyer]

Well well well....

I'm sitting here with a sealed box of turbotax that I think I'll return to the store. I guess I'll be doing taxes by hand this year. Lets see, enter the amount from box 1a on line.....

[SamAdams76]

This "SafeCast" applet has been a PR disaster for Intuit. Whoever dreamed this up at Intuit sure lost Intuit a lot of money. I wonder if he still has a job.

[TroutStalker]

Morning bump.