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July 01, 2003
Intuit Tech Support HorrorEmail This EntryPrint This Entry
Posted by Stowe Boyd

I have been through a hellish few weeks, updating a lot of software on my PC, as well as working like a maniac, so I have been really bad at blogging. But I must get the following off my chest.

Today, I had a chat session with an Intuit tech support guy where he suggests that printing was a feature that had been disabled for the release of Quicken Premier I have. Come on. That's the weakest bull I have ever heard.

The support area offers a search capability against the "knowledge base" and I got 757 hits for "Adobe Acrobat 6.0 printing problem with Quicken 2003 Premier" -- none of which had anything to do with my keywords.

Time to sell Intuit short.

But even more amazing was a pop-up survey trying to determine the level of satisfaction I had for the support experience.

Yikes.


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robert on January 24, 2004 09:58 PM writes...

last year I could not efile my tt return. of course, intuit's online help was useless.... and was never able to solve the problem. I had to print and file it...but, at least the program worked.
alas this year, the program crashed continually....the program is actually worse than last years.....
at least intuit is consistent- I tried online help again, and it was totally worthless.
here goes... I installled tt2003 deluxe on mac os X panther...everything smooth until I get to the sch A business expenses. afetr completing the section and hitting return, the program crashed. well, tried again and crashed 5X. I give up signed up for chat hep- waited for 20 minutes- and the help says "reinstall the program." Ha ha ha. yeah sure, but to humor them I did it. guess what, it did not work.
Intuit basically sucks. they appear to unleash their tax program on the public w/o actually making sure it works. too bad there isn't more competition for this PATHETIC PROGRAM.

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