Cheap Quicken Deluxe 2006 [Old Version] (Software) (Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP) Price

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Customer Reviews of Quicken Deluxe 2006 [Old Version]

Synchronizing Financial Institution data is a bad joke
My wife thought getting Quicken would make getting our financial info together and keeping it updated a breeze. We got this in late 2005 and started setting it up in January 2006. After entering loads of information and trying to get the online update to work with all of our various banks / credit cards / investments, it now sits idle, a year later. A total waste of our money and time. If you think that this is some well designed program that will make keeping tabs on your finances simple, think again. I have an accounting background, I am comfortable with collecting and collating financial information. Quickbooks just doesn't handle the easy quick update data well, and it still requires that you be diligent and enter transactions and categorize expenditures. If you have the discipline to do this, and you are already doing it on spreadsheets, etc., then you may like Quicken. If not, you'd better be prepared to invest even more time into organizing and categorizing your finances.

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Make your life easier -- look elsewhere for business software
It's a nightmear. I could write for hours how it makes seemly uncorrectable mistakes -- and you come that conclusion after hours of trying and getting nowhere. Calling tech. help just makes things worse, and then they charge you for the "help." It's not worth your time and money, it really isn't. 2006 was a BAD year for quicken -- they should stop upgrading their product and start upgrading their design, development, and customer service.

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And the third choice is...
I've been using Quicken since 1990, though I'd hesitate to say I'm a loyal user. Oh how I wish there was a company to come out with an alternative to Quicken or Money! Like the two internet services available locally, both are expensive and both provide poor service, but they are the ONLY TWO AVAILABLE. JayD's review below, "A less extreme view" is so true. So is the one by "Jo Gusto." The 2006 version of Quicken implemented a feature that rendered my carefully maintained database of investment accounts tied to on-line downloads utterly unmanageable. I probably would have gone back to the 2005 version, but I know that Quicken eventually disowns previous versions and makes it impossible to download tranasactions AT ALL! Us Quicken users are like Charlie Brown who always thinks he'll be able to kick the football only to have it pulled out from under him by Lucy. We buy the new version because SURELY they will have fixed the bugs only to find the old ones AND some new ones! Aaaargh!