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I've used Excel to track my finances for a long time and have been considering purchasing a product with more financial intuition and capability. This would be a great opportunity that you could provide me with! Thank you!
Excel can be great, but I end up spending days on end trying to make a perfect budgeting spreadsheet, only to scrap it after a few months.
If I don't win this, how else will I be able to budget myself so I can buy a house for my move at the end of the year?
Help!
Would like to have a free copy, rather than spend $80!
The Paypal link should be terrifically useful! However what did you mean by "in theory"? Does it not work?
Slightly more seriously, I've been using Quicken since the DOS days, switched to Money about 6 years ago, but I'd love to give Quicken a spin again. And I hope the data converter is more reliable now!
Signed,
Thinking Positive
As a beta tester, can you give any tips on how to get on their program? I've applied a couple of times and never really heard from them.
Thanks for all of the great blog entries and chances like this.
A few months ago, I opened a Wesabe account to get a better categorized view of where my money goes. I thought my wife and I had a hole in every pair of pants we own, but this proved my theory wrong. We have been able to selectively identify certain categories where spending reductions can be made, and this has helped us increase our 401k contributions in 2007.
Wesabe's price (free) is great. My only issue with Wesabe is the lack of reporting options. You associate each transaction with one or more tags, then you can view a bar chart using one tag at a time. That's it. For example, everything food-related I tag as "Food" and something else. "Groceries" for groceries, "Dinner" for restaurant-purchased dinners, "RWork_Lunch" for my lunches out with work peers. I would love to be able to see a monthly trend of multiple combined tags. Also, it would be nice to be able to filter out based on certain merchants or locations. But alas, "you get what you pay for" in the end.
If it's in the cards, I'd love to have a copy of Quicken 2008, particularly because I use Paypal money market services. That account does not work with the Wesabe Uploader desktop utility.. I have to download an OFX file from Paypal and manually upload to Wesabe every week.
Thanks!
Reagan
Until I win the lottery, I will have to settle for a free copy or a 5 year old unopened box of Quicken. In this case, that means I have to wait till the year 2013 to try this version.
I used Quicken for year on the PC format and loved it. When switching to a mac almost 2 years ago the transition was move painful that a stubbed toe on a cold morning. With the mess that it created I set about a quest to find a satisfactory substitute, behold, I am still on my quest. I have tried SO many that I almost have memorized all the small details of every account I have from setting it up so many times! (That is not something I ever wanted to do.)
I find myself tempted to go back to Quicken for Mac and give it one last shot. From what I hear it has greatly improved with this last update.
If I were chosen for a free copy (as long as its a mac version) then I will even provide you with a review in return if you want.
Thanks again, love your blog.
Useful,
I
Can
Keep
E-Bills
Nice!
MS Money
Quicken 2007
Wesabe
Other Web 2.0 Apps
Homebrew Excel Sheets
Nothing has delivered an absolutely excellent experience so far. Having a knack for anything analytical, and seeing true value in reviewing financial analytics, I have been consistently let down by the aforementioned offerings. Hopefully Quicken 2008 has made a few changes to that! We'll see. In any case, I'd love to have a go at the software and see what I can find!
Thanks for the great posts, Flexo.
Save my brain! Give me Quicken. Make me a convert. :)
Now if I were to use a FREE program that I WON, I could still call myself Frugal. :)
thanks so much.
Su
i also have a small business, owning a couple of rental properties.
this would be greatly beneficial on both fronts and i would appreciate being considered.
i just upgraded to 2007 earlier this year because i was forced to. will this release of 2008 require me to upgrade once again?
Or should that be long time reader, first time commenter.
I'm a long time Quicken user. I'm using Q2005 so I have to upgrade this year to keep online updates active. And I have always taken the frugal method and got by with the Deluxe version. I'd appreciate a chance to try Premier.
I also have 2 kids, a hubby that likes to spend way more than he makes and a lot of grey hair because of the stress of it all!
If I win, I might have less grey hair, which would be great! :) Thanks
I've been using Quicken for about 11 years now. Back in the day it used to bum me out when I ran a Net Worth report. Nowadays, it cheers me up (I've been in positive territory for several years now.) I generally update every other version, so I'm due.
I'm in the process of building a secure, isolated 'Quicken PC' that does nothing but financial stuff. (My neighbor was hacked after her kids downloaded some trojan on their main computer.) This would be great timing.
But, seeing as how I'm #56 commenter (maybe later by time I hit submit), I'll just say "PICK ME, PLEASE!" :)
I am working on re-making/tracking our budget now with new circumstances. I am out of work with cancer (at 31 years old?!), leaving us on one teacher's income (disability won't kick in for a while) instead of two.
In the mean time, our house is literally falling apart (an addition a previous owner made is pulling away from the rest of the house).
While having great software won't fix the problem, it sure would make it easier to keep track of things.
I used Quicken in the 90's, switched to Money 2003 3 years ago, but started learning QuickBooks in a class & would like to go back to Quicken.
Am eternally attempting to get the finances squared away--and to train my husband how to use the software! (Or to train him to WANT to participate in the attempt to keep track of finances!)
Sometimes a new product can work magic!
I never win contests, but thought I would try!
Thank you for the opportunity.
Please enter me in the drawing.
I would appreciate a copy. I have refrained from buying these type of software, fearing that they might be a waste of money, and instead use Excel manually. Perhaps the copy can change the impression, and a lesson to learn that sometimes, little money invested properly is worth the price.
Thanks.
I also wish that Quicken would offer a better upgrade program, the best I could find was an email offering $20 off Premiere. I'm wondering if the new features are worth the price with the small amount of new features and am looking forward to your review.
Thanks for the site and I hope I win so that I can see my 401k going up again (well, with the market right now, maybe not going up exactly, but you know what I mean...It's the long haul right?)
good luck all
Though I use PayPal,
Old Quickens do not help me,
So I need Oh-Eight.
No more hand-typing;
Need to download split data -
Reconcile quickly!
1. You can now REALLY backup to a CD and burn the saved data directly from within Quicken, without having to deal with the XP burner separately. That alone might make the upgrade worthwhile for many people.
2. They changed category 'classes" to the new "tags" without any clear explanation of having done so in the Help file. Very poor transition. However, I'm interested to learn from you that you can use more than one tag for a transaction...I don't think that was possible with classes.
david
It would be very useful to have a program that would help me manage my finances; I've never really gone beyond the basic Excel list of income & expenses (I wouldn't even call it a budget).
Quicken 2008 sounds like it'd be awesome to help continue down that path...especially as the versions really only last so long.
Anyways, thanks for the website, I read it through RSS feeds every single day.
I would love to receive a copy! I took your advise on a dishwasher, I begged my husband to replace and it is still going strong and a energy saver. Your awesome!
Thank you.
I personally never used Quicken since I have MS Money. This could be very interesting to compare both of them.
I find that for general record-keeping, it is a very good product, although the reporting features are lacking. I use OpenOffice Calc to make my quarterly reports.
Thanks again for the chance to win!
and thank you.
It would be great to receive a copy of Quicken.
I don't see the value in upgrading to Quicken 2008 based on the reviews and feature lists. But 'free' is an unbeatable value - free market economy rules!
Thanks for all your great work and thanks for putting up the Quicken Copies.
Cheers,
Manoj
Keep up the good blog. I read every week.
Perhaps I'm just helpless...