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babylon: charging you $6.99 for retrieving your lost lincense ?!?

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urlwolf:
I bought babylon long time ago when I was learning English, and forgot about it till recently. Since now I'm studying another language again, I could benefit from Babylon again. Since the newer versions don't add any live-or-death functionality, I'll stick to my old version.... but I forgot my license details.

Watch their emai!

I find that service borderline insulting.
We all know that maintaining a db with all keys from all users do not cost Babylon 6.99 USD.
In fact, the cost is negligible, considering that 99.99% companies in the world do this for free.

This is a dirty trick, and the world should know.
Now, I cannot use my purchased software. Great.

> Dear urlwolf!
> Thank you for taking the time to write to us.
>
> How to retrieve your license
>Restoring your license and setup file will cost a one-time fee of 6.99   
> USD.
>This  fee is for a service provided to our licensed users  who wish  to 
> keep their license in our record and provide it to them upon request 
> with no further fee.
> This is  much like a lifetime insurance - Babylon will provide you your 
> code no matter how much times you will request for it or ,  how many 
> times your computer will be formatted and the registration details will 
> lost.
>
> To purchase - use this link:   
> LINK
>After you have purchased ELS you may contact me in order to shorten the 
> process and I will be happy to resend your licnese details.
>
> Thank you for taking the time writing to us.
>
> If I can be of further assistance, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
>Kind Regards,
--- End quote ---

Darwin:
Fargin' bastiches. I've never come across that one before, I admire its creatvity but from a consumer's perspective, that's pretty low. Thanks for the warning!

mouser:
That's very messed up.  :down:

masu:
I don't like their license structure either.

E.g.
they charge for the same amount in € as in us $, although the € is much more valuable as the dollar at the moment

sri:
Speaking about the product itself, can it translate a group of words (i.e., a selection of sentence or sentences)? If it doesn't, is there any alternative (freeware preferred) for German->English?

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