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Do You Purchase Software on Impulse?

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zridling:
After two decades of buying the latest and newest, I finally began to wean myself from the (software purchase) impulse. Now it's moved to chess books, chessboards, and pieces. On top of that, since the USDollar is less than half the value it was just a few years ago, all my favorite software has in turn double or tripled in price, to the point that I can no longer justify the cost.

This came at a good time for me, since several open source apps have matured to the point where I only want to use them. Now instead of impulse spending, I can donate on impulse when I finally have some extra money.

Renegade:
Arrrgggghhh!! The US dollar! I'm not happy about it's position right now. You got that one bang on there Zane!

I'm looking at buying a software license that's around 10,000 Euro. Ouch. I've got all my "software" money in USD. That hurts! Heck. The Canadian $ is worth more! (Depending on the day...) But still! The CAN vs. the USD? Huh?

For a lot of personal stuff I just go for free or cheap. I don't need anything else quite often. (For many things I can program it myself! And have fun doing it! :) ) When it comes to the business side though... I'd rather just shell out a few bucks and be done with it. But that US dollar thing does make things much different.

Renegade:
This just in from the registration email I got from that software...

You can be sure that you get free technical support lifetime.
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That just makes me feel that it was definitely worth the purchase no matter what (even if I only use it once or twice). Some developers have a great attitude like that, others don't. I like supporting the ones with the good attitude.

However, I have had impulse purchases go bad... Thankfully this one is looking very good! :)

Curt:
Do You Purchase Software on Impulse?
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Every program I have (except for Office 2003 and security programs) was bought on impulse
- discounted or not.


A bigger problem may be that I don't actually need all these programs...

allen:
I've gotten better about it, but I still have the occasional "Drink too much, crave a new app to play with, buy the first thing I find" occurrence. It's how I ended up with a Core FTP license fairly recently.  I was struggling with a bad ftp connection and it became obvious I needed to use other means of uploading files than I was presently using, as neither my text editor nor rcftp handle their connection being dropped mid-transfer well at all.  I decided it was time to shop around for a new ftp client, and wanted to use one I'd never used before. Discover a little known, great ftp application.  Enter CoreFTP.  It's not the *worst* ftp client I've ever used . . . but certainly the most disappointing one I'd ever paid for.  After purchasing I came to find it offered almost no keyboard shortcuts, and really in general just isn't a contendor for "Best" or even "Good" ftp client, all things considered.  To make matters worse, feature requests, bug reports and general inquiries go unanswered -- support is allegedly offered via e-mail for paying users, but I'm not having any luck with it.

Long story short, impulse buy that turned out to be money thrown in the wind.  The upside is, my horrible experience with Core inspired me to bring my CuteFTP license up to date.  Much better.

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