Comments on: Intuit Quicken 2008 is Here! And Here’s a Giveaway!

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:34:37 +0000

I love your pf blog! You offer a lot of great advice.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:12:51 +0000

Boy, I’d love to win a copy- just started using quicken after several years of just checking my online balance and love being able to track income/expenses and net worth so quickly.

By: Kurt Moeller

Kurt Moeller — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:46:25 +0000

First off great website and keep up the great work. I have been learning about personal finance since I got out of college in 2003 and have been constantly evolving, using newer (or many time just different) techniques for tracking my money. Since mid-2005 I’ve simplified my Excel tracking system 4.0 strictly to monthly balance sheets for my accounts with a aimed at budget forecast. I added an income statement in January of this year, though it does get tricky keeping track of everything and cross-referencing it with my 12 solo accounts (checking, savings, credit). And it got trickier getting married this year and adding my wife’s 9 accounts along with our 5 joint accounts. We have different incomes from 1 Rental Property, her Lia Sophia business, my occasional computer consulting business and both our full-time careers. It gets to be almost obsessive to constantly keep track of every penny and where it is going without totally turning her off to the process of financial management. I have tried Microsoft Money 2002, but was not disappointed by the lack of customization in the program for reporting. I love to see reports and analyze numbers, probably more than I care about the budgeting itself. I highly like your monthly process of both income statement and balance sheet and it seems simplified to just download all the info into one program and print out reports, spending more time analyzing and looking for new avenues of income than the busy work of cut and paste each statement into a report. Basically I am ready to give Quicken 2008 a chance after seeing your success with it.

By: GeekMan

GeekMan — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:58:48 +0000

I’ve tried Quicken in the past and have never been able to even get it to work with my banks or finances. I’m willing to give it another try (this would make #4 over the last 10 years) but I’m doubtful it will ever help me.

Perhaps I’m just helpless…

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:56:49 +0000

Great idea. would love to upgrade.

Keep up the good blog. I read every week.

By: PhantomMB

PhantomMB — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:42:24 +0000

I have been using Quicken since 1993 and used to upgrade religiously till Quicken 2003 (or somewhere around that time frame – when the ‘features’ just weren’t worth the money). Currently, I am on Quicken 2007 Premier. I have never tried Money – for fear of how much time I would have to spend on ‘converting’ my data. Nice lock-in, eh?
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

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:37:39 +0000

Flexo–

It would be great to receive a copy of Quicken.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:55:57 +0000

Maybe it is time to graduate from Excel!

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:38:39 +0000

Here’s hoping I can win!

By: foolarch

foolarch — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:34:21 +0000

pick me, randomizer.

and thank you.

By: jnwcmr

jnwcmr — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:10:59 +0000

Thanks for offering the products as gifts. I’ve been using Quicken since “Quicken for Windows v2.0″ ~circa 1993

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!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:03:58 +0000

Yikes! I’m #115 to leave a comment on this post. This is a live example of how when a situation permits arbitrage (making money without no risk), the whole system find a way to re-establish a stable environment. With more than 100 entries, you have much less chance to win. Therefore, you need to make more efforts and be creative in your comment if you want to have chance to win. So we went from a simple “Sounds interesting, could I get a copy??” to MS money or Quicken reviews.

I personally never used Quicken since I have MS Money. This could be very interesting to compare both of them.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:05:28 +0000

Okay, if I get this I will give a solid attempt at Quicken-izing my finances.

By: Jon L

Jon L — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:31:24 +0000

What’s more frugal than free?

By: Steve O.

Steve O. — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:00:36 +0000

A copy of Quicken sure would be nice. :D Maybe then I can manage my money well enough to buy some Laker tickets this upcoming season.

By: Di

Di — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:52:16 +0000

I’ve been having a rough time with my personal finance software transition: I was using MSN Money until last year, and there were problems with it – especially when I started my own business and found it was completely unadaptable for situations like mine where work/home budgets are very closely intertwined. I’d be open to trying a new software, especially one that worked with PayPal, since that’s where the bulk of my funds flow through.

By: Kenny Jacob

Kenny Jacob — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:18:23 +0000

Hello!

By: James Trimble

James Trimble — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:46:32 +0000

I’d love to get the new quicken! Sign me up please! :)

By: Holly Williams

Holly Williams — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:16:11 +0000

Hello,

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.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:15:30 +0000

Would love to have Quicken 2008. I have Quicken 2005 and I need to upgrade…

By: MoneyPhreek

MoneyPhreek — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:34:05 +0000

I’m a quicken convertee after having fought with MS money for so many years. I’d love to try the new version!

By: wormbuff

wormbuff — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:35:00 +0000

mmm… windows version :)

By: Chris Murphy

Chris Murphy — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:25:49 +0000

Thanks for the great site and having the Quicken contest!

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:21:03 +0000

Enter me please

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:19:19 +0000

First off, thanks for this opportunity to win this software. I have been using Quicken for quite some time now after Money failed to have access to about half of my online accounts. Created a huge hassle for myself.

Anyways, thanks for the website, I read it through RSS feeds every single day.