This answered a question about Intuit's business practices that had bugged me: Why would any company bite the hand that feeds it by cutting off a customer from a lucrative online service? Now I had my answer: They wouldn't. If you'd like to avoid losing your online services without having to pony up for a Quicken upgrade after three years, you should try playing it, too.
As with the classic game of chicken , in Quicken Chicken both contestants must be at risk. You're already at risk. The trick is to put Intuit at enough risk that it will fold before you do. First, you need to be, or become, a Quicken Bill Pay customer. Then hold off on buying a third-year upgrade for as long as you can, certainly long enough to have prepared your taxes for the new year.
This also gives Intuit time to fix bugs in the new version. In my case, I believe, Intuit was itself holding out so as to get as many paid upgrades as possible before it caved by offering the freebie.
Apparently the company had figured that by late February, the risk of losing Bill Pay income finally outweighed any benefit from further pressuring the remaining holdouts to pay.
Challenging Intuit to a game of Quicken Chicken may not work for you. But it's worth a try. Once this report is published and the word is out, Intuit may change its strategy. But I still think that the longer you hold out -- even until early April if you can -- the better your chances of being offered a free upgrade.
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