Is it just me or has anyone else come to realize that when you see that a return has been “Accepted” by the IRS and the amount of refund is proudly displayed in your App, webpage, whatever; it really means NOTHING?
I’ve recently discovered that that status is about as informative as a read receipt for an email. It tells you nothing but that the data is now on another server.
Not one **bleep** thing more.
Apparently, the poor corporate managers at the starving not-for-profit company of Intuit are so desperate for any scrap of money they can get that pulling this kind of snake oil, used car sales, predatory, reptilian tactic is required.
And I’m sure that I’m to blame for not knowing this, of course. I clicked “I Accept” on the EULA or the terms or whatever gets the lawyers all wet when they think about how they’re shafting another 10 million average joe schmucks out of their $50 or $100 bucks. I had the opportunity to pay more (twice as much) to have actual CPAs check the math. It’s my greed and lust that caused me to miss all the numerous and obvious warnings that I might get denied the amount of refund I was expecting to get (because that’s what the application kept parading in front of my greedy eyes.
It is really pathetic. It means nothing in the long run and certainly nothing to you, Intuit. It was my mistake to count on that amount of money to be used on getting a car so that I can work my plebeian job, to keep my dinky little home. I’m really not worth the trouble of being even SLIGHTLY more transparent about the actual meaning of a status indicator for my measly little refund.
I mean seriously, so I only got $1400 of the $4300 I greedily expected to actually get. And which is still prominently displayed every. single. time. I log into your product.
I deserve what I get if I actually believe a company might not con me out of another $50 without a thought. They’re struggling here folks. There are so many other competitors in this market, oh wait….
Great job Intuit! You really do yourself and basically all greedy capitalists a fine example of what it is all about.
Putting one more nail in the coffin of the idea of a thriving, happy middle class in this country. Or happiness itself, for that matter.
And the great thing is it’s all our fault!
