Rush (the band); "He knows changes aren't permanent; but change is." The question to Intuit is do we like this change?
I woke up this morning and went to amazon. Like years past I wanted to order my CD. Like many here I could not find it except in downloadable form. I get that it's the same, but now I have to jump through too many hoops. Can't just load and go. Now I need an Intuit account, great. Another user ID, another password. You see, not all of us use the cloud, not all of us have our computers remember passwords and user Id's. We don't all have data on our phone. We don't need GPS to get to grandma's house. We still use an atlas when going on a long trip. We don't need a contacts list to find a phone number we've been calling for years. Like many of you, I looked for another program that still had a cd but couldn't find one. Then I thought, maybe I'll just do them the old fashioned way. Download the forms, send them by mail. Then I thought, maybe I'll just pay someone to do it. How would Intuit like that? Fact is, I like doing my taxes. I liked getting a turbo tax CD. Now what? So I read 20 pages of Intuit Community today, and now I'm writing this.
@VolvoGirl Who states “You'll get used to it. It will be ok.”
Like pumping my own gas? Like paying for air in my tires? Like self checking out and bagging my own groceries? Sounds like corporate talk to me. You must work there.
Oh, I see, I can pay extra for a CD, if I want millions of them to go to landfills? @taxlady28
I already pay extra to have my milk in a glass bottle,of course they give me my money back when I return the bottle. Same with bottles of Soda; I pay more, but they can be recycled. I don't like plastic. I just quit buying Nathan's pickles (even though I like them) because they just started using a plastic jar. Now I buy Claussen in a glass jar. When THEY took my Pepsi and put it in plastic. When THEY decided on plastic every thing, and then wonder why microplastics are harming animals and fish. You have to first know who the THEY are. THEY are the ones who told you, “You'll get used to it.It will be ok.”.
As for the TT CD, my local trash takes the cardboard cover and the plastic cover in my recyclables. And GreenDisk services (https://www.greendisk.com) recycles Cd's..... Of course a person has to want to do it. While we know that only about 9% of plastics even get recycled... At least I tried. Recycling, another THEY thing.
@vonpadraig “I do not understand why you have ANY difficulties importing using the DOWLOAD version.”............ It's called compassion/empathy especially for the elderly. @distoff
@xmasbaby0 who states “@dlstoff You really should read more of this thread. We have put the information here multiple times.”.... Let me understand this. Instead of buying a disk from amazon you want me to download. Then, I have to make an intuit account. The account then asks for my phone number instead of just giving me a conformation through my email which was the first box. Now, if I wander around in there (or go through pages and try to find the right hyperlink) maybe I can get my licensed code.... This is like pounding sand compared to just having a disk from the store.
So, here is my answer to Intuit. I protest. You should still make both, I don't even care if you charge more. I will download this year. But I prefer the disk myself, and would hope that you see how many people do as well. Also, I find it appalling that you need my phone number to text me a conformation, and can't just do it through the email. It certainly lacks privacy, something we barely have anymore thanks to THEY. What about people who don't get text messages?
