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Scriptcase 9 General
#1

OK, I confess. As a long time subscriber to SC (since version 5), I’ve developed this bitter sweet relationship with it. At times it seems so good that I think “wow”. At other times “why am I wasting so much time and money on this?”

Anyway, back in April I let the subscription lapse and concentrated on another IDE.

Yesterday I get the 40% off offer (I have the PRO version).

Get onto the website and see https://www.scriptcase.net/buy-scriptcase/

  • [B]$239 for the pro version[/B]
OK, pretty good I thought. I'll renew for that.

I go to “my scriptcase” > check offers for upgrade > get to checkout:

  • [B]$431.64 !!![/B]
Wow. Talk about building customer loyalty..... ​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​
#2

Wow. Your sales tax rate must be nuts! :wink:

#3

I received a sort of explanation - seems they have changed the licensing - there is now something disingenuously described as a LIFETIME license. If I understood the fine print correctly it is the old 12 month license.

The other is a 12 months finite license which was presented to me at $239.00 - at the end of tenure no more SC unless the license is renewed.

BTW, the 239 version is $326.46 today WITH the same supposed 40% discount

Note to SC - your deck is burning and your fiddling. And you’ve lost me.

#4

I just had a heated discussion about this over a week ago about their “lifetime” license. Mine was up for renewal and told the chat person lifetime means lifetime and I should have to renew it every year. So I paid for a “lifetime” license and I still have to pay for a yearly license. How stupid is that? My suggestion is don’t by the lifetime license because it doesn’t give you anything.

He told me to read the FAQ and yet that doesn’t tell you what a lifetime license is - although it does say it never expires whatever that means. Talk about deceptive sales tactics.

#5

I’m not sure that it’s deceptive, exactly. I believe lifetime license means you can use it forever. But you don’t get updates forever. To get another 12-months of updates you have to renew. That’s a fairly standard practice in the software business these days. If it’s not lifetime, once the 12-months are up, the product (presumably) will no longer work. Usually pricing reflects this.