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Full Price for Minor Tweaks

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Contributed by: Jeff Mincey Thursday, June 09 2005 @ 01:55 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

I keep waiting, month after month, year after year, for a truly major new release of this product, and it simply never happens. Right now, if you don't own Eudora and you want to be a paid, fully registered user, the price is $50. But if you are an existing Eudora owner and want to upgrade, well, there IS no upgrade. For the last several years there have been only upDATES -- incremental bug-fix releases for which every year we are to pay an additional full price of $50.

So how is it that the product overall is worth that price while an additional years' worth of endless minor tweaks is likewise worth the same price?

I currently have Eudora 6.0 and it even works with Tiger, and so I'm not going to pay for a 6.x update just to have errors corrected. I think it's clear Qualcomm has no interest in this application and it should simply sell it to a developer who would revitalize it with new ideas. Either that or do away with this absurd pricing policy which requires your customers to pay for a fixed product.

Will there EVER be a Eudora 7? And, if so, will it consist of user-requested features and enhancements or only nonsense such as mood watch and bug fixes?

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Full Price for Minor Tweaks - editmyupdates

I have used Eudora for many years, but have never had to pay for any updates. My last payment was in 2003 to upgrade to v.6. Since then I have applied every update, and use the current beta but have never paid a dime for the privilege.

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Thursday, June 09 2005 @ 06:36 PM PDT

Full Price for Minor Tweaks - editmyupdates

It is curious that you are being asked to pay each time.

I have used Eudora for many years, but have never had to pay for any updates. My last payment was in 2003 to upgrade to v.6. Since then I have applied every update, and use the current beta but have never been asked to pay a dime for the updates, only for the occasional major upgrade.

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Thursday, June 09 2005 @ 06:37 PM PDT

Full Price for Minor Tweaks - studiodave56--2008

BradyJ must work for Eudora. I refused to pay the yearly upgrade as well. I finally switched to Apple Mail. Apple Mail works very well has better search and is free. I have 9 email addresses on 4 servers with 150 rules and 200 mailboxes. Currently storing over 45,000 emails from the last 7 years.

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Saturday, June 18 2005 @ 01:45 AM PDT

Full Price for Minor Tweaks - b_haggin

I to have had Eudora for years I wish that they would due better Html than the same thing year after year the html messages get all messed up and better filtering I due like the app though i have also moved on to different apps.