I purchased BumperCar, a kid-safe browser for my 11 y/o daughter, for $30. It is decent as a browser and only minimally buggy in its settings (manually inputting forbidden URLs does not work from the settings window, only from the main browser window by using a button or menu item).
But the biggest problem is the following.
When I received my confirmation email with my password, I found the following line in it:
"The above code is good for 1-2 months following your purchase,
then it expires. Should you need to re-register your game after
the code expires, simply retrieve a new one using our Code
Retrieval System at https://store.freeverse.com/code/"
I sent them the following:
"This is totally unacceptable. You should have warned
me about this in advance.
It is not a practice that I was supposed to
anticipate. I have purchased many software products
but I have never encountered this [...]. Besides, since
when is BumperCar a GAME??? I purchased your product
as a web browser for my daughter, not as a game for
myself. She uses it for school stuff. What is she
supposed to do if the code expires and I happen to be
away which I do often?
I want my money back. "
They have not even had the decency to respond.
BumperCar
Browser for kids; filtering & advanced content control.
Version: 2.2
Sneaky company "forgets" to tell you in advance that serial will expire every 1-2 months
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: Asu Friday, October 07 2005 @ 10:22 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: NO
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Sneaky company "forgets" to tell you in advance that serial will expire every 1-2 months - FV Bruce
Hi,You probably just randomly emailed us and it got flagged as SPAM. We have a support form for technical and sales issues.
Our codes themselves do expire after 2 months (So if someone was to post one here, after 2 months it would stop working).
You can as we have listed many places on our website, get a new code at any time, day or night for free. There is not limit to how many times you can do this. All you do is enter your email address and choose the product (Such as BumperCar 2.0) and presto a new code within seconds.
If you buy your product in a store, you are given a code that will never expire on you.
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