Re: Zone Alarm Pro demanding more money.

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From: Derrick Fawsitt (46_at_fitzwilliamonline.com)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 17:52:11 +0100

In message <jTGuc.80608$tb4.3145963@news20.bellglobal.com>, Mike
<mike.hall.mail@sympatico.ca> writes
>Derrick
>
Mike.
>Most warranties/guarantees are for one year only.. most subscriptions are
>for one year only.. of course, there are companies who see fit to extend the
>period, but they make you aware of this in bold lettering.. so we can safely
>assume that if no mention is made of a longer
>warranty/guarantee/subscription. then it will be for one year only..
I don't think that is true but perhaps I will leave it to others to take
you up on it. I have many programmes on my PC that not only never
charged me any more after my initial purchase, but if they did it was a
reasonable sum, reasonable being a sum of money that did not consist of
having to pay a similar amount to the original purchase price again or
at least was only a fraction of it. That is what I call "value" for
money and that is the essence of my complaint. I must add if that is
whinging or whining then I am an Englishman, (which I'm not) as they are
famous for whinging, are they not?
>
>Why is the printer ink issue a rip off?.. modern printers are way more ink
>efficient than ever they used to be.. one would have to assume that you do
>not have a barbeque because it would require a continual supply of gas..
>what kind of rip off is that?
Really! There have been so many articles supporting me in this that I
wonder what planet you inhabit. Are you one of us? Its the amount man,
not the fact that you have to pay for it. Obviously the gas for the
barbecue has to have a price but if it cost more than the barbecue each
time I would be eating indoors. Its the amount not the fact that it has
a price to pay.
>
>Your post came across as somebody whining about having to pay for a service
>that somebody has expended time and expense providing.. your seeming
>resistence to paying a reasonable amout marks you not as somebody who posted
>in a hurry, but somebody who is a cheapskate/freeloader..
Apart from your last few words to which I will not descend to give a
reply, I resent your taking me up on admitting in all honesty that I did
"type" my original post and "proof read" it so it was not as good as it
should have been, however, I was trying to make a point and hopefully I
have now clarified my opinion as I had intended to express them and will
now withdraw for others to take up the cudgel, hopefully not on me.
I give you good day and wish you better manners in the future. 

-- 
Derrick Fawsitt

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