Comments on: Why Mint.com + Intuit is a Big Idea

By: Mjrpayne

Mjrpayne — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:25:15 +0000

Dude, you took the words right out of my mouth! Although I was never a Mac user I was an early adopter of Quicken. If I could I would still be using my original version of Quicken from the early ’90′s. It was simple, plain, useful and intuitive. Just exactly what I needed and wanted. Now it is (^($&$@ed up! I was going to give Mint a try but now I would only be setting myself up for a big coming disappointment. I guess I will go “back to the future” and use Excel templates. Too bad….

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By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:08:21 +0000

So – Basically, Intuit acquires the competition and 7-months later stops letting users download data from banks websites! Less than 3-years of downloading data, and now Intuit claims they cannot support Quicken 2007! Since the data downloads directly from banks website, what the heck does Intuit have to support. Regardless, I should at least get 5-years of support. Sure, I could spend time getting all setup on Mint.com, only to have Intuit figure out some new way to screw me with a “premium” membership.

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By: Michael J Tedbury

Michael J Tedbury — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:53:33 +0000

Yes Europe does exist. Yes Quicken 2004 still works. It would be nice to believe there would be a Quicken/Mint/Anydamnnameatall product that integrated with UK and other European banks. Surely we’re worth a bit of investment? And, I agree – keep it somple.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:41:50 +0000

Amen, honestly it broke my heart when I heard. Couldn’t you have at least tried a subscription service first? Really, it would have been so simple. All you had to do was say “hey look, I want to make money, but instead of letting a heartless corporation crush the living soul out Mint [it takes two minutes now for my Iphone to update over an 8Mbps wifi, thanks], I’m going to try a paid service.” Heck I’m almost ready to start paying for Pandora just to shut the commercials up. You could have at least given the Mint users, your fans, a shot.

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By: santhip

santhip — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:24:12 +0000

Hi,

how about mint + Bill monk ? It would help me a lot !!!

Thanks

Santhip

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:59:34 +0000

To E.C.Carr and others,

I understand your thoughts on the buy and toss view with Inituit(Quicken) obtaining Mint.com. I felt the same way, but found another article that shows more recently that actually it was the other way around (in a way). Mainly Mint.com is going to be a part of the Inituit family for online financial, and quicken online is being removed from Inituit this 2010. They are transferring all members from quicken online to mint.com. Here is the article that goes in more depth about this news from the mergers. http://www.fox8live.com/content/news/seregni/story/Managing-Your-Money-with-Mint/ph5XC3WIfUKBB6QqbTpMig.cspx

The more detailed info is in the last few paragraphs of the article.

By: E.C.Carr

E.C.Carr — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:35:26 +0000

The mesrging (or whatever) of Qicken and MINT.COM may seem good but remember this – A number of years ago when Parsons Software was still around and their “MONEY COUNTS” financial software (which ran circles around quicken) when Bob Parsons decided to get out of software, he sold out and guess what? Quicken (Intuit) bought him out and Money Counts became quicken property. 6 months later Money Counts was taken off the list of software available. Quicken bought out Patsons to get rid of Money Counts, their only competator. Now we have quicken buying out MINT.COM to do exactly the same. In 6 months MINT WON”T BE AROUND EITHER! Intuit and Qicken will not allow another financial software package on the market. It’s called buying out your competition!. Lots of luck!

By: Diwaker

Diwaker — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:25:59 +0000

Aaron,

Last year Mint partnered with TaxACT:
http://www.mint.com/press/mintcom-partners-with-taxact-to-simplify-online-tax-filing-and-maximize-deductions/

I was hoping the partnership could continue this year, with some kind of integration in the filing process. How does the partnership with Intuit affect Mint’s relation with TaxACT?

Diwaker

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By: John Sadler

John Sadler — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:11:19 +0000

First, congratulations! Not many entrepreneurs achieve successful exits, and Mint is a great idea executed really well. As an Intuit customer who feels trapped by Intuits predatory marketing practices, I can only hope that this acquisition will help to change the way Intuit behaves towards its customers, though I am truly sad at the loss of competition. Intuit has a strong and consistent pattern of locking its users into their apps through a combination of data portability and migration blocks (in both SaaS and desktop apps) and gradual feature takeaways widely reported on desktop apps with successive updates. For example, try to get your data out of quickbooks online in any form that is loadable into another accounting database. Or try to downgrade from one version of QB online to a less expensive version. Numerous migration paths are blocked by what looks like deliberate marketing decisions to keep me from being able to move my data freely.

So congratulations, but also please recognize that you have not been acquired by a company that is loved by its customers. Maybe you can do something about it.

By: sunergeos

sunergeos — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:13:42 +0000

I’m a Quicken for Mac user who was forced – by my bank, to upgrade to the version I have now. I have gotten so use to the budget facilities I rely on it to keep my spending straight. I download my transactions from the bank and use it to reconcile.

Well, I looked for the Mac Quicken upgrade, and with it being two years in the making and it doesn’t do bill pay I went looking. I landed at Mint and signed up. I was floored! All my accounts – even my brokerage accounts in one view! Sold, but I have that nagging issue with Intuit being in the background waiting to split through. It’s like the scene in Alien when the Xenomorph breaks through the stomach. You know its there.

So, I’ll keep using it until they start becoming annoying. Making the Mint team the team leads for Intuit is a stroke of genius, but I was at CompuServe when AOL bought it and I know how these things go. “You think you’re going to bring these yahoos in and tell me what to do when I’ve been here as long as I have”. Maybe in this economy Intuit has a chance to unfreeze their culture and get things moving in the right direction.

Here’s a company that hires ‘Excellent Coaches” for QA and has this idea of “Centers of Excellence” in their workplace. I have two certifications in quality and I can tell you that it didn’t matter – they lost their reputation on the Mac product line alone.

Can this old dog learn a new trick and make Mint work for them without annoying everyone away? I signed up for the ride.