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Re:Intuit tries to call Mint's bluff? Is this normal? by tptacek on Friday February 20, 2009 @01:30AM (#488409)
I don't know if it's normal, but it's certainly an unbelievably fucking dumb marketing move; your dad knows Quicken, but might not have known about Mint --- until Quicken made sure he did.
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Re:Intuit tries to call Mint's bluff? Is this normal? by josefresco on Friday February 20, 2009 @07:47AM (#488612)
I'm a geek, a business owner, a dad and a Quickbooks user. I've known about Mint for a long time but never seriously considered using them ... until now.
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Re:Intuit tries to call Mint's bluff? Is this normal? by ComputerGuru on Friday February 20, 2009 @03:42AM (#488511)
Not really. If your dad doesn't know about Mint, chances are he definitely doesn't know TechCrunch either.

Intuit's charade was only seen by a certain demography of users, that by and large does not include Quicken-only users.

Nevertheless, silly move by Intuit, I agree.

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Re:Intuit tries to call Mint's bluff? Is this normal? by angstrom on Friday February 20, 2009 @10:56AM (#488803)
What should really scare Quicken is that I could actually see paying $5-$10/mo to use Mint. With 17 accounts and over a year's worth of data I've found it more convenient to use than any Quicken solution. I could never get all my accounts to sync in any of Quicken's products.
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Re:Intuit tries to call Mint's bluff? Is this normal? by thaumaturgy on Saturday February 21, 2009 @03:58AM (#489747)
I didn't know about Mint, but have often wished for something exactly like it.

I do my banking with a very small local bank -- it has maybe 4 branches total! -- and was amazed to see it listed in Mint. Yay Mint!

Thank you, Intuit.

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Re:Intuit tries to call Mint's bluff? Is this normal? by jpwagner on Friday February 20, 2009 @02:00PM (#489068)
It would be brilliant if Intuit is planning on buying mint...
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Re:Intuit tries to call Mint's bluff? Is this normal? by kragen on Friday February 20, 2009 @04:30PM (#489283)
It would be brilliant if they've already secretly signed a deal to buy. If they are just planning on buying, then this would just drive up the price they have to pay Mint's shareholders.
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