I am highly displeased with Avast.
Last year I purchased the Professional Family Pack (1 WHS license and 10 Pro licenses). I am nearing the end of my one year subscription, so I was not surprised when I received an email from Avast. The email announced that if I renewed early I would get a 50% discount. I thought “what a great deal” and clicked on the link. Much to my dismay, the link only offered a 30% discount not the 50% as advertised. In my world, that is called a lie.
Then to compound the issue, what they were offering me was not what I purchased. The upgrade/renewal was for a single license and not the Family Pack I have. I was then told that the Family Pack was no longer being offered and I would need to purchase each of the Family Pack licenses separately. With the 30% discount, renewing each license will cost me $307.62. This is a 384% increase of the purchase price. 384%!!! I find this outrageous.
Why not think of the huge discount you got by being able to use the avast Family Pro pack in the first place, I don’t hear you complain about how much you saved on the standard Pro unit price.
Unfortunately, Avast Software has decided to withdraw the product, so that isn’t a price increase they aren’t charging you more for the avast family pro pack as it isn’t available.
There is a deal on at the moment where you get 2 years for the price of one (50% discount on avast Pro) and a multi-buy for 10 licenses is $403 + tax, $479 so roughly $240 or $24 per year per unit.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. Abraham Lincoln
As of July 1st we’ve got what is essentially a VAT structure in most of Canada, combining the former Goods & Services Tax (GST) with provincial sales taxes in the new Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) which totals 13 pct here in Ontario.
The GST replaced the old Federal Sales Tax, which had the disadvantage of being part of the cost, marked up for resale, at every level of the distribution chain. GST had the advantage of a “bubble-down” remittance system, wherein “middlemen” (e.g., wholesalers or retailers) remitted GST collected from customers less any paid to suppliers, so it was in effect collected only at the retail level. The new HST, as I understand it, has no corresponding “bubble-down”, plus a lot more things like taxi fares will become newly taxable, so it should result in a significant increase in cost of living.
Sorry this one got too far off the original topic.
