flickr.com — I decided to do my taxes today, so I open up Safari and go to turbotax.com. I decided to open up their site in Firefox as well and noticed a price difference. In Safari the price was $2 more for the Basic and $5 to $10 more for other packages. I took a screen shot of the two side by side and the layout is basically identical except for the cost.
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ahnteisFeb 18, 2007
>>And um, Apple users are not more wealthy. That is a huge myth.Of course not -- they spent all their money on their computer. :P
fllaw33870Feb 19, 2007
Free Filecheck this IRS website out. A Freefile filing of federal taxes in which TurboTax participates. I wish I had known about this before buying TurboTax. I could have done it for free online.The Free File program is a free federal tax preparation and electronic filing program for eligible taxpayers developed through a partnership between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Free File Alliance LLC, a group of private sector tax software companies. Since Free File?s debut in 2003, more than 15.4 million returns have been prepared and e-filed through the program. Free File allows taxpayers with an Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) of $52,000 or less in 2006 to e-file their federal tax returns for free. That means 70 percent of all taxpayers ? 95 million taxpayers ? can take advantage of the Free File program.<a class="user" href="http://www.irs.gov/efile/article/0,,id=118986,00.html">http://www.irs.gov/efile/article/0,,id=118986,00.html</a>
tocleoraFeb 19, 2007
I'm using Firefox in Linux, and I got the $16.95 price.
theothermeFeb 19, 2007
No, its because Mac users pay overly inflated prices for everything. Its no surprise that Turbo Tax would take advantage as well.
mr_scientistFeb 19, 2007
@aristotle0dude:> Do you think flash where it's at?No. If I were making Flash websites, I'd have nothing to complain about. If Flash works, it works right. Flash has too many usability issues and search engine problems though, so it's always an add-on for me. The site has to work without it, and look nice too.> Do you use crappy editors like Visual Studio.net?No, I use a plain text editor with syntax highlighting and folding. I use external tools (some off-the-shelf, some self-made) for site management.> Are you afraid of a little hand coded HTML templating?No, it's the only way to produce lean and correct webpages.That said, in my experience coding to standards results in webpages that don't work anywhere, unless you have the experience to avoid the parts of the standards that are not implemented at all or not implemented right. Add an extra div here to avoid box model bugs, add a redundant class there to avoid unavailable css-selectors. 90% of the work is in the details, the obscure bugs. Even if the site validates and works in IE6, IE7 and Firefox 2, there's no guarantee it will work in Safari and Opera. Been there too often. That's not even counting the differences where there is no standard and the browser programmers are making stuff up as they go (mostly DHTML, event and plugin handling).
mxmikeFeb 19, 2007
this has to be fake, it's too easy to fake.When I open it in firefox i see that the basic is free.
bmwboyFeb 19, 2007
...and another reason to use TaxAct folks :P
dieseltravisFeb 19, 2007
>>Perhaps it has to do with development costs to support the browsers>Sorry to be harsh, but you are ignorant. If you stick to standards, there are NO extra development costs whatsoever.I believe it is you who are ignorant. Even when developing standards-compliant, accessible, semantic sites, I've run into many issues with Safari. IE definitely is worse, but at least it has known, standards-compliant workarounds and hacks. I actually have an easier time supporting Opera than I do Safari. I think it goes without saying that Firefox is hands down the easiest to develop for. I'm sure the Mac-lovers are going to flame/digg down for this, but... Not to mention that you need a Mac to test in Safari. You can't put OSX in a virtual machine (legally) and Safari isn't available for any other OS. Everything else can be tested in a virtual machine. MS even gives one away for testing IE6. Whereas you have to upgrade OSX every time a new version of Safari comes out to test it.
edgemysterJun 14, 2007
And finally - some non-code coupons that might help someone: <a class="user" href="http://www.savings.com/t-turbotax-coupons.html">http://www.savings.com/t-turbotax-coupons.html</a>
jucemanFeb 8, 2008
i found the same thing the other day and was going to post about it and found this. that is amazing they can get away with that. i took some screen shots just to make sure i wasn't imagining this.
barkmadleyJun 5, 2009
Also some verified coupon codes<a class="user" href="http://www.tjoos.com/Coupon/98506/Turbo-Tax">http://www.tjoos.com/Coupon/98506/Turbo-Tax</a>