Topic closed The Front • SpeedDownload 5?
Can anyone remember if we were promised the upgrade to Speed Download 5 (Just released) or if this is a pay for upgrade?
I know some of them included the next major upgrade but many didn't... Can't remember and can't find a copy of the page...
Andy,
I tried to enter my SpeedDownload reg details I got on my MacHeist receipt but they won't work in the SD 5 upgrade.
I checked the Yazsoft site and it says:
If you purchased SD 4 between Jan 01, 2008 and Feb 12, 2008, you may upgrade to SD 5 for FREE. Simply email us with your registered SD4 username and email and we will send you your personalized SD5 info.
http://www.yazsoft.com/content/buy.html
I've sent the email so I'm waiting for my 5.0 serial.
My new favourite sites (this week) : )
http://www.dbshan.co.uk
http://kuksi.com/
http://ghosts.nin.com/
sucks if we don't get the upgrade 
but we did buy between Jan 01 and Feb 12 so hopefully we will 
Let me know if any of you get it. Too lazy to email right now. 
I have the feeling we won't, as of that weird restriction that you had to download the MH copy and activate it in 6 months...
We better get the damn upgrade. Were we not told here that all of the MH bundle apps were as if purchased as normal from the devs and were not subject to any upgrade restrictions?
My new favourite sites (this week) : )
http://www.dbshan.co.uk
http://kuksi.com/
http://ghosts.nin.com/
I sent them an email as well. I really hope we can get it for free.
Yes, we're definitely eligible for the upgrade.
1. It says on the site who gets free upgrades, and we qualify.
2. We were promised free upgrades on all of the bundle apps (excluding referral)
I sent an email too. I really want to see what's new in version 5...
i got reply
Unfortunately, promo purchases do not qualify for free upgrades.
Thank you for choosing Speed Download. Yazsoft appreciates your business and continued support.
Sincerely,
Johnny
The Speed Download Team
The best download manager for Mac OS X; with built-in FTP, auto resuming, encrypted P2P file sharing, and much more.
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Last edited by dominoes (February 12, 2008 9:02 am)
dominoes wrote:
i got replay
Unfortunately, promo purchases do not qualify for free upgrades.
Thank you for choosing Speed Download. Yazsoft appreciates your business and continued support.
Sincerely,
Johnny
The Speed Download Team
The best download manager for Mac OS X; with built-in FTP, auto resuming, encrypted P2P file sharing, and much more.
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that sucks balls.
so the "full" license we got wasn't so full after all.
BOOOOOOOOO!!!
dominoes wrote:
i got replay
Unfortunately, promo purchases do not qualify for free upgrades.
Thank you for choosing Speed Download. Yazsoft appreciates your business and continued support.
Sincerely,
Johnny
The Speed Download Team
The best download manager for Mac OS X; with built-in FTP, auto resuming, encrypted P2P file sharing, and much more.
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Yup. just got it too. kinda sucks, doesn't it?
(with Notebook we were told we were getting an end-of-line product, but with this?)
duh!
alessandro
Sent them an email too; maybe if we all apply pressure, they will give in.
I have also emailed them... I feared we wouldn't but I agree from what we were told we should get the upgrade...
This is a bad contradiction. As far as I know, there was no explicit exclusion for promo buyers at the moment of purchasing the bundle. And we were said that all licenses were full licenses, with only the restrictions associated to normal licenses.
Hence we should be eligible. If the SD developers state AFTERWARDS that promo buyers are not eligible, then this is a ripoff and Macheist should talk to them.
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Roberto
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Does anyone know if so-called "promo purchases" even count for the $15 upgrade offer from version 4 to version 5? It would stink if they force you to pay the whole $25 for it, after we already bought it.
This is what I just sent them.
What version of Mac OS X are you using?
Mac OS X 10.5.2
What version of Speed Download are you using?
Just upgraded to five
Which browser(s) are you using?
Safari & Firefox
If this is about a specific file not downloading with SD, please paste the 'Transfer Log' for that file:
Other:
I bought Speed Download as a part of the MacHeist bundle and there were no restrictions listed about upgrading. My registered name is Billy Adams and my register email is billyadams@gmail.com. I was none to pleased to discover that my registration info doesn't work for SD 5. You should know, that I find it very upsetting that the "upgrade" showed up as an "update" in the update stream for SD. I think that is deplorable. If you are going to charge for an updated version, then don't include it in the update stream.
Sincerely,
Billy Adams
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I got the same reply as others. So no free upgrades without a fight. However, at the time of purchase no limitations so therefore we should be given the free upgrade the same way that other SD user that bought it between 1st of January and 12th February are getting it.
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I received an email back as well. The email that I got says that we are eligible for the 15 dollar upgrade, but not the free.
Nothing like getting people to make a purchase and then doing an upgrade a few weeks later.
I got the same message from Yazsoft.
I just checked through some old forum posts to see if there were any upgrade restrictions on any of the apps and found this message from John Red. Last message in thread.
http://www.macheist.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=7232
Are Yazsoft welching on their agreement or is this a MacHeist problem?
My new favourite sites (this week) : )
http://www.dbshan.co.uk
http://kuksi.com/
http://ghosts.nin.com/
This is bullshit Phill promised these were "full licenses."
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It would be good to get some comment from the Directorate on this...
Hate to be paranoid but just in case the thread I mentioned above disappears I've made a screengrab of the page!
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/8895/picture1kh4.png
My new favourite sites (this week) : )
http://www.dbshan.co.uk
http://kuksi.com/
http://ghosts.nin.com/
What a crock. There's one more company I'll never do business with.
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aaroncp wrote:
What a crock. There's one more company I'll never do business with.
Agreed. I know it won't affect their bottom line, but it makes me feel better.
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willwgm3 wrote:
I received an email back as well. The email that I got says that we are eligible for the 15 dollar upgrade, but not the free.
Nothing like getting people to make a purchase and then doing an upgrade a few weeks later.
That's the point of this style of marketing of course.. It just sucks that they were so predatory about it. Nobody likes when their new toy gets old and busted in a few days.
I actually held off on using Speed Download until the past week - I finally decided to give it a shot and now I don't want to be without it. I hate rewarding them with upgrade money so soon.. But I will probably end up doing that..
i got a similar reply. at least i got bit more text:
Simply visit our secure Kagi store:
http://store.kagi.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi … D=7NT_LIVE
and purchase the correct 'Speed Download 5: Upgrade License' for you.
Thank you for choosing Speed Download. Yazsoft appreciates your business and continued support.
If you like Speed Download, please tell a friend. If they register, we'll give you free SD5 registration for yourself.
and the current 4.* version has issues with opera when downloading dmg-files and is useless for me. and i bet there will be no fix for that problem now as there is version 5
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