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amcluesent Regular Visitor
Joined: Jul 03, 2004 Posts: 134 Location: London
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 11:56 am Post subject: Going legit? |
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It's no secret that many people have unwittingly bought dodgy copies of TT3 from ebay etc. I suppose they'll be caught out trying to upgrade to TT5 when they don't have a valid product code.
Surely TomTom should make available, at a reasonable price, a version of TT5 and map that allows people to 'go legit' and get a properly licensed copy? I recall that Microsoft has previously offered such an amnesty for Windows XP, so surely TomTom could do the same and rebuild some good will after the bungled release of TT5? |
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MarkHewitt Frequent Visitor
Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Posts: 1077 Location: Chester-le-Street & York
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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Why should people who have a pirated copy get a better price than someone who doesn't have any previous copy? |
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nej Frequent Visitor
Joined: Jun 16, 2004 Posts: 454 Location: London, Ingerlund
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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I agree with Mark. These people can buy a legit copy - just order a new version from TomTom, i.e. not an upgrade. |
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iancjc Frequent Visitor
Joined: 10/02/2003 14:19:44 Posts: 749 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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microsoft's amnesty for xp involves paying for the upgrade (normal price no reductions) - otherwise from mid 2005 no more updates.
If people brought cheap copies off ebay then they realistically knew what they were getting - perhaps they should send the pirate copies in to tomtom and then pay for ttn3 plus the upgrade price for ttn5 - this is fair and what legit users have paid.
Ian _________________ -----------------------------------------------------------
TyTn II (WM6.1) / tomtom one v2
TTN6.03 tomtom 7.xx (one) |
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RobStevens Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jul 10, 2004 Posts: 32 Location: Bruton, Somerset
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, no, they didn't necessarily know what they were getting.
Somebody I know (no, not me) bought a whole GPS package from ebay: TT, GPS unit and PDA. He knew it was all second-hand: but he didn't know that TT would turn out to be pirated. |
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iancjc Frequent Visitor
Joined: 10/02/2003 14:19:44 Posts: 749 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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I guess the question is then
what does it have to do with tomtom?
The only point I was making was that special upgrade prices shouldn't be given to people with dodgy software - I could produce 20 working copies of ttn3 in the next hour and activate them without going to ttcode.com - these could then form the basis for upgrades.
As for the guy you know, It's unfortunate when people get ripped off using ebay - I hope he reported the seller and posted negative feedback - also from a legal point of view as soon as he knew it was a copy he should have stopped using it.
Ian _________________ -----------------------------------------------------------
TyTn II (WM6.1) / tomtom one v2
TTN6.03 tomtom 7.xx (one) |
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