Long time legacy customer
359094
Mainly because I can't find anything better, not because I love AT&T or anything like that. They have good coverage in my area, they have competitive plans in line with everything else available, and the customer service is competent.
3403755
Living room, dining room, and den pieces were purchased by my parents in the early 1950s.  My sister and I learned early to respect beautiful property and, therefore, all of these pieces that I inherited are still in new condition--no marks, scratches, chips, scuffs, discoloration.  Over 60 years old, these pieces are still in museum condition. Perhaps updating only accompanying pieces of furniture (such as lamps, perhaps sofa, cushions, drapery, rugs and carpets) is all that's needed but not really necessary. I grew up with Heywood-Wakefield furniture in our homes; I still have Heywood-Wakefield furniture in my own home.  During the past few years I've been able to purchase bedroom pieces from sellers online.  All of these latest vintage pieces were given the same care and attention as were mine; all are still in absolutely beautiful condition. If you're not a Heywood-Wakefield furniture buff, you cannot understand the love that long-time owners have for this line of Post-Modern furniture. In about 15 years I, too, will have to begin downsizing and will have to find new owners for these lovely pieces that never seem to lose their appeal.  This latest updated book helps Heywood-Wakefield owners know the current value of their furniture.
1021732
Imy new MFC-J4620DW printer from Brother!! I've been a fan of Brother products since 1992 when my mom bought me my 1st typewriter from Brother for Christmas when I was in the 7th grade because I had typing as my elective and begged her for it. I ended up getting a MFC-620CN fax/printer/scanner/copier 11 years ago and it STILL WORKS til this day and looks brand new. I ended up giving it to my neighbor because she doesn't have a printer or fax machine and she will need that for her granddaughter. I wanted a newer more up to date MFC so I got the MFC-J4620DW, a year ago when my son was in 7th grade and I had just purchased his brand new computer from Dell, because it was $179.99 but I got it for a GREAT deal at Best Buy for $50 off at $129.99!! I wanted it bad because Ithe newer design of it, it was digital and the ink cartridges were WAY MORE CHEAPER than my old ones PLUS lasted longer. Also I can finally AirPrint and connect it WIRELESSLY using my WiFi connection or even still use the Ethernet like my old one. My son fell inwhen I bought him this MFC because he is now in 8th grade and has a lot of homework on the computer and needs to print a lot & the ink cartridges last us a very long time during the entire 9 month school year so I'm happy that I upgraded and got me a newer MFC with better ink cartridges that last longer. This is the CUTEST machine EVER with its huge display plus I have Brother apps on my iPhone and iPad that can check my ink cartridges right from them without having to physically get up and go check it manually. The display is 3.5 inches and all digital, holds up to 150-200 pages in the paper tray, prints pictures on paper or the glossy paper that's used for photos. The fax machine is wonderful and I have magic jack for my home phone line just so that I can send and receive faxes when needed. It's so much wonderful uses that I can't even name them all but I do know I compared it to many other MFC that look like it and this one did more than the others
2245253
I'm an heirloom seed-aholic! I search for great deals on heirloom seeds from kick butt sources year round. The Bugout Seed Bag has my gardening basics taken care of for years! I haven't found any other place that can supply 25 varieties for such an amazing price from farmers of seed. 5,000 plus seeds y'all! Simply unheard of. Thank you Sustainable Seed Company for existing.
2357096
One of the last great Sheaffer pens made in the USA factory before French company Bic bought Sheaffer and moved all operations. That is not to say anything bad about Bic or the French. French people are wonderful and they make some great products, including some very classy pens. It is just sad to see a classic American company moved anywhere else.
This is the last Sheaffer pen to include a touchdown ink filling system, and this limited edition pen with palladium coating and gold trim is stunningly beautiful. Quite honestly, the touchdown filling system has its faults, and I do not think it is superior to the
cartridge/converter system currently offered on the French-made Legacy Heritage model. But it is a trip down memory lane to have this last pen to use the system so elegantly done, and personally, I love it. The inkwell is classic French elegance, very beautifully done, and a joy to behold and use.

The vendor, Vanness, are great people to deal with. They offer fast shipping, great service and great prices. Check them out on the web, and call them for great deals. No, they have not induced me to say nice things about them.

In sum, I am very happy with my purchase. Price, quality and service exceed my expectations
1793276
I love these products and this brand.  Consistent great quality and layout, for those of us who are still a bit old school
4239104
I have been using the 2006 Premier purchased in late 2006. As you might expect you must install the disk mushware and then register the product. Then you get to the "update check" where my dial-up must download for hours the latest edition available for what was paid for. I do not know the history of Intuit, but I think it is comparable to the biggies in that the proliferation of product is no reflection on the evolution of quality. I mean I've trained my WIN95 machine to do things and would never dare to update fearing the demolition of the system.

Quicken does some things very well. I have only one preferred stock in my portfolio so no problem. I could never set up a corporate bond in microsoft and Quicken maintains the tradition. You must sort of push the transactions along manually. Quicken has a "Help". In addition, I purchased 2 books that allegedly fill the chasm of no support. Forget it. One book in its umpteenth edition apparently assumes the knowledge of the previous tomes. I think the umpteenth and one edition will review the currant updates and promises.

Quicken is a great help for portfolio management and I know people using the accounting software for a long time. My biggest beef is the inability to print a list of translations. When monitoring an account over a year with hundreds of various transactions. looking at a few through a narrow window is nonsense. The list of accounts does not go away no matter what you want to do. When looking at my checking account transactions, I doubt that 5% of the entire screen is work space for me. Like 'My Yahoo' the company promos can not go away. Carefully consider that Yahoo is FREE.
197988
If you're looking for a product recommendation on durability and longevity, here ya go. We purchased our Vantage Pro (not 2) in June 2001 and in that time I have upgraded the software once, with no charge from Davis, and replaced the rain dipper reed switch, again at no charge. The bulk of it's life was spent in western Oregon and the past five years it resides in southeastern subtropical Mexico at 4300' elevation. Yes, the remote station needs to be periodically cleaned and the plastic is looking a bit weather worn -- go figure. If this unit dies before I do I'll be purchasing a Vantage Pro2 in a heartbeat.
2302100
It is rare that I write a review, but I do want to share with others how satisfied I am with this product. I have had this base system with 3 handsets and 3 lines connected for over 2 years. Honestly, I do not use all of the features so I can not comment on those. The most important qualities are durability and range. One handset is used by the warehouse manager and looks like it has been dragged by a rope on the ground for 2 years. Still works great. Our office is concrete block with a steel door leading to the 11,000s.f. metal warehouse. The signal fades at the very end of the 200' warehouse, but is clear within that range. We have had absolutely no issues or complaints. I was just online shopping for a few replacement handsets to keep on hand because this phone system is sure to last for many more years.
4156680
Real happy with this purchase. Cost was over 100 bucks, but i own a lot of LASTOLITE products and i trust them 100% i have never retuned not have i ever disliked anything with that name. reason why ? QAULITY
yes you pay a higher price but let me tell you the product is better and will last years not months.
if you think your saving by buying those 29.99 ones your wrong.
4951358
Over the last year or so I had been wanting to get back into vinyl. I was aware of the resurgence and had seen many of my old favs being put back out remastered and on high quality 180 gram vinyl. Back in 2007 I really wasn't even aware of what all those terms meant. My experience with vinyl was from when I was 14 and could pick up a copy of Def Lepards Pyromania from the local grocery store while my mom was shopping. I can still remember her face when I picked up Motley Crue's Shot at the Devil and put it in the shopping cart with the eggs. Funny... So in terms of record quality I couldn't really have told you the difference between 180 gram or 120 back in 07 when I started looking for a new LP player. I had done all the research and was really leaning toward either a used Thorens or Dual if I could even find one or a new Pro-Ject. I was really set on the Pro-Ject too. It looks cool and it had a USB so I could rip my vinyl to mp3.

*** Fast Forward to Anniversary Time 2008 ***

My little sister of all people was nice enough to listen and actually get me what I really wanted for my present that year. She did not get me a Pro-Ject turntable though. What I ended up with was a brand new release of Gun's and Roses Chinese Democracy on Vinyl and a Sony PS-LX300USB turntable. To be honest my expectations weren't super high. I mean come on, I had already done all the research and had kind of set my sites on something a little more expensive. To my surprise though the Sony turned out to be a very good performer. Overall I have been very please with the performance, sound, and ease of use. I have collected around 80 records or so over the last two years and am happy to report that many of the new reissues and even the old records I've picked up at various places sound fantastic. I would recommend this player to anybody wanting to get back into vinyl and say work your way up from there if necessary. For me that means that the Pro-Ject I had my sites set on will continue sitting over at the store and not on my shelf for a long time.

Thanks,
4405334
UPDATE 04-06-2015:

About 5 years since purchased.
Many updates from Synology; many GiB of home video forth and back; years of back ups (storing and deleting the old ones).
No major problems so far.
I have no experience with other NAS', can't compare. This one is still in service.

UPDATE 05-21-2012:

1 year+ since my last update - I had no issues with the product:
- daily to monthly backups;
- family video and photo;
- one brutal power-off incident; a corresponding notification from DS411+; simple few steps to follow; nothing was lost;
- the latest Synology software update available for the model is as of April 2012;
- both interface and features have been dramatically improved since 2010.

I have not used a number of features, e.g.: Email/FTP servers, external USB, VPN, others.
Primarily because I had the things setup already.
I'd prefer to have more of it as a media server, say for a home theater.
These however, were not the features I was looking for when buying it back in 2010.

UPDATE (12-28-2010): returning back my star to Synology.

The system has worked very well since my last firmware upgrade to v. 3+.
My today backup experience with this device is measured in many TiB: daily, weekly and monthly backups. The backups were taken from: Win 7(64), Win Vista(64) and few virtual Linux(64)(Oracle/Sun VirtualBox) machines, small office environment.
I also used it daily as a shared drive: random copy&paste.
Not a single problem since my original post back in September.

I now recommend to consider the product.

My original review is down below intact:

In brief:

- DS411+ is a good NAS;
- context:
 -- home office;
 -- Win7/Vista/2K/Linux environment;
 -- total backup experience is below 400 GiB.

My take:
I expected to get more, for the money.
Could I take it back, I'd buy a bare-bone box instead.

I deliberated between a bare-bone PC box with Linux on it versus DS411+ from Synology, from the very beginning. Yes, I've considered other brands as well.
My decision key point was:
- I don't want to, nor that I have time to configure it all (the services) with Linux, going with a  bare-bone box option, while Synology has it there already right for me. I was ready to pay, that is. And so - I paid it.

1 month of experience:
- The promised basics work and they are Okay;
- However, I might be better off with a plain Linux box.

I spent many hours with BusyBox - the embedded Linux OS, figuring out why all of sudden (3 weeks later) 2 out of my 4 brand new WD drives have crashed (falsely reported by Synology, while passing the suggested test).

I have other WD drives working already for 10+ years and fine.
Now, 4 brand new WD drives (WD1002FAEX), and 2 of them failed within less of a month? Common!

Then you go to Synology forum.
HD manufactures should have been out of business by now according to the posts over there.

I've upgraded recently to Synology firmware 3.+.
The things got into their place, and smooth. The earlier reported by Synology 'bad' drives now works perfectly okay, as of the moment.

Where am I with my backups now?
- Not sure.
4921149
Works as advertised!!!

Now all my old legacy consoles are hooked up and running!
235314
I love this box. I've been looking for a way to organize and store the many cards and letters I've received over the past 30 years from my grandma and grandpa. I moved to CA from IN in 1987 and my grandma has consistently written to me over the years on an old fashioned typewriter. Her letters are priceless to me. This box holds them nicely.
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I have been using Quicken since Quicken DOS 2.0 and most of the time upgraded to the current version when one came out. One "upgrade" to Quicken 2004 was so bad (I had to revert to prior version) that I stopped doing it. This version (2006) seems to be stable and does not crash all the time like 2004 did.

The layout of screens improved somewhat and there are new nice views of investment accounts. I do not care much for reports browser, when a drill down or modification of options create a new page, like an Internet browser.

The biggest problem for me is lack of support for QIF format. If you want to download historical transactions from Fidelity you are out of luck. Ironically if you use an old version, prior to 2004, you are fine. Typically you expect more in the new release, not less.

The overall balance is somewhat neutral. Improvements are mostly cosmetic but numerous. The dropped support for QIF import is a single big flaw that comes to mind, but is a big one.
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This shoe takes me back many years and of course still hold the quality of comfort and style. I searched many years to find this shoe gain. I bought my first pair in the early nineties. I was surprised to see they were still out. I still get compliments each time I am out and about.
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Even though this one is an out-dated model, I think it's helpful for those who want to buy this as a second-hand unit (and Brother has been selling similar siblings too). It has been working really great for me for more than 4 years now (Got it in Amazon.com on January 2001). For me, it's a time-tested model and no major/minor issues whatsoever. I won't hesitate to buy another similar MFC model from Brother (though it's out of my price range now since I am looking for a real dirt cheap and good all-in-one second hand for my parents, which is really really hard to find).

P.S. Now I own this printer for over 13 years (as of March 2013), and it is still going strong.