Comments on: How to Make Enemies and Intimidate Customers, a vBulletin Story http://zahnster.com/software/how-to-make-enemies-and-intimidate-customers-a-vbulletin-story my name's jade. i'm a child of the internet. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:30:15 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Zahnster http://zahnster.com/software/how-to-make-enemies-and-intimidate-customers-a-vbulletin-story/comment-page-1#comment-3583 Zahnster Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:35:22 +0000 http://zahnster.com/?p=182#comment-3583 Ok sorry, but my oversimplification of the licensing versions offered changes nothing. My client thought they had the "owned" license at $180, when in actuality they had only been setup with the $100 yearly license. My client WOULD have bought the $180 license if they were approached about it in a non-aggressive manner. But since we were treated like criminals, being judged and sentenced before we had a chance to defend ourselves or correct our mistake, we're choosing not to pay money to people who would rather throw a lawsuit around for an under $200 infringement than make a damn phone call. So for that, I will be a vBulletin hater, and nothing about that will change my mind. Unless somehow time travel is involved and we never got threatened in the first place. Ok sorry, but my oversimplification of the licensing versions offered changes nothing.

My client thought they had the “owned” license at $180, when in actuality they had only been setup with the $100 yearly license.

My client WOULD have bought the $180 license if they were approached about it in a non-aggressive manner.

But since we were treated like criminals, being judged and sentenced before we had a chance to defend ourselves or correct our mistake, we’re choosing not to pay money to people who would rather throw a lawsuit around for an under $200 infringement than make a damn phone call.

So for that, I will be a vBulletin hater, and nothing about that will change my mind. Unless somehow time travel is involved and we never got threatened in the first place.

]]> By: Brandon Sheley http://zahnster.com/software/how-to-make-enemies-and-intimidate-customers-a-vbulletin-story/comment-page-1#comment-3581 Brandon Sheley Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:27:05 +0000 http://zahnster.com/?p=182#comment-3581 A few issues with your post. "Long investigative story short, it turns out that my client was mistakenly in possession of a yearly license, and technically in the wrong. However, my client was misinformed when the site was built into thinking they had a permanent license, so the mistake was innocent enough." and "We were running one recently expired version of vBulletin’s $180 software." are wrong. If your client had an owned license, that it doesn't have to be renewed to be running on their site. If they had a leased license, it would. Hope that helps you out, and maybe you wont be a vBulletin hater just because ONE person got a take down notice ;) A few issues with your post.

“Long investigative story short, it turns out that my client was mistakenly in possession of a yearly license, and technically in the wrong. However, my client was misinformed when the site was built into thinking they had a permanent license, so the mistake was innocent enough.”

and

“We were running one recently expired version of vBulletin’s $180 software.”

are wrong.
If your client had an owned license, that it doesn’t have to be renewed to be running on their site.
If they had a leased license, it would.

Hope that helps you out, and maybe you wont be a vBulletin hater just because ONE person got a take down notice ;)

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