Monday 1 February 2010

Norton virus

This week end I had to renew the virus protection on the lap top my wife uses. The cost was 65 quid. My desk top which I have had for eight years costs £30. Well I’m a bit peeved about this but OK it does have features mine doesn’t. This is OK until I get the email confirming the order and they advise me I have signed up to have automatic renewal. This means they can tap into my bank account every year and pretty much take what they want. I’m not having this so I revoke the clause expecting them to continue warning me when renewal is due. This snotty email followed:-
“This notice is to confirm that you have elected to opt out of the automatic renewal feature for your Norton 360 subscription. As such, Symantec will not automatically renew your Norton 360 product subscription.
Your current security protection will expire in 369 days placing you at significant risk of losing the critical Internet threat protection counted on by millions of users daily.
Customers with up-to-date subscriptions automatically receive protection at no additional charge as they become available.
If you think you have received this notification in error or incorrectly cancelled the automatic renewal feature, please contact Customer Support”.

Basically I think they are saying tough luck next year mate we aint going to remind you. I think it might be time to look at the alternatives. This is not the way to treat long term loyal customers.

4 comments:

margaret macklin said...

Dont forget to make a start up disc,back up your docs and pics and spend the 65 quid on flowers for the missus.

Bob the Black Country Brummie said...

Margaret if I spent 65 quid on flowers for the misses she would think I had robbed a bank or was having an affair. Although I have often commented it was no good me having an affair the misses would know before I got my trousers off.

margaret macklin said...

Yet strangely are willing to spend 65 squid on waste of time for your computer? Too much info about the trousers.

Bob the Black Country Brummie said...

It's Pat's computer.