CubicIDE

[kernal]

Has anyone else had any trouble buying CubicIDE from Dietmar Eilert?  I purchased it via paypal on his website, and he refunded me. When I asked him why it was refunded, he said because he won't sell to anyone that has a business associated with their Paypal account...       I told him that I own a small business and I only have one paypal account and my home address is my business address. He suggested to me that I use an alternate product.....

What the #@%$?  Why would that even be an issue anyway? Wouldn't he want to sell his product to a business? What if I had a software company and wanted his product. Very strange.

Anyone else had this issue?

Gord

[TribbleSmasher]

There are probably different kind of responsibilities involved with business sales.

[kolla]

Why would that even be an issue anyway? Wouldn't he want to sell his product to a business? What if I had a software company and wanted his product. Very strange.

Not strange at all - he has no interest in supporting businesses, and hence only wish to have private hobby users as customers - it says right there on the website - "Software is only licensed to end users, not to resellers or companies."

[Thomas]

Why would that even be an issue anyway?

I am not sure but I could imagine that this might be a restriction in German law for hobby sellers who don't want to pay business taxes.

[kernal]

That is the first plausible answer I heard so far. Very frustrating when you just want to buy a piece of software and can't. I guess I have to create a new PayPal account that isn't associating with my business and then find someone that will let me use their address.... still weird if you ask me.

[paul1981]

It will be nothing personal then, and I'm sure he'd like to give you the same advise regarding address and paypal account...but he can't do that. 

[NinjaCyborg]

It's illegal for him to discriminate in that way.

[TribbleSmasher]

That's a strange and wrong opinion of yours.