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Title: CubicIDE
Post by: kernal on July 28, 2019, 10:53:48 PM
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
Title: Re: CubicIDE
Post by: TribbleSmasher on July 29, 2019, 11:54:20 AM
There are probably different kind of responsibilities involved with business sales.
Title: Re: CubicIDE
Post by: kolla on July 29, 2019, 12:29:01 PM
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."
Title: Re: CubicIDE
Post by: Thomas on July 29, 2019, 05:19:56 PM
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.

Title: Re: CubicIDE
Post by: kernal on July 29, 2019, 06:07:34 PM
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.
Title: Re: CubicIDE
Post by: paul1981 on July 30, 2019, 01:28:09 PM
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.  ;)
Title: Re: CubicIDE
Post by: NinjaCyborg on July 30, 2019, 07:11:25 PM
It's illegal for him to discriminate in that way.
Title: Re: CubicIDE
Post by: TribbleSmasher on July 30, 2019, 07:30:35 PM
That's a strange and wrong opinion of yours.