Renewal of Licence

Hi Stiofan,

What should I do now? Can I go ahead and make a fresh purchase of a 4 month period licence. WIll this effect my site?

I am unable to understand what you mean by “OLD SYSTEM”. When I had purchased the Licence, there were options for different periods, including 4 months. Obviously, the renewals should be also be in the same fashion, unless otherwise specified, which was not there. Please also note that I purchased a 4 month licence and not a 12 month licence.. So how can a 4 month licence be renewed as a 12 month licence? How can your system convert my 4 month licence to a 12 month one, when I had actually subscribed for a 4 month licence? And how can your system now tell me that my 12 month licence cannot be renewed as a 4 month one? Mine was only a 4 month licence.

Would appreciate better clarity on this, as this would erode your credibility factor. You simply can’t blame it on your developers or the system. WE make the system, the system does not make us.

Surely, there must be a solution to this problem; and I do expect answers for the above points, and, ofcourse, renewal of my licence for another 4 month period.

Thanks and rgds,

gsr

Hi Stiofan,

Your explanation is not convincing and does not hold water and it does not answer the specific questions raised by me. You can not change the system to suit one party.

If you go by your logic, then why even today you have licences for different periods. That means you take somebody on a short licence period and have him renew for longer periods? Is that your motive.

Any way, I will purchase a fresh licence for another period of 4 months and have the site updated with the new licences, as you assured me that doing this will not affect the site in any way.

Your Licencing System, and the resultant explanation, has shown the real colours of the Company. This will not show any good in the long run. Anyways, it is your company. However, we reserve the right to be associated with it or not, eventually.

gsr

Hi Stiofon,

Don’t blame me for my attitude. Attitudes are formed based on actions of the other party.

I have been into this for the last four months, (and still not seen the light) with many bugs and issues for the smallest of things, I had to resort to the forum. All along I have been sympathetic with you guys for the prompt response to questions raised in the forum, especially, you, Paolo and Guust. Patience is running out and at this time, when I tried to renew the licence, it asks me for a 12 month renewal, when actually I need to renew it for 4 months, at the moment. You should know better about International Laws, as your reasoning does not augur well.

This is why it hurts. Having got into this, I would like to take it its logical end. I would, therefore purchase afresh for 4 a month period for the moment; and if and when I renew it post this expiry, will I be asked for 12 month renewal or a 4 month renewal? Please clarify at least now and put it up in your renewal policy. It is better to be transparent. We decide what is best for us. You just give us the available options. Blocking those options really means what I am trying to say. What prevents you from making the options (4 / 6 / 12 months) available for renewal? I can’t think of any International Law preventing you from making the options available.

Pardon me if I sound rude; but I want to open out, tell you guys what people think and in the end wishing good to all of you.

gsr

Hi Stiofan,

Your answers aren’t still convincing, yet. May be you have your own logic and perhaps a good reason for the system you have, you believe in. I would have appreciated if this type of renewals was made clear in your purchase/renewal policy before hand itself.

I am nobody to tell you what you should be doing (like removal of a certain Package).

I have no issues in dealing with new licence keys, so long as the site doesn’t go for a six and able to receive updates.

As informed to you earlier, I will purchase afresh a 4 months package, for the moment, and update the fresh licence keys at my end. Let me wait and watch how you progress (in terms of stabilising the newly released Supreme Child theme and other issues. I was told that the release of 0.3.0 will happen by the end of last week. The date has gone by and I have no information about its fate nor when will it be actually released. Or you guys still working on it to resolve some bugs reported by some members in the forum), during the next four months to renew or not or dump the product for good. It is my belief that when one is dealing in online market, one has to be careful.

Business Directory is a very competitive market, where majority of the businesses want a free listing. I am trying to change the ball-game by giving value added information. In fact, by getting a paid listing, they can do away with not having a website of their own. I have priced Featured Listing At ₹ 1,000/- pa (approx $ 15) and Premium at ₹ 2,000/ pa (approx $ 30). Even at this pricing, there seems to be terrible pressure. Plus I plan to additionally monetize the site thro advertisement revenue.

In this process, I have to calculate what costs go in and what revenues I can get. It is not only your renewl cost, but also costs associated with getting SSL certificate, moving to Virtual Private Servers, Payment Gateway etc.

Lastly, the more the delay, the more the costs.

Thanks and rgds,

gsr