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[Firmware] Sveasoft.com (Buyer Beware!)

Did you pay by credit card? I would call the credit card company and initiate a dispute for reasons such as services/products not received. I know Amex would reverse the charge immediately.
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I'm not from here.

Money was refunded (PayPal)

But why Mr. Sveasoft? Why am I not allowed to visit your forums, which I PAID for???

I didn't even badmouth Sveasoft, just explained it would have been nice to know that the ONLY version of Talisman available for purchase is the Basic. All the other versions are not available at this time.

IMO, they took this action because their wallets are so fat and they could care less about drumming up more business let alone keeping the business they have!
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reply to izy
Sorry to hear you lost your subscription, guess you like me and trhe rest of the users never read the small print when signing up.

this is rather a too common occurance tbh but i am sure Mr Ewing will sleep safe in his bed tonight knowing he has your money and approx $300,000+ more
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reply to izy
You should have asked them why they were charging for a product that is covered by the GPL license. That would have warranted a quicker ban.

reply to linksysinfo
They did refund the money, how thoughtful of them...

Pretty sad that such a decent product has to be run by a bunch of insecure morons.

Imagine if M$ banned all users who had any negative comments about their products....they'd be broke!
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"When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.." ~Rodney Dangerfield

reply to Mutiny32

sveasoft still playing these games??

Apparently they don't take criticism too lightly. I got banned with a good 6 or 8 months still left on the account... They never did refund me, and too late to do a charge back.

For all sveasoft offers, there are alternatives out there (dd-wrt, hyperwrt, etc..) that doesn't come with all the nonsense you get with sveasoft (such as finding out their product isn't really what it is after you paid for it)

PS. If you're really bent on trying out their firmware before paying, there is a site by TheIndividual which has some of their talisman releases.
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reply to izy
That was going to be my next question. Since Sveasoft is GPL it certainly makes sense that someone would re-distribute the software without charge.

reply to jsolo1
I was a Sveasoft user for all of 1 day! woohoo! What's that, 364 days left on my subscription? No warning, no explanation, no nothing as to why they banned me.

Anyways, in the Talisman "development" forums it seemed every thread was about when the versions are suppose to be released without any firm release dates or even a beta release for testing.

Their website listing all the wonderful flavors of Talisman under development is all a bunch of BS. You'd be better off taking that $20 to a craps table. Your odds are definitely better to get something in return.
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"When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.." ~Rodney Dangerfield

I bought into this as well and found out later I should have done more research. As a result I'm out $20 as well. I found that dd-wrt does the same things and more than what Sveasoft offers in Talisman. I'm happy with that even though I'm out 20.

Chuck

EDIT:Spelling/grammer

Post a complaint in the Sveasoft forum, you WILL get banned.

At that point dispute the charge with your CC company or PayPal if you used them. You'll get your $20 back very quick after Sveasoft learns of your dispute.
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"When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.." ~Rodney Dangerfield

reply to izy
Man... he's still doing this crap, eh?

You dared to question him... he banned you... of course he refunded your money though - as paypal would close him down so quickly it would be funny.

The guy is a little crooked and knows that he has a good thing going... feh.
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reply to izy
Switched to the **free** DD-WRT firmware. Got it up and running with Chillispot, IIS and IAS. Schwing!!!

Sveasoft who?
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reply to izy

Sorry for dragging up the older thread, but I just had my account shutdown over at sveasoft.com for saying that I did not think that Talisman was worth the $20 I paid for it...

Critical Information

Your access to Sveasoft has been revoked.
Please contact the webmaster or board administrator for more information.

reply to izy
I have seen posts like this on DD-WRT forums. I have informed some of my friends who were about to pay Sveasoft and they retreated. Ooops, perhaps Mr. Ewing will find and read this post, then take the action to shutdown my forum account, too. Well, who needs Sveasoft that is full with a bunch of incompetence crying out for $$$$.

I was surprised as all I said was that I didn't think it was worth the $20....
Time to file the Paypal complaint...

reply to ptrowski
it's easy... They say, SVEASOFT is located in the states, but yet they follow their Web-hosting Co from Ze Germany... Zey don't have freedom of Speachez...

It's simple really, "You don't like it? Whocares!" attitude is the way to go in the "Customer is ALWAYS right" business...

I am beginning to think that sveasoft is related to OpenBSD... I do not know if anyone here would get that!? LOL