Rosetta Stone Version 3: Spanish (Spain) Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Rosetta Stone Personal Edition contains everything you need to start learning a language. It's built around our award-winning Rosetta Stone curriculum, which has been adopted by organizations around the world including the U.S. Army, NASA, major corporations such as Deutsche Telecom, IKEA, Royal Dutch Shell, and over 10,000 schools worldwide--and is available in 31 languages spoken by over 90% of the world's population. The comprehensive language-learning solution that fits… Product details and pricing info |
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1 Customer Review Posted
- Warning -- Even if you buy it, you don't own it
- I bought this product for my son, who was studying a foreign language in middle school. He did not find the software helpful and stopped using it completely after about a month. Because the software was quite expensive, I decided to try to recover part of my investment by selling the package on eBay. Rosetta Stone made eBay take down the listing, saying it was a violation of their copyright, even though I was selling the original product. Rosetta Stone told me that I didn't really buy the product when I paid $400 for it; they said I was only buying a license to use the disks and that I could not transfer that license to someone else. Technically, that's probably what some fine print on one of the installation screens said, but it's an unfair practice and I can't figure out why Rosetta Stone refuses to let customers resell their product the way we might sell a used book when we're done with it. I suspect that a lot of users find that they don't end up using the language DVDs they "buy" from Rosetta Stone, and preventing customers from recovering part of their purchase price is a bad and unfair corporate policy. I would strongly recommend that you find a way of trying these DVDs before you buy them and are stuck with an expensive mistake. The DVDs are OK (although they certainly do not make learning a language quick and painless, as the ads would suggest), but Rosetta Stone's treatment of its customers is unacceptable.
- 2008-08-26, 65 of 76 people found this review helpful, Rated:
