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lazza Member 
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ok i see this place and software is new, can i ask why its so dear in price please? you have matched vbulletin lease price of $100 is this a wise move, you not think its to dear? so far this software comes no where near IP.Boards or Vbulletin, like i mean not even close, but yet the price amazes me. im not out to flam the software makers or other members and have full respect to there work, great job. BUT convince me why i should move from vbulletin to wowultra.com software, all i see is a free board look a like, no offence. Last edited on Sun Aug 3rd, 2008 10:26 am by lazza |
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Jim Administrator 
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Nobody is saying you should  Our $99. is a lifetime license with free upgrades and support. The 100 "lease" at Vbull is per year. There is one big feature we have that they don't, the user selectable side menus. I have never tried to market Ultra as being "better" than anything. It has plenty of features, I come up with new stuff all the time, and if you notice the customers are generally happy with what they get. The service is a good part of that. No offense taken, hang out and get a feel for what Ultra really is.
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Di Customer Service Rep. 
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Welcome Lazza Ultra is a young company. We just celebrated our 1 yr anniversary back in May. We are constantly deep in code to try and improve the software even more. We even have an area where Ultra holders can discuss with Jim and I some of the things theyd like to see in Ultra (and a majority of the time, they see the feature they requested) We offer free customer service with our software. Most of the time, we go above and beyond what you would normally find with paid support. Our members can attest to that We also offer a 30 day free trial board which a majority of our members have done before they paid for the software just to get the feel of the software and see how it all works. Feel free to start one if you havent done so yet. We have never advertised that we are better than Vbull or IPB, but you never know, there may come a day 
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bouttime Brain Salad Surgeon 
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as jim said, the pricing is much different. its not an equal comparison. wowultra is much much cheaper in the long run. after you have your board for a year, vbull will have cost you 200 and ultra still only a 100, after 2 years vbull will have cost you 300 and ultra still only the original 100, and so on. you can see where that takes you. the side columns options are a feature not found in any forumware, with just a click you can switch to any style that suits you and allows for far more content to be displayed with ease. add them or remove them at will. to do that with other ware, you'd have to know how to modify the code and still not have the flexibility to switch them at will. what is also not very apparent at a glance is that wowultra is the most flexible and easiest forum software to customize the look of. even someone with just a little knowledge of html can create their very own skin with little stress. you also get free upgrades and support, that has to cost something to provide, so the $99 upfront is a very very good value. it doesn't escape anyone that there are features that ultra lacks that are found on other boards, but its about the needs of the individual. do you need all those features or not? do you need personalized support or not? etc. if its just about how many features a program has and price, then one could just go with an open source CMS and be done with it. but yet people pay for vbull rather than do that. so obviously, its not just about how many toys are in the attic. its about what suits you best. for some, its ultra and for other's its vbull or ipb.
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TVDinner Getting Fatter By The Minute 
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lazza wrote: ok i see this place and software is new, Welcome to Ultra Lazza. I wont redo the math that bouttime did above, but obviously he is correct about the cost of Ultra being FAR less then VB. But beyond the price here is the feedback I have for you. I HAVE paid for and used just about all of the available forum softwares "out there". My main site (The Biggest Boards) is a directory ONLY for forums of all kind. So I basically spend all day looking at forums of all types. One thing that I can say 100% from personal experience is this. WowUltra is on par with all of them. Sure there might be a feature that one software has that the others dont, or a random thing here or there that is still in development, but on the whole Ultra stands next to or above the others. I say this honestly. It really is that powerful. In addition it is fully customizable (as previously mentioned) AND the support here is growing quickly. The software runs as efficiently and quickly as any other one and is really user friendly. That is the other big point. A complete beginner could start and run a wowUltra board almost immediately. An advanced user has so many option that they could go customizing crazy. Just something for anyone. I look forward to hearing from you again. Last edited on Sun Aug 3rd, 2008 01:44 pm by TVDinner |
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ZTUnlimited License Holder
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I agree with all of the responses so far... I have also worked with several other forum software programs and WowUltra for ME is the best so far. I love that it is so easy to use, since I'm not very tech-savvy... but the constant development of the code and the help that Jim and Di offer (without charging an arm and a leg like other companies do) make it easy for me to make my forum look just as good as those more expensive options out there. And since our site is a fansite that does not pull in revenue (only donations from members) we needed to choose a software that fit our budget. But this software is by now means a "cheap" one. I prefer to see it as a tremendous value. Jim and Di offer support and help WAY above and beyond any other software I have used in the past. It isn't for anyone to convince you to switch. You need to look at what your members need and find the software that best suits those needs. You say it comes no where near IP Boards and VBulliten, but have you tried an Ultra trial board? Have you really taken the time to compare them in depth?
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Robert Member 
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I think a lot comes down to how personal the board is to the person running it. Today I have looked at both IP and VBulletin and indeed used the demo IP board for half an hour and neither are for me or my members. There is no sense of 'this is my board' as there is with wowultra. I want my members to actually enjoy the experience of using the forum and not just for the information it contains. It is their forum, designed by them through the multitude of choices I can give them, and then the ease with which I can implement those choices. If I need help I don't have to go through pages and pages of help files which never seem to relate to the problem I have. Finally I may be driven to the dreaded ticket system with ever more frustrating hours of waiting, especially at week ends. Here at wowultra I actually get to speak to the man who is doing the programming. How unique is that, I ask you? For me that $99 is a long term investment in the future of my board and it's members, and is a bargain not to be found elsewhere.
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Di Customer Service Rep.
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OT - Lazza, you kind of remind me of this woman from another site I came across called holisticnurse.com Attachment: hn.jpg (Downloaded 69 times)
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jordan License Holder
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Di wrote: OT - Lazza, you kind of remind me of this woman from another site I came across called holisticnurse.com Isn't that Debra from wowbb? I didn't know she was a nurse.
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lazza Member
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wow dont i feel like the idiot lol. $100 for life is great. so for that $100 i would be getting upgrades for the software free for life? one other thing, can you ad meta tags eg: keywords, description? to get higher ranking. p.s im not a girl from holisticnurse.com lol, all tho the chic eating the apple is hot lol. Last edited on Mon Aug 4th, 2008 01:06 am by lazza |
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Di Customer Service Rep.
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lazza wrote: wow dont i feel like the idiot lol. yes, all of our upgrades are free regardless if theyre "minor" or "major", altho, we really never had a "minor" upgrade because we dont like to do something half way. its either all or nothing with us LOL!
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Jim Administrator
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Not only can you add keywords, we will show you where to put them.
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Di Customer Service Rep.
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jordan wrote: Di wrote:OT - Lazza, you kind of remind me of this woman from another site I came across called holisticnurse.com  dont know
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wingnutter Forever Learning 
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Welcome Lazza. The support here is superb. If you have a look through some of the posts, you won't see anyone who has had a bad experience with the Ultra support.
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wingnutter Forever Learning
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Robert wrote: I think a lot comes down to how personal the board is to the person running it. Today I have looked at both IP and VBulletin and indeed used the demo IP board for half an hour and neither are for me or my members. There is no sense of 'this is my board' as there is with wowultra. I want my members to actually enjoy the experience of using the forum and not just for the information it contains. It is their forum, designed by them through the multitude of choices I can give them, and then the ease with which I can implement those choices. If I need help I don't have to go through pages and pages of help files which never seem to relate to the problem I have. Finally I may be driven to the dreaded ticket system with ever more frustrating hours of waiting, especially at week ends. Here at wowultra I actually get to speak to the man who is doing the programming. How unique is that, I ask you? For me that $99 is a long term investment in the future of my board and it's members, and is a bargain not to be found elsewhere. Good post Robert and much of it reflects my thinking as well.
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John Floyd License Holder 
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