Intuit tries to call Mint's bluff? Is this normal?

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Post by auston » Fri, Feb 20, 2009, 6:02 AM UTC

Intuit tries to call Mint's bluff? Is this normal?
techcrunch.com

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Post by moe » Fri, Feb 20, 2009, 6:16 AM UTC

As the old saying goes: If you're worth suing then you might be doing something right.

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Post by paulgb » Fri, Feb 20, 2009, 6:24 AM UTC

As you are no doubt aware, all advertising claims must be verified and substantiated before they are used in advertising.

Now that's a novel idea. Nine out of ten doctors agree.

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Post by staunch » Fri, Feb 20, 2009, 6:29 AM UTC

I can just picture a large board room at Intuit of stuffy suits all sitting around baffled how this tiny startup is managing to totally dominate them. I'm going to sign up for Mint right now.

Fun fact: A safer way a company can brag in advertising is called "puffing" http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/puffing

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Post by tptacek » Fri, Feb 20, 2009, 6:30 AM UTC

I don't know if it's normal, but it's certainly an unbelievably fucking dumb marketing move; your dad knows Quicken, but might not have known about Mint --- until Quicken made sure he did.

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Post by vaksel » Fri, Feb 20, 2009, 6:54 AM UTC

so I can just email any company and demand them to give out their proprietary data? Mint should have told them to go to hell.

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Post by thinkcomp » Fri, Feb 20, 2009, 6:57 AM UTC

I signed up sometime last week to check it out, and my six-digit bank account ID numbers in Mint's database are 6079xx and 6079xx+1. They're sequential, so there are 600,000ish rows in the table, but that's not necessarily proof that they're all active.

I don't use Mint for anything really, but technically I'm a user.

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Post by ars » Fri, Feb 20, 2009, 7:14 AM UTC

Why use mint? Why not register with yodlee directly?

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Post by anuraggoel » Fri, Feb 20, 2009, 7:33 AM UTC

Maybe it's just me, but this article felt a lot like something I would see on valleywag. Just replace tech companies with tech individuals.

There is, of course, shallow technical discussion about how users are counted; even a comScore chart; but the tone of the article and the ludicrousness of the whole affair felt no less voyeuristic.

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Post by sown » Fri, Feb 20, 2009, 7:34 AM UTC

I wonder if this was some kind of botched overture for a sort of partnership.