Shame on you, Adobe

Our experience with Adobe has been extremely negative.
With a rare exception, the reps are very unfriendly; they interrupt in a mid sentence, get rude ( "I am not going to waste my time on this...", etc.)
It took months and dozens of phone conversations to transfer the license from our ex-employee back to the company.
I mean those reps who actually speak the language of this country. When they escalate, you'll usually get someone picking up the phone in India.
This afternoon, after two rude and annoyed people, I got escalated to a tech, who, just simply hung up on me, after I asked the same question twice, since he was saying sheer nonsense. And these are the characters Adobe hires to represent itself?
Wow, shame, and shame again, Adobe.
You are deliberately turning your loyal, and long-running customers away. Well, this is exactly what you'll get.

As already pointed out there is nothing we can do here to help you but
if you were after alternatives or what economists call substitute
products then clearly Microsoft is the best.  They have almost
everything Adobe has and their products are relatively less expensive
than Adobe's.
Whether you like these alternatives is a different story altogether but
alternatives they are and there are others out there if you look for
them.  Search for Open Source products (free products) and you will be
surprised what you get.
Good luck.

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    http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1195540

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