Goldmine Sucks
Dear User, You know the two features you use most - writing a new email and checking the postcode on an address? Well, I just conveniently deleted all your settings for them! Love from Goldmine
What a piece of crap.
Dear User, You know the two features you use most - writing a new email and checking the postcode on an address? Well, I just conveniently deleted all your settings for them! Love from Goldmine
What a piece of crap.
Jun
2007
13:11
To die a slow and painful death, try using Goldmine.
Sep
2007
20:51
Goldmine is to software what the Yugo was to cars. Functionally, but futile and ultimately useless.
Apr
2008
23:09
What’s really frightening is the database design, it breaks every rule there is about how to design databases. Nothing ever works right - automated processes are always a problem, they don’t run on all our contacts.
Aug
2008
17:16
GoldMine is a piece of garbage. It’s probably the worst software I have ever used (just slightly worse than Norton Anti-Virus). I hate it. The whole thing is just thoughtlessly slapped together. GoldMine 7 has a bug that causes about 30 “check that gmres.dll can be found in the PATH enviroment variable” (yes, “enviroment” is spelled wrong in the error message) errors a day in the Windows Event Log on ALL of our workstations, including our Terminal Server (VERY BAD!). The PATH environment variable for gmres.dll is correctly set on all workstations, but it still insists on spitting out AT LEAST 10 errors per workstation per day. The program takes about 1 minute to reach the friggin’ login screen. I experience GoldMine crashes weekly. Emails are stored oddly. The activity preview window in the activity list shows “[email unavailable]” or some crap like that until you go to complete the activity. Then it transfers the email to the preview window or something, and then if you cancel the completion and re-open the activity, all of the information is suddenly missing out of there, so you have to copy and paste it from the preview window.
Don’t even get me started on GISMO (GoldMine’s terrible attempt to link Outlook emails to the database) or there other MS Office link attempts. They consistently cause all sorts of weird MS Office malfunctions for our users.
I think I am going to start taking a screenshot of every retarded GoldMine problem and compile them into a blog post on my website (http://www.x3haloed.com/).
Dec
2008
22:09
My boss likes Goldmine. He almost insists that I use it.
I have only been using Outlook express for about 10 years and don’t really care to learn anything else. I tried Goldmine for a while but could never get used to it. I see no advantages to Goldmine unless getting kicked out of the system, taking too long to log in, waiting for the system to get emails again and being driven crazy are advantages.
I hate Goldmine and hope the company who sells it goes bankrupt.
May
2009
00:27
Sometimes I sit at my desk and joke at how productive I am while using Goldmine. My company prefers that we use Goldmine, probably so they can read all of our emails to make sure we stay captive. Sometimes when I actually can’t wait 40 minutes to send an email, I sign onto gmail and poof my life doesn’t suck anymore. Goldmine sucks so bad!