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How can one tell the credibilty of AVG protection?

Apr 16, 2015 7:03PM PDT

I have been using AV for many years without any major problem. Now I have a few days left before I need to renew.
I looked at the EBay for the AVG internet security and there are a number of packages advertised all claiming to be genuine. The prices are from £.3.50 for three years on a number of devices to over fifty pounds for one year.
If I click on the "buy Pro" i.e. it suggests £35.99 for a year.
To say the least I am confused. Why is it that a reputable company can have such confusing market strategy ?
I shall be grateful if some one in the know enlighten me .So that I may not fall into a troublesome spot.

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That's easy.
Apr 17, 2015 12:52AM PDT

So far not one antivirus stops them all so for some that would be non-credible.

As to marketing, that's marketing. You can avoid most of this by using Ninite to fetch AVG. Here's why I use Ninite a lot.
-> http://www.howtogeek.com/201354/ninite-is-the-only-safe-place-to-get-windows-freeware/

To me the marketing is not confusing. They have a product to sell so the free one is on the back shelf or put another way (Hitchhiker's GTTG quote).

"
"But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months."

"Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."

"But the plans were on display ..."

"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."

"That's the display department."

"With a flashlight."

"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."

"So had the stairs."

"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"

"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."
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As always to the point
Apr 17, 2015 6:16PM PDT

You Sir, are the most accomplished of experts. Thank you. Well done.
For some reason I thought the truth up front was the motto of decent business establishments !

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Apr 17, 2015 12:52AM PDT
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Re: AVG prices
Apr 17, 2015 6:33PM PDT

I looked up the prices in The Netherlands. It turns out that different retailers have different prices. Hey, that's the same as it is for laptops or camera's or cola: it's not the maker that determines the price, it's the seller.

You can't blame Coca Cola company if one supermarket asks more than another. On the contrary, it's illegal (a 'cartel') in Europe if the maker demands that all retailers use the same price.
So you can't blame AVG for the same, can you?

Kees

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What price morality ?
Apr 22, 2015 6:58PM PDT

You are right you can not blame the prime mover if the agents behave they want to.
The serious question must be:
What price morality,especially in free societies?

It is OK to milk the uninformed or the vulnerable or not too smart to weigh up the level of dishonesty. Just because we pretend to live in "free world" or societies that pretend to be moral leaders of the powerful and the influential societies in the world !