| Dump the CD's, just buy it for the online subscription! | Rating:  |
| I just ordered my third set of "Clip Art & More" CD's - it's an annual rite of passage in our home. However, I never even attempt to use the CD's themselves - yes, they're pretty useless. I just want the one-year subscription code to www.clipart.com, which costs $159.95 to purchase but is "free" with software purchase (code included in software purchase). So - I buy the software (this year I found "Clipart 3.0 Million" at a site for 9.98 + 5.00 shipping - took a little hunting but deals are out there) and so for $14.98 I will now have my 2008 yearly subscription to www.clipart.com! Beats paying $160!! Clipart.com is a highly-rated graphics program (#2) in "top ten reviews" and my son and I have used it quite frequently for school projects, etc. |
| Total Votes: 4, Helpful Votes: 4, Date: 2007-12-29 |
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| Serious Misrepresentation | Rating:  |
| I bought this product looking for an inexpensive home clip art collection. What I received was three discs that I basically can't access and a one year subscription to a clip art service I probably won't get my money's worth out of. What an extreme disappointment. The least IMSI could have done was actually stated this is a subscription service you are buying. I will not buy from IMSI again. They don't advertise the truth with their product. I'll stick to Nova. I've bought their product before and they deliver what they advertise. I'll pay the extra money for that. Boy did I get burned!! |
| Total Votes: 4, Helpful Votes: 4, Date: 2007-11-10 |
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| Know what you are getting. | Rating: |
Totally agree with the other reviews.
The physical product you receive in the mail is really useless. Disc one contains a software program that should allow you to search the other two discs in the set. Those, by the way, contain wire-framed art (looks rendered back in 1980)and some bad sound effects. So, totally NOT what I was expecting (and thus the poor rating).
This is basically paying $39.95 for a one year membership to a great web site that will cost $169.95 per year thereafter.
Regardless of whether the value is worth what you get (and it probably is), the offer and product are still not clear. |
| Total Votes: 7, Helpful Votes: 7, Date: 2007-06-19 |
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| Absolutely terrible! | Rating: |
| This isn't worth the amount of paper it took to make the box. The box advertises "Search by: Animals, Sports, Science, etc." and makes statements like "Locate the right image fast!" and "Every piece ... is key worded and cross-referenced..." Yet the Windows software and the Mac software provided for looking at and finding images are just file browsers with absolutely no way of finding anything. The file names are also non-descriptive. Many images are identical with slight variations on colors or rotation. My teenager laughed at the images and said that he could draw better and I don't doubt him. This is a true "pig in a poke". |
| Total Votes: 8, Helpful Votes: 8, Date: 2007-03-14 |
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| This is actually a subscription to Clipart.com | Rating:  |
| I got this once and there really aren't any good images on the cd-rom. It is an activation code for clipart.com. I used it for a year and have been able to find a bunch of images using the site. $32 for a year is much better than getting the subscription on the website ($170!!) If you don't mind not having images on a cd-rom then this is decent, just download all you can in a year and burn them to a cd yourself. I find searching on the website easier than trying to hunt something down on a cd anyway. |
| Total Votes: 9, Helpful Votes: 9, Date: 2006-10-23 |
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| Dump the CD's, just buy it for the online subscription! | Rating: |
| I just ordered my third set of "Clip Art & More" CD's - it's an annual rite of passage in our home. However, I never even attempt to use the CD's themselves - yes, they're pretty useless. I just want the one-year subscription code to www.clipart.com, which costs $159.95 to purchase but is "free" with software purchase (code included in software purchase). So - I buy the software (this year I found "Clipart 3.0 Million" at a site for 9.98 + 5.00 shipping - took a little hunting but deals are out there) and so for $14.98 I will now have my 2008 yearly subscription to www.clipart.com! Beats paying $160!! Clipart.com is a highly-rated graphics program (#2) in "top ten reviews" and my son and I have used it quite frequently for school projects, etc. |
| Total Votes: 4, Helpful Votes: 4, Date: 2007-12-29 |
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| Serious Misrepresentation | Rating: |
| I bought this product looking for an inexpensive home clip art collection. What I received was three discs that I basically can't access and a one year subscription to a clip art service I probably won't get my money's worth out of. What an extreme disappointment. The least IMSI could have done was actually stated this is a subscription service you are buying. I will not buy from IMSI again. They don't advertise the truth with their product. I'll stick to Nova. I've bought their product before and they deliver what they advertise. I'll pay the extra money for that. Boy did I get burned!! |
| Total Votes: 4, Helpful Votes: 4, Date: 2007-11-10 |
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| Know what you are getting. | Rating: |
Totally agree with the other reviews.
The physical product you receive in the mail is really useless. Disc one contains a software program that should allow you to search the other two discs in the set. Those, by the way, contain wire-framed art (looks rendered back in 1980)and some bad sound effects. So, totally NOT what I was expecting (and thus the poor rating).
This is basically paying $39.95 for a one year membership to a great web site that will cost $169.95 per year thereafter.
Regardless of whether the value is worth what you get (and it probably is), the offer and product are still not clear. |
| Total Votes: 7, Helpful Votes: 7, Date: 2007-06-19 |
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| Absolutely terrible! | Rating: |
| This isn't worth the amount of paper it took to make the box. The box advertises "Search by: Animals, Sports, Science, etc." and makes statements like "Locate the right image fast!" and "Every piece ... is key worded and cross-referenced..." Yet the Windows software and the Mac software provided for looking at and finding images are just file browsers with absolutely no way of finding anything. The file names are also non-descriptive. Many images are identical with slight variations on colors or rotation. My teenager laughed at the images and said that he could draw better and I don't doubt him. This is a true "pig in a poke". |
| Total Votes: 8, Helpful Votes: 8, Date: 2007-03-14 |
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| This is actually a subscription to Clipart.com | Rating: |
| I got this once and there really aren't any good images on the cd-rom. It is an activation code for clipart.com. I used it for a year and have been able to find a bunch of images using the site. $32 for a year is much better than getting the subscription on the website ($170!!) If you don't mind not having images on a cd-rom then this is decent, just download all you can in a year and burn them to a cd yourself. I find searching on the website easier than trying to hunt something down on a cd anyway. |
| Total Votes: 9, Helpful Votes: 9, Date: 2006-10-23 |
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