jbeoin

As I stated from the beginning, I have no problem with people getting paid for their work. I agree with you that you should be paid for your work. But it’s not okay to lie to people about what a free version of your plugin does and waste their time, especially when it means they have to go back and correct settings that your “free” plugin messed up after being deactivated.

I would have been more than happy to have switched to your paid version later if your free one had worked out. It would’ve been a great preview of your paid product. But instead, you lied about what it would do, which makes me suspect that you may be lying about other things, and now I will avoid all of your other plugins because of your own inappropriate behavior.

Plenty of other plugin developers on here don’t feel the need to lie about what their free and paid versions include– they’re open about what to expect at each tier, so it begs the question, why do you feel you have to lie to potential customers to get a sale?

I’m done talking with you because this is a transparent attempt to spin your actions as though you’re being victimized when you you’re not. You lied about something you didn’t need to lie about. Simple as that.

Don’t call a product free if it’s not free.

It’s gross for you to get on here and insinuate that I’m on the wrong plugin when you know perfectly well that once installed, in the newly installed Swatch section of the edit product page, the plugin shares “demo” videos stating outright that in order to use the other features listed in the free plugin description, I would need to pay for the $49 per year pro version (but noticeably, I was pushed unnecessarily to the $149 version) in addition to having this free version installed. Mentioned multiple times in that video, not just once.

So yes. That’s a bait and switch.

Your free plugin version did not provide anything except swatches which was just forcing all the dropdown options that already come with WooCommerce’s variable product options to display all at once. There were literally no other customization settings available without purchasing the pro version. Like I said, there’s nothing wrong with reserving certain features for a paid plugin only, but it’s not okay to waste people’s time by lying to them about what features are available in the free one.