50% Off HomeSeer Software

I know there are a few posts that reference starting automation enthusiasts possibly wanting to purchase HomeSeer software (a good choice IMO), so now is the chance if you have been putting it off!
 
Want further opinions, check out THIS rating!
 
They are also starting a new remote service (don't have any direct experience with this yet).

That's an interesting chart.  I see it's greatest value as a comparison between the capabilities of the various software.  I think what propels HomeSeer upward in the ranking is the fact that it's not proprietary.  It plays well with others, or at least intends to.  From a reliability standpoint, ranking HomeSeer above Crestron wouldn't be very believable.
 
The chart, of course, doesn't address the fact that HomeSeer 3.0 is apparently experiencing some growing pains.  Having said that, I'm in the boat of having to plan for my Elve becoming unusable at some point in the future.  It looks like my only choice will be HomeSeer, so I'm going to have to learn to love it.
 
The 50% off sale is certainly a great buy.  I hope to hit one when I have the need to make the switch to HS.

I'm wondering if TopTenReviews is just a paid endorsement site..  How did they choose the contenders?  No Leviton / Hai, Elk, ISY or CQC?  Lowes Iris at number 6?  Only HS has a review?

HomeSeer also has hardware on sell for 10 to 40% off.

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I'm wondering if TopTenReviews is just a paid endorsement site..  How did they choose the contenders?  No Leviton / Hai, Elk, ISY or CQC?  Lowes Iris at number 6?  Only HS has a review?

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It is in fact a "paid for" review site.  
 
"The issue lies in the explosion of spam-review sites which are nothing more than websites promoting affiliate links under the guise of an official " review " site. Their main goal is to accomplish one thing - to send you to the site they are promoting and hoping you buy the product they are selling - if you do, they get up to a 75% cut of the sale. In other words, their reviews are up for sale - and are not anything but thinly vailed sales pitches. For example, if you do a search for the term " Paid Survey " or " Registry Repair " you'll notice that the paid listings all include sites that say " read our review " or " warning, don't download anything until you read this..."

Often it's even more blatant than that. We were approached by a cable TV 'review' show and they were really 'excited about CQC' and wanted to do a review on it. That sounded great to me, what's involved? Well, you pay us $30K and we will be excited about your product on our show for give minutes. I'm condensing the conversation of course, but not a lot. Basically they would do three or four products per weekly show (or maybe it was bi-weekly), and raise $100K or so, and that's how the show makes its money. It's a straight out fee for them to pimp your product, but to act like it's just some product they found and really like. I imagine, had it gone forward, we'd have written most of the text for it as well, since I doubt they'd have taken the time to actually learn anything about the product. How could they with four of them a week being pimped?
 
In that kind of scheme, they don't even have to care if the product sells or not. They get paid either way, just as though it were a straight advertisement.
 
I imagine on the web those sites are also using their hits to sell web ads for folks like Google and whatnot. As long as you hit their site, it doesn't matter whether it helps or if you read anything.