Quote from jd7419:
Well I cancelled esignal yesterday after being a customer for 4 years. I was paying $370 a month for all the exchanges I needed. The rep told me yesterday that I had a lower rate and that if I came back in the future it would be higher. I told him that the problems over the last 2 weeks have been unacceptable and that if they ever fixed their product and felt good about it again to email me and I would reconsider. I am now learning cqg software now and to be honest esignals software and the ability to make a layout "pretty" is better than cqg. It will probably take me a few weeks to get cqg to look like the esignal layout that I have been staring at for the last 4 years. My price for everything I need on cqg is $780 a month. It hurts but I think in the long run its worth it.
wow, thanks for sharing that realistic and honest experience, you are definetly not alone....
there were a number of comments on this thread and others, where the customer base has been with them from the late 1980's, in particular when they were IDC (Interactive Data Corp, before Quotrek, and before eSignal name).
I recall the hand held video game with antenae (in current terms), which was their radio device that transmitted realtime index and quote data. Its amazing how far its come, however, there definetly are changes between their support levels now and what it used to be, even under the prior version 8.x.
Perhaps their servers cater more to their institutional clients instead of the retail individual customer, perhaps more catering to their software groups instead of the individual retail customer.
Pity those of us who need eSignal data for more than one application and instead of taking the specific group discount, have to have an individual accout to provide data to multiple applications.
Pity those who are comparing PATS data to the eSignal data stream and noticing a significant lag in the time and sales data, which happens to be some of the smallest packets of data updates to transmit, and comprises a significant percentage of requested data when doing either level 2 or level 3 or emini high volume contract analysis.
IDC really has an interesting challenge upon its hands, and I hope they respond to a satisfactory degree with their customer and prospective customer bases.