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learn to the play guitar
All
The Way
Guitar lessons from absolute beginners to advanced
• This is the full course, 'First Steps Guitar', 'Unit One'
(year 1) and 'Unit Two' (year 2).
• This software is ideal for absolute beginners and intermediate
players to learn the guitar.
• Ideal to learn electric or acoustic guitar.
• Explains in easy steps with examples how to play the guitar
from the very beginning.
• No need to read music as everything is done in easy to
read TAB.
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This is a structured course developed over many years.
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You get e-mail support for technical and musical questions with
this product.
• These are legal copies directly from the author, hence
the good price and quality after support.
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This
is three multimedia software packages from the GCH Guitar
Academy guitar course
'First
Steps Guitar'
For absolute beginners, from choosing your
first guitar to playing your notes and first chords.
'Unit One'
year
1 - GCH Guitar Academy award winning course.
'Unit Two'
year 2 - GCH Guitar Academy award winning course.
US
$34.99
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Contents
of First Steps Guitar
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This
CD-rom guitar Course contains
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interactive chord and scale
charts
especially designed
for beginners. These charts go into extreme detail, you can
pick out and listen to each note one by one.
• interactive
guitar exercises
you can hear and see the exercises to make them easily understood
• printable e-books
all the exercises and tunes can be printed out, so you can
study the material away from the computer.
• backing tracks
to play along with or help you with tunes you don't know
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a metronome
to
help you get used to playing in correct time
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a guitar tuner
so you can develop
an ear for the guitar
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a backing player
so can listen to the
backing directly from the program
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Some fun tunes included
Twinkle twinkle, Frera Jaqua, Pop goes the weasel,
Coming round the mountain, crazy frog-Axle F (riff), Gorillaz–Feel
Good Inc (riff), Amazing grace, Oasis–Live forever,
Bob Dylan-Blowing in the wind.
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Guitar
Guide
This
is a guide to the various types of guitar available. This
is useful if you are thinking of buying a guitar, or want
to know more about what guitars.
Wit
the guitar guide is a detailed guide to guitar parts both
by guitar and by component. This will help you understand
the various features available and help you decide what features
you would like.
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Interactive
chord charts and exercises
The interactive chord chart allow you to hear the chord you
would like to learn. The chord chart will then take you to
a dedicated page for each chord that will allow you to hear
the chord played normally, raked, or give you the option of
playing each note in the chord one by one so you can compare
it more carefully with your own rendition of the chord.
There
are also a number of chord exercises including tunes with
backing tracks that allow you to practice and improve your
chords and chord changes.
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Interactive scale charts
The interactive scale chart allow you to hear the scale you
would like to learn. The scale chart will then take you to
a dedicated page for each scale that will allow you to hear
each note played one by one so you can compare it more carefully
with your own rendition of the scale.
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Interactive
Tablature explanation and exercises
Tablature or Tab is one of the most common ways of writing
guitar music. All good music shops have guitar books written
using tablature and there are many sources on the internet
of tablature music. So to learn tablature is a definite must
for the modern guitarist.
The
interactive tablature explanation explains in an easily followed
way how to read tablature, and allows you to hear how the
tablature should be played. You can hear the tablature exercises
played normally or played note by note so that you can compare
it more carefully with your own rendition. This will help
reinforce your confidence in your understanding of tablature.
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Choosing
a guitar and the basics
presentations
These two presentation are video/animation style presentations
which take you through the various types of guitars available
and give you advise on choosing the right instrument for you.
The presentation goes through a cross-section of guitars and
compares them.
The
basics presentation takes you through all the important basic
elements you will need to know to progress as a guitarist.
These really are the basics, and explains simply.
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Elements of the fingerboard
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How
to read a chord map
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How to read a scale map
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How to read tablature
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Printable
PDF e-book
The
e-book is a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) document that can be printed
out and kept as a valuable addition to the material on the
CD-rom. Having a printed copy of the exercises allows you
to study them more carefully, you can return to the interactive
versions of the exercises when you need the extra help of
the interactive material.
The
chord chart, scale chart, tablature and playing techniques
are all documented in the e-book.
Providing
an e-book as apposed to a preprinted version of the documentation
means you get the same material at a fraction of the price.
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| Contents
of UNIT ONE (year 1)
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• 12+ printable e-books,
with guitar lessons and exercises in PDF
format.
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interactive guitar lessons,
with guitar lessons and exercises on your CD-rom
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You can hear the lessons and exercises played
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Backing
tracks
play along with or help you with tunes you don't know
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video guitar
lesson
to give you a visual aid to overcome common
problems
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a metronome
to
help yo get used to playing in correct time
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a guitar tuner
so you can develop
an ear for the guitar
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a backing player
so can listen to the
backing directly from the program
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interactive chord and scale
charts
so you can hear how
the chords/scales should sound
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5 games to help develop your
guitar skills
you can learn to tune
your guitar with a game |
Unit
one (year 1)
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Guitars,
guitar parts and basics
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This
guitar course is suitable for beginners, as well as more advanced
guitarists. The reference section includes chords, scales
and important information as well as types of guitars and
there parts.
The
the first few lessons include; the
names of the fingers, The names of the strings, tuning your
guitar, playing chords, reading the tablature and much more.
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Interactive
chord charts, scale charts and lessons
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The
interactive chord chart and scale charts give you the opportunity
to hear how the chord or scale should sound. As you work through
the guitar course you will find that new chords, scales and
riffs, are interactive to make lessons are easily followed
and understood.
The
clear design of the course gives you the ability to see and
hear how the tunes and exercises should sound making it easy
to recognize if you are playing something wrong.
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Professional guitar lessons
GCH Guitar Academy guitar lessons have been developed over
more than fifteen years, with guitar students. Students were
paying upwards of £1000
or $1800 to study the material contained
in the just unit one of the course.
Many courses available on the internet are simply collections
of information and tunes with no structure, or guitar players
trying to share their knowledge with no teaching experience.
This
guitar course is properly structured into months and weeks
so you can follow the lessons in a logical sequence. This
way your understanding of the guitar and your guitar playing
skills are built up at a sensible and realistic pace.
Even
the tunes have been chosen specifically for the techniques
they demonstrate, to aid the learning process |
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5 Games
1.
Recognize the open string from its sound
2.
Tune the guitar
up or down
3.
Recognize the open chords by its shape. Now with 3 levels
of difficulty
4.
Recognize the barre chord by its shape.
With 2 levels of difficulty first position chords and second
position chords
5.
Name the guitar part
Unlike
previous versions these games will tell you the correct answer
if you get the answer wrong thus improving the learning experience. |
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| PRESENTATIONS
With
these animation/presentation style tutorials, you can just
sit back and listen and watch as you have a private lesson
directly from your computer. The tutorials are on the basics
to make absolutely certain you understand the foundations
of guitar.
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video tutorials
With every monthly section of the course you will find a video
guitar lesson.
The
video guitar lesson is short and to the point and demonstrates
techniques and solutions to problems which might arise whilst
you are studying your weekly guitar lessons. Some
things can be more easily learned in video format.
All
the lessons have a 'hear this played' button which can be
clicked to hear the exercise or tune played slowly and clearly.
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The
e-books provided with the course are in Adobe Acrobat PDF
format and can be printed out using any A4 printer. By providing
them as e-books we have ensured that you don't end up paying
postage for heavy books, and you can print exactly what you
need.
There
are a total of 14 e-books provided with this unit of the course.
One for each of the twelve months, an index, and a reference
e-book with all the important chords, scales and explanations.
The
printable PDF e-books provided with the course were written
especially for the course, and are supported by the multimedia
material. This is handy if you'd like to practice your guitar
away from your computer.
The
e-books with this course, offer another way to learn the guitar,
you can either use them with the guitar course CD-ROM or separately.
All
of this costs less than
one private guitar lesson
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Minimum
system requirements
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PC
PC Win 98 / NT / XP / VISTA and Windows 7
P500, 128 MB RAM, 400MB of HDD(optional),
4 x CD or DVD-ROM, 16 bit sound card,
1024x768 video resolution
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Mac
Mac Power Mac G3 running OS 9.2 to OSX
128 MB RAM, 400MB of HDD (optional),
4 x DVD-ROM, 16 bit sound card,
1024x768 video resolution |
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| Contents
of UNIT TWO (year 2)
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This
unit is made up of 48 guitar lessons, however in this unit the lessons
are broken down into two sets of 6 months. The reason for doing
this is to make the course more easy to follow and allowing the
student to follow a more specialized route through the course. The
2 six month periods are 'Plectrum Style' and 'Finger Picking Style'.
This way you can learn to play the guitar the way you want to play
the guitar.
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Unit
two (year 2)
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12+ printable e-books,
all the guitar lessons, tunes and exercises in PDF
format,
plus a theory PDF of all the theory so far.
• interactive
guitar lessons,
with lessons and exercises on your CD.
This time all the important
exercises be clicked to hear how the guitar should sound.
A total of 187 sound samples.
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video guitar
lesson
In this unit there are two videos. One video
covers plectrum style issues and the other covers fingerpicking
issues.
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a new metronome
this
metronome covers speeds from 40 to 220 bpm, and double time
clicks for speeding up exercises.
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*** NEW - the Fret Guide
the ultimate guide
to the neck, including the blues scales, classical scales
and chords. This is available inside the lessons, and as a
stand alone package for more convenience. |
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| Guitars
and accessories
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The
Guitars menu is a guide to guitar parts. In order to provide
a complete guide we have used a spectrum of guitars, a classical,
a folk, an electro-acoustic, s semi-acoustic, and a solid
electric guitar.
A
more detailed description of the job of the various parts
of a guitar is also given, and a guide to the special effects,
amplifiers, strings and plectrums.
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Interactive
chord chart
The interactive chord chart and scale charts in this unit
go into far greater depth than charts in Unit one. They also
contain more chords and scales than you will need for this
unit. However by the time you have completed this unit your
independence as a guitarist should be at a level where you
are teaching yourself new tunes and techniques.
The
chord and scale charts contain
First positions barre chords
Second position barre chords
Open chords
all the blues scales you need
and
all the modal scales you need.
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Professional
lessons
The best thing about the GCH Guitar Academy guitar course
is that the guitar lessons have been developed over more than
fifteen years, with guitar students. If you have studied unit
one then you will be aware of the quality of the course anyway.
Many courses available on the internet are simply collections
of information and tunes with no structure, or guitar players
trying to share their knowledge with no teaching experience.
In
this unit the course is not only broken down into weeks and
months, but also two 6 month sections. This is so you can
study plectrum and fingerpicking style in more depth to give
you a complete understanding of the guitar.
If
you learn to play the guitar properly, you will never need
a chord chart and new tunes will be easier to learn.
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*** NEW NEW NEW ***
The
neck guide
The neck guide contains a chord guide and an interactive guide
to the neck. Simply select the key you want to play in and
the scales (modes or blues), and the neck guide displays all
the possible scales you can use. This is ideal for guitarists
who want to improvise in various keys.
The
neck guide is provided as a stand alone application which
also contains all the scale charts and the chord chart. This
is an invaluable reference source, if you are intending to
experiment with improvisation and song writing in different
keys and positions around the neck.
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| Printable
PDF e-books
Like unit one unit two has a printable PDF file for each monthly
set of lessons. Because many of the lessons are more detailed
and will take more time for you to study and practice to get
perfect, the PDF e-books in this unit are even more essential
than in unit one. You also get an e-book of theory and an
e-book of blank chord, scale and tab paper, for your own studies
and notes.
With
these two CD's you can't fail to learn to play the guitar
like a master. |
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Minimum
system requirements
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PC
PC Win 98 / NT / XP / VISTA and Windows 7
P500, 128 MB RAM, 400MB of HDD(optional),
4 x CD or DVD-ROM, 16 bit sound card,
1024x768 video resolution
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Mac
Mac Power Mac G3 running OS 9.2 to OSX
128 MB RAM, 400MB of HDD (optional),
4 x DVD-ROM, 16 bit sound card,
1024x768 video resolution |
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featured in a
number of prestigious magazines
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The
GCH Guitar Academy course has been featured in a number of
prestigious magazines from around the world, many of which
also featured our software on the cover disks.
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ABOUT
US
GCH
Guitar Academy was established in 1992, however the founder
Gareth Hargreaves had been teaching, and playing in bands
and as a studio artist since the 1980's. The
course was developed to teach individuals, school classes
and groups how to play the guitar. The course was developed
because the commercially available material was and is so
poor.
Combining
the GCH Guitar Academy guitar course material with new multimedia
technology, has produced a multimedia guitar method that cannot
be beaten. We originally intended to pass the multimedia course
on to a publisher to take over the sales and distribution.
However we have remained the sole distributors of the course
giving us the ability to provide far more personal customer
support.
The
multimedia course is now well established, having sold thousands
of copies worldwide and having been featured in a number of
high profile magazines, and the course continues to grow and
improve. |
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The course has won numerous awards
This are awarded for ease of install/uninstall,
ease of use, quality and design of product and much more
client
testimonials
David
(UK) - about the First steps guitar course - Since
my previous email I have had the opportunity of a much closer
look at the CD's contents and it is ***EXCELLENT**. For someone
absolutely new to the subject, its EXACTLY what I want - and need.
The info about the type of guitar to buy, the different types,
their workings, the playing of notes, etc., etc., are invaluable.
People tend to wrongly assume that anyone interested in buying
a guitar already knows all of this, which of course is not the
case at all. Your CD will allow me to talk about the subject to
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(UK) - Hi
just to let you know I bought your tutor for my son who is seven
and has been playing for a year, I think having just had a quick
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level. I myself have been playing pro for 10 years and can see
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(Sweden) - I´ve
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Email
from Craig Stevens (UK) - This
is by far the best course I have used as it is straight forward
and versatile, by that I mean you don’t have to sit in front
of the computer in order to use it thanks to the fact you have
broken down the course into bite size chunks you can print off
and study away from the computer. It’s also good to know
that you read and reply to emails sent and not rely on auto responders
and frequently asked questions
Email
from Chris Pedler(UK) - I
have just purchased Unit 1 and 2 and I just wanted to send a brief
email saying how fantastic it looks. I have tried to play the
guitar for the past 30 years on and off. At 45, and now having
both more time and more patience than in my youth, I decided to
give it one last go. Past learning through books and CDs have
either expected far too much too soon, or were simply too uninteresting.
Some of the basics here are familiar to me, but looking ahead
I see what a varied and in-depth course it is. If I make it at
all, it will be due to this. Thanks again - I'm just glad I found
you on ebay!
Email
from Paul (UK) -
I have been trying off and on to learn to play guitar for a few
years and decided at the age of 40 that I would bite the bullet
and buy myself an American deluxe stratocaster and Fender amp
and get serious. I could start a large fire with the guitar books
and cd's that I have bought over the years and given up on, so
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I can only say please quote me as a satisfied customer and get
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up the good work.
Email
from Bill (USA) -Starting
late in life, age 60, I began my quest for an education in guitar
playing. Little knowing without proper guidance a person can very
easily get lost, disgusted and disenchanted with it altogether.
After two years, 6 expensive interactive programs, little structure
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Thank you for your help from the masses like myself that have
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program really is great and I will definitely keep you abreast
of my progress. Bill W.
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from Kristy (USA) - I
absolutely love this Multimedia Guitar Course. I will recommend
to everyone. It is very user friendly. A great product. Please
let me know when Unit 2 becomes available because I wish to purchase
that as well. Thanks so much for a great product. Kristy
Email
from Mandy - I'd
just like to thank you for the terrific CD you have been very
generous with your knowledge and hope you will be rewarded. On
briefly looking it is well structured with very helpful tips of
which I have been lacking. Thanks Again Mandy
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Email
from Rob (UK) - Having
started to play the guitar just over a year ago i had a few lessons
but lost interest and direction, after being keen at the start
i stopped playing in the summer!
But my wife got me your cd's for xmas and i'm back enjoying it,
there easy to follow and i really feel im getting somewhere and
playing at every opportunity. its the best £15 my
wife has ever spent!
Email
from Albert - Thanks
for sending me your software. I'm a 60 year old who has just recently
changed over to Left handed because of an injury to my left hand
which now doesn't allow me to use it on the fretboard anymore.
I find your course a lot easier to understand than others
I have tried in the past. It's well laid out in such
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although it's just for personal recreation. I'm taking it a bit
more seriously though and not skipping lessons which is a temptation
sometimes.
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TERMS
AND CONDITIONS
CD-rom
or DVD-rom
If you do not state your preference, a DVD-rom will be dispatched.
This is because the DVD-rom contains the Mac and PC versions.
PAYMENT
International payments should be made by
PayPal.
UK payments can be made by PayPal, cheque,
postal orders or direct bank payment..
PayPal
Payments should be made to admin@guitar-academy.com
Postal orders or cheques should be in UK pounds and made out
to G C Hargreaves and sent to the address provided on the
invoice.
Cheques will be cleared before the item is dispatched.
SHIPPING
AND DISPATCH (normally dispatched within 24 hrs)
UK POSTAGE is FIRST CLASS. Items are normally
dispatched within twenty-four hours of purchase or on the
next working day.
INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING is AIRMAIL small package.
Packages usually take between 5 and 10 working days to arrive,
depending on the destination. Items are usually dispatched
within twenty-four hours of purchase or on the next working
day.
Your
preference, CD-roms or DVD-rom
If you do not state a preference at the point of purchase
the DVD-rom will be sent out.
This is because the DVD-rom contains the PC and Mac versions
and is therefore more likely to work on most systems.
TECHNICAL
SUPPORT is provided via e-mail and at the
web site.
We also offer help with the lessons, so if you get stuck with
a lesson and need advice, feel free to email us and we will
try to help you.
NEW ... NEW ... We now offer Skype support.
RETURN
POLICY
Because of the nature of this product we have a NO REFUND
POLICY.
We will replace the item in the unlikely event that a CD-rom
or DVD-rom arrives with the client damaged or is faulty. However
we will not give refunds. This policy is to protect our selves
from dishonest clients who copy the product and then returned
it. There
is an absolute NO REFUND POLICY on downloads, so be sure you
know what you are buying. Do not buy a large download if your
Internet connection will not allow you to download it.
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