Business ProfileforStenograph, LLC

I purchased software to use for my business.The purchase price was $1,499.I was told I could finance it, and being new to my business and overwhelmed, I did not understand the math, I just knew I had to have to software to edit with.I am now told that the payments actually go one for 3 years, and are $1,000 more than I agreed to pay.I am then also told that no matter that I bought the software, when I pay it off, the software will cease essential functions forcing me to pay $500 a year or more in further fees.So why buy the software? This was a complete misrepresentation of the price and what my payments would be going towards, as I am being made to pay for 2 years of this service, as well as the program itself.It's extortion. I'm a very small business and they know that as a secondary user, I don't get very many options with which to make my living editing for court reporters and other stenographers. I sent 3 separate emails to different email addresses recently about the total due on my account, which never populated into the "my account" areas of their website when I logged in, and got zero response over several weeks of asking. I called finally, and was told that the price is now higher, and that my payments weren't actually fully going to pay for the software, but the yearly subscription that is apparently also required for service. No other numbers, aside from the purchase price, were given at the time of sale, and I flat out didn't do the math to realize how badly I was getting ripped off, for a software that I will never actually just own.I now have to continue paying them until I can save up enough to purchase alternate software, and find new clients. They need to be held accountable for their misrepresentations, and the people who purchase their software should be able to use ALL of it, forcing further memberships is extortion, plain and simple.Their actions are theft and misrepresentation of the abilities in future ownership of the program.