How these abode people can possibly justify charging hundreds of pounds for something which if you shop around you can find for a tenner is beyond me - what rip off merchants! there ought to be some sort of law.bring back 'watchdog', that's what I say. I got my copy from a car-boot sale for £10.00 (bundled with free copies of illustrator *and* office xp!) - and the guys there were obviously making a profit or they would have gone out of business. Swisskiltbear The prices were quoted on the Adobe website I can't actually believe they are making people pay for the beta release when it still has quite a few problems (mac) The prices above are the online pre order prices Many states have very low sales taxes too, and if you buy online there is no sales tax at all, right?Īctually, i wonder what the online pricing would be. Thats true, but with the ~20% vat deduction, the gap isnt as much as 500$ (its 230$ish). Surely US sales taxes can't make up for over $500 difference Presumably the US prices are exclusive of sales tax? where as the european prices would presumably include vat (which varies from country to country but is usually around 20%). so between people who *ahem* won't be paying for it, and the businesses who will be paying for it, i don't think you'll see that many sad faces over this.Īlthough a pricing model that sought to reduce piracy instead of encourage it would be nice.Īlso, bearing in mind that there's usually much reduced student pricing for these products is an important consideration. Software makes pretty really swell tax deduction. That's peanuts for the corporations, companies and professionals who will actually be *ahem* paying for it. That's because they give a favourable rate to the Third World, etc etc. Originally posted at 4:40AM, 28 March 2007 PST (Edit) This is for a full boxed version - Not an upgrade Just like when Vista was released, the US comes out at almost half the price.

Have just been comparing world prices for CS3 on the Adobe website.

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