On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 20:16:06 -0400, tony cooper
wrote:

On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 11:31:48 +1200, Eric Stevens
wrote:

On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 08:45:42 -0400, "Mayayana"
wrote:

| IIRC You can download a trial.
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| There is no point. I am not going to pay their exhorbitant price.
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How refreshing. Given the large number of MS Office and
PhotoShop/CS customers I know, I thought I must be the
only person in the world who sees something odd in a software
program that costs twice the price of the computer, despite
being sold in vast numbers.

I guess it's not really odd, though. It's just the skewing
that happens with software used commercially. They can
charge almost any price they like and most people who use
it for business will still buy it... Or rather, they'll tell their
boss that they can't work without it.

I suppose I should be grateful that my frying pan, my
power drill, and my pants are not all similarly priced on the
basis of how useful they are to me, rather than on the basis
of what they cost to produce. Otherwise I wouldn't be able
to get dressed in the morning, much less eat breakfast and
go to work.

I don't mind them asking me to pay what they think its worth to me.
The problem is that they seem to think it's worth twice as much to
most of the world as it is to residents of the US. I object to having
to pay (sometimes much) more that US$1000 when I know that if I lived
in the US I could buy it from Amazon for between US$500 and US$600. I
know they are ripping me off and I resent that.

I'll preface this by emphasizing that I know absolutely nothing about
how prices are set for Adobe products in other countries.

That's a good start. :-)

I do wonder, though, if this is an Adobe policy or an Amazon policy.

It can only be Adobe. Amazon has no control over Adobe prices in the
world outside the US.

Neither outfit would want to discourage sales to someone just because
the person does not live in the US. It doesn't make sense
business-wise, and both organizations are very savvy business
operations.

I'm sure there is a reason. I don't really care what it is. I only
know how it affects me.

I would seem to me that this is more of a government thing than a
business thing...that there are some taxes or other fees imposed by
the government.

It's just like DVDs. There are different price policies in different
parts of the world and these are all under the control of the DVD
manufacturers or Adobe. Amazon sells what it does at the prices that
it does under the control of the original manufacturers (Adobe, Sony,
Microsoft, Autocad, Apple, Uncle Tom Cobbley and all ... ).

You may be getting ripped off, but I think you might
be blaming the wrong party.

True, but you could be entirely wrong. Governments don't generally
interfere with market prices.

It does not add a nickel to the cost of the product to allow it to be
downloaded in New Zealand or New Jersey. A mailed disk would add to
the cost, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Adobe's losing a sale. Amazon's losing a sale. Why would either want
to do that?

Complex marketing economics.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens