Mike Mountain wrote:
For those prices it would literally be cheaper to fly out to the US to buy it. Adobe has FUBAR'd these prices - we demand an explanation - but who from?
For what it's worth, I had been pushing before launch for better information about the reasons for regional pricing disparities, but I did not succeed at doing so.
I suspect there are reasonable explanations, because Macromedia, Adobe, and most other software houses show similar differences across national boundaries, but I don't yet know the authoritative reasons myself, sorry.
(My suspicion is that it's due to decisionmaking being both at the central and at the regional level... I think each region is responsible for its own prices and these are shaped, but not dictated, by the main office, so there's no single owner of pricing worldwide... that's just my best current guess of why I haven't been able to gain traction in getting this documented, though.)
What I'm doing now is trying to collect similar reactions for my partners, to show that this is indeed a frequently-asked question, and one that deserves a definitive explanation on the Adobe site. (The FlashCoders web archive is not viewable to non-subscribers, so I'm snipping threads to give a flavor of the whole.)
So... my apologies for the confusion. I think it's definitely a legitimate question, and one that I'm working to get addressed.
tx, jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
