I'd like to close this swindle thing....If you have a company with
some money available to buy the programs in the us and travel here in
order to have it...then is not a crime to buy something in other
country. I'm ecuadorian (south american working in the US), when I
had enough money to had a vacation in the US, so I did it and there
is no law against to buy a computer, a program or anything here
without using the regional stores. And In my country I was using the
regional support. So you can do it, and also enjoy the travel, this
is my advice. Let me tell you something your UK, German, Or Russian
visa or mastercard are good enough to buy what you want here in
compusa, apple store, circuit city or any store(well depends on how
much you have in the card limit).
regards
Gustavo Duenas
On Mar 31, 2007, at 7:34 AM, Cedric Muller wrote:
Ok.
Let's stop now X-Files thingies ... this is all in all TOP OT ...
I mean, you, the honest client must be held responsible for your
region's bad behaviours ???
oh, you must live in a fascist country, under a dictator to accept
such practices
or did you forgot to walk outside your frontier ?? ..
bah anyway, let's stop this swindle thing .,... always the same, US
companies don't know there is a world out there ... they are just
acting like US companies: arrogant, and plainly dumb ...
"one more time baby, one more tiiiime"
Apple is doing it, macromedia was doing it ... they are all doing it
even that dumb george bush is doing it ...charge the slaves!
I am just waiting for the Empire to drop ... and it will
we will have honest prices around the world WHEN flowers will be
singing Marylin's Manson 'Sweet Dreams' (eurythmics)
The great capitalistic swindle and all its cowardness it did
implement in people's minds....
if Adobe was honest,... if it was ...
but hey ADBE.O and that's all
here I come: "F**k shareholders deeeeeeply"
Of the top of my head.... a possible reason is that higher prices
respond to the amount of illegal software used in Europe in
comparison to the US... I could be wrong, but the system seems far
more controlled over there, and there are less companies using
pirated copies... now, I don't see how this measures could improve
the situation over here, but the logic might be to get some
compensation, plus pressuring "legal" companies to act against
"ilegal" companies in order to expect lower exchange rates...
still, I don't think it's a particulary smart measure... specially
when developing budgets are usually much lower in Europe than in
the US...
Cheers...
John Dowdell escribió:
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
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