I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for prices changing from this,
unfortunately.

At the end of the day pricing is purely a marketing function, and in that
world the only rule is to charge as much as the customer is willing to pay.
Then there are hundreds of ways to justify the price by calling accounting
and agreeing on what costs are being covered by the price. For all you know
the price difference is to pay for the private jets that the sales reps are
taking to go around Europe..! (*)

In addition, it is likely that the target for these prices are companies,
not individuals. Said companies can get the VAT off in some countries, and
may benefit from other tax cuts (e.g. passing this as an expense) which
makes them much more willing to foot the bill than your average developer
guy/gal, who has to pay from his/her net income and pay VAT on top of it.

So... I don't believe it's going to change unless some of the subsidiaries
see drops in profits. It's going to take some massive boycotting or perhaps
push from an open-source competitor product for things to change... both
unlikely.


(*) ...or more likely, it must be paying for a lot of local country
specialists, lawyers, etc. which are unique to each country, thus driving
the overhead costs through the roof.



On 4/24/07, Zárate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi guys,

Sorry to bring this up again, but Danielle Libine has put up a really
interesting pdf about the subject. He gathers lots of data with really
clear graphics about prices and countries. Then a couple of questions
for Adobe:

http://web.mac.com/libine/iWeb/Site/Article.html

I think we really should keep the "pressure" up and "force" Adobe to
at least give a public, official explanation. Hopefully a review of
the prices.

Cheers,

Juan

On 4/7/07, Søren Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Yes it is totally f*ckd up - production bundle upgrade:
> us: $1199 / €897 eu/spain: $2630 / €1967
>
> So guess which side of the atlantic i am buying my upgrade ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>  >B) Søren
>
> On Mar 28, 2007, at 4:27 PM, Joe Wheeler wrote:
>
> > Has anyone checked out the international prices on CS3?
> >
> > I can hardly believe how badly the UK is getting fleeced.
> >
> > I'm upgrading from CS1 Creative Suite and Studio 8 to CS3 Design
> > Premium. In
> > the US that's $599.00 dollars, but in the UK pounds it works out to
> > £703.82.
> > Take the exchange rate into account and UK customers are paying...
> >
> >
> > 1,384.51 USD!!!
> >
> > Sales tax in the UK is 17.5% but the Adobe price hike is a whopping
> > 231% - W
> > T F?
> >
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