On Nov 3, 2006, at 10:17 AM, Kay C Lan wrote:
It's not so much that I'm being charged in £'s, I wouldn't care if it was sheckles, shindarkles or south pacific pesos, just so long as the exchange rate to clams on my Visa statement is 'roughly' the same.
There might be good reasons for different prices in the US and outside the US based on either associated costs (support/bribery/ tariffs/paperwork/translation) or demand (getting the most out of that market), but I suspect the differences are because prices are based on 2002 exchange rates. The US dollar has been falling in value. Maybe RunRev has an old exchange rate chart on the wall or are locked into a rate based on old contractual requirements or certain royalties are based only on the USD prices. Also, RunRev probably doesn't want to be changing prices a lot.
And US buyers and British buyers might have trouble understanding exchange rates, so maybe we have to have our own prices. The buying learning curve might be too much for us, otherwise. And for US buyers, if you charge $561 instead of $599, you are leaving $38 on the table.
This vast difference would certainly encourage customers to be virtually in the US, which is probably not what RunRev wants. Grishim's law applies, I think. I don't think Grishim's law can be wished away, or avoided by strong moralizing statements.
(I know there are arguments for using old exchange rates in prices, but I'm not sure how that goes. Maybe folks should pity those with USD savings accounts, which now buys less in the world, and gladly let them have a price break.)
In any case, I think the recent talk about this on this list and elsewhere has pushed this topic to a point where RunRev has to address the issue.
In a real sense, pricing policy is RunRev's business. In the same sense, buying identity is that of the buyer.
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