Prepare for Rip-Off
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Uncategorized on April 10, 2007 at 11:53 am
This looks like a job for The European Commission. They may be examining Apple’s pricing structure over the few pence difference between Euro and British iTunes stores but what about the massive con Adobe are working?
The prices charged for the Adobe CS3 Master Collection (ie. the full package), according to Amazon’s, US, British and German stores, varies by over a thousand dollars. The table below shows the prices at each store with their respective Dollar/Euro/Pound conversions. It is far cheaper to buy in America than Britain even though they are the same software. The German version presumably had extra work on the language but is still cheaper than buying a copy from Amazon UK.
The sting
Not only that, Adobe have ventured down the path often taken by Microsoft, by making a whole basket full of different versions. All at different prices and containing applications which may be largely unused. There is no ‘pick and mix’ allowing a buyer to choose which parts to upgrade. For example, I don’t need Photoshop CS3 but do want inDesign, Illustrator and Acrobat. I’d like to get Dreamweaver and Flash as well but maybe at a later stage. I have to decide between a bunch of pre-arranged bundles or buy separates at even higher prices.
The solution
Alternatively, I have an account with Amazon US store where they will accept my UK credit card but only ship to a US address. That’s okay because I just get it sent to a forwarding address and pay the small extra cost of delivery to the UK.
And to think I thought Quark were money grabbers… their latest upgrade even included some very nice new tools in the form of the ALAP XPert Tools, now owned by Quark. Shame they don’t rewrite XPress from the ground up, there must be code inside that dates from the 1980’s.
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