CS3 pricing

Anyone know why there is a price difference in the first place or if there are any issues in doing such?

It was mentioned elsewhere that each Adobe national concern sets its own prices.

As for problems, others have mentioned that buying in the US works if you have a friend there that can then ship it to you. Adobe US will not ship overseas, and their dealers are not supposed to either.

Dear Stuart

The real reason for the huge difference in pricing out of the US for Adobe products comes down to one simply fact…..they think we are stupid enough to pay their inflated prices and not raise any objections!

Many of us have sent e-mails to the Adobe bosses asking for explanations for the pricing diffential and have been fobbed of with lame excuses that are groundless. Hey the UK version has all the US spelling so no additional costs involved for Adobe. They also supply French and Spanish versions via their US web site, but you know what…..if you try to buy on line from their US web site you will need a credit card with a US address or forget it.

Over at the professional photographers discussion group <www.pro-imaging.org> we have been mounting an e-mail campaign targeting the bosses at Adobe, but it appears that they are now blocking them. However if you want to register your objection I suggest that you go to <http://www.gopetition.com/online/11698.html>

The number of objectors is now into the thousands and growing fast, so I urge you to do your bit and to spread the word. If enough of us hold back from buying their upgrades it will send a very clear message to Adobe that what is fair for US customers is fair for all. On Pro Imaging we have a "work-around" to avoid having to pay these inflated prices if our campaign fails to work, in the meantime none of us are going to buy upgrades!

Cheers

Richard Kenward

PS even if you are in the US or Canada you should consider supporting this campaign, because if Adobe think they can get away with ripping-off their overseas customers, the next thing you will find will be increased pricing for their home market customers.

the next thing you will find will be increased pricing for their home market customers.

they’ve already done that. it’s called "extended" edition (aka extortion edition).

I read somewhere, it may have been on c|net that the price difference in other countries is because they don’t have the large number of customers and so they need to make the prices higher to make it worth their wild in offering the products there.

I don’t know if this is true, but…

Robert

"…worth their wild…"

Heh, good one, Mr. Norm Crosby!

😉 🙂

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:13:38 -0700,
wrote:

I don’t know if this is true, but…

They should come up with one stance on that …

One reason pointed out to me by Adobe Systems Germany is the infrastructure held in place for support, that is, US customers don’t get good support while Europeans do. This is gets even funnier considering that customers from Germany have to call a premium "hotline" costing dearly by the minute; curiously Austrian and Swiss customers call a toll-free number …

Another reason given was the ‘general competition in a specific market-place’. Given that higher prices are a sign of less competition, I’d say Adobe shoots themselves in the foot with their arguing. Particularly when compared to other company’s price differences, which are often in the 3-30% range, not doubling, tripling or quadrupling (100%-300%).

What it comes down to – Adam Smith is your friend – is the simple ‘let’s get all we can get from the customer’. that’s totally alright with me, and in a free market with actual competition it would work well. Without competition the best we can do is not buy [in this case for many of us unfeasible] or mount protest.

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Dierk (sometimes known as Evo2Me)
[DH² Publishing]
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Hi All,

Thanks really for your replies and I will do my bit to follow up.

Robert: I understand pricing theory to the point that it does sometimes make sense to overcharge in low volume areas (both to remove support costs from those "unworthy" and to ensure margins on those who "will pay anything for it") but it just can’t be the case in this instance. I really dont see how the UK prices can then not be more similar to the US.

Anyway, thanks again.

So what is the cost difference to Adobe between a customer in the US or Canade and me downloading the exact same software…..NOTHING except to me and tens of thousands of their customers, Adobe try to make us pay very considerably more.

Note that I do not have this when I download software from other companies. No my friends, Adobe are out to get as much as they think they can from any area in which their customers are based. It is not about costs! It is all about their market domination and taking advantage of this.

Cheers

Richard

I have cancelled my order.

The exchange rate is now $2 to £1!

Currently, London to New York costs about £300 return.

Considering the saving on Adobe software, it’s worth going shopping.

Guys,

Over at <www.pro-imaging.org> if we are unsucessful in getting fair treatment for all of Adobe’s customers on this issue, we have plans for those who really feel they must upgrade, to do so without incurring these punitive Adobe mark-ups.

If you are a full time professional photographer and do not support Royalty Free sales of your images, you are welcome to apply for membership.

BTW PI is about to launch a new web site where the marketing of the work of the members has a high priority.

Cheers

Richard