$20 a month, i wonder how many courses do you have to take to be eligible.
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Erika L. Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well. All I know is I love it. At $20 a month, I have access to the full > line of Adobe products, and since I'll be in school for the next 4-5 years > (maybe longer if I decide to go for a Masters), that's a total win in my > column. I would NEVER have been able to afford to buy the products outright > right now. > > I do have to say though, that if you were to REALLY investigate and look at > the costs that companies in the US have to go through to market the > products in other countries, that you would be surprised at WHY they have > to mark up products. > > Let me give you just a small list to consider: > > 1) legal fees, regulations, paper filing, corporation setup, trademark > searches, patents applied for, etc, etc, etc. Of course all the staff and > attorneys and meetings and time that it takes just to LEGALLY setup > whatever company needs to handle the distribution of the product on that > soil. Since every country has very stringent licensing fees, rules and > regulations. Heck I am just exhausted thinking about all that. > > 2) For physical products, such as the previous boxed versions of the Adobe > products we are complaining about, the import taxes, fees, and paperwork > required to get them to whatever country they needed to get to were > probably a lot more than we think. > > 3) For downloadable products, there is still #1 to consider. > > > So it really isn't fair to consider product A sold in the US for $X versus > product A sold in the UK for $X. > > Now how did Adobe get away with Australian pricing? I don't know. Unless we > have someone from Adobe on the list that can go ask the international > department how their fee breaks down, and whether or not they just shaved > the profit margin, we probably won't ever know. > > Just saying. I think there is more that meets the eye and that THAT is > being forgotten in our passion to have access to software all for one low > price ... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:363650 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
