You just have to be an active student. I am also on the same deal. Sent from my iPhone 4S.
On May 20, 2013, at 9:24 PM, "Larry C. Lyons" <[email protected]> wrote: > > $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:363652 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
