But specifically 3 credit hours, 12? Does it mean you have to be a full time student?
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:363665 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
