Dennis - The fine print on the October half-off offer is:
North/Central/South America: Offer only available to Finale, Encore, Mosaic
and Sibelius Student Edition users residing within North, Central and South
America (Allegro, PrintMusic, Finale Guitar, etc. are not eligible).
I should have mentioned this in my first post. Apologies. The notice for
the offer is on the home page of Sib.
http://www.sibelius.com/home/index_flash.html
BC
From: "dc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>; "Finale" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5
Bruce E. Clausen écrit:
I finally decided to take the plunge and invest in Sibelius 5. I may
later decide that Finale is the better program, but for now I want to
compare. As you may know, Sib5 is available to Finale users in a $199
Competitive Upgrade. The good news for me was that this month, October,
Sib is offering the upgrade for half price, $99. So instead of buying the
Fin08 upgrade I have invested in Sib. I don't think the terms will get
any better. I'm still a little worried that this is a case of the grass
being greener, but at this price I don't think I'll get clipped.
Hi Bruce,
Where did you find this offer? I just wrote to Sibelius to ask why the
prices were so much higher in Europe, and got the following reply. Which
means that anyone could ship to Europe if they want to, since Sibelius
admits that they can't "enforce" this dubious policy.
In answer to your question regarding price difference between the USA and
Europe, we have to price our products taking into consideration the price
of our competitors over which we have no control. As software along with
nearly everything else is significantly cheaper in the US we have to
adjust our price accordingly, this is simply economic fact. In addition
higher local prices in the UK (from everything from rent to salaries) mean
that it costs businesses more to operate here than in the USA. Sibelius
USA only ships to addresses in the US but we cannot enforce such
regulations on our various US dealers who are free to ship overseas if
they wish.
Dennis
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