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Do you like Adobe’s Photoshop? Do you like it enough to buy version CS4?
If you answer yes to both of the above, would you pay £2,313.58 in the UK
Or would you rather buy in the US where it’d set you back $2,499?
Not a whole lot of difference, you might think, until you check out the exchange rates, as did ZDNet UK.
When the story ran, on September 26, it put $2,499 at £1,358.
That’s an awsome difference, but it’s not unusual, says the story, adding:
“The pricing difference is similar for other CS4 editions. For example, the Design Premium version costs $1,799 (£978) in the US and £1,467.58 in the UK — roughly a 50 percent premium over the US price.
“At the time of writing, Adobe had not responded to a request for comment.”
ZDNet UK - Adobe hits UK users with £1,000 premium for CS4, September 26, 2008
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September 29th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Hmm, let’s see
Bits are heavy and cost alot to ship?
If someone jiggles the box of bits abit too much they get out of order and don’t work right?
Expensive Translation: Adding the extra ‘u’ to colour just costs that much.
Somebody mixed up Canada and Great Britten, and then did the currency conversion backwards (It nearly works)
September 29th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
What about Canada and its’ recent 1-to-1 parity to the US dollar?
September 29th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
I’ve always heard that Photoshop was a great program, but at even $500+, I’ll never buy it.
September 29th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Jon, the difference is not $1000… it’s £1000! That said, it seems that’s for CS4 master collection, not mere Photoshop.
Anyway… WHAT A FUCKING JOKE! For that price difference, you might as well buy a low-season return airplane ticket to New York or even Los Angeles to buy your bloody copy. Oh, and then take the same flight all over again. And guess what? You’d still have £200 pounds to spare after that! Seriously, someone at Adobe deserves to get brutally mugged.
As a matter of principle, I guess I will be pirating CS4 when it comes out, even though I very rarely use it.
September 29th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
^^ Oops. Sorry. You’re right. And today, £1,000 is worth 1,877.74 CAD.
“CS4 master collection, not mere Photoshop.”
There’s a difference?
(Cringes)
Cheers!
September 29th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
This is not new, nor is it just Adobe.
For some reason that I have never grasped, US Software and Computer companies seem to think that Brits should be gouged regularly and often. Apple has been known to sell for 200 USD in the US and 200 BP in Britain. And this occurred at a time when the exchange rate was 2 dollars per pound. The Brits have been complaining about this as far back as I remember. I think I first heard about this at The Register in 1997 or 98.
The other odd thing is that the rest of Europe only gets a 10 to 20 percent markup over the US price. In some cases, e.g. things that sell quickly, there is no markup at all over the US price.
I have no idea how they get away with this.