With all the talk about the huge difference in geographical pricing for Adobe’s products I wanted to do a quick comparison between what those in the US and those in Europe (or at least Belgium for as far as I can check) pay for some of the different suites.
Master Collection CS4
Full price US: 2499 USD
Full price Europe: 2799 Euro
Master Collection CS4 is 1.6 times as expensive for European customers.
Upgrade price US (from CS3): 899 USD
Upgrade price Europe (from CS3): 999 Euro
Master Collection CS4 upgrade is 1.6 times as expensive for European customers.
Web Premium CS4
Full price US: 1699 USD
Full price Europe: 1699 Euro
Web Premium CS4 is 1.5 times as expensive for European customers.
Upgrade price US: 599 USD
Upgrade price Europe: 599 Euro
Web Premium CS4 upgrade is 1.5 times as expensive for European customers.
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I actually had this problem upgrading last time – I checked how much it was going to cost to get the download update for cs3 in the US and it came to $499 which, at the time was about £250 in the UK, so I checked the cost of the UK download and it was going to cost £515 for me to download it in the UK – more than twice the price. And It was the exactly same download – there was no difference… so I got my buddy in NY to reg for me and he just sent a link to the download… screw you Adobe! You’re like the stingy uncle that you can’t help but love. But seriously why do we have to pay this much more? – Someone made the point that is for localization… well I have never used it – ever… I understand why so much gets pirated with a pricing structure like this.
The german official price for the CS4 Master Colection in the Adobe store is 2999 Euros without Taxes, which is about 4500 USD. And as far as I know, Adobe does not allow upgrading europaen licences with US-Updates of CS4, German Upgrade for CS4 Master Collection is 1926 Euros ( + taxes!) which is stil more expansive than a new US-licence.
Besides: Any ideas, why is the download-version is more expensive than the boxed version in Germany?
Michael Seifert – from what I’ve been told the reason the download version is slightly more expensive in some cases is because the servers are located in Ireland where there’s a different tax rate that they need to charge.
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I bought cs3 legit and when a support issue was raised at Adobe by e-mail I did not get 1 response ….from anyone…even after a snotty letter stating the above…..nothing ! if the extra cost is for support, that’s BS. I got the issue sorted off the web after looking for a sodding week !
Go to the UK CS4 shows and give the Adobe reps the grief I know I am. I wonder if they get paid 50% more for doing the shows in the UK ?
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