I asked the same thing last week (using Euro pricing), see below. Would be great if Adobe would correct the outrageous price differences (up to 74%)
Also: how does this apply to me as a CS3 Master Collection owner?
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1. How does this affect existing owners of a Master Collection AND Media Composer looking to upgrade to CS5.5?
2. How come Adobe products are so much more expensive in Europe than they are in the US?
Master Collection in European store is 3099 EUR (ex VAT) = 4493 US (at current exchange rate)
Master Collection in US is 2599 USD
So the difference at current exchange rate is 1894 USD, almost 73%.
Production Premium is 1699 USD versus 1679 EUR ex VAT (2434 USD at current exchange rate), a 43% mark-up.
And that is not because of taxes or import duties, as that is just a few percent. Avid has had a normal exhange rate now for some years, even Apple does these days. Come on, Adobe, stop punishing us for living in Europe.
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On 12 jul 2011, at 00:51, kevinjmonahan wrote:
> Hi David,
> There were crickets because we had a company-wide shutdown last week. We're back now, though.
>
> Let me see if I can get the answers to your questions. I don't have expertise in this area, these would be questions for management, and I've just sent them an email.
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> Thanks,
> Kevin Monahan
> Sr. Content and Community Lead
> Adobe After Effects
> Adobe Premiere Pro
> Adobe Systems, Inc.
> San Francisco, CA
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, David Ross <speckydave@...> wrote:
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>> crickets...
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>> I'd also be interested to know why the UK store is so different to the US
>> one and why there's no mention of the "Switch" promo on there - and no
>> obvious place to put the promo code in, assuming it's applicable.
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>> UK store Production Premium prices (without discount):
>> 1,708.89 GBP inc. VAT = 2,736.11 USD
>> 1,485.99 GBP ex. VAT = 2,379.10 USD
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>> US store Production Premium price (without discount):
>> 1,699 USD
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>> The one difference I can see when checking out is that on the US store,
>> you're asked to select which platform (Mac or PC), whereas the UK store has
>> no option but "Multiple Platforms". What's up with that?
>>
>> D.
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