I've got a reply from E-On on this matter: "Europe is a more expensive market for us because everything is more expensive there: you have to pay all sorts of taxes (and not only VAT), resellers and distributors expect larger commissions, you have to cater for many different countries with lots of different regulations, different languages, etc. Plus, we need to pay our guys in Europe (we tried to pay them in Dollars, but they didn't like the idea of losing over 20% ;-). Take a look around, even now that the Euro is worth more than the Dollar, you will see that a lot of companies are charging more in Euros (without VAT) than in Dollars (examples? 3DS Max: $3,495 - EUR4,250+VAT, Photoshop: $649 - EUR729+VAT, Flash: $499 - EUR599+VAT). I'm afraid there is no simple solution to this problem. But we have committed to keeping the exchange rate at 1 to 1 even if the exchange rate drops. Is Vue worth its cost in Euros? Only you can answer. But the fact that people in the US are paying less should not be part of the equation - because almost everything is cheaper here (except wine, maybe ;-). After all, we don't even have sales taxes in Oregon!" I'll just add a few comment to it and then I'll leave the matter as is..... I had to laugh a little about this one sorry.... I'm not buying from resellers and distributors nor are the many languages and regulations a problem..... Why not? First of all, I'm buying directly from E-On and NOT through any resellers and distributors. Secondly I do live in the European Union where a uniform import and export policy is used in all of it's member countries. Thirdly, even if other companies do it, does that suddenly make it right to do so. Fourthly, if ever the euro would start dropping very low and become unstable, I'm pretty sure that this 1=1 policy will be abandoned very quickly again, after all E-On doesn't want to give their products away almost for free. When the currency of the euro was still very low, no one (including E-On) had a problem with me paying in dollars and actually refused the euro. But after the euro started rising and it became clear that this riseng might take a long time, suddenly a number of companies (including E-On) felt the need to enforce this 1=1 policy.... How very very convenient. Some of the reason brought forth are valid, but these reason do not cause a 60% increase of the price to pay. Most of the reason brought forth are not valid at all and those are mainly being used to validate the price difference. I'm sorry to hear that the unfair policy will remain. I'll leave this matter as it is now, everyone can make his/her conclusion from all of this. Mine is not to buy from E-On anymore and may the need arise for an upgrade, I'll have to start looking for an alternative. By that time Bryce may have caught up and some people at DAZ have already stated that they think that all of this overcharging is not correct at all and will continue to use one currency only, the US Dollar.

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