That would be a good argument if there were an European CL branch producing Poser for Europeans, and a US CL branch producing Poser for Americans, and so on, and so on. This is not the case. I fail to see how CLs research, development and production costs relate to the location of their customers. After all, they've had to pay their staff, rent their office buildings, pay for the CDs and the boxes. Those prices are related to the location(s) of the CL corporation, not to the locations of their customers. There is absolutely no reason why CL should receive more money from a British customer than from a US customer: it should be the same for everyone. Again, please note that I am talking about the base product price, not about shipping/handling fees, trade barriers and all kinds of taxes. These are different for every country (and even state or city) and outside the influence of CL. By the way, MS does a lot of things wrong, but this is one of the things they do right. As do Amazon and Quantum Books and many other online shops.

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