It isn't a matter of "fairness", but a matter of "entitlement". Over the last few years I've watched as people here tear into each other and the various companies out of jealousy that someone else got a slightly better price... totally discounting such absolutely miniscule and negligible factors as time of sale and location of either buyer or seller or whether there was a middleman involved or tax/duty/customs rates and tariffs or ANYTHING else which might possibly in the REAL world have a bearing on the issue. If someone else saved a nickle or got offered a discount whether they used it or not, the screaming rises to a fevered pitch. Jealousy? :ptui!: If a company apologizes and offers a discount or an extension of a sale or any other mollifying factor, it just adds more fuel to the desire to get it for free, right now, and most certainly cheaper than anybody else can possibly get it. Guess what? Life is not fair. Deal with it. It isn't fair that some people get bombed into rubble or that kids get sold into slavery or that billionaires earn more money than they can spend (at one time J Paul Getty was earning $88,000/day every day in dividends and he was a piddle in a pond compared to Bill Gates). The only thing you have to determine when you are buying a model or an application or a computer is "what is it worth to me right now?" If you need it and it is worth the price, buy it. If you don't think it is worth the price, don't buy it. Complaining that someone who bought the program a month later saved $10, or the model went on sale or got included in a bundle or was given free on a magazine, or that the computer you bought 6 months ago is obsolete will not change anything... but merely show how mean-spirited you are. I'm using "mean" in its real usage of impoverished, miserly, niggardly and petty. Instead of shrieking that someone somewhere else in the world is only paying x in today's currency equivalents, look calmly at the price and ask yourself: Is it worth this much to me here and now? What is the value here? Will it save me more than this in time? Will it allow me to do similar things to another program costing 10 times as much? Will it allow me to do something that I couldn't do before? Will the results bring me pleasure or profit or both? Note that I thought of offering to help Katherine with the IMs. But I think you'd all rather wait while she works through them. (300/day? Yikes!) She is much more patient than I am... you ought to appreciate that! Another thing to consider: the time it took to complain could have been spent working on a piece of art or walking in the sunshine or helping a kid with a homework problem or protecting a park from development... something positive and useful. Carolly