welcome to International commerce An extra $80 (55 quid) to buy in UK. (I'd hope delivry is in the price) But I reckon the $80 saving of buying direct from US will easily be eaten up in shipping charges and duty and VAT (which by the way should only be on the media not the program from what i can understand from the Customs and Excise site, but try arguing that one or getting only the cost of media put on the declaration form). At least Curious seems willing to deal with you from the States, I've come across at least one company that insists you use its local distributor even for electronic downloads and license purchase. My favorite way of buying is electronic download direct from company. Like DAZ (not a brand of soap powder ;-) or the Renderosity store. No fuss, no muss, no tax and shipping -- effectivly just buying a license. If you have bandwidth you can even get heavywieghts like Dreamweaver direct and instantly from source at US prices. Until someone figures out how to tax it all of course. On a slightly seperate note. I notice Curious is slightly lax in its Euro conversion. While euro 250 seems to be the price throughout the zone. Irish customers can save slightly by paying in euros (IR200 = 253.95 euros) and French save by paying in francs (FF1600 = 243.92 euros). I don't think this type of dual pricing is allowed, I suspect it has to be an exact conversion using the fixed rates. Nor , I think, can they claim these prices as illustrative and charge in dollars as they're working out of Ireland for the European end of the buisness. Hey you pays your money and takes your choice.