...and a portrait. Okay... back to nitpicking my renders!

Hello all, I am almost done with the promos (in fact I just trashed half of what I did yesterday and decided for something else) - in other words: Living Doll for Dawn is done and hopefully ready at the weekend to be sent to the queue. The system is the same like always: psd files with bits and pieces for the features and bump maps included. And, sorry: As always not meant for freebies, just for commercial products and of course for artwork of any kind. Making a resource and allow freebies unfortunatly leads to problems like some fellow merchants already had: In fact they found their resource 1:1 as a free character. But I've got the one or other request for using a tiny bit in freebies and said yes. So asking is always okay.

Oh: Here's a preview...

I also worked out that, assuming the same time period between this and the next release, it is going to cost me about £2.30 a week, or the price of a cup of coffee, now thats what I calla bargin.

You are right! Compared with other 3D-software we are still on the side where a hobbyist can afford it as well. *

You tickle me LOL I thought about all these so called "niche figures" as I like them a lot!! If only the time I/we need to finish such a set wouldn't be so long...

 

I'm back!

 

here's what SM wrote to me:

"These taxes are then reported and paid directly to the EU by FastSpring. The invoice we provide to you at purchase completion will include the VAT amount as well as the FastSpring VAT ID. For more information on VAT Taxes, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_added_tax."

 

So what is charged is Value added tax (Umsatzsteuer/sog. Mehrwertsteuer for german folks) not import tax. Digital goods are still import tax free.

I hope that clears up things a bit.

As Magic_Man said: Choosing the right currency is a legal way to save some bucks. And looking around at Amazon & Co for Poser 9 and PoserPro 2012 helps a bit to forget about the tax when you see what you are charged for old software...

 

Update: Oder is done. I did the following

Choosing US in the upper right corner but filling in my german adress. This way I could pay in Dollar. Paypal offered an exchange rate that saved me in the end more then 11 Dollar. IMHO a nice little plaster on the hole that the VAT teared in my purse.

I do not want to make guesses who keeps the extra-profit. No, I don't - too many companies are involved (SM, credit card copanies, Firstspring who process the order, Paypal). But why is it possible to fool around with choosing US in the process above and then pay less (US tax, I think)?

I am still working with SM, they are very supportive and fast. My full smpathy goes to you, hornet. I know EXACTLY what you are talking about, hubby is in the same situation and I am "looking forward" to a surgery because several things need to be fixed in my jaw.

Awww... thank you!! I wanted it to be as versatile as possible because most people buy more than one resource and so can have lots of fun with mixing what they have.

Now that's interesting. It's the same law as here (the one that treats digital/dowloadable goods like a right to use something and not like a physical item). The ticket to SM is sent. I was told that people are back in the office in 11 hours - but Tori Porter is still or already online and asked me to sent my question directly to SM. I added the fact that people are paying very different taxes and that changing the currency to Dollars would have saved me some Dollars. Let's hope that things get sorted out soon before a big chaos of refunds or at least complaints raises up.

I absolutely get the point! But I do not get the point why a german or swedish citizen has to pay more tax as an US citizen... (as more as we do not use the roads over there - that's the reason why everybody pays sale-taxes to his home land).

I think that it is a glitch as well. I just tried to fool the site and managed to force the SM-order site to bill me in Dollars. And guess what: I would have payed less tax, had a better exchange rate and would have saved 11 Euros against my first trial.

 

The difference between your and my bill, noxi, may be the sidegrade (yours) versus the upgrade (mine). However: The limit for this strange tax seems to be the sky.

 

I have the strong feeling that there is something wrong. I want the new Poser but not so badly that I can't wait another day or two (or so) until things are sorted out. Better wait than having lots of boohey later when wanting money back. Saves me from pulling out my hair and saves some hairs to the folks at SM as well. But I would be happy if we can go on to discuss this here (in some hours, it's mornung here and I need to have at least some ours of sleep). If someone has new information please share it with us other puzzled folks. The thread at RDNA can be found here:

http://forum.runtimedna.com/showthread.php?78922-A-question-about-tax

I was aked to open a ticket and will do so before I go to bed.

That was my impression too. If I order physical goods from the US (a while ago I did) I pay the tax here as long as my order is expensive enough. That means: I do not get my package from the postman but get a notification from the duty office and pick up my goods there by paying the import-tax. I never so far payed something for digital-goods...

I will follow the discussion for a another while and think I wait with ordering. While I will definitly get Poser 2014 I want to wait until things clear up. Hubby just said a wise thing: If there's something wrong you won't get your money back - because it's tax, and a country will never pay taxes back you payed voluntary.

I don't know one either although I like TY a lot and there are still new add-on's for her from time to time - I thought about doing one for a while. Unfortunatly there's simply not enough demand for it (although the character I/we have in the store is definitly a long-runner and still sells after many years).

I see, California is starving as well (I know what you mean when talking about roads...). Yes, my tax is far higher, as more as the 32.20 are Euros. That's more than 41 $