Oh well - there goes all those cute Valentines Day Pics of bare chested Cupids - unless of course cupid has a beard and is carrying his ID card... Seriously did the powers that be "really" look at what type of images this change affects?

" Well just to play it safe, I'm gonna put bras on any young men/fairies/angels/aliens/wizards I might decide to render." Ah but then they will envoke the little known "Cross dressing and Underage Persons" clause of the TOS...:)

Oh well there go any historically accurate images that include children.... So if I want to do an Egyptian Scene - I had better start dreaming up some sort of clothing for the top half that didn't exist? Now I know why I don't post images here any more....

You're supposed to spend Easter with your family anyway Yes - Jessi, James, Ben & Kate :)

LOL! But how can that be? Wouldn't they be buying it at the $US price? They do but somewhere along the way - with the $NZ I think it falls into our favour... It's amazing in currency exchange how all those cents gradually add up........

"One last comment: All of you that are complaining. If you were getting a better deal due to changes in the exchange rate, would you be whining this much about trying to pay more, since it was not fair pricing?" My final word on the subject - as we HAVE to pay in Euros anyway... As was pointed out to me yesterday on a Daz Forum. Yes we may be a bunch of "Whinging Aussies" but wasn't there a point in history when a group of people somewhere who were unhappy about fair trade and reasonable pricing dumped a load of goods in a harbour? But maybe that's just folk lore....

"I live in NSW and it was address to me, my street, but in Bendigo" Thats Ok maybe I'll get your copy then - I'm in Bendigo. However to the point - Just waded through the Customs website and spoke to them and the news is we shouldn't have to pay Excise or GST as the total amount payable would be under $50. Although, UPS may try to collect this amount from us - if they do Customs has suggested we clear it ourselves. If this confuses anyone - that makes two of us, but I'd be happy to discuss it in another thread or off list.. May as save some money if we can...

I Think we may be lucky and sneak just under the amount required for GST to be imposed - can someone confirm my calculations?

http://www.customs.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=4376#e987

Tyd2, I worked out all the figures yesterday and you can actually get Poser 6 at a good price if you get a friend in New Zealand to get a friend in Canada to buy it for you. After all the money has changed hands - you will get it slightly cheaper than the US purchasers do.....:)

"A more accurate comparison would be you submit a product to Renderosity and state your wholesale price and sign a fulfilment contract. You provide them with the price in your native currency, and they they do the rest -- including pricing the product according to whatever agreement you have established."

Exactly the point I was making - CL's sales will be affected by this - Australia is a not a country of 6 people, we are a Country with a population of about 20 million, 6 States and 3 time zones!, something that a lot of overseas people don't realize, and those that have spoken up here are not the only people who use Poser in this Country.

I have never said this was an issue with CL but an issue with their chosen distribution agent.

CL's continued use of DR to distribute their product to the southern hemisphere must at some stage affect the sales of their product here

Just bear in mind that those who have spoken up here are 5 or 6 people who pre-ordered, many are waiting for the release before purchasing an "unknown" product.

"My experience with buying the pre-order of P5 from Curious Labs was we could pay in US dollars (although then with the very low exchange rate - it cost an arm and a leg) Shipping was around about US$11 I think for International Air Mail. The shipment landed at Sydney by Airborne Express, then went to Customs for our Goods and Service Tax (GST) charge to be assessed. Customs then rang you with the charge, which you had to pay before it was released for delivery."

Pointlady - can you remember how much GST you were charged or how they worked it out, was it based on the current exchange rate with the currency it was purchased in? May help us Aussies out to know how much more moola we may have to part with when our expensive boxes reach our shores.

"Some Australians who ordered P5 had problems because there was no Phone No on the delivery docket and their P5 was held in limbo by customs."

I can't remember if DR asked for a phone number, from memory they got an address but not a state, at least they got the postcode. So let's hope it all goes well this time around - but I really can't see any Aussies opening their copy of P6 in time for Easter.....

Before this thread gets locked, let me sum it up.... Now I sell a small program in the Market Place at Renderosity. - What would happen if I decided to charge US customers $15 for that program - but let everyone else buy it for the normal price of $10? On that point I shall leave and paitiently await my $88 box....

"If your buying thru the Curious Labs website - choose pounds sterling as your currency and then you will see that when converted to AUD you will pay about $40 less then EUR coverting to AUD.." 119 Euro = $AUD 201.50 82 GPB = $AUD 198.95 Not really worthwhile the effort today - although when I ordered last month there was a bit more of a difference but in favour of the Euro......

"Or that it costs $73 MORE to keep a box of Poser6 in stock in the UK as compared to the USA." I'm have no idea how the distribution agreement works between CL and DR but I bet that any finacial exchange between the two of them would be in $US - it's only us poor old end users that have to cop the Euro.....

LOL: I just had this image pop into my head of several Aussie & Kiwi Poser users sitting around sometime after the 21st looking at these pristine boxes, wrapped in plastic and working out a way to open them without destroying the wrapping, coz the blinking box cost $AUD 88...... :) And I will be checking the return address when my copy arrives - hope it's a UK address, otherwise DR will hear the scream from here!...and maybe I'll even start "threwing" things around!