Silke opened this issue on Aug 14, 2003 ยท 15 posts
Silke posted Thu, 14 August 2003 at 5:06 AM
So I went to take the plunge and buy P5. (Still working on 4 here but getting to use a friends P5 at his house.) I went to Amazon.com by accident and went "Woohoo, I can afford this!" when I saw the price of $139. Then I saw that they don't ship outside the US and went "Duh, wrong site." I went to Amazon.co.uk - expecting to see the price at around the same mark. Well imagine my surprise when I saw the exact same piece of software costing 375!!! That's TRIPLE what Amazon.com charge! Course, I'm stuck now. I'm not going to buy P5 at that price, no way no how. I can't order it from the US at a rate I can afford because they don't ship outside of the US. Yes, I could upgrade, but I much rather have the full, clean package. Especially when the upgrade is still more than the full version on Amazon.com. I guess I'm stuck with P4 for the foreseeable future because frankly... once you add 17.5% Vat to that, the prices differ by over $500! (if I use a 12% tax rate for the US) Lucky Americans. :( I did have to wonder at that pricing strategy tho. Could they not pass a discount like on Amazon.com on to customers in other places? sigh Sorry I had to rant. :( Silke
Silke