I want to buy Poser 5. If I order from www.amazon.com at the price of 124 I am told they are not allowed to sell to Europe. Then I try www.amazon.co.uk and I am given a price of 534 (more than 4 times the price). I try Curious Labs website and click on the link for their UK distributer, Computers Unlimited. The link does not work and I get a 404 error. I do a search on google and find a cached version of the website which does not have a price, and it seems as though the company no longer exists (Does Curious Labs know they have a dead link and no longer have an agent in the UK). If I order from Curious Labs I get a price quote of 349 (almost three times the US price on Amazon). I try to order from Renderosity and again I am told that they may not sell to Europe. So I get a friend in the US to buy the program from Amazon and post it to me. Total price with shipping equals 157. What I want to know is why are the prices so much higher in Europe? This is the official response from Curious Labs which says nothing. "Why are the prices in your European store so high? Are you looking locally? We have priced our products in the European online store in order not to compete directly with our European distributors in your region as per the Curious Labs contract. Please contact your local distributor to compare prices before you purchase. You can find a list of our international resellers HERE." PS. As mentioned before, the HERE link does not work. PPS. I have checked and it is legal for me to purchase the program in the way that I have done. There is no law against an American friend sending me a software program as a gift, and me sending him CD's in return as a gift.