Yep, Adobe speaks “twiddle”! Hey, I bet they also complain about software piracy – this wild pricing doesn’t help them.

I’m sure if erveryone abstains from paying their slly prices, they’ll be forced to drop them sooner or later.

The UK does not have “10 major languages, 4 major currencies” as far as I am aware! This is twaddle. The overgrowing population of the UK must be as large as Australia I would think.

They can’t use the 10 different languages there, what excuse do they use?

Take Care

I will be back

When you sign up, you can create 5 files for free… but if you want to create more, you’re supposed to pay $9.99 per month or $99 per year.

Guess what? The subscription model is US and Canada only.

/slaps head.

Still, I guess you can “sign up and create 5 files for free” quite a few times…?

Thanks to Michael Campbell for the memory jog.
http://www.internetmarketingsecrets.com/blog/

Neil.

Thanks for your comment.

The new version allows you to embed Flash movies inside the PDF, which I thought was pretty cool. Adobe acquired Macromedia a while ago and finally brought the two technologies together in PDF’s. Although, I think you need the Pro version of Acrobat 9.

Then Adobe went and messed everything up with their stupid pricing model.

Neil.

I haven’t seen any particularly good reason to own any version of Acrobat since v.5 and with this deliberate and cynical attempt to rip off the gullible British market yet again, I won’t be changing my opinions.

Shame on Adobe.

But, much more, shame on us for allowing such blatant over pricing to continue.

Martin

> I don’t know of any Internet Marketers (do you Neil…?) who have differential pricing <

I haven’t seen differential pricing. I would strongly object if I did see it, and refuse to endorse any such product.

I think the US-mailing address idea is interesting… but you still have to pay the postage to ship it to the UK, and I’m not sure what customs would then do with it… let it through, or add hefty import duties.

My main issue is that the darn thing is downloadable, yet they insist on doubling the price. Unforgivable.

Neil.

Firstly, no-one forces them to; there are plenty of US software companies that don’t have European offices, don’t localize their software, yet still earn a packet. Secondly, Adobe has forgotten there’s this thing called the Internet. For a mere $9 a month you can have a USA street address and then legitimately order as a USA customer.

In other words, there is a quick and easy way around shopping cart systems which make you pay the higher price as soon as you enter a UK address.

Adobe – and other software giants – need to realise that global means global. I don’t know of any Internet Marketers (do you Neil…?) who have differential pricing with some weak argument about it costs more to produce something for different countries. Wake up Adobe – the world has moved on since you started out in business.

Yes I remember the inflated car prices. But at least that had *some* small justification. How Adobe can even try to justify doubling the price of downloadable software is beyond my comprehension.

I guess if enough people boycott their products, they may pay attention. I don’t trust governments (UK or EU) to do anything useful.

Neil.