[Leica] OT - CS3 Upgrade Purchase

[leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

I'm not shure if it stays upgradeable in UK for future versions if you buy 
it in overseas. Registering is optional anyway, but if you want to apply a 
free program update (like 10.0 to 10.1) registration is required, afaik.

I had also upgraded CS2 and Studio 8 to CS3 and was quite disappointed by 
Adobe's price politics. Non US versions cost significantly more 
(german/swiss CS3 Upgrade +25% compared to US version, taxes not included). 
Looks like the international clients of Adobe have to subsidize the US 
clients, as the translation costs can impossibly be as big as the price 
Adobe adds. 

By the way I had to upgrade the full package though I only wanted to upgrade 
Flash and Photoshop. But one can't upgrade single products anymore if they 
were bought in a bundle.

Adobe has become a sucking monopolist in some terms.

Didier



>Whilst on a trip to Canada I am thinking of purchasing a hard copy of
>Photoshop CS3 Upgrade and bringing it back to the UK. This means a
>saving of around 100USD (50UKP). Adobe UK say that the upgrade will
>work but I will not be able to register it, and they will not support
>it. It will be on a Windows machine, although it probably makes no
>difference to the answer.
>Has anybody tried this, and what was the result?
>Thanks!
>Gerry