Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/24

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Subject: [Leica] Tripods
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:36:29 -0500
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Marc,

Interesting.  Do you know why the price differences?  Local taxes, 
import duties?  I would think Adobe would not arbitrarily raise the USD 
price unless to absorb some offsetting cost or tax?  Just curious.

Ken

On 4/24/2012 2:52 AM, Marc Dufour wrote:
> Interesting trend...
>
> Another example, form this morning:
> Price for Photoshop CS6 in USA: 699 USD (Adobbe online shop)
> Price for Photoshop CS5 (CS FIVE) in Spain: 1319,54 USD (Spanish Adobe 
> online shop)
>
> I could give more examples, as scandalous as this one.
> The way the great US companys make themselves greater and greater.
> A shame.
> Marc
>
> John McMaster <john at chiaroscuro.co.nz> ha escrito:
>
>> I live in the capital city, I have also been to most large cities in
>> Australia. I have lived in London and visited B&H so know what I am 
>> missing
>> in Aus/NZ.
>>
>> I think Americans do not realise what it can be like for the rest of the
>> world. I have a query with Epson NZ; the 7900 retails for $4K USD but 
>> with a
>> current offer making it $3K USD. The price in NZ is +$7700USD+local 
>> tax -
>> that is a huge difference.....
>>
>> john



Replies: Reply from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Tripods)
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