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Originally Posted by crockett
I'd suspect it's something to do with the Australian govt because it's the same with things like Photoshop. I remember reading an article about the price of PS in Australia and they said it was cheaper to get a plane ticket to the US buy PS here than to just buy it outright in Aus.
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PS CS2 (just Photoshop itself, not the whole creative suite) cost me just over $AUD900 around 9 or 10 years ago, which at the time would have been about $USD600-$USD750. Probably not quite enough to be able to afford a ticket to the USA plus pay for the software - maybe Asia somewhere?
Cost of living is higher in Australia, therefore they can charge more. I remember there being a big fuss last year about Adobe charging differential pricing for a *digital* product, one that costs exactly the same to deliver to the customer anywhere in the world. That's capitalism for you.