Buying from Amazon vs Adobe store

Lets set aside for now the discrepancy between US and UK
pricing - I see
that the CS3 Web Premium is for sale at amazon.co.uk for
£513.99 whereas
Adobe store are charging £534.62
How can that be? How come a retailer can charge less than the
actual source?
What other UK prices have been spotted? I guess that if I
ordered from Adobe
direct it may arrive sooner.
Maybe.
James Loudon
www.fatgraphics.com
websites::photography::video

Yes, I noticed that too - download costs more! Bizarre
James Loudon
www.fatgraphics.com
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"David Powers" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:f055sk$jtj$[email protected]..
> James Loudon wrote:
>> Lets set aside for now the discrepancy between US
and UK pricing - I see
>> that the CS3 Web Premium is for sale at amazon.co.uk
for ?513.99 whereas
>> Adobe store are charging ?534.62
>> How can that be? How come a retailer can charge less
than the actual
>> source?
>
> It often happens. I bought Captivate 2 from Amazon.co.uk
because it was
> cheaper than from the Adobe store. Something I have
never managed to work
> out either is why Adobe charges you more for an
electronic download in the
> UK than for the boxed version (at least that was the
situation when I last
> checked several weeks ago).
>
> Each year, Intuit sends me details of a "special upgrade
price" for my
> accounting software. The last time I upgraded, it was
cheaper to buy the
> full program from Amazon.co.uk. I think I saved about
£70. Software
> pricing seems to follow a perverse logic of its own.
>
> --
> David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
> Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of
ED)
> Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
>
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