Price policy for South African Cloud Membership

Question

I own Creative Suite 5 Production Premium and have seen offers advertised where if you own a previous suite you can switch to cloud for $29.99. Living in South Africa i was not able to utilize this offer because the cloud was not available here until now.
My question now is do I still qualify for the special price and how do you subscribe to the cloud with the lower price. I get told the offer is not valid in your region when I try.

Answer 1

Dean Utian wrote:
@John
In Australia, we also pay higher prices for Adobe software - around the same increase as you're seeing at your end - about 25% higher. Think the Aus price is AU$62/month for CC and the Aus $ is stronger than the US.
Thanks Dean. Yes, that's what I'm paying. I'm in Australia too.
Dean Utian wrote:
There has been a lot of discussion about this in avrious blogs, magazines. The official Adobe explanation is:
"Our pricing methodology takes into consideration the costs of doing business in different regions and customer research that assesses the value of the product in the local market. Conditions vary between markets and it’s difficult to make a straight comparison between countries."
http://desktopmag.com.au/news/adobes-cs6-pricing-explanation/
It doesn't really explain things but suggests that Adobe creates a price they think will be accepted by the market.
I've seen these vague "explanations" trotted out online often.
They're often cut-and-pasted in this forum by Adobe Staff. Suggest the Staff don't have a better answer either - or they're not authorised to post one.
Problem is the "explanations" don't explain anything - especially the fact that the Cloud is digitally delivered so no transport or packaging costs, just bit and bytes and Gigabytes from an Adobe server located somewhere around the globe. Same product and service wherever you are.
As you say, Adobe charges what the market will bear. Some loathe it and won't pay the regional price differences on principle. The majority tolerates it in order to use the software.
Free market capitalism at its purest.
Dean Utian wrote:
In Australia, the educational price for Creative Cloud is in line with the US price. In fact, with current exhange rates, it's slighly cheaper.
Interesting observation.