Twice as expensive in Australia!!!!!!!!

Right, Photoshop CS5 would cost me $699 if I lived in the US. But as it happens, I live in Australia.
Now, at the moment, 669 dollars in the US is worth about 707.987 dollars in Australia. That's the current rate of exchange, it's what the banks use, it's what companies use, it's what industries use - currency parities are the basis of the world economy.
So far, so good.
But it seems Adobe operates outside the fiscal constraints that bind the rest of the world. I just went to buy Adobe Photoshop CS5 via the Adobe site, and the price shown on the order page is...... Australian $1168............
Now, I don't know how much the postage would cost on a small carboard box containing a tiny plastic disk, but I'm sure it's not going to be anywhere near $460!!!!
So why the price difference? Why do Australian have to pay $400 more than the US for the same product?
Anybody got any ideas about that?

I logged back in to respond.
I happen to think that regardless of the circumstances that Australians are being punished for being in a more remote part of the world and though some of those things I mention probably do play a part in the strange price difference Australians have proven to good loyal customers I know Adobe and Nikon should be aware of this and perhaps give at least a 15% reduction on the cost of their products. Both companies would benefit a great deal and Aussies deserve a better price. Parody would be even better and the product will sell really well.
I went to Australia in January of this year and the one thing everyone told me if they could get their Model Nikon for a price closer to the US they would not think twice about getting it and if Photoshop was also less expensive they would definitely have it. In both cases they were not pros but would not think twice about getting the top of the line they were mostly interested in the Nikon D3 series, no one mentioned Canon and they all said they would go for the extended version of Photoshop but would probably by the Master Collection just to have it.
To me it is crazy to let this market go to waste and almost everyone I talked to wanted top of the line anything that was at the right price.
I am with you one this Adobe and Nikon should do a study on this ti see what I mean.

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