Pricing Policies
Why does the downloadable full version of Adobe Photoshop CS3 cost US $649.00 in the Adobe US online store, and € 689.00 in the Adobe Portuguese online store? Both before taxes. With the US dollar at this second at 1.3312 to the Euro, that’s € 487.53 vs. € 689.00 – a 41% difference.
If you assume a 7% sales tax when buying in the US, vs. 21% VAT in Portugal, the difference is of € 521.66 in the US vs. € 833.69 over here – € 312.03 more, or almost 60% more expensive. For the same binary, probably downloadable from the same server. Sometimes I hate living in Europe.
‘Wish I spoke/read Portugese. I’m grateful to be pokin’ along with psELEMENTS