What's up with charging exorbitant prices for software?

acrobi123 · April 27, 2006, 1:55pm

Re: What's up with charging exorbitant prices for software?

Sadiyah:

I remember one of my friends used to work at Microsoft and he used to get Microsoft software from Microsoft store for 10% of the selling price. I'm sure even at 10% sales price Microsoft must have been making profit.

Just today I purchased a student license for Adobe Creative Suite 2 - Premium for approximately $300 (CAD) including tax. I decided to surf Adobe's website to figure out how much I would've had to pay had I purchased it directly from Adobe's website. To my surprise, the conversion (to $ CAD) worked out to a whopping $1351 (CAD).

Why charge so much for a software? Why rip off people so badly when you can offer the same bundle for a lot less? No wonder software piracy is so common and on the rise, despite all the efforts exerted by the manufacturers.

This is insanity!

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if you had to use Adobe CS2 on your laptop then I would really suggest you make good use of other alternatives; so called piracy.