Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Or you need to have US relatives who are crossing the ocean as I write it, carrying a PS CS 3 upgrade from Amazon and a lens from B.D. :-) Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Aug 4, 2008, at 4:16 AM, Alastair Firkin wrote: > Hi, > I bought lightroom I think by download for about $350 I think. Can't > fully remember, might have had something to do with the vast amount > of Adobe software I own and hardly use :-( May have been an opening > price at the demo here in Melbourne. Surprized to hear its so much > now. We need AMEX cards billed in the USA ;-) > > --- jviiret@gmail.com wrote: > > From: Justin Viiret <jviiret@gmail.com> > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Aussie photographers are richer than Americans > apparently > Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:03:05 +1000 > > Hi Geoff, > > That's what I've found, too -- and you can't buy it online from the > Adobe USA store, either. > > When I originally bought my copy of Lightroom 1, I found that an > online retailer here in Oz was able to sell me a boxed version of the > release for just over half what Adobe were charging for the download > direct from them -- so I bought it that way, though I would have been > much happier to download it directly if there had been something even > _close_ to price parity. Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to > do the same thing for the upgrade, as I doubt they're selling > shrinkwrapped upgrade packages. For the moment I'm sticking with what > I've got. > > The usual problem with living in a vastly smaller market, I guess. :( > > jv > > On 03/08/2008, at 9:15 AM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: > >> Just following up on my grumble on Lightroom 2 pricing disparity. >> >> Amazon sent me a nice note offering to sell me LR2 boxed as a pre- >> order for >> USD290 (or it's 299 downloaded from Adobe) >> >> Meanwhile Adobe Australia would like the equivalent of about USD515 >> for the >> same download here. Aagh! >> >> Anyway, as predicted in the earlier thread, I note that Amazon now >> has LR2 >> books from Martin Evening and Scott Kelby as well as Classroom in a >> Book >> titles. You'd have to get at least the Martin Evening title just for >> the >> amazing cover photograph, before you even consider the contents. >> Don't even >> start me on book prices down under vs. USA either! > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information