Adobe Rip-off
The new Adobe Lightroom 2 is out. I looked at the upgrade on the Adobe site, and on the US store it’s only a very reasonable $99 USD (or about $105 AUD), but on the Adobe AU store the upgrade is $179, a 70+% markup for Australia? Even with GST that doesn’t match up.
They are even worse than Apple where a MacBook Pro in the US is $1999, and in AU $2699, that’s ‘only’ a 35% markup.
Update: Article on News.com.au
November 9th, 2008 at 7:39 am
To be fair, they are trying to keep up with the fluctuations in the Aussie dollar. I managed to buy it at $149 a month ago, but today it’s $169 (at the Adobe online store).