Adobe Creative Suite 3 pricing is seriously unfair to UK buyers
Interested in buying the latest version of Adobe Creative Suite 3? If you are in the UK you will pay 50% more than if you are in America. That’s before you add V.A.T.
In America, you pay $1600 for the FULL version of CS3 Web Premium.
In the UK, you pay £1200 for the FULL version. That’s $2400. If you pay VAT, the final price is £1400, or $2800.
This massive gulf is completely unjustified. We’ll write to Adobe and ask them why it is so. If we get a response, we’ll post it here.
As an aside, I’ll give Inkscape an honourable mention – it is shaping up to be a rather fine replacement for Illustrator. In fact, we now use Inkscape for nearly all of our basic vector work. Best of all, it is Free and Open. Visit http://www.inkscape.org to download it!
With the GIMP team now focused on bringing significant UI improvements, maybe the web developer’s need for Adobe tools will diminish significantly in the not-too-distant future.
