 | | | dollar vs euro whining | dollar vs euro whining 2005-05-10 - By Kerry Mortensen
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When I order football jerseys and gear that I can't
get in the states from the UK I always pay more than
it is worth in the US. And I'm stuck with a 20$
international shipping fee. So, I don't know what my
point is but I thought I'd complain too.
Kerry
--- Andrew Turner <turner410@(protected)> wrote:
> And back in '98, baked beans with breakfast in
> London was like US 47?!
>
> Cripes!
>
>
> On May 10, 2005, at 6:12 PM, hdaggers2000 wrote:
>
> When I was in London last summer it struck me that
> what a dollar buys
> back home is
> pretty close to what a pound buys in the UK, except
> for the exchange
> rate which made
> everything cost (for me) about $1.80us. However, I
> didn't whine at
> every shopclerk about
> the "unfair treatment" I was experiencing just for
> buying toothpaste....
>
> We ALL know that each copy of Hexagon doesn't cost
> $99 to make, nor
> does it cost
> 77Euros at cheap overseas labor.... The retail price
> of $250 reflects a
> market value judged
> against software competitors. That market value is
> exactly the same as
> 250Eu in Europe.
> Honestly, if you are claiming you deserve a discount
> for living in
> London because it's SOO
> expensive... Maybe you should consider the suburbs.
>
> By the way, H&M was even cheaper in London (gasp)
> than NYC, except for
> the part about
> costing me 180% which made it mearly a "bargain"
> rather than a
> "super-bargain".... When
> will you limeys give me back my money??
>
> Have you tried simply ordering a US copy and getting
> someone to ship it
> to you? Is there
> any reason it wouldn't work?
> holly
>
> --- In Carrara@(protected), "mykyl1966"
> <mykyl@(protected)> wrote:
> > That is exactly his point. If it costs $99 then we
> should be able to
> > buy it for $99 no more no less (not taking into
> account taxes etc as
> > has already been mentioned.). Here in the UK it is
> officially the
> > most expensive place in the world to live. Do our
> wages live up to
> > that. No where near it.
> >
> > Thats why it gets annoying at times to once again
> have to pay more
> > than our US counterparts for exactly the same
> product. I tend to
> > agree with him and as has been said life is unfair
> but it doesnt
> > make it right...
> >
> > Mike R
> >
> > --- In Carrara@(protected), tonyno@(protected) wrote:
> >> Maybe his point is that 99 USD exchanges to about
> 77 EUR, but, he
> > would need to pay 22 EUR more?
> >>
> >> Tony
> >>
> >>
> >> -- --Original Message-- --
> >> From: Ringo Monfort <RingoM@(protected)>
> >> Sent: May 10, 2005 11:09 AM
> >> To: Carrara@(protected)
> >> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [Carrara] Eovia Announces
> Immediate
> > Availability of Hexagon
> >>
> >> Help me out No spam I not to familiar with the
> currency exchange.
> >>
> >> If Hexagon cost 99 Eurodollas over there as the
> website says.
> >> If Hexagon cost 99 USAdollars over there as the
> website says.
> >>
> >> What is really the problem?
> >>
> >> Ringo
> >>
> >>>>> nospam@(protected) 5/10/2005 11:01 AM >>>
> >> Bonjour Bob,
> >>
> >> BS> #2 - This is a companion license. You must
> have a valid
> >> BS> Eovia product serial number to activate it.
> And you are
> > correct
> >> BS> that you can keep your Designer license and
> have the option to
> >> BS> upgrade it to Pro.
> >>
> >> This is very nice of you indeed.
> >>
> >> BS> #3 - It is not a mistake. It is simply the
> price for the
> > product in Europe.
> >>
> >> This is very bad of you indeed.
> >>
> >> The only rational I can see for that is that
> Hexagon was developed
> > by
> >> French poeple you had to paid in Euros with the
> 33 % fiscal
> > pressure
> >> firm have plus the 50 % average fiscal pressure
> employees have
> > here in France.
> >> Problem is that this pressure does not makes us
> 50 % richer than
> > our
> >> American friends, rather the contrary.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> BS> -bob
> >>
> >> BS> __ __
> >>
> >> BS> From: Carrara@(protected)
> >> BS> [mailto:Carrara@(protected)] On Behalf Of
> nospam
> >> BS> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 9:45 AM
> >> BS> To: Bob Stockwell
> >> BS> Subject: Re: [Carrara] Eovia Announces
> Immediate Availability
> > of Hexagon
> >>
> >>
> >> BS> Bonjour Bob,
> >>
> >> BS> Three questions, one being a call for a
> fairer price system :
> >>
> >> BS> - Could somebody ( Thomas for example ;-) )
> send us a side-by-
> > side
> >> BS> comparison of Amapi 7 / Amapi 7 pro / Hexagon
> features ? It is
> > not
> >> BS> always easy to compare them. For example,
> Amapi 7 does export
> >> BS> to Illustrator while Hexagon does
> >> BS> not. These kind of small differences can make
> the decision in
> > some
> >> BS> specific needs.
> >>
> >> BS> - Is the 99 ??? "companion upgrade" offer a
> companion offer,
> > or an upgrade ?
> >> BS> If it is a companion offer, then people
> upgrading from Amapi 7
> > keep
> >> BS> their Amapi license valid, with possibility
> to upgrade Amapi
> > to Amapi
> >> BS> Pro, for example.
> >> BS> If it is an upgrade in the true meaning, then
> people upgrading
> > from
> >> BS> Amapi loose their ability to use Amapi and to
> upgrade to Amapi
> > Pro.
> >> BS> So, companion-offer or up-grade ?
> >>
> >> BS> - European customers will pay 118 ??? VAT
> included. Knowing
> > that the
> >> BS> Dollar is 0,77604 of an Euro today, that
> means that your
> > European
> >> BS> customers will pay 152 dollars what your
> American customers
> > will pay
> >> BS> 99. Is that ... fair ? This kind of behaviour
> is well known of
> > Adobe.
> >> BS> It makes us badly feel like fleeced sheep.
> >> BS> I understand that you may have been badly
> advised by an
> > financial
>
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