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Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 20, 2012 at 01:12 PM
Franz Grieser wrote:
>Another strange story (has nothing to do with Digital River, in this case): In the US
>you can buy a download licence for Inspiration for $59 (at the moment, you get it even at
>a discounted price of $29). The SAME product (English, no German version, download
>only) costs in Germany 69 Euro - which is $86.
>Argh.
Try some of the UK dealers through the Inspiration website, the prices seem better (e.g. £36.58) than in Germany. You might even get a further discount if you have an academic affiliation.
Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 20, 2012 at 01:17 PM
Dr Andus
>
>Try some of the UK dealers through the Inspiration website, the prices
>seem better (e.g. GBP36.58) than in Germany. You might even get a further discount
>if you have an academic affiliation.
Sorry, that’s excluding VAT. So it’s more like : GBP43.89
Posted by Franz Grieser
Sep 20, 2012 at 02:06 PM
Dr. A.
That’s better. Yes.
I downloaded the trial and will see if it’s worth the price for me.
Franz
Posted by J-Mac
Sep 21, 2012 at 03:10 AM
Oh yeah - ShareIt, Digital River, RegNow - all the same parent company and all do the same rotten “fee on top of conversion rate”. Must be because each of the branches of Digital River seems to have their own unexplained mark-up on currency conversion purchases. I first noticed this with ShareIt a few years ago. (Actually in March 2006). The overcharge can be astronomical.
If the vendor offers more than one ecommerce processor - even though all are part of Digital River - check the price with them all; you will be surprised at the differences you find. As a test, try placing a copy of Archivarius (desktop search engine) in their shopping cart and then look at the check-out price with both ShareIt and RegNow. I tried it again in July 2012 and got the following prices:
Personal License = 29.95 €
Xe.com converts this to $36.75 US (Basis)
Share*It shows price as $40.04 US ( 9% Adder? )
RegNow shows price as $46.70 US ( 27% Adder? )
Plain old-fashioned robbery IMO.
Jim McGowan
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 21, 2012 at 05:33 PM
(copied from the Inspiration U.S. thread)
These sites may offer a possible solution; and, as long as you use an intermediary like Paypal for payments, there would be no mismatch between your credit card address and shipping address:
http://bongous.com
http://www.myus.com
http://www.usamail1.com
Please I have not tried them myself.