Getting around extortionate software pricing in Australia
May 30, 2011 6:00 PM Subscribe
Can an Aussie buy Adobe LightRoom (boxed) from USA and install - and subsequently upgrade - on an 'Australian' computer?
Amazon.com has Adobe Lightroom on sale today for US$119. The same software costs nearly four times that in Australia. I'd like to "do the right thing" and buy LR, but I object to the prices inflicted on Australians for a piece of downloadable software that I never expect to require any support for.
Anyone know whether I could get the box sent to a friend in the US (Amazon won't send outside US) and then either:
Bonus points: What would happen when LR4 came out? Could I upgrade? And would I be charged the US or Australian upgrade price?
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iMac running OSX 10.6
Amazon.com has Adobe Lightroom on sale today for US$119. The same software costs nearly four times that in Australia. I'd like to "do the right thing" and buy LR, but I object to the prices inflicted on Australians for a piece of downloadable software that I never expect to require any support for.
Anyone know whether I could get the box sent to a friend in the US (Amazon won't send outside US) and then either:
- Get my friend to simply email me the licence code, and use that on a trial copy downloaded from Adobe
- Failing that, get them to send me the CD
Bonus points: What would happen when LR4 came out? Could I upgrade? And would I be charged the US or Australian upgrade price?
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iMac running OSX 10.6
I can't see any reason it wouldn't work. I (Australian) have bought heaps of software from the US, although all downloaded, not boxed.
It's not like there's an "Australian Edition" of any software as far as I know, and region encoding shouldn't be an issue for software.
posted by Diag at 7:45 PM on May 30, 2011
It's not like there's an "Australian Edition" of any software as far as I know, and region encoding shouldn't be an issue for software.
posted by Diag at 7:45 PM on May 30, 2011
Response by poster: For anyone stumbling across this old thread, it worked…
posted by puffmoike at 2:44 PM on November 13, 2011
posted by puffmoike at 2:44 PM on November 13, 2011
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Since Adobe seems to provide a working copy of their software for trial, I don't see why you couldn't do this with any future upgrade as well.
I have no experience with US vs AUS software control by Adobe and wasn't aware that there was any. It may only affect support issues.
posted by qwip at 7:02 PM on May 30, 2011