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[challenge entry] Photoshop Money
Just getting things off my chest.
and yes, I've heard it all before about why buy when you can get it for free yadayadayada....



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(I helped save b3ta! beaubodor blogless, Fri 23 May 2008, 14:18, archived)
# HAHAAHA
Yes. Erm. Er. That's what I paid for mine!!!
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 23 May 2008, 14:19, archived)
# Im sure their excuse is
the stock market and different support strategies....

bollocks
(I helped save b3ta! executiverocker only wears C&A, Fri 23 May 2008, 14:20, archived)
# 'fraid it is the same for most things...
software, cars, houses, prostitues....you name it...
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Blackwolf is sucking diesel on, Fri 23 May 2008, 14:21, archived)
# Not tried CS3
But I'm not paying nearly 600 squids when I can get PSPro X2 for 60
(I helped save b3ta! Attila the Bun is not in a right cunt of a mood, Fri 23 May 2008, 14:23, archived)
# ^this
only i paid 50 quids for PSP X 18 months ago... same thing tho
(I helped save b3ta! mutster101 fell over, Fri 23 May 2008, 14:25, archived)
# You are completely right.
It's a fecking disgrace.

Steal it, I say - Steal it!

On second thoughts - get a Multi-Seat license. One for Work, one for home. That works.
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Fri 23 May 2008, 14:23, archived)
# it's just numbers
*caresses genuinely free copy of CS3*
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 23 May 2008, 14:24, archived)
# well,
think of all the time they had to spend translating the menus from US English to Proper English...
(Professor Yaffle now with added sodium, Fri 23 May 2008, 14:25, archived)
# pfff
I localised some Yahoo stuff once from US-EN to GB-EN. I'm sure the majority of Americans can only understand words of one syllable (or less).
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 23 May 2008, 14:30, archived)
# Didnt someone take Apple to court over this
saying that iTunes was charing 79c in America and 79p over here?
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 23 May 2008, 14:28, archived)
# I think it was the European shops
79p in the UK, 99c (or about 59p) in the Eurozone.

Highly annoyed, they got in that European Court of Everything-Being-Fair
(I helped save b3ta! Thinker, Fri 23 May 2008, 14:30, archived)
# heheh..
(I helped save b3ta! glubglub should be working on, Fri 23 May 2008, 14:30, archived)
# Try this:
Have a weekend in New York. Buy the software that you need. Chuck away the packaging, manuals etc. Keep the discs and the serial numbers though.

This should take half a day. The difference between UK and US price should make the holiday either very cheap, or free.

I used to do this in the 90s, when me and the missus could have a quick break and still be in profit.
(I helped save b3ta! MisterPunch did it that way on, Fri 23 May 2008, 15:13, archived)
# so that's what the box looks like..
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Fri 23 May 2008, 15:38, archived)