RE: Adobe prices [was Rendering the Print]
RE: Adobe prices [was Rendering the Print]
- Subject: RE: Adobe prices [was Rendering the Print]
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:02:20 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
I came back a few weeks ago from a short vacation in Italy, and reading Tim's post I can say that I noticed something similar too, made all the more striking because this time the relative value of the dollar was so much lower than the last time I was there 5 years ago.
It does indeed seem that what we pay in US $ in this country they pay in Euros in Italy.
My take on it is that currency exchange rates reflect more international than national or internal conditions, and are therefore misleading: one tends to think that since the Euro is $1.35-1.50, the purchasing power of a Euro must be correspondingly higher. But I no longer believe that.
Once you are there and start "merging with the locals" (not too hard for me, since I am a native speaker), you discover that exchange rates are a poor indicator of how much the local currency actually buys (as long as no inflationary spirals start to develop and screw up everything).
As Tim says of Scotland, food is indeed considerably cheaper in Italy as well (I mean fresh fruits and vegetables, cheeses, etc.), as long as you shop in markets (closed or open). Sometimes foodstuffs seem to cost almost half of what they cost here (and they taste *so much better*!).
Still, Euros are one thing -- but it does seem a bit excessive to pay the same in *Sterling Pounds* as in US $...
Marco Ugolini
-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Vitale <email@hidden>
>Sent: Jul 9, 2007 2:49 PM
>To: 'Bob Frost' <email@hidden>, email@hidden
>Subject: RE: Adobe prices [was Rendering the Print]
>
>I had no idea this tread would have such legs, or I would have spoken up
>sooner. I lived a year in Scotland, about ten years ago, 1995-6.
>I would routinely notice that whatever we paid in Dollars, they (and I)
>paid in Pounds. Never could find an answer, even though I asked many
>folks. Music CDs in the states ran about $15 and they were £15 (pounds) in
>Glasgow; the exchange rate was about 1.5-1.6, $ for £ at the time.
>The same went for electronic components, tools and hardware; I think
>food may have been less expensive. I came away thinking they got far
>30-50% less for their labors and paid far more for their
>goods; and there is a 15% VAT was on top of that.
>
>The approximate $150 for a standard US, CS-upgrade, is about the same
>in pounds, £146/163. I guess it's that high because they can get it.
>
>Tim Vitale
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