Government investigating high software prices in Australia

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  frankyman on 16/05/2012 - 11:46

  Good to know, thanks :)

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  StewBalls on 16/05/2012 - 11:52

  One can only hope that it's with a little more gusto than when they 'investigated' fuel price-fixing!

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  scotty on 16/05/2012 - 12:12

  Government investigating high software prices

  and then the first image on that article is StarCraft II? Okay it's also a software but I guess just different types of software I was thinking.

  While government intervention itself is a good thing,

  • Government intervention — okay how long is it going to take?
  • If vendors don't discriminated, it would be the distributors/retailers who are at fault. Most people here know how to bypass them and order online for cheap.
  • In the case of Adobe, it's AUD$62.99 inc GST vs. USD$49.99 + sales tax — not that much difference actually. Might be even less depending on AUD performs in the next couple of months.

  Still, for software packages/downloadable games with no local distributor, no local marketing, no local service, etc — I don't see why they should be more expensive.

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    m0nkeycheese on 16/05/2012 - 12:23

    Yeah I heard this on the news on TV.. They mainly were going to target Apple and MS for digital downloads, but used the example of the Adobe thing as the basis of the investigation. Unfortunately some people arn't as savvy as us OzBargainers when it comes to circumventing our regional prices :/

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  twodollah on 16/05/2012 - 12:22

  About time. Sick of getting the short end of the stick all the time!!

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    h4lcyon on 16/05/2012 - 12:46

    Hang on, how can you tell the short end from the long end? - it's the same stick :P

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      StewBalls on 16/05/2012 - 23:52

      +1

      The short end has the pineapple on it! :)

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  [Deactivated] on 16/05/2012 - 12:53

  Just bought Photoshop elements 10 in NYC at staples. $75 vs $149 at harvey Norman.

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  Davo1111 on 18/05/2012 - 01:23

  Doubt it will have any effect whatsoever. You'll see in 3 years time (and several million dollars later) there will be a 50,000 page report that nobody will sift through.