If you look
here you will be able to follow the various links to be able to purchase (well, at the time of writing, pre-order) the latest version of Mandrake - version 9.2 The best way of doing this, is to follow the links to the UK, through to the shopping basket, and then see if it gives you a different price when you choose the US zone, but then give a UK address (if you want to try this, just give a nice famous address like 10 Downing Street, London and use SW1A 1AA as a postal code) and see if it still want's you to pay in $US
As someone who has bought the boxed set's direct for the last two version's, I was going to do the same until I noticed this annomally.
If you follow the links and check out the prices, for the power pack dvd and a copy of "the definitive guide", the price is quoted as 79 $US or Euro's.
If you then check out a currency converter, that equates to about £45GB if the purchase is done in $US and about £55GB if the purchase is completed in euro's.
A £10GB difference. What a rip off (IMO).
To say this, is in no way libelous, because I'm just stating fact i.e. from what their advert says, to what can be obtained by using say
this currncy converter.
It would be fair to say, that £10GB = about 15$US, and isn't much to moan about. But this is a matter of principal, and not wanting to feel that I'm getting ripped off.
If they just quoted 1 price of say 79 Euro's and then you just have to convert it into your local currency,that would be better. But to offer a lower price to those that THEY think should be charged in $US smacks of price fixing, and penalising those of us who just happen to reside in part's of Europe.
I for one, say "Forget Them", and will probably be looking
here for my next desktop version of Linux.
They just quote the one price, and while they may offer a different price in different parts of the world, at least they aren't blatently offering it cheaper to those that "they" think will want to pay less.
regards
John
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