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Australian IT Price Hike Inquiry Kicks Off: Submissions Wanted

Posted by timothy on from the show-us-what-part-of-your-wallet-they-touched dept.

New submitter wirelessduck writes "After some recent complaints from a Labor MP about price markups on software and technology devices in Australia, Federal Government agencies decided to look in to the matter and an official parliamentary inquiry into the issue was started. 'The Federal Parliament's inquiry into local price markups on technology goods and services has gotten under way, with the committee overseeing the initiative issuing its terms of reference and calling for submissions from the general public on the issue.'"

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  1. Re:Dear Australia... by mjwx · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Allow free importation of goods from the US and other markets and watch the vendor premiums for your mysterious island continent collapse. If Australians could simply buy from Adobe US, It'd be pretty difficult for Adobe to maintain a price premium...

    Ummm...

    Parallel importation of software is perfectly legal. I buy all my games from Hong Kong or the UK. I can order Photoshop from B&H PhotoVideo in New York and they'll deliver it to me in BumFuck, Western Australia. Ooops, sorry, that's Perth, Western Australia.

    What I have a small problem with is the fact that I cant buy from Australian stores, who pay Australian taxes and support the Australian economy. The government has a very big problem with this.

    But my prediction is that the report will tell us what we already know, Aussies are getting ripped off, the distributors are gouging prices and they'll have a nice list of recommendations that'll never happen because if for no other reason, the opposition will stop it because it wasn't their idea.

    BTW, Kangaroo's aren't like Velociraptor Sheep, first they are bigger then a Velociraptor or a sheep. They are more like 6 ft tall bounding rocks because it looks like your car has hit a rock after running into one.

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    Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
  2. Technet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Posting AC because of Slashdot's bug that prevents me from logging in.

    A Technet subscription is mysteriously $200 more dear a year in Australia despite us being quite happy to use US English and keyboards. Yet in Thailand, it's $40 a year, where they need a full translation and separate keyboard support. What's the difference?

    The Thai pirate software a lot. A *lot*.

    So I ask you, what's the simplist way for Australians to reduce the price of Technet?

  3. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Interesting

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