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Otrera Goddess DUST University Ivy League 0	Posted - 2013.05.15 00:04:00 - [1] - Quote Can someone please explain to me why they are charging so much more for Aurum to be purchased in the Australian PSN network compared to the US? I have just purchased 30,000 aurum here and it shows that it is cheaper online in the us psn network but that I can't buy it. I feel ripped off particularly when our dollar is on par/ slightly higher than the us??????
Llan Heindell One-Armed Bandits Heretic Initiative 100	Posted - 2013.05.15 00:32:00 - [2] - Quote Same way I need to pay twice as much as someone buying AUR from outside my country. Taxes and ****. Llan Heindell.
Winsaucerer The Southern Legion RISE of LEGION 79	Posted - 2013.05.15 00:34:00 - [3] - Quote Check out my thread with suggestions. Llan Heindell wrote: Same way I need to pay twice as much as someone buying AUR from outside my country. Taxes and ****. Llan Heindell. How much is an EVE Online subscription for you?
fred orpaul The Tritan Industries RISE of LEGION 285	Posted - 2013.05.15 00:47:00 - [4] - Quote yea that's a Australia software thing, I don't know why but every one charges more for software in Australia. Its actually cheaper to fly to the us buy adobe pro box set and fly back then it is to buy the download version in Australia. The stupid thing is that there is no reason for it, even if you pay tariffs for it when you fly back in to Australia you only pay a little bit more then the download version. Sooooo yea you can thank companies for being corrupt and no competition really existing. That said I imagine that while CCP and Sony may agree on pricing, Sony is probably independently setting the regional prices on the playstation network so you may want to see if CCP can have them change it. Also any eve players here know if Australia pays more then 15AUD a month for eve? I would be interested to know.
Winsaucerer The Southern Legion RISE of LEGION 82	Posted - 2013.05.15 00:50:00 - [5] - Quote fred orpaul wrote: Also any eve players here know if Australia pays more then 15AUD a month for eve? I would be interested to know. We pay the US price. And you know why? Because our money when converted to USD is worth one USD per USD. So why wouldn't CCP be happy to accept our money if we pay them the asking price?
Baneus Secundi Intara Direct Action Caldari State 6	Posted - 2013.05.15 00:54:00 - [6] - Quote fred orpaul wrote: yea that's a Australia software thing, I don't know why but every one charges more for software in Australia. Its actually cheaper to fly to the us buy adobe pro box set and fly back then it is to buy the download version in Australia. The stupid thing is that there is no reason for it, even if you pay tariffs for it when you fly back in to Australia you only pay a little bit more then the download version. Sooooo yea you can thank companies for being corrupt and no competition really existing. That said I imagine that while CCP and Sony may agree on pricing, Sony is probably independently setting the regional prices on the playstation network so you may want to see if CCP can have them change it. Also any eve players here know if Australia pays more then 15AUD a month for eve? I would be interested to know. I pay $18.33 NZD per month for EvE based on USD conversion so I would assume that Australian players would pay roughly $15AUD as the conversion rate is almost 1:1 to USD for them.
Chunky Munkey Amarr Templars Amarr Empire 456	Posted - 2013.05.15 01:01:00 - [7] - Quote It's not just Aurum. I remember a chart (i'd post it if I could find it) from IGN highlighting the difference in game prices across the globe. I'm afraid Australia just gets the short straw in these matters. Your games are the most expensive, the least varied, and the most likely to be censored of all 1st world countries. I'm sorry my antipodean comrades, but maybe nothing short of a change in national economic policy is going to improve your gaming dilemmas.
Otrera Goddess DUST University Ivy League 1	Posted - 2013.05.15 01:06:00 - [8] - Quote Why can't I just pay ccp and get it direct from them. I bet it has something to do with the exclusive ps3 arrangement that dust has. There is probably a clause that sony has that says 'we can charge each country what ever we want for extras and you can't do **** about it'
Zamoria Calderon Gammler Gmbh 0	Posted - 2013.05.15 01:12:00 - [9] - Quote Same goes for most europe countries. For example, elite pack cost 99$ in US and 99Gé¼ in Europe if i could pay with the current exchange rates i would pay around 77Gé¼ This is just outrageous
fred orpaul The Tritan Industries RISE of LEGION 285	Posted - 2013.05.15 02:01:00 - [10] - Quote its sony like all major software companies they are gouging other parts of the world because they know you will pay. Its not limited to the games industry, it probably not limited to the software industry, but I know for a fact that the software industry is gouging Australia (probably other countries too) with no lawful reason other then they can and they believe they get more money that way. Here read you fill I googled it for you. oh in my search I found that many companies have lowered their prices after being summonsed to explain the price difference. You may want to let Sony know whats going on with that and tell them you are notifying your commerce bureau, so they had better start changing prices. https://www.google.com/search?q=software+prices+in+australia&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Fem-Bad-Doc Penguin's March 1	Posted - 2013.05.15 02:11:00 - [11] - Quote I thought two of my mate's were the only Aussies that actually use the AU PS Store. Create a US user on your PS3 and buy US PSN codes through bestbuy or play-Asia.
Otrera Goddess DUST University Ivy League 6	Posted - 2013.05.15 02:13:00 - [12] - Quote Its about time anonymous gets involved and announces this as one of there campaigns
fred orpaul The Tritan Industries RISE of LEGION 286	Posted - 2013.05.15 02:18:00 - [13] - Quote goddess link please. and fem that's actually kinda brilliant.
Otrera Goddess DUST University Ivy League 6	Posted - 2013.05.15 02:30:00 - [14] - Quote If I create a us account won't i lose my dust progress, player, aurum I just bought?
fred orpaul The Tritan Industries RISE of LEGION 286	Posted - 2013.05.15 02:38:00 - [15] - Quote yes unless you can convince ccp to transfer your char to a different PSN account.
Delta 749 Maverick Security Consulting 91	Posted - 2013.05.15 02:42:00 - [16] - Quote You aussies have a higher cost of living in general but you also make more than we do, chill out
Otrera Goddess DUST University Ivy League 6	Posted - 2013.05.15 02:42:00 - [17] - Quote Link??
Otrera Goddess DUST University Ivy League 6	Posted - 2013.05.15 02:48:00 - [18] - Quote fred orpaul wrote: its sony like all major software companies they are gouging other parts of the world because they know you will pay. Its not limited to the games industry, it probably not limited to the software industry, but I know for a fact that the software industry is gouging Australia (probably other countries too) with no lawful reason other then they can and they believe they get more money that way. Here read you fill I googled it for you. oh in my search I found that many companies have lowered their prices after being summonsed to explain the price difference. You may want to let Sony know whats going on with that and tell them you are notifying your commerce bureau, so they had better start changing prices. https://www.google.com/search?q=software+prices+in+australia&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a Sony have been notified and warned. Just one of us will not make them listen though we all need to complain!
fred orpaul The Tritan Industries RISE of LEGION 286	Posted - 2013.05.15 02:54:00 - [19] - Quote sry American just involved because this **** pisses me off, and I wanna help you guys fix it.
Tectonious Falcon The Southern Legion RISE of LEGION 478	Posted - 2013.05.15 07:06:00 - [20] - Quote Delta 749 wrote: You aussies have a higher cost of living in general but you also make more than we do, chill out New games in Australia can cost upwards of $100 AU, especially if you buy a physical copy.



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