Internet makes the world smaller, so they say. You can buy things in other countries, when you have enough trust in the credit-card billing system the seller uses. No problem so far. At the moment I’m looking at buying Adobe’s LightRoom. This piece of software when buying the “download version” is US$299. But I don’t live in the US, so I changed my setting to Netherlands and thus…the euro as currency. To my surprise, the price in euro’s is 296.31, which with the current exchangerate is about US$450. WTF? So I download the same piece of software (US English version), no postal service or overseas shipping is involved, and still the price is 50% higher.

But internet makes the world smaller, so I change the currency back to US$ and have my credit card billed for about 197 euros. Simple.