Adobe Photoshop Extended Student and Teacher Edition

[Dallas]

What is the deal with the educational editions?... If you order them
on-line shipped to your house, how can they verify that you are a
student or teacher?



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Dallas

[otter]

I believe there is a verification process involved to get the
activation code. You have to scan a school ID, or something.

[PeterN]

They verify before shipping.

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Peter

[Dallas]

otter wrote:

> I believe there is a verification process involved to get the
> activation code. You have to scan a school ID, or something.

Issue #1: If I were King of Adobe I'd recognise that a guy like me (a
non professional) could really use CS6 but would be out of his mind to
pay $669.00 for it. Therefore, I'd sell CS6 for $149 bucks with a
limit of 60,000 images manipulations, then it quits working. You'd
need an online account to purchase more "image credits" and $500 bucks
would buy you unlimited use on that computer.

Issue #2: Does Adobe not realise that most Photoshop users can whip up
a very convincing "student ID" from Eastern Ohio Community College in
about 7 minutes?

:- )

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Dallas

[Charles E. Hardwidge]

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Retail versus OEM (and discount ) pricing is an issue for all the big
monopoly and near monopoly software vendors. They're almost begging for
piracy and at times complicit with piracy.

Why throw business like this your best offer before negotiations even start?
Why not ask deeper questions about competition and pricing first before
costing everyone else higher than justifiable prices and limitations?

This is before we get into big vendors accelerating the version cycle and
having ragged end support like Microsoft and forcing you to pay for
essential security fixes like Adobe.

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Charles E. Hardwidge

[otter]

Go ahead and try it. I think most people who do this probably just
borrow a student ID from a relative or neighbor kid. But then you
have to keep pretending to be the kid if you need support, etc. Also,
there is no upgrade path with the educational versions.

There are other paths to getting the software cheaper. It used to be
that you could buy CS2 cheap and upgrade to CS5 for a pretty decent
savings over the list price of CS5. They started to close that hole
recently, with CS6 now requiring an upgrade from CS5, and not earlier
versions.

Last year there was a pretty decent Black Friday deal on CS5. I think
it was under $300. Maybe that was only because CS6 was about to come
out. But I will be waiting for a deal before upgrading to CS6.