Should we petition the prime minister?

I think there is probably a larger under current of discontent in the UK and Europe about this issue, I took up the issue with Corel about their pricing plans for Pain Shop Pro where they were charging similar inflated priced on their web site.

I even tried purchasing if from the US site, having it send to someone I knew in the US thinking they could ship it to me but it would not accept my UK credit card details – thus you have to pay the US price!

I think all reasonable people will understand there are shipping costs etc but do they justify the price hike and how can any honest company justify the price hike for a downloaded piece of software, the smaller developers do not seem to make such outrageous charges for international customers, this is simply corporate greed!

When I read this article I immediately thought someone should start a petition for the prime minister at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ a quick search found that someone had already started one albeit small so far

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http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Software-Prices/

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Reduce or 'bring into line' software prices so that software sold in the US should be of a similar price to software sold in the UK. More details

Submitted by Matt Lakin – Deadline to sign up by: 08 March 2008 – Signatures: 29

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All those reading this article should probably sign this petition and get it going, I think we have all had enough of being ripped off