... Or maybe many here ignore IKM is an italian company. Italian taxes are very high (the highest in Europe) and absurdly complex: in Italy you have to pay taxes for everything. It's italian bureaucracy, you can't escape. For instance, if you own a bar or a shop, you have to pay a tax for the shadow (yes: the shadow) that falls on the road. If you want to sell or even donate your car to someone else, you have to pay a 500€ tax. If you want to go mushrooming, you have to pay a tax before. You want to expose the italian flag? Another tax (140€). You own a TV? You have to pay a tax because you own it (i mean: a tax on the object, not the tv license fee: this exists, too). When someone dies, there is a tax to be paid, called "constatazione di decesso" ("death ascertainment"), it costs 36€. And so on...glokraw wrote:regarding download$, every commercial project with a responsible beancounter, factors in all aspects of business infrastructure, and market forces, to derive a price. And adjustments may soon follow,
depending on the accuracy of the first price, and any response
by competitors. Just because NI doesn't charge separately in some
use cases, doesn't mean the price hasn't been pre-paid by all,
on behalf of the few.
I think IK's policy is a just sad remnant of the past, there are one-man shops who have no timed restrictions to download purchased sounds.
These sole-proprietors have calculated the costs, because
'the buck stops there', at their house.
If IK didn't want to charge $103.99, because $99.95 looked so much cheaper, so be it, but it's 2014, just make the 'expired download'
use the same process as the registration limit. Send a nice email request, and receive some new reg codes in short order.
Sounds stored on a hard disk that crashes in 2016?
Send an email tale of woe, and get the current download code...
no rocket science needed
Besides: Italy has currently the highest taxation levels on companies in the EU and one of the highest in the world. Example: while in the U.S. a company has to pay 46% taxes, in Italy you have to pay 69%.
Full price is not in effect until September 30th so there's going to be a good period of time before it returns to anything near preorder pricing which is why we offered it at that price for that long and gave people the opportunity to get in there. The people who make their living making music are the ones that will typically buy either at the great preorder or introductory pricing or at full price because they will recoup that investment in short order, so there's at least one group that historically purchases software at a price point that meets their needs. Many also get in early and actually use the software and have the satisfaction of getting that value out of their purchase.
