I’m based in the UK, and it costs rather a lot for Visual Studio 2008. I decided to take a look at what the prices are in the USA, and after playing about with Google Shopping for a bit, I discovered that for the upgrade version, even after shipping, it still only about half the price that I would have to pay here!
I ordered it, and then the company decided that I had to provide a faxed/scanned copy of various things including my credit card for fraud prevention. I don’t have a fax machine, and I am not really very happy to start emailing an image of my credit card insecurely, so I cancelled the order and found somewhere else.
Second time lucky, it was despatched a few days later and I have it here now. One thing to bear in mind if you do this is that you may have to pay import tax. In theory you have to do this in the UK, but the nice people from HM Revenue and Customs seemed to decide that I didn’t need to for mine, so unless I’ve not been hit with it yet, it looks like I got off lucky.
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