Photoshop Spam

take it or pass it?

[RossWal]

I've gotten some recent spam for Photoshop 7 for 40 bucks. Normally, I'd press del as fast as I can, but Photoshop for $40? Hmmmm.

The thing is, they require you to specify an OS: Win 98, ME XP, 2000. Why would that be? It shouldn't be OS dependant, should it?

Ross

[troels nybo nielsen]

Hmm... At that price I can't help asking myself if those people have .. ahem ... "bought" this software in a way that stinks even more than the way they are trying to sell it.

I'd keep my hands off it.

[TheDoctor]

maybe if you replied, you'd hear nothing more from the "vendors", but you would hear quite a lot from the people they sold your email address on to.

[SlyGuy]

If it sounds too good to be true..

..it probably is

- Chad

[AAnnAArchy]

Yeah, if you're going to steal it, you should steal it for free. So, either pay the $649 or nothing.

[Shannon Moore]

It'd be cheaper (factoring in karma, and all that) to find a friend who's in college (and, hence, qualifies for a student discount on LOTS of software), pay them a little "beer money" in excess of the paltry sum they'll have to pay to purchase an education copy of said software, and voila.

Never did it myself, but that's because I wanted and needed all the software for MYSELF when I was a student, so the markup was a little high if someone had wanted to buy my copy. ;)

[dragonlady7]

Adobe's "educational discounts" are pretty pathetic nowadays, if you go check them. I think a qualified, genuine, real, honest, starving student could get Photoshop for $500 nowadays. Sheesh.

[RossWal]

Thanks all. I'll pass.

[automotivetouchup]

I am student! Is the student version even the real thing? And if you have the photoshop7 educational and wanted to bump up to photshop8 is there an upgrade?

[SlyGuy]

Adobe's "educational discounts" are pretty pathetic nowadays, if you go check them. I think a qualified, genuine, real, honest, starving student could get Photoshop for $500 nowadays. Sheesh.

It's not quite that bad, but not much better. The new Photoshop CS has a retail price of around $650 and the academic version sells for about $300.

All things considered, I'm sure it's still rather tough for some students to fork over $300 for one piece of software..

[snowman]

Why chase the newest and the latest?

You can go to ebay or yahoo auctions and buy a used and older copy for much less.

I've got 5.0 and 5.5 installers as well as 3.0, all three purchased from auction, from folks who upgraded and didn't want to trash their versions.

Right now the only version of Photoshop installed on my machine is 3.0

Why not, eh! It does everything I need it to do and being small and less frilly than later versions, it runs like the blazes!

I'm sure if I look hard enough I can still find Photoshop 2.5 lite somewhere.

[panic]

Pirating is not only immoral... it's illegal too.

[Shannon Moore]

Sorry, I clearly hadn't looked at what the educational discount on Adobe products was running. No wonder I never owned Photoshop until after I'd graduated and gotten a corporate job (which I've now left!) :)

It seems only Microsoft practically gives away their products to students... think I recall buying Windows 2000 Pro for something insanely cheap, like $15 or $30, while I was a student. The downside is it's truly painful to pay full retail price after you no longer qualify as a student...

[HowlingWizard]

Read the spam messages selling Photoshop, etc for $40. What they are typically selling is a "Backup" copy of the software/CD. Not a real license to use the software.

Given no license, to legal right to use that $40 suddenly sounds expensive for a CD.