openSUSE 11.0 Pre-order

[KunzeS]

Strange i can find it on Amazon.de: Günstige Preise bei Elektronik & Foto, DVD, Musik, Bücher, Games, Spielwaren & mehr but not on Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & more (last version 10.2) .

On Amazon.co.uk: low prices in Electronics, Books, Music, DVDs & more they have 10.3 but not 11 yet.

[oldcpu]

I ordered my openSUSE-11.0 last weekend.

I consider purchasing every openSUSE version just one small part of my contribution to the open Source / Free Software movement. I've purchased almost every SuSE release since 7.3, and I have not always installed it. I'm not saying everyone should do this, ... this is simply my way of in part doing this contribution ...

I definitely did not see an 80% price hike. ....

I'll also likely download openSUSE-11.0 GM version when available, and seed it. Last time (for 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3) I seeded from 10x to 20x the bandwidth that I downloaded (again, a small part of my contribution to the open source / free software movement).

[KunzeS]

Hmm i tried to make an fake order to Australia from the novell Website- could not pull through though - because i am not in Australia.

It gave me the Price from 60 US-$ + 12 US $ Shipping
When i switched to AUD it was 80 AUD + 17.68 AUD Shipping.
Maybe that was what you were seeing + an evt. Credit Card Fee from Your Credit Card Issuer?

Because otherwise i cant think of anything which could cause this Pricespike.
Maybe just have look what it was it should be listed - because i do not think it is intentional.

[Monex]

I ordered my boxed 11.0 two weeks ago. It is interesting how long it takes till it gets delivered, 10.3 takes only 6 days after public ftp release, hope this one is as fast as the last one

[innovamanager]

im definitly buying it... just one question... whats inside the box... just dvd 32 and 64 bits or cds too?

[Beineri]

A dual-layer DVD (DVD-9) with both 32 and 64 bit on it. No CDs anymore since openSUSE 10.3. Well, and maybe two small surprises ;-)...

[hotus]

Ordered mine to be delivered in africa, but sadly the price jumps from 59.95 Eur to 97 Eur
But because i want to encourage the opensuse community , i'll make thi *enourmous* effort.

[swerdna]

Originally Posted by KunzeS

Hmm i tried to make an fake order to Australia from the novell Website- could not pull through though - because i am not in Australia.

It gave me the Price from 60 US-$ + 12 US $ Shipping
When i switched to AUD it was 80 AUD + 17.68 AUD Shipping.
Maybe that was what you were seeing + an evt. Credit Card Fee from Your Credit Card Issuer?

Because otherwise i cant think of anything which could cause this Pricespike.
Maybe just have look what it was it should be listed - because i do not think it is intentional.

OK I went through it twice again for a closer look using USD and AUD. The USD is $US79.15 and AUD is $AU107.45.

Probably a cultural difference is that in Oz the price quoted is the real price from the wallet, not the pre-tax price. So immediately my hackles would go up blinding me to thinking about it. So lets do it again on the post tax price ratio of 107.45/79.15 = 135%. The dollar exchange ratio in Oz currently is US/AU = 105% so that doesn't explain 135%.

It must then come down to either a credit card charge or an erroneous exchange rate. So I'll try to do a different form of billing and see what happens there, or maybe buy a CD from USA or something and see if the same 35% surcharge is applied to something outside Novell. Maybe that will show it to be a visa markup, but it looks too big for even them to dare.

[vicofborg]

swerdna <swerdna@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> expounded:

> KunzeS;1815750 Wrote:

> It must then come down to either a credit card charge or an erroneous
> exchange rate. So I'll try to do a different form of billing and see
> what happens there, or maybe buy a CD from USA or something and see if
> the same 35% surcharge is applied to something outside Novell. Maybe
> that will show it to be a visa markup, but it looks too big for even
> them to dare.

The price in Canadian dollars is /higher/ than it is in USD, and their dollar is
worth more than ours. Something hinky goes on when it crosses that national border
thingy.


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[KunzeS]

Hmm in Europe it costs 60 EUR which amounts to 93$ so you guys are pretty cheap. With shipping to Germany i would pay 78€ witch amounts to 120$ .