Hi, yes it's a rant time. I Thought that global like a regional country based pricing had gone the way of the dodo or you know, was gone. Was been out of fashion for a long time, but it seems not. We were looking at buying a SolidWorks license.

you know for doing mechanical ecad type stuff cuz David uses he likes SolidWorks and is good at it. And so you know the website pricing here. this is the SolidWorks Dassault Systmes website. You've got to like put in all your contact details before they'll give you the price anyway.

SolidWorks Standard Here let's have a look at it. 3995 Yankee bucks. This is in Yankee dollars and plus 1295 for the 12-month subscription which is compulsory for the first year optional for the years after. So that is five thousand, Two hundred and Ninety five dollars.

Okay, it's reasonably expensive, but it's a professional high-end - no worries, right? Of course you can't buy it from SolidWorks you if you're in and outside the US you've got to go to one of their authorized dealers in the country, which is fair enough. You know this is quite common in the industry, so do I go to. They've got a couple of reps here in Australia I Go to one of them and they go well. The standard price for a SolidWorks standard is ten thousand, two hundred and ninety Australian dollars.

And well, let's have a look here. Convert the 399 five plus twelve. Ninety Five gives you, um, seven thousand, Four hundred and thirty nine Australian dollars. That's what the equivalent price here in Australia should be.

But they say that the dealers say that the standard price here in Australia is ten thousand, Two hundred and Ninety dollars. Why the huge difference? I Questioned this and they said, well, it's a supply and demand thing, There's just less demand here in Australia. Well, oh, Sherlock at those sort of prices, of course, is going to be less demand here in Australia Since when have you know supply and demand pricing in countries being a problem with software? No, you're doing this for some ridiculous corporate reason, fixing prices in countries and I Just want to say it is nothing wrong with the dealers at all. You know the dealers have to make their margins at like because they support the product and give you like local support and that's great and stuff like that.

So definitely it's not their issue, they're not the ones marking this up. This has been done by SolidWorks They've said to the dealers, you must sell it at this higher price. They have different prices for each country. Why? It's ridiculous.

So of course the dealers have to make their margin for selling it and support in the country and that's fine, but that should come out of SolidWorks As cut for. you know, actually having dealers in different countries, That's how it works in most fields, but that doesn't seem to be the case for SolidWorks They just want to up jack up the prices horrendously in different countries for some and no one's stupid corporate reason. it's ridiculous. And having dealers in different countries and the cut coming out of from the manufacturer of the software company in this case that's like should be standard with this standard practice in other industries.

otherwise they should just sell it direct on their website. It's just software, right? It's just like people can just buy it. If you want support, maybe you can pay for support. You know you could have support anywhere.

It's just like email. You know if you want to have local training and stuff like that. Okay, well, that's part of your business. Like in each country, you know local support reps.

You can come out and train you and you know, walk you through things and solve problems and stuff like that. That's fine, you know. But wait, just artificially jacking up. The prices in every country is absolutely disgusting.

And sure they'll offer the local dealers offer a big discount, but that's not the point. You know, off this standard price. the standard price in this country is ten thousand, two hundred and ninety dollars when it should be about seven and a half grand. Unbelievable.

So it works. Really like piss off. This is ridiculous. Come on.

Fix this. What a joke. I Know and maybe there's It's probably common in this Cycad field. Is that all these other professional tools that's probably you know? A reasonably common I Don't know, Let us know your thoughts in the comments down below.

Should they be doing this? Should they be jacking up the prices in other countries and not eating the Commission for the local dealers and stuff like that. and the local dealers are willing to give big discounts which won't practically take it down to the standard price anyway. like the equivalent? the cash in it. Like the conversion equivalent price on the SolidWorks website.

but you have to get one of those specials. You know you can't just get the standard price. That's ridiculous. Anyway, let us know your thoughts down below.

and if you've got other software in other fields that has the prices artificially jacked up like this, like in the electronics Test Equipment market that used to be recently common. But it's like, in terms of you know, companies like you know, fluke and Rygel used to really jack up their prices to the local dealers and they'd force the local dealers to actually sell them at higher prices in individual countries. and well, you know it's kind of different for hard workers. you've got the import costs and all that sort of stuff.

But this is just software, right? I Mean it's not like, where's the huge cost in what are you ridiculous You just download it Unbelievable. So they might ship your CD or something possibly for free, but it's freaking CD It's until you download the software and that's that's it. Like it's not Like you're important in oscilloscope or something like that. Absolutely crazy.

So if you've got any idea why they actually do this, or you've got experience with other software in the industry that does this, or even other products, you know, at physical products where they do this ridiculous price fixing in different countries. I Mean we live in a global economy now. It's just to do something like this these days. Anyway, I Like Almost.

They're gonna have to take my business elsewhere, just on principle. Anyway, leave your thoughts and comments down below. Catch you next time.