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"Murphy O'Brien" <murphyobrien@gmail.com> wrote in message
<fos6uu$3sj$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> 
> We need another matlab + signal processing licence. It is a 
> lot cheaper in the US, $2700 in the US vs $4000 + Tax in 
> Ireland. 
> 
> I'll be in the US in the next few weeks. Does anyone know 
> if there is anything unethical or illegal in me dropping 
> into a store and buying a copy over in the USA to use over 
> here in Ireland?
> 
> Murphy O'Brien
> 
> 

I would like to make a general point : consumers in Ireland
have always been "screwed", either by producers, or
government, or both.

In the last 10 or 15 years it has got a bit better for
consumers, but not much.

Just one recent example : A friend of mine from Seattle just
brought me a "gift" of a Nikon Coolpix P5000. It cost him
$340 = 233 euros. The best price I could find in Ireland was
in the Argos catalogue : 500 euros.

Enough said.

Derek O'Connor