Canadian Price for Dorico 2, over 50% higher than US version

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I went to purchase Dorico 2 May 30, 2018. My checkout price is $150.00 CAD. This is 51.52% higher that the US price of $99.00

The exchange rate for the Canadian dollar has been around $1.29 US for a few years now. So a Canadian would expect to pay $99 + 29% = $127.71.

Why is the Canadian exchange rate over 50% instead of 29%?

David

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I will try to find out the answer to this question, David.

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I suspect the US price doesn’t include sales tax, and the Canadian price does. Correct me if I’m wrong, though.

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Thank you Daniel. Canadians are used to paying more for goods compared to the United States but this seems a bit more. I appreciate you looking into this. Just saw another post about taxes. Our HST tax is 13% so that would bring it to around $145.00

David

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Right, so once sales tax is included it’s perhaps only $5 CAD more than the exchange rate? That doesn’t seem too outrageous to me. I am waiting to hear back from my colleagues in Hamburg but I guess the answer will indeed be the sales tax.

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Or to put it another way, David, the CAD price MINUS sales tax is about CA$132, which at an exchange rate of 1.29CA$ to 1US$ is about 102US$.

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Hi Leo, thanks for pointing me back to this. The Canadian price of 150.44 does not include sales tax. With sales tax the total is $170 to upgrade to Dorico 4 for Canadians. I just want to know why we pay more.