Complain to your Labour MPs about the bloody high taxes then.
i think you misunderstand. It's not the tax we're complaining about. It's the fact that the tax isn't shown until AFTER you've clicked the "Purchase" button... After you've seen the "Total" column showing just the stated price.
The "Confirmation of your order" then screen suddenly shows a higher amount, due to the tax, which hitherto hadn't been mentioned. You can't rescind the order because, hey, it's already been placed when you clicked that "Purchase" button.
I bought the $40 pre-order offer because it's half price of Parallels, which would be my first choice. With the $8 of tax added, you're nudging $50, and that's only $30 less than Parallels.
I assume that if you order right now, you have to pay $80, plus the VAT. That makes it quite a bit more expensive than Parallels for UK users.
As you probably know, if you buy software from an American company as an online download, you normally don't pay tax. I've bought countless shareware apps and never, ever paid a penny of tax, either US or VAT.
Tax is added to Fusion's purchase because VMware has an Irish office which handles the sale. Oh, and that too isn't mentioned until the "Confirmation" screen, so I couldn't even second-guess that tax *might* be added.
It's actually illegal to do this. I complained to
invoice@vmware.com around four weeks ago, but have got no reply. This wasn't a good introduction to VMware as a company. A bit sharky, in fact. Somebody ought to call BBC Watchdog
