{"id":10,"date":"2008-06-29T14:07:56","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T14:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cotsweb.com\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2009-02-26T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T12:04:00","slug":"pc-tools-is-ripping-off-british-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/pc-tools-is-ripping-off-british-customers-10.html","title":{"rendered":"PC Tools is ripping off British customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was writing the previous post recommending <a title=\"Registry Mechanic from PC Tools Software\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pctools.com\/registry-mechanic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Registry Mechanic from PC Tools <\/a>as a way of fixing laptop boot problems I went to the PC Tools website to check the price.\u00a0 I was surprised to find that it was \u00a329.95 whereas I had paid $29.95 for my copy.<\/p>\n<p>After some investigation I discovered that PC Tools had determined that I was in Britain from my IP address and was therefore quoting me the price in pounds rather than in dollars.\u00a0 This would be ok but they don&#8217;t convert the dollar price to pounds at any normal exchange rate, they just change the currency code.\u00a0 At current exchange rates <strong>PC Tools are charging British customers twice as much as they charge US customers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately there is a way around this.\u00a0 If you go through a proxy server like <a title=\"Proxify free proxy server\" href=\"http:\/\/proxify.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">proxify<\/a> then the PC tools website can&#8217;t tell from your IP address that you are in Britain and quotes you the US dollar price of $29.95 instead.<\/p>\n<p>I am happy to pay a fair price for software but I see no reason why I should pay twice as much just because I live in the UK.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was writing the previous post recommending Registry Mechanic from PC Tools as a way of fixing laptop boot problems I went to the PC Tools website to check the price.\u00a0 I was surprised to find that it was \u00a329.95 whereas I had paid $29.95 for my copy. After some investigation I discovered that [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42,28],"tags":[29,31,30,137,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}