Too good to be true?

[MHampton]

Okay, I am usually the first one to cry foul and say when something is too good to be true, but this one has me stumped. I haven't done a lot of business with any Amazon "partners" so I'm not sure how this works, but there is a "company" setting Photoship CS3 (full not upgrade) for $319. That's over half off the $649 price everyone else wants. So I gotta ask...what's the catch? I see that Amazon guarentees that if you don't get the merchandise they cover the cost and all that with their A-Z guarentee. Here's the link to the product on Amazon.

LinkToCS3

Tell me what you think. I'm thinking of using a card that I am going to cancel soon anyway and see what happens. Been wanting to dive into the world of real PS from elements but haven't convinced myself that I want it enough to spend the $650.

Anyone do much business with these amazon marketplace outfits before? Do you feel comfortable with the Amazon guarentee?

[akimartymar]

It's probably legit as far as you WILL get the product. You can purchase the academic version for a bit less than that. They are probably buying that version and then selling them.

[MHampton]

But the real question would be will I run into any problem when I try to register/activate the program?

[akimartymar]

i seriously doubt it

[Norma_S]

I got into Photoshop when I purchased CS2 from the Adobe website under a special price of either $199 or $299 (in summer of 2006) for people who were upgrading from a licensed version of Elements which I had. You might check out that and see if you can find a deal.

Norma

[Duffy Pratt]

Here is a link to the PS Upgrade from Elements, for $299, for people who got Elements bundled as part of a camera purchase. I got a copy of Elements when I bought my Canon 20D. I never used that copy of elements, except two years later to read the serial number to the Adobe representative and take advantage of this deal.

Duffy

[Norma_S]

Yes, that was exactly the deal I got with CS2. It's fully 100% legit at a no-brainer price. I recently purchased the upgrade to CS3 from the Adobe site and it installed flawlessly.

Norma