Buying Legit Software in BKK?

[impulse]

Are there any (preferably) brick and mortar or interweb shops in Thailand to peruse and buy a reasonable selection of legit software? So far, all I've found is shops that sell pirated software or have a whopping selection of 2-3 titles in Home, Pro and Ultimate flavors. I'm looking for some programs that aren't MS Windows, Office, or Anti-Virus- which is all that seems available in 99% of the usual BKK suspects.

Like Corel Draw, Adobe Acrobat, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, (or legit alternatives) etc.

Amazon, et al. don't generally allow "buy and downloading" what I'm looking for outside the USA, and though some of the software will ship outside the USA, I'm not eager to pay and wait for a week and risk dealing with customs. Besides, some of what I'm looking for isn't available to be shipped internationally, and some is shown by the manufacturer to be much cheaper for the SEA market than for the USA market.

I've looked at Lazada, JIB, InvadeIT, etc. I've also run a large part of the gamut of freeware that supposes to serve as substitutes, but I'm not impressed, and willing to pay the $$$ for the comfort of familiar interfaces and capabilities.

[TheSiemReaper]

Both Photoshop and Lightroom and Illustrator are available as part of the Adobe Thailand Creative Cloud program. For those first two it's about 3,600 Baht for an annual subscription. It gets rapidly more expensive depending on what else you want.... all Adobe programs can be bought direct from Adobe here.

Corel products are also available direct for download. No idea about AutoCad that's normally dongle supported against piracy so you might have to import that.

I've bought a ton of legit software out this way over the years (my local IT stores have always been happy to order stuff in) but... none of it is much cheaper than in the US and in most cases it is viscerally more expensive.

[chrisinth]

For all legal software here in Thailand i would normally download from the official websites of the software manufacturers. But even that is sometimes not possible as you will often be directed to the local distributor, especially for high-end licence software that you are talking about.

There is also the issue of country/regional licence; see AutoCAD as an example. Edit: AutoCAD is now subscription only (as of the beginning of this year) so regional licences may have changed.

Adobe Acrobat!

With the exception of compression, unless you are using all the features for Acrobat, there are many, many alternatives out there. My preference is Foxit Phantom Business which does everything i need (in a business environment) and the licence is one fifth of that for Acrobat.

It may be an idea for CorelDraw suites, and Photoshop, to visit their websites for the cost of licence if you don't already know......................

[JaseTheBass]

2 of our PCs have the Adobe subscription the others use CS2 which is now subscription free from Adobe.

[quandow]

I can get you that software jing jing!

[gandalf12]

Zeer Rangsit has legitimate software there. It isnt fr from DM airport

[DaveBKK]

Wow didn't know anyone bought software at shops anymore! Didn't even realize it was even being produced. Do they still put it on CDs?

[kbelyeu]

I haven't purchased hard copies of software in a long time.. everything I have was purchased direct from the vendor and downloaded from their website with license keys (including Autocad).

Kurt

[quandow]

Newer computers aren't even including optical drives. Honestly, when was the last time you actually used a CD/DVD in a laptop or desktop?

[Bredbury Blue]

Think some of you forget that decent wifi isn't available everywhere in thailand so buying on cd and installing is very much alive here.