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<blockquote data-quote="AC016" data-source="post: 128051" data-attributes="member: 9619"><p>What matters to Adobe, is that the software is being delivered to someone who is either a student at the school or a faculty member.&nbsp; They scrutinize the email address and the delivery address.&nbsp; Keep in mind as well, that many states have State Contracts with Adobe.&nbsp; For Example, the State of Texas has their Sate Adobe contract through the Texas DIR.&nbsp; These are contracts that are negotiated every few years or so.&nbsp; The State will then get their own CLP number for all state and local government entitities to use.&nbsp; Education facilities have to get their own, but their CLP numbers are attached to the master Education CLP number under the state.&nbsp; These contracts are held by VARs and it is the VARs that state, local and education facilities will call to get their Adobe licenses.&nbsp; The VAR processes the order, which then goes to an Authorized dealer (such as Douglas Stewart for Education) and then is passed off to Adobe for the final processing.&nbsp; The pricing on these mass CLP contracts is insane - on the most part, a few points below cost!&nbsp; There are other avenues - as most of you know - for students/teachers to get their Adobe at low prices.&nbsp; A personal purchase on a schools CLP number is not the best thing to do.&nbsp; If Adobe audits the school - and they can - and see that a certain license is not being used at the school, but rather outside the school, there could be issues.&nbsp; And dealing with Adobe on a corporate customer level (im not talking about dealing with the CS people that you get when you dial the 800#) is frustrating to no end.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="AC016, post: 128051, member: 9619"] What matters to Adobe, is that the software is being delivered to someone who is either a student at the school or a faculty member. They scrutinize the email address and the delivery address. Keep in mind as well, that many states have State Contracts with Adobe. For Example, the State of Texas has their Sate Adobe contract through the Texas DIR. These are contracts that are negotiated every few years or so. The State will then get their own CLP number for all state and local government entitities to use. Education facilities have to get their own, but their CLP numbers are attached to the master Education CLP number under the state. These contracts are held by VARs and it is the VARs that state, local and education facilities will call to get their Adobe licenses. The VAR processes the order, which then goes to an Authorized dealer (such as Douglas Stewart for Education) and then is passed off to Adobe for the final processing. The pricing on these mass CLP contracts is insane - on the most part, a few points below cost! There are other avenues - as most of you know - for students/teachers to get their Adobe at low prices. A personal purchase on a schools CLP number is not the best thing to do. If Adobe audits the school - and they can - and see that a certain license is not being used at the school, but rather outside the school, there could be issues. And dealing with Adobe on a corporate customer level (im not talking about dealing with the CS people that you get when you dial the 800#) is frustrating to no end. [/QUOTE]

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