Why is the Adobe product website so hard to use?

Well in my opinion website is good but you just need to get used to it. I hope you will get it quickly

SVLbyler wrote: Problem solved.  But see the original question.  On no other product website is it so hard to buy something you want.  Why is Adobe's so obtuse?

Because not mny people buy software from Adobe when buying from Amazon is much more cheaper.  Look at these two prices:

If more people start buying from Adobe direct then the website could be made simpler for buying customers.  Perhaps this is something something our MVPs can suggest to their Adobe Masters. Pat weiner could do this because he is spending more time deciding what is a correct answer and what is not when he could do something that could make money for Adobe.

Today I went looking for Acrobat XI Standard (NOT Pro).  I still haven't found that. [Correction:  I found it while composing this message; see below.]  You would think one could find a page to buy something quite easily.  Here's my path:  Home page->Products (Top Destinations)->Acrobat, then Buying Guide (small print in the middle of the page), then push the Acrobat XI Standard icon, then FAQ(!), then Purchasing Acrobat XI, then How do I buy Acrobat XI.  That opens a sub-text in which there is an active llink "Select a store".  I push that — and my cart is preloaded with Acrobat XI Pro!  No way to buy Standard that I can find!

I found it within 1 minute of clicking on the correct links in the main adobe website. The trick is (if this is a trick or not) to go to the main website at this link:

http://www.adobe.com

Then at the top you will see a menu item as shown in this link:

You now need to click on the Products link to get something like this:

Now when I clicked on the Acrobat item I got these options:

Now this wasn't rocket science for me because, as my ID suggests, I am in a different industry altogether.

The only other point I will mention is that one needs to have an ambition in life to crack almost any difficult problems like browsing the web.

Hope this helps and hope you will buy the perpetual licenses for all Adobe products while stocks lasts.  They are going like hot cakes here.