Xara are forcing Brits to subsidise their American customers?

[steve.ledger]

When you buy your license from a reseller such as Albert, you can unlock the same trial download from Xara as you would if you purchased your license from Xara directly. There is no *waiting for downloads* (Albert has a link to the trial download on his home page)
Difference is, you will be supporting a local reseller and, when available, the Retail CD will be supplied by them. They will also help you with after sales support if necessary.

So, it comes down to whether or not supporting a local reseller is important to you.
Once all resellers have their stock of Retails CD's, it's likely that you will receive the CD much sooner than from Xara (unless Xara are the closer to you than Albert for example )