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Buying software on ebay?
Looking at a couple major software purchases soon, and I had a look on ebay and found them at significantly lower than retail prices (eg. $300 for $600 retail). Read through the fine print, no weird stuff (such as educational discounts, etc) just the regular thing, brand new, in box, 99-100% positive feedback, with thousands of transactions. Still seems a bit fishy to me. Anyone have any experience with this? Too good to be true?
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02-06-2010, 05:17 PM
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Christen great area to buy soft ware,just buy from someone with great feedback never had any problems with software i bought ,just got burnt once and it's was a person selling not a dealer ...
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02-07-2010, 11:22 AM
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Find a college student.
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02-07-2010, 11:41 AM
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What software are you looking for? I should ask my wife. She works for Symantec / Norton. I wonder if she could set up a group buy.
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02-07-2010, 01:12 PM
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ebay - probably too good to be true.
I bet it's the same type outfit that "sells" Porsche service manuals on CD's.
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02-07-2010, 06:31 PM
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If you stick to reputable sellers, it's okay...
My dad has bought some SW from Ebay, most recent was a family 3 pack of Windows 7 Home Premium. It was totally legit.
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02-07-2010, 06:34 PM
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A few years ago my dad was looking for a copy of Windows 98 to help revive a friend's old computer. He found what he was looking for, seller told him he was in the U.S. and it was a licensed, boxed version of the software. He buys it...
4 weeks later he gets a burned CD from Russia.
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02-07-2010, 06:44 PM
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There ARE some good S-W sellers on ebay.
I've bought several versions of autocad. License, key, manuals all there in correct box. |
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02-07-2010, 09:15 PM
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