ebay & Windows7 keys

I kinda feel sorry for the folks who are going to be taken in by listings which offer to sell them an activation key by itself (which the W7 Eula prohibits...) that the sellers claim is valid, and can be used to download a copy of Windows7 from Microsofts online store...

A couple of days ago I reported about a dozen such listings to eBay and the Vero rep' for Microsoft in the United Kingdom - and nothing's been done, but I see almost every listing in question has resulted in a transaction happening

Reporting these listings was just an experiment to see just how little eBay care about intellectual property, but why on earth don't they act when all these clandestine sales can possibly result in are credit card chargebacks and Paypal disputes?

I'm not sure who are the biggest schmucks, the buyers or the sellers...

It was good of you to report it anyway, Qdos

Jacee said:

It was good of you to report it anyway, Qdos

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+1. The right thing to do.

Kari

There are also pre-activated versions, which are warez hacked and packed downloads and torrents, burned to DVD-R's... sheesh... there may be a genuine photo of a retail package, but there are also pictures of a few homemade disks... :shock:

Did you spot the last post date?

Holy necromancy batman!!

We've all done it. I once went through a painful registration process to reply on another forum... When I got up to the point of submitting, I realised it was 4 years old...
Surely, forums should lock threads after at least a year of inactivity.

The schmucks are the sellers. But I don't feel sorry for the buyers either. People need to think about why something might be cheap. There is often a reason for it.

I don't buy things on eBay for this very reason. I don't trust people. In my limited opinion, these people are simply out to make a fast buck and they aren't taking mine.

I don't get what's wrong with necromancy. I mean, an old and interesting debate can surely deserve some continuation, right?

I am afraid to say that I brought a Windows 7 Ultimate Pre-activated disk from ebay and have it installed at the moment. I thought at the time it was somebody selling one retail copy cheaply. I just learnt the hard way never mind.

Love Windows 7 said:

I am afraid to say that I brought a Windows 7 Ultimate Pre-activated disk from ebay and have it installed at the moment. I thought at the time it was somebody selling one retail copy cheaply. I just learnt the hard way never mind.

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If you know for sure that you have been sold a MSDN or TechNet Key contact Microsoft Piracy. If you give them all the info and they catch the guy they will make yours legal for free.