All expensive, licensed software suffers from this problem (Windows, Office, Creative Studio, etc).Ĭolin Barnhorst Windows 7 Ultimate 圆4 on DIY with 6GB ram. What is an eBay reseller doing with legitimate new copies of Windows anyway?īuy Windows 7 from the Microsoft Store, Amazon Corp, or other completely reliable dealer. Need to understand is that there are no legitimate copies of Windows 7 for sale at a substantial discount. The counterfeiters are printing MSDN subscription product keys in these fake boxes. There are tens of thousands of fake copies of Windows 7 that have been produced on excellent equipment in China. However, just because a reseller does not offer to do this is no indication that he is not a crook.
Microsoft doesn't provide such keys to any reseller. Since no legitimate seller will have a "bank" of replacement keys. One way to smoke out some of these crooks is to email them and ask, "What happens if my product key fails to activate"? Most of the crooks will email back and offer to replace bad keys. The wheat from the chaff prior to purchase. There is no completely reliable way to separate It is only as the counterfeit product keys begin to be caught by Microsoft that the crooks drop out of sight. You cannot verfify eBay sellers because the crooks maintain excellent feedback ratings. I did and I got stung like all the others. All you have to do is read this forum back a hundred threads or so and you will see how many people have been sold counterfeit copies of Windows on eBay, the Amazon Marketplace, and other discounters on the internet.