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Given that the MS price is £219 I'd suspect something dodgy is going on.
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Given that it's not worth a buck-fifty, I'd say that $35 is a rip off.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I never paid more than 50€ for windows products. They are usually reselled unused licences from an enterprise licence pool. As an example, I am the IT guy from the local school in my spare time, which we can see as a little company (50 laptops, 1 server, 2 xerox, ...) and we buy MS Office licences for new computers in the school. The microsoft volume licensing scheme delivers in our case usually up to 5 more licences than the bought amount with each purchase, that you may or may not use - do not ask me why. I won't go into details but due to public money and regulations and bla bla we HAVE to buy new licenses and cannot use these free ones. I could easily resell the unused licence keys because I will never be able to use it, and that is precisely what companies like the one you mentioned do.
I do not think it is entirely fully legal, but I do not think it is written anywhere that is not, so ...
And there is also this.[^]
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Long ago, and with a different version, I had some trouble with a MS Windows license. As it turned out, I had a product that was validly installed via an OEM key that had since expired. It was later disabled by MS because it was being used 'fraudulently' . Also, it could only be used on OEM versions and OEM versions could only use OEM keys.
In my case, I had a valid MSDN key to reactivate it but it was rejected. There were all sorts of unpleasant problems, but only after it went bad and I needed to reactivate it.
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You can get OEM versions from NewEgg.
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See this video[^]. The keys seem legit (i.e. new and never used) if you're putting your own computer together, but don't expect any support from MS if you ever need it.
PS: I'm not a lawyer and claim no legal expertise in this area.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: don't expect any support from MS if you ever need it
Doesn't that go without saying? 
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Slow Eddie wrote:
The company is MS Office Works
Sounds more like wishful thinking in a company name!
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Comport Computing
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Your sig says it all.
I bought win 10 pro from another grey market supplier and it works fine but then I have not had a problem with it.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
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I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Game meat with tail (10)
modified 23-Aug-19 4:10am.
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Game
meat GAMMON
with tail BACK BACKGAMMON
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Bingo!
I am off work until Thursday, so to preempt your question: it doesn't matter to me if you do Monday or wait until Tuesday 
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"Bingo"? No - that's only five letters, far too short ...
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If I told you that "bingo" was just an abbreviation of "bingomoply", which is in fact 10 letters, would you promise to just take my words for it and not to Google it to check? 
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Erm .... no. 
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How do you get back from tail ?
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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"Tail end" of a queue is called the "tail". And it's at the back.
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A bit tenuous that one 😬
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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pkfox wrote: How do you get back from tail ?
There is a bus that runs every hour, just hop on 
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It took longer than I thought for someone to post that 
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Well you shouldn't rely on a bus joke to be on time
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the more i think about this one the better it gets.
my first inclination was simply roadkill.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Hi All,
The office now smells of week old vegetable soup! A very subtle smell, didn't notice it at first. My desk is below one the outlets, has something died up there?
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Or there is a bowl of week old vegetable soup in the duct.
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