Exisoftware - Microsoft Office Professional 2007 for £31.99 - Any experiences?

minimaddave

Sorry I was being slow, i've found it! Thanks for all the advice though :-)

acb12s

Can't believe I've got stung here too. Paid for Office 2007 last week, should have known better!

Have read the whole thread, have just sent exisoftware an email (which won't be replied to) and am now off to complain to Paypal and Amazon.

Anyone care to rate my chances of getting my money back? :mad: :mad:

bookduck

Through work I had the vision of ebay millions, before I found out it was only 1 copy per person, of MS office 2003 (think it is pro and I enquired over a year ago so might be 2007 now) with license costing £19.00.

I have to tell the company I work for that I want a copy and the reason why I want one. My company then email me a link to an unpublished web address (but it is a MS pukka page). Not too sure how I pay, but think it is via card. Then MS send me the cd/dvd in the post a few weeks later.

I have not do this but know of people who have taken up the offer. It is for home/personal use and used to study ECDL.

So yes, MS do give out s/w and while you might get scammed, there are was to get legit copies for cheaper.

I think the police do get the same offer.

In the same vain 2+ years ago I could get one copy of XP pro for £10 from MS.

superscaper

bookduck wrote: »

Through work I had the vision of ebay millions, before I found out it was only 1 copy per person, of MS office 2003 (think it is pro and I enquired over a year ago so might be 2007 now) with license costing £19.00.

I have to tell the company I work for that I want a copy and the reason why I want one. My company then email me a link to an unpublished web address (but it is a MS pukka page). Not too sure how I pay, but think it is via card. Then MS send me the cd/dvd in the post a few weeks later.

I have not do this but know of people who have taken up the offer. It is for home/personal use and used to study ECDL.

So yes, MS do give out s/w and while you might get scammed, there are was to get legit copies for cheaper.

I think the police do get the same offer.

In the same vain 2+ years ago I could get one copy of XP pro for £10 from MS.

A lot of posts have given other examples of how to get them legitimately cheaper. So of course it's possible to get MS Office for peanuts but it is never through a retailer. So it's quite obvious that any retailer such as these particular sites offering the software for so much cheaper as if it was a site licence etc then it has to be pirated.

bookduck

I do not believe you can say for sure off handedly if they are pirated or not. Grey imports are legit? Perhaps the people unknowingly got signed up for a free ECDL course. Perhaps they were second hand, or the business went bust and the loss adjusters are getting rid of it?

I know we source items at work from a manufacturer/distributor that has various outlets in Europe and we bought items from their Latvian branch as it was much cheaper.

I think an MCSE here costs around £7000 or more but I have colleagues that have done theirs in South Africa and India for many thousands less. Last time I heard an exam in Inda was just over £30, while here it was £105.

With globalization people will always go for the cheaper market. Just did a search for office pro 2007 in the USA and the first entry was for $274 so with an exchange rate of over 2 to 1, it is easily half price while here it is £135 for education pricing, or £295 for normal - ripoff uk

superscaper

bookduck wrote: »

I do not believe you can say for sure off handedly if they are pirated or not. Grey imports are legit? Perhaps the people unknowingly got signed up for a free ECDL course. Perhaps they were second hand, or the business went bust and the loss adjusters are getting rid of it?

Well the business is already acting illegally (if you'd read my posts in entirety) whether they were selling legitimate software or not. So why act illegally and deceptively to begin with if you're selling something legitimate. The first site definitely was selling pirated software because they were digital downloads which are not legal through retailers. The second site is identical to the first (so how would they suddenly change to legitimate software for identical price?). But they should be shut down even if it was legal because of the illegal way they are operating.

Known for certain:
exisoftware = digital downloads, fake address: reported to FAST etc
esoftwareworld = not registered, fail to provide address: reported to companies house etc

superscaper

koolkuzz wrote: »

Seems like both sites are down (exisoftware and esoftwareworld) and have been shut down.

Just checked on google, they stopped advertising and their website no longer exists.

Noticed that as well, although just found this: http://www.softwaretechstore.com/, domain registered two weeks ago anonymously. Exact same prices, similar structure again. The "about us" section is almost identical. Except they claim to have been around even longer "Since establishing ourself in June 2007, we have grown at a...".

Red_Imp_2

New development here. Just received an e-mail from so called sales department with a download link and CD-key. I've since purchased a legit copy of office from the ultimate steel so i have no intention of testing if its legit.

I'm worried this will affect my paypal claim as it seems to be on the basis i haven’t received the product. Now this moron can probably turn around and tell payal I’ve been supplied with the product.

superscaper

Red_Imp wrote: »

New development here. Just received an e-mail from so called sales department with a download link and CD-key. I've since purchased a legit copy of office from the ultimate steel so i have no intention of testing if its legit.

I'm worried this will affect my paypal claim as it seems to be on the basis i haven’t received the product. Now this moron can probably turn around and tell payal I’ve been supplied with the product.

You're still ok. It's still significantly not as described by being illegal and hence not the product you paid for. Remember that retailers can't offer digital downloads of office so you know purely from that fact alone that it's illegal.

bookduck

Are you sure MS are only selling boxed sets and downloads are illegal??? These downloads are also cheaper.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/17/HNpremiumvista_1.html

Also, when you download the trial, there apparently, so ms site says, is an option to convert it to an all singing version, so surely MS must be allowing downloads?