PC shipped without licence key for winsows

AndyPix

I would be very wary of buying a key without getting the physical sticker/box - I would expect MOST of those to be "stolen"

arciere

AndyPix wrote: »

I would be very wary of buying a key without getting the physical sticker/box - I would expect MOST of those to be "stolen"

Did someone hack into your account?

AndyPix

What are you talking about ??


Read the whole thread and put your comments into pespective you sausage

steviebuk

arciere wrote: »

Did someone hack into your account?

He's taking the pee. And to whoever it was who said I didn't admit when I was wrong, I did at some point in the thread. It still is true that most keys sold on ebay are stolen. And if selling on a used or prepackaged version of Office, the media or key card still needs to be sold with it, its in MS licensing which is a beast to understand. Especially with Volume Licensing.

steviebuk

And according to this if the licence comes with a PC bought in the EEA, which we are still a member of, the licence can only be sold in the EEA.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Useterms/Retail/Office/2016HomeAndStudent/Useterms_Retail_Office_2016HomeAndStudent_ENG.htm

poppy10_2

It's perfectly legal to re-sell license keys in the EEA.
And while Microsoft might detect keys being used more than once, they will only block further uses of that key - they never deactivate machines that have already been activated with the key.

Stop the fearmongering. I've been using the £3 Windows and Office keys for years and they are all fine.

Chino

poppy10 wrote: »

It's perfectly legal to re-sell license keys in the EEA.

You'd better read this - the situation isn't quite as clear cut as you appear to imagine:
https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2012-07/cp120094en.pdf

steviebuk

poppy10 wrote: »

It's perfectly legal to re-sell license keys in the EEA.
And while Microsoft might detect keys being used more than once, they will only block further uses of that key - they never deactivate machines that have already been activated with the key.

Stop the fearmongering. I've been using the £3 Windows and Office keys for years and they are all fine.

It's not fearmongering to point out most of the keys are stolen.


Some of them are legit and if you keep it to yourself, you'll prob never have your key blocked but it's well known most of the cheap keys are stolen.


Then you have this


https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/why-the-man-who-tried-to-sell-windows-recovery-discs-will-go-to-prison/


Don't read to much into that though. He screwed himself over by with the printed discs. So essentially using Microsoft and Dell logos. Probably would of gotten away with it otherwise.


If you need to see the key you currently have then just run Powershell as admin and type


wmic path SoftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey

AndyPix

steviebuk wrote: »

It's not fearmongering to point out most of the keys are stolen.

Again though, you simply cant say that because you have no idea where the keys came from.
I gave one example of how, at one time , I had keys on ebay that were NOT stolen.


Im sure there are many other scenarios how legit keys end up on ebay.


Agreed - there are obviously stolen keys on there.


But you simply cant state "most" or "all" are stolen unless you are the seller of them all and know the origin !!