Microsoft Office365

ayers

Hi, 
Can anyone provide some advice and guidance. The renewal of my Microsoft Office365 Subscription is coming up. The edition I have is:

Microsoft 365 Family | Office 365 apps | up to 6 users | 1 year subscription | Multiple PCs/Macs, Tablets and Phones | multilingual | Download

They are quoting me £79.99 for the year. However, on Amazon the same edition for new customers is being sold for £49.99. Here is the Amazon link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Office-Home-users-download/dp/B00DRP537A/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=microsoft+office+365&qid=1587930048&sr=8-3
I was thinking of cancelling my Office 365 Subscription and letting one day elapse after the renewal date. I then plan to purchase Microsoft Office365 in hope that I will be classed as a new customer, meaning the yearly subscription will be £49.99. Has anyone else did this before?
Thanks for your help and assistance in advance.

Chino

ayers said:

However, on Amazon the same edition for new customers is being sold for £49.99.

Where does the offer you link to say it is only available to new customers? In fact, it even says:

Renew your existing Office 365 Home of Personal subscription: simply purchase Microsoft 365 here and enter your login ID from your current Microsoft account

(I assume it means "Home or Personal")

J_B

I bought mine off eBay for about a fiver ..... so far so good!

Neil_Jones

You can buy it now at £50 and apply it as and when in your "Redeem a card or code" section of your account.  I believe that if you apply it now before your subscription runs out it'll just added on.  So if you buy 12 months but its not up until May 15th (for example), you can apply it and your subscription should run until May 15th 2021.

Point of order:  You can install Office Personal on more than one computer.  Its just one email address, but you can install this on multiple computers, providing they're all signed in on that email address.  Note:  A Microsoft Account is required for Office, but is not a requirement for Windows 10 to be signed into said account for logon purposes.

There is no such thing as "new customer" as far as Office is concerned.  You do better saving money this way by third party deals like Amazon (note the RRP on your linked Amazon page is £55, which is already cheaper than the £80 Microsoft want!).

ayers

Thank you all. Appreciate your replies.

wongataa

ayers said:

Hi, 
Can anyone provide some advice and guidance. The renewal of my Microsoft Office365 Subscription is coming up. The edition I have is:

Microsoft 365 Family | Office 365 apps | up to 6 users | 1 year subscription | Multiple PCs/Macs, Tablets and Phones | multilingual | Download

They are quoting me £79.99 for the year. However, on Amazon the same edition for new customers is being sold for £49.99. Here is the Amazon link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Office-Home-users-download/dp/B00DRP537A/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=microsoft+office+365&qid=1587930048&sr=8-3
I was thinking of cancelling my Office 365 Subscription and letting one day elapse after the renewal date. I then plan to purchase Microsoft Office365 in hope that I will be classed as a new customer, meaning the yearly subscription will be £49.99. Has anyone else did this before?
Thanks for your help and assistance in advance.

I have the same MS Office plan and I always buy off Amazon each year instead of renewing directly with Microsoft each year as it is cheaper as you have seen.  All you do is make sure auto renew is off in your Microsoft account, buy Office from Amazon, put the code you get into the correct place in your MS account and you will have another year's subscription.  No need to cancel.  You can enter the code before your renewal date and it will only start the new year when the old one finishes.

John_Gray

The same strategy used to work in the days when one bought non-Microsoft antivirus protection, that it was usually much cheaper to 'buy again' from Amazon or similar than to renew via the AV manufacturer's website or the "nag" screen that appeared when the AV licence had nearly expired.

Paula_Smith

Try Libre Office - its free and pretty much the same.

parcival

Paula_Smith said:

Try Libre Office - its free and pretty much the same.

Agreed, it does have a lot of similarities for basic functions and is great for 90% of tasks. However, I have several complicated Powerpoints and Spreadsheets that were created in MS Office that Libra just cannot handle.....

rdr

parcival said:

Paula_Smith said:

Try Libre Office - its free and pretty much the same.

Agreed, it does have a lot of similarities for basic functions and is great for 90% of tasks. However, I have several complicated Powerpoints and Spreadsheets that were created in MS Office that Libra just cannot handle.....

And £50/year is a good price for 6TB of cloud which makes using multiple devices much easier.

Neil_Jones

I'm usually loathe to suggest other packages when the OP has specifically stated they want Office or whatever.  Yes LibreOffice and OpenOffice might be free, but your work environment is almost certainly going to be Office based and for most users its far easier just to have something that looks the same at work as it does at home.

But the point is:  Don't pay £80 to Microsoft, when you can get it off Amazon for £50 and it does the same damn job!  That's just the same thing as "I'm too idle to switch energy providers when my tariff ends so I'll roll onto a standard tariff and pay through the nose for it".