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Gamespot has Microsoft Office 2021 Lifetime License (Digital Download) on sale for $35.99.

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Available:Office Professional 2021 Includes:
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  • Microsoft Office PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Office Outlook
  • Microsoft Office Teams
  • Microsoft Office OneNote
  • Microsoft Office Publisher
  • Microsoft Office Access
Office Home & Business Includes:
  • Microsoft Office Word
  • Microsoft Office Excel
  • Microsoft Office PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Office Outlook
  • Microsoft Office Teams (Basic Only)
  • Microsoft Office OneNote

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Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows: Lifetime License
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Lifetime license for MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneNote, Publisher, & Access
One-time purchase installed on 1 Windows PC for use at home or work
Instant Delivery & Download – access your software license keys and download links instantly
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Office Professional 2021 includes:
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Microsoft Office Outlook
Microsoft Office Teams
Microsoft Office OneNote
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Last Edited by pur | Staff April 12, 2023 at 03:08 AM
Buyer beware, these are not legitimate keys, and can be deactivated anytime. You will be out $30 when that happens. Also keep an eye on your credit card statement as people have complained about fraud after dealing with the seller (gamestop is not the seller, a foreign 3rd party is)

You can easily check if these are retail keys after installing and activating. Microsoft gives you the instructions on how to do this here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us...cense-type

Here below is a cut-and-paste from the terminal window of what someone get with a key from this deal. (The ID fields sanitized to protect my own license, of course). Some people are getting MSDN subscription Retail version of MS Office 2021 ProProfessional.

MSDN subscription keys are NOT supposed to be resell and should ONLY be use by the single MSDN subscriber.

PS C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16> cscript ospp.vbs /dstatus
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

---Processing--------------------------
---------------------------------------
PRODUCT ID: XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-AA467
SKU ID: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-c4a078e8912d
LICENSE NAME: Office 21, Office21ProPlus2021MSDNR_Retail edition
LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 21, RETAIL channel
LICENSE STATUS: ---LICENSED---
Last 5 characters of installed product key: XXXXX


=====================================

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Can this be installed on multiple machines, or is it a lifetime license for the machine it's installed on?

EDIT: Just reread the post and answered my own question:

"One-time purchase installed on 1 Windows PC for use at home or work"
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It isn't GameStop. It's GameSpot. So, you're not buying from a retailer.
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10-05-2022 at 05:21 PM.

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Yet another StackSocial skin.

See all the dozens of other posts promoting this grey market license key junk
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10-05-2022 at 06:10 PM.

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10-05-2022 at 06:10 PM.
Can't go too wrong buying the latest Office Pro for $36....'grey market' or not, who cares? If MS wanted to stop this type of thing from happening....they would. They are making more money selling cheap licenses than keeping the price up and driving people to pirate it, and protecting their market share from FREE google office apps. Plenty of morons are still going to pay $220 on Amazon for this, so try not to lose too much sleep over the PnL impact to Microsoft from selling cheap Office keys.
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10-05-2022 at 06:24 PM.

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10-05-2022 at 06:24 PM.
Can this be installed on multiple machines, or is it a lifetime license for the machine it's installed on?

EDIT: Just reread the post and answered my own question:

"One-time purchase installed on 1 Windows PC for use at home or work"
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10-05-2022 at 11:21 PM.
10-05-2022 at 11:21 PM.
Quote from karazi :
Can't go too wrong buying the latest Office Pro for $36....'grey market' or not, who cares? If MS wanted to stop this type of thing from happening....they would. They are making more money selling cheap licenses than keeping the price up and driving people to pirate it, and protecting their market share from FREE google office apps. Plenty of morons are still going to pay $220 on Amazon for this, so try not to lose too much sleep over the PnL impact to Microsoft from selling cheap Office keys.
Microsoft doesn't make any money from this. It must be a volume license which the gray market seller paid a fixed fee. Microsoft could stop this but with the side effect of blocking legitimate licenses. So they eat this cost.

If Microsoft decides to block this, $36 is not much to lose. But again why would you pay pretty much a pirate $36? Might as well download the bootleg for free. It's stupid to pay for a pirated copy.
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10-07-2022 at 10:37 AM.
10-07-2022 at 10:37 AM.
Differences between Pro and Pro Plus?
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missellie
10-07-2022 at 01:49 PM.
10-07-2022 at 01:49 PM.
Quote from ir0nw0lf :
Differences between Pro and Pro Plus?
Pro Plus includes Skype for business. I bought mine from another seller and it's an MSDN license and registered in my Microsoft account. It was less than $30 so no big loss if it's deactivated, which I don't think will happen.
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10-07-2022 at 02:01 PM.
10-07-2022 at 02:01 PM.
What happens to the data stored on the 1TB OneDrive available with the subscription model? I can also share my subscription with 4 people who each get their own 1 TB of OneDrive. I saw this deal today on Mashable, but with my employer discount the subscription was $79 per year. That cost isn't too bad for 5 individuals to use.
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10-07-2022 at 02:08 PM.
10-07-2022 at 02:08 PM.
Quote from nyknicks8 :
Microsoft doesn't make any money from this. It must be a volume license which the gray market seller paid a fixed fee. Microsoft could stop this but with the side effect of blocking legitimate licenses. So they eat this cost.

If Microsoft decides to block this, $36 is not much to lose. But again why would you pay pretty much a pirate $36? Might as well download the bootleg for free. It's stupid to pay for a pirated copy.
Microsoft did make money by selling the original volume license. Don't you think it's far more likely that MS just agrees to look the other way when their volume customers are hit by economic downturns and don't need the full volume they licensed? You know that MS will be pushing volume towards their licensees when they're trying to make their sales targets for a quarter. This is just how business is done. Mutual back scratching
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10-07-2022 at 02:12 PM.
10-07-2022 at 02:12 PM.
I'll never understand people who get bent about this. IF it were a problem M$ would close that pipe. But more importantly, what kind of pedantic psycho chastises others over some line in a EULA being violated.

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10-07-2022 at 02:15 PM.
10-07-2022 at 02:15 PM.
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Is this legit?
Why?
I was suspicious too, did the transaction with Amex since they have a good record of refunding. Got 15% on top of it. Came to $13 something.
Digital key. They send you an email with instructions. Valid key, worked without any issue.
Don't know about it's legit or legal, I know it works. Don't have 30 plus mulla to spend on O2021.
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