These are "grey market" (not for resale) keys which have either been stolen from a company by an IT employee or misappropriated from an MSDN/Developer subscription, and violate the MS license agreement. They will sell the same key multiple times until it stops working. The software can be deactivated at any time, and if it is more than a few weeks out (once the seller has disappeared off stacksocial) you will have no recourse. Even if you can get in touch with them, they will just provide you another key that may or may not work for a short or long time. Keep in mind stacksocial is just a marketplace, they are not the seller and if the seller is gone, they will not help you.
Use paypal, do not give them your credit card, as there are reports of CC fraud after using stacksocial as well.
Just be aware of why you're getting a $440 piece of software for $30.
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Interesting read... Why Microsoft Has Stopped Fighting Software Piracy
https://medium.com/swlh/why-micro...2c8811f
End of my comment.
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So it is unlikely they will pursue legal action against you (not impossible) but they still deactivate keys and installs, that is an easy, automated, profitable process for them.
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Example comment from this thread (several others like it):
I bought this last month when it was $40. I'm now in the middle of an annoying charge back process as stack social sent me keys that were already activated. Never again! Oh and they only have customer support via email, no phone support.. super frustrating.
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There was a follow up to the charge back. The person stated "After four days of back and forth plus them closing my trouble ticket without resolution they did offer a new key."
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Those $30 keys may work for days or years. You never know.
Its only Office 365 that has the online storage.
This is the old style version of Office where you just buy the apps and install them local. No cloud or subscription.
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Those $30 keys may work for days or years. You never know.
will this expand that or must i purchase office 365?
Very hard to find out this info...
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will this expand that or must i purchase office 365?
Very hard to find out this info...
I don't think I'd use the storage features.
that way, if it stopped working, i could deal with getting office another way.
but at least all my files wouldnt have been lost.
but perhaps someone else who has had the experience of it stop working can comment.
If you want more storage from hotmail, you can either pay for it.
or transfer some files to a different cheaper cloud storage where you can get a nice amount of free storage - like filen.io, koofr, pcloud, etc
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If big IT cared they would shut down the re-sellers not the end users
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will this expand that or must i purchase office 365?
Very hard to find out this info...
Its only Office 365 that has the online storage.
This is the old style version of Office where you just buy the apps and install them local. No cloud or subscription.
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everytime I try to open a file synced with onedrive it takes 30 minutes to open.
i believe MS is trying to ditch out as much off line version as possible so they can move into cloud suites. 365 is the future, but not many home customers are biting. coorporate ITs will be paying more monies for cyber security. don't know if that's a price cut in anyway. ;-)
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