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Website Selling Softwares at OEM Price, a Scam?
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Posted by: INeedHelp
http://www.cds-for-you.com/
The above website is selling softwares at OEM price, except you wouldn't have to buy any of the computer parts in order to get the OEM price, can they do that? Is it legal? Is it a scam?
Posted by: hwm54112
Don't know about that particular site, but alot of sites sell OEM without the hardware. Whether it's legal or not is probably a revolving door issue, since whoever is selling it probably didn't agree with anyone not to sell it without hardware. I recently bought OEM xp from an advertisement on a microsoft site without hardware. It was advertised as being either HP or Dell. Oft times, OEM software may be a slightly disabled version of a software program. Or is a version older than current. All the time, you get no support from the manufacturer. Usually it's a good deal.
Posted by: INeedHelp
Yes, the website did mention that their software comes with no boxset, no manual, no Certificate of Authencity, and no support from the manufactures. However that's not what worries me since we all call Microsoft when our Windows crashes right? /sarcasm What worries me is whether the website itself is authentic in that will I get into a legal battle over purchasing OEM products without the hardware? I see that you have given extensive information on what you know regarding this issue so I greatly appreciate it, thanks.
Posted by: redwench
youre getting no coa, so you essentially have only limited updates from ms, and no support. youre purchasing backup software.
Posted by: Cant Stop
dont do it unless you damaged your original retail software is my personal opinion.
im tired of the crap stuff that you get included with your computer i would rather buy a retail xp and install myself and get the full coverage.
Posted by: hwm54112
I used it for a repair install of the crap included with the computer (OEM XP), which worked out great because it did not include SP2, which I wasn't prepared to install until I got all the problems fixed caused by malware.
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