Re: Buying MS Office on Ebay

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What are the problems?

"Chris Schatte" <caschatte@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> BP,
> Why not just purchase a retail copy that you know is new and not activated
> by someone else previously?
Because the item price exceeds my action price point. I don't *need* to
upgrade.

>Retail copies of Office 2003 allow for 2 installs, one desktop and one
>mobile and is fully upgradable.
Now this is pertinent information!

>OEM copies are bound to the system you install on only, non-transferrable
>to any other machine.
That's terrible! So you can't actually OWN microsoft products? You can only
pay for use (rent)?

> Buying software previously owned is never a good idea.
Why? I own lots of previously owned software. It all works great. Even
Microsoft software. I bought Windows 98SE a couple of years ago to upgrade
and older machine. Project 97 (98?) to upgrade from 3.0 (!). All work just
like you'd expect from quality software products. What's wrong with Office
2003? Bugs? I don't want to pay any money for crippled software.

>You could do a search on this group for the multitudes of problems people
>run into by purchasing software in this way...
I never thought of that.......

>
> Chris Schatte
> --
> use the Office Online web based newsreader here:
> http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
> In Office System 2003 applications:
> Help/Assistance Pane/open Communities
>
>
> "BP" wrote:
>
>> I need to upgrade from my Office 97 suite. I am looking on Ebay at Office
>> Pro 2003. There are many "new" full retail and OEM versions but there are
>> also some "used" (previously installed) versions available at a much
>> lower
>> price. I know Office 2003 has an activation procedure. What are the EULA
>> and
>> practical restrictions/problems with buying someone else's software in
>> this
>> way.
>> TIA
>>
>>
>>


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