(If you’re really intent on doing this, by the way, you can track down one of these product key resellers directly, cutting out the publisher and the e-commerce intermediary and chopping the price in half. StackCommerce and their publisher partners get a generous cut of each sale, and in a media marketplace where publishers are struggling to find revenue, it’s an irresistible pitch. I’ve seen these offers on some very big sites, names you would recognize instantly.
In this case, the actual seller goes by the name “nerdused,” but lately I’ve seen identical offers from a company called “Definitive Lab.”īecause the deal is offered under the imprimatur of a trusted publisher, often with a by-lined article from the publication’s “deals editor,” you’re much more likely to trust it. StackCommerce acts as a broker between well-known publishers and unknown sellers. You probably wouldn’t consider giving your credit card information to a shady-looking website, which is why this particular offer is so interesting. But the software should work as expected, and if you aren’t bothered about the technical details of license agreements then that might be all that matters to you. I repeat: If you buy one of these product keys, you don’t have a valid license, as far as Microsoft is concerned. And it would be trivially easy for an ethically challenged IT person in a large corporation to copy some unused license keys and sell them to someone who would in turn resell them on one of these e-commerce sites.) (Some Visual Studio subscriptions, for example, come with a passel of license keys intended for evaluation purposes.
This outfit is selling “gray market” product keys that are harvested from a variety of sources and aren’t authorized for resale. Let’s make something clear right up front: If you pay for one of these offers, you are not buying a license.
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