On Mar 7, 3:27*pm, Ray Greene <r...@rhq.co.nz> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 14:28:00 +1300, John <inva...@invalid.com> wrote:
> >Just come across this web site that has Microsoft Office 2007 full retail
> >on sale selling for $163.90 nz. This seems awfully cheap to me even the
> >full price shown seams cheap has anyone done busness with this firm?
>
> >http://www.citymax.co.nz/softwares-i...e-professional...
>
> There are a few dodgy sites out there like that. They use NZ URLs but
> they're based in China (and possibly ther places). You'll get a very
> professional looking forgery that almost certainly won't work when you
> try to authenticate it online after you install it.
>
It ptrobably does not nreed authenticating. It probably does not
present you with a EULA to tick off. Swap two characters of the
product key and it probably be accepted. But once you use it for a
little while with 'uodates' enabled it will probably suffer from the
black screen syndrome.
People were bringing bogus Office 2003 and Photoshop into NZ a few
years ago and hocking them on Trademe. One trader 'banned' me, then a
bit later another trader appeared out of the woodwork selling dubious
software. Tried to ask a question and found I was banned there as
well.