Ebay – again
Posted on March 8, 2010 by jonners99
So this morning I got around to picking up Adobe CS2 from the post office. On the way home I opened it up, I found that the disc was two tones of white and the image on the disc was slightly compressed. Expectations were therefore not that high when I got home and chatted with Adobe via their website. I gave them the product key and they informed me that the key was not valid. Yey for more non-official products on ebay.
The problem is that I am seeing Photoshop as something of a necessity but no necessity is worth £600. On the plus side the seller is willing to give a refund so no real loss just a waste of time. Sometimes trying to stay legal is a right pain in the backside…
On the up side for ebay I have bought four playstation one Formula One games for a total of £9 the two that have arrived so far have both been of working and good quality. So it seems ebay is great if you don’t intend to spend a lot of money, if you do then it and the people on it will screw you over.
Filed Under: Daily Diary, Musings
Do Adobe even allow the transferring of products keys (AKA, the re-selling of software)? A lot of software companies would consider what you are doing through Ebay to be breaking terms of service, and by proxy, the law. Legal is even harder than you thought…
Its not a transferring, I am after brand new unused software. Its not my fault if people lie about that fact especially as I won’t be installing without checking the product keys first.