Microsoft Office 2019 cheap price; Scam or Not?

[Choppie]

The absolute most aggravating thing is;

Long-Time client keeps bugging me; I need MS Office "words" on my computer, the one you sold me is old but it has proofing tools that I need as a ghost writer, what is your opinion on THIS!

Client sends me a link to an AppSuite software website, selling MS Office 2019 PRO for 45.00 dollars!

I really didn't spend a lot of time TEXTING back and forth, trying to steer them correctly. I've been doing this 25+ years yet they want to ARGUE with my advice....

I tell them (and send them a link to office 2019 on the microsoft website, via email)

DO NOT! BUY ANY MICROSOFT SOFTWARE from any online sight other than MICROSOFT.

Today I get a txt,

I just found Microsoft Office Pro 2019 and bought it for 45.00, one time price, and I can install it on two computers. The company is AppSuite

I haven't been able to varafy this at all, and I've wasted too much time arguing with them already.

Is there anyone here that has heard of this promotion? Sounds ridiculous to me!

AND does anyone have these know it all clients that argue about something that they have absolutely ZERO knowledge of with someone with 25+ years in the business, then ignore the advice--how do you deal with them.

My plan is; if they call with issues because of this software, it's going to be a 175.00/hr repair bill!

 

[mikeroq]

Any site selling Office far below retail price is not legit. Microsoft sets the minimum price and retailers don't have much leeway.

You never know what you are going to get from those sites. It could be a volume license copy, MSDN, ActionPack, retail keys from other countries, reselling the same key to multiple people, etc.

It may work the first time you install it. But eventually the key will get blacklisted (hopefully). Then when the time comes you need to reinstall it or move to a new computer it won't activate.

I do not support software that is not properly licensed.

 

[nlinecomputers]

My plan is; if they call with issues because of this software, it's going to be a 175.00/hr repair bill!

Yep. Don’t worry about it just wait. Cheap clients are bad clients. Don’t waste your time with this.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Makes money with software, can't afford to spend $200 every half decade or so for working stuff... that means they aren't making money with the software... time to move on.

 

[Choppie]

I kind of already knew the answer to this nonsense however, I needed an outlet to vent this foolish nonsense. Same client argued with me through emails for a week that she wants to go back to windows 10, that I changed her to 7. I knew it was impossible. I asked her, how long was I there, she said, oh, you did it remotely. Finally found the time to log in and show her, win 10 as running on her computer. It was classic shell that I installed for her.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Makes money with software, can't afford to spend $200 every half decade or so for working stuff... that means they aren't making money with the software... time to move on.

No, some people just will not spend money on certain things when they can do so cheaper. There not broke. I’ve dealt with plenty of people here in the oil field that have 10 year old PCs with pirate software, yet drive BMWs or fully loaded F350 pickups, leather seats automatic everything, wearing $700 ostrich skin boots and $10,000 Rolex watches.

 

[Sky-Knight]

No, some people just will not spend money on certain things when they can do so cheaper. There not broke. I’ve dealt with plenty of people here in the oil field that have 10 year old PCs with pirate software, yet drive BMWs or fully loaded F350 pickups, leather seats automatic everything, wearing $700 ostrich skin boots and $10,000 Rolex watches.

Thieves are still thieves, doesn't matter how well they dress.

 

[bdoggman]

Not this topic again lol. Buy Microsoft home and business 2019
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/office-home-business-2019/cfq7ttc0k7cq?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

It will activate about 20 times. And it’s a perpetual license. Plus you bought it from Microsoft to make you feel better. Because you can only buy a Ford from the Ford dealership or it’s theft.

 

[MDD1963]

"Office 2019 Pro, $45"

<sigh!> pretty darn slim chance on that one, short of dealing with Sri Lankan/Indonesian key scams....

 

[Sky-Knight]

Not this topic again lol. Buy Microsoft home and business 2019
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/office-home-business-2019/cfq7ttc0k7cq?activetab=pivotverviewtab

It will activate about 20 times. And it’s a perpetual license. Plus you bought it from Microsoft to make you feel better. Because you can only buy a Ford from the Ford dealership or it’s theft.

Funny that you should make that comparative, when the Ford has to be sold by a legal agent, and registered with the government shortly after the transfer. Why? Because criminals...

Now that, that's out of the way. The comparative is utterly wrong because the Ford represents physical properly. Software isn't physical property, indeed we don't "own" it ever as users. We simply lease access to it, within defined parameters.

I'd LOVE it if software was treated the same as physical property... but that's not how the law currently works pretty much anywhere.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

We sell only O365, or Volume Licensing...won't support others sources anymore....not worth the time to troubleshoot WHEN things go wrong from purchasing from fly by night, out of the back of some unmarked van in a dark alley storefronts.