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Cheap Windows 10 Licence Keys.... OEM Keys

Anonymous
2020-05-23T04:50:50+00:00

I have bought multiple laptops that have had OEM windows 10 packaged. I recently built my own pc and am wanting to activate windows 10. After looking on the Microsoft website I saw that the licenses are rather expensive, however, the trial version I have on my pc is perfectly fine and I have no need to actually activate (obviously it would nice to). Despite this I thought I would look and found many sellers on Ebay, Gumtree, and other websites that claim to have working keys for life.

As I am in no rush to activate my trial I thought I would ask the official Microsoft forum. If say the product key did work and I was the first that the seller sold it to... would the product key end up getting blacklisted? If the product key was for OEM and I changed my hardware would Microsoft support be able to reactivate the product key for the new hardware? Also on a side note, I saw that in South Africa the licences are sold for R3 999,00 which is substantially cheaper than what it costs here in Australia.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-05-23T05:04:58+00:00

    Hi Joshua,

    This is Wil, one of the independent advisor, an expert with Windows 10 and a fellow Windows 10 user like you.

    When it comes to purchasing licenses, it is always safe to purchase it directly from Microsoft to make sure that you will be getting a genuine retail license of Windows 10. Sure that there are a lot of stores that sell Windows 10 product keys for cheap but most of them provide evaluation keys or volume licenses that are only meant for organization or company use only. As for OEM keys, OEM keys are used by computer manufacturers to activate Windows 10 on the computer that they sell. It can only be used on the original computer it came with. And for licenses on a different region or country, you won't be able to use licenses for another country in Australia as all licenses have geo-restrictions on them.

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

    I hope the information I provided will help you. If you need further assistance please do reply back and I will respond as quickly as possible. Have a nice day.

    Thanks,

    Wilfred P.

    Independent Advisor

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-05-23T09:55:05+00:00

    i have a similar challenge, i dont know if it is relevant or not but i hope we will manage to assist each other. A friend of mine recently installed windows 10 pro for me but now am realizing that there are a lot of features that are not responding because of the activation process, Microsoft word, Excel etc, are all not working. i hope you will manage to assist me. your response matters most. thank you

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-05-23T09:26:41+00:00

    Thanks for your quick reply. It has been very helpful and I think I'll just stick with the trial version for the time being. I find it hard to justify activating windows (as to be honest I'm already using Wallpaper Engine for personalization).

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