you sure about that? because i've bought 2 keys from reddit both were only able to activate on one install after i reformatted the machine i could not activate it anymore and even calling MS to activate they have told me to contact the reseller because my key was blacklisted. You can install with the key but you cannot activate it after the first time it was initially activated.ES_Revenge wrote: ↑ You're technically correct but this applies to the OEM versions that places like NCIX, CC, etc. sell for $100-120 ($200 or something for Pro) as well. Most retailers get away with this by packaging them with anything from an old stick of RAM (like DDR[1] or something sometimes, lol), broken HDD, etc. or just requiring that you have to buy something else in order to add to cart--anything down to a USB drive or an SD card will let it qualify. If anything this is really the thing you should be worried about least about buying OEM Windows--it's really just a bit of nonsense that no one really cares about in reality, MS included.
Whether it's Pro or Home merely depends on what version of Windows you upgrade from. If you have 7 Pro (or Ultimate), you get 10 Pro. See here:
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/window ... t-for-free
No. Not saying these are necessarily legit, but as someone else mentioned, it's a little odd Play-Asia would do that given they are known for selling legit/real physical goods (where the majority of other similar sellers sell fakes/counterfeits at cheap prices).
There's no "one-time activation" keys for W10. That's nonsense. You certainly can't use the key on a new machine (i.e. on different motherboard) but that's always true with OEM Windows. However, MS' subcontractors have activated OEM 10 for people on such transfers anyway, using pirate tools! There's a thread here by XtremeModder where he encountered this very occurrence. Even on previous versions of Windows where technically there could have been a "one-time" activation where if you went to re-activate you'd have problems, this never happened in reality. At worst you'd have to do a phone activation and you'd still be fine.
Uhh pretty sure that poster wasn't make light of pedophilia, they were shedding light on Play-Asia doing so. Therefore the one to call "sick 'individual'" would be Play-Asia.
In that case perhaps they are not legit. Seems like a bad business decision for them to do that but hey, I'm not running the place. The problem they create for themselves is they are a stand-out in a sea of fake/counterfeit sellers in that they sell real/legit merchandise in other areas...by selling illegitimate Windows keys people will wonder if the rest of the stuff they sell is fake too. That's a hard stigma to overcome when it comes to things like electronics, collectible merchandise, etc.
Personally I only ever purchased from them once--a set of Sony earphones you couldn't get here in the SP/SL version nor in colours. Trying to buy those off eBay or anywhere else was a surefire way to get fakes. They weren't all that high end or anything (like $60 or so) but still obviously buying the $20 ones off eBay were fake; and, I didn't want the black long cord version that was sold at BB/FF here so Play-Asia it was. They were certainly genuine when I got them (and I still use these to this day) so I was happy it was possible that someone was selling genuine stuff from that side of the planet. However though I don't really have much reason to buy anything from them these days anyway, I would probably hesitate to do so if I did given the above information. Just don't get why good retailers would stoop to crap like this. Just not worth it when you can lose a lot of customers in your core business because of it.
Anyway as for MS "catching wind" of such keys and activations? Don't be naive. MS absolutely already has full knowledge of this stuff. The could have shut this down years ago, like since Vista years ago. However they simply just do not care. They care more, esp. now with W10, that people are using Windows than anything else. End-user retail sales of Windows (whether OEM versions or actual retail versions) account for an extremely small percentage of profit for them, of all Windows licences sold/deployed. They really do not care and they even made it easier to pirate Windows since Vista. Again this is an avenue they could have slammed shut a long time ago, even if not on Vista itself they could have done it for 7 but they never did. 8 changed things up a bit but the fact that they left upgrading to legit 10 wide open to pirate versions of earlier Windows, means that...they just don't care about end-user "piracy" or "grey market" use of Windows. Once W10 is activated on hardware it's permanent on that hardware and MS has never even attempted to stop this from occurring on any "illegitimate" versions or avenues to that activation.
Matter of fact PM me and i'll even give you the keys to try yourself lol