xXTOUTXx wrote: > I bought a Windows 7 product key on Ebay and I want to know if it is real or > fake. Is there a way to check just the key?
Why in the world would you have not asked this question *before* making the purchase. Now, all you can do is try to use it. Then, you can waste your time asking the seller for a refund and then reporting the fraud to eBay.
A Product Key sold without installation media, unless purchased through a Microsoft-Licensed Volume License vendor, is almost certainly illegitimate.
ng http://www.microsoft.com/LICENSING/
Microsoft Volume Licensing - How Volume Licensing Works http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/how-volume-licensing-works.aspx
One should be very careful buying any software on eBay, as eBay makes no prior effort to ensure that such sales are legitimate. The problems stem from two different sources, but have the same results: the buyer gets ripped off. A great many people don't fully understand the terms of the license they own, and don't understand that they cannot legitimately resell it, and - worse still - there are a great many sellers who do know that they're selling bogus licenses. eBay reacts only when someone files a complaint, and then all that really happens, especially in the case of the many deliberate fraudsters, is the seller of the pirated software returns using a different alias, to continue selling illegitimate licenses.
How do you check if the Windows 7 Product is real?
