Unfortunately, Darin is no longer the 'Owner' of these forums, and there is currently no MS staffer in regular attendance (so the nearest you get is me - an
unpaid volunteer who cannot speak for Microsoft)
Microsoft go to considerable lengths (and expense) to track down purveyors of counterfeits, and shut them down - unfortunately this process can be extremely lengthy, and often results only in the eBay 'store' opening up the next minute with a new name.
Even where they do manage to find and prosecute the store owner, the process itself can take a long while and in the meantime the miscreant merely set up shops down the road.
Microsoft can only act when it receives pertinent data - if no-one has complained to them of that particular vendor, then they cannot investigate it, and many vendors will go to great lengths to delay that process by means of issuing 'new' keys on request
to complainants.
MSDN Keys are routinely blocked for abuse - as witness the many such reports in this forum. It seems that this instance slipped though the net.
You should contact MS through more direct channels, as there is nothing that we can do here for you (I will try and bring this to the attention of forum management, but it's unlikely that they will or can respond in the thread for legal reasons).
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