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#165495 11-Feb-2015 17:15

I am not an IT professional. Can someone tell me is that really genuine? http://www.trademe.co.nz/computers/software/ms-office/auction-845322472.htm

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#1235829 11-Feb-2015 17:19

Looks pretty dodgy to me.

Checking feedback, at least one purchaser has left bad feedback advising of fake product.

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#1235877 11-Feb-2015 17:56

No, it's not. Shop looks like an Amazon frontend, I'd say they might buy these things and then email your key - but it will be up to you to download from some dodgy site.

Don't touch it.

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#1235889 11-Feb-2015 18:11

Oh I see. There are lots selling at unbelievable price but how do I identify what is real what is not? Their feedback looks good. Maybe this? http://www.trademe.co.nz/computers/software/ms-office/auction-843416323.htm

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#1235892 11-Feb-2015 18:17

No, don't buy off trademe with dodgy links.

On one line it's
100% Genuine Office 2013 Home and Business.

then further down it's
Office 2011 Home and student includes:

STAY AWAY!

You could buy it off microsoft themselves for about that price.

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#1235893 11-Feb-2015 18:19

blakamin: No, don't buy off trademe with dodgy links.

You could buy it off microsoft themselves for about that price.

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+1 , That second trade me auction states office 2013 in the title and further down in the description it says office 2011 , sham all over it.

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#1235913 11-Feb-2015 18:54

$219 http://products.office.com/en-us/home-and-business

Word 2013, Excel 2013, PowerPoint 2013, OneNote 2013, and Outlook 2013

or

$165 a year (or $16 a month) http://products.office.com/en-NZ/office-365-home

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, Access + 1 TB of online storage, plus 60 Skype minutes

Both seem better options than the trademe links

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#1235931 11-Feb-2015 19:26

Libre Office

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#1235935 11-Feb-2015 19:31

The most ideal way of getting Microsoft Office (if you need more features than the free edition) is to get an office 365 home/home professional subscription for non business, or Office 365 for business.

Office 2010 will only allow you to install on a PC and laptop, Office 365 home allows many more scenarios.

Edit: And I forgot to add, you always have the latest edition/updates with the Office 365 version.

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#1236063 11-Feb-2015 21:14

The first question in the Q&A just shows the seller is a crook.

Anyway, I mentioned this to Trade Me via Twitter and got a reply now (obviously they have my email address somewhere there):

Thanks for getting in touch with us about the listing of the Office 2010 Professional Plus 32/64bit 100%GENUINE - 845322472.

It's appreciated that you've got in touch with us about this. Trade Me wants every member on the site to have the best experience possible and this is why we have policies in place.

However, we do not have a pre-screening process for listings. This means that members of the Trade Me community need to help us out from time to time. If you come across a listing that you think might breach our listing policies, then please feel free to let us know. You can report inappropriate listings to our site’s policing team by using the Community Watch feature which is available at the bottom of every live listing.

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#1236161 11-Feb-2015 23:01

Odds are good it's some smeghead selling a DreamSpark or MSDN key

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#1236166 11-Feb-2015 23:07

I've reported it, hopefully Nathan or Regan can get whomever in MS-NZ deals with IP theft to discuss it with TradeMe.

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#1236201 12-Feb-2015 05:36

"100%GENUINE"

That reminds me of a Nigerian scam I saw that felt the need to say it was "100% legal"

Yeah...

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#1236202 12-Feb-2015 05:58

Holy crap batman, check that website the TradeMe user seilui08 has linked in his/her profile.

http://www.faitaz-estore.com/

Is that site dodgy or what?

No contact details for the business whatsoever. Looks to me like most of the product is just drop shipping.

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#1236217 12-Feb-2015 07:17

And trademe have pulled it

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#1236281 12-Feb-2015 09:24

RunningMan: And trademe have pulled it

The trader is still active though.

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