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You even paid too much
Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 1:53 pm
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Posted by Ricer46 (21956 messages posted)


Surely you paid by credit card; if not, you may as well write it off. If so there 
should be little trouble getting a full refund, or a key. You also paid way too much, 
should be able to get XP Home for under $90.






On Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 12:52 pm, matthew craggs wrote:
>Last week I build my own system and ordered a copy of XP Home with it, so it would
>be nice and legit.
>
>Upon installing it I checked for the product key and couldn't find a certificate
>of authenticity, and there was none. Turns out they gave me a "to be sold with a
>new system only" version with a nice little notice that says "The PC Manufacturer
>is required to attache the Certificate of Authenticity label to the computer system
>prior to delivery."
>
>Unfortunately, the geniuses who sold me the disc and the components didn't give me
>a product key.
>
>Any ideas how I can get around this? I've been trying to find a key generator (why
>not? I paid $120 for this goddamned software and I want to use it) but couldn't
>find any. That was quite a shock.
>
>I assume a call to Microsoft won't help me any (Yeah, yeah, you "bought" the copy
>but they didn't give you the product key, now if you excuse me I have to go play
>the world's smallest violen).
>
>Anyone know how I can get this working without the hassle of mailing back the software,
>waiting for them to receive it, charge me a 15% restocking fee and then charge me
>again to send another one out?
>
>Cheers.



Written in response to:
wasn't given product key (matthew craggs: Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 12:52 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-wasn't given product key (matthew craggs: Sun, Feb 26, 2006, 12:52 pm)
*re: wasn't given product key (Pete Fellows: Sun, Feb 26, 2006, 1:02 pm)
*re: wasn't given product key (Tony: Sun, Feb 26, 2006, 1:06 pm)
-re: wasn't given product key (Baron: Sun, Feb 26, 2006, 1:42 pm)
*re: wasn't given product key (Ricer46: Sun, Feb 26, 2006, 1:51 pm)
*You even paid too much (Ricer46: Sun, Feb 26, 2006, 1:53 pm)
-re: wasn't given product key (Matthew D. Healy: Sun, Feb 26, 2006, 5:16 pm)
*re: wasn't given product key (Matthew D. Healy: Sun, Feb 26, 2006, 5:26 pm)
*re: wasn't given product key (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Sun, Feb 26, 2006, 8:27 pm)
*re: wasn't given product key (Mike: Sun, Feb 26, 2006, 10:01 pm)
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