On 12/15/2016 5:08 PM, Mayayana wrote:
"Paul in Houston TX" wrote

| A friend of mine bought a $50 retail w7Pro cd off of ebay a few years ago.
| MS said the key was not valid and would not activate it.
| He showed me the box and disks and they looked perfect. Just like the
real thing.

Thanks for that info. eBay is tempting. There
are members there that eBay claims have over
1,000 good reviews with no negative reviews,
and they're selling Win7 relatively cheap. So it's
tempting. But I just don't have any experience
with that.
I'm building a box for someone with an Amazon
Prime account and their offering is the cheapest
I can find: $115 for Win76-64 Home OEM. So I'll
probably go with that. (They also have the same
thing for $89, but it's conveniently out of stock.

I've bought one or two W7 licenses on ebay and have had no problems.
The were advertised as being from outdated or returned PCs.