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Win7 download ISO
Has anyone bought the Win7 ISOs online?
Places advertise $40-$50 for an ISO download of the install disk and an activation code. It seems like a very good deal but I want to make sure it's legitimate. |
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On 15/12/2016 11:02 PM, Mayayana wrote:
Has anyone bought the Win7 ISOs online? Places advertise $40-$50 for an ISO download of the install disk and an activation code. It seems like a very good deal but I want to make sure it's legitimate. Beware of used/2nd-hand keys and MSDN keys. Call your country's Micro$oft office for further information? |
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"Wolf K" wrote
| The ISO is free. I hve one on this box. The key is what costs. I would | buy a key only from MS, or buy the ISO plus key from a legitimate | reseller such as Newegg: | | http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-804-_-Product | | A 2nd-hand key may work if it was bought by an end-user, because you can | transfer the licence if you do a hardware upgrade. However, an OEM key | will definitely not work. | I'm not talking about a second-hand key or questionable sources. That's why I'm asking this question. I want the cheapest way to get legitimate Win7, perhaps buying just the key to save money. But I want to know whether sites selling just the key are selling legitimate keys. Samples: https://softwareempire.com/product/w...um-sp1-64-bit/ http://www.softwareking.com/microsof...Speed=noscript The NewEgg link shows no price. Apparently they'll only show a price if I enable script and let them figure out who I am. (Staples is another one like that.) I prefer not to do business with such people. The sites I'm looking at are advertising prices in the $40-$70 range. Buying an OEM disk, by contrast, seems to cost more like $140. I'm planning to buy parts for a new box from Tigerdirect, but their prices for Windows are high: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...?EdpNo=5213932 |
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Mayayana wrote:
Has anyone bought the Win7 ISOs online? Places advertise $40-$50 for an ISO download of the install disk and an activation code. It seems like a very good deal but I want to make sure it's legitimate. The only rational suggestion I could find on this, is someone said there were people buying an MSDN subscription, and then "parting out" the OS installer DVDs from the subscription. I don't know what is bundled in an MSDN subscription, to see if that lines up with the pricing or not. Paul |
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"Paul" wrote
| Has anyone bought the Win7 ISOs online? | Places advertise $40-$50 for an ISO download | of the install disk and an activation code. It | seems like a very good deal but I want to make | sure it's legitimate. | | The only rational suggestion I could find | on this, is someone said there were people | buying an MSDN subscription, and then | "parting out" the OS installer DVDs from | the subscription. I don't know what is | bundled in an MSDN subscription, to see | if that lines up with the pricing or not. | I figured that maybe it was just the basic OEM cost, since the cost of making/shipping the DVD is removed. An MSDN subscription includes all OSs, I think, but only licensed for testing use. I was just hoping that maybe someone has had experience with key-only purchase and could perhaps suggest a reputable site. |
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"Wolf K" wrote
| $139.99 shown in right-hand box. I've dealt with them, they are | reliable. So is Tigerdirect IME. | OK, thanks. I also like TD. I've bought from them several times. They've got Win7 at about the same price. But $140 is a lot of money for a 1-box Windows license. I was hoping to find a better deal, but that may be the best there is. Softwareking is mysterious. They seem to have a good rating and are rated well by the Canada BBB. But there are also some complaints. |
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On 12/15/2016 12:25 PM, Mayayana wrote:
I figured that maybe it was just the basic OEM cost, since the cost of making/shipping the DVD is removed. An MSDN subscription includes all OSs, I think, but only licensed for testing use. I was just hoping that maybe someone has had experience with key-only purchase and could perhaps suggest a reputable site. IMHO: The DVD or lack of DVD is the least of the cost. What? maybe a quarter for the DVD? I haven't bought a pack in years so I can't say accurately. |
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Mayayana wrote:
Has anyone bought the Win7 ISOs online? Places advertise $40-$50 for an ISO download of the install disk and an activation code. It seems like a very good deal but I want to make sure it's legitimate. IMO, they are all fakes. Posted one day and gone the next due to complaints. However, the only way to make sure is to buy one and see. 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. He ended up ordering one for $150 from Microcenter. |
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"Big Al" wrote
| The DVD or lack of DVD is the least of the cost. What? maybe a quarter | for the DVD? I haven't bought a pack in years so I can't say accurately. | Of course the DVD itself doesn't cost much. But there's a cost of doing business. MS has to design and print them, put them into a package, ship them to the retailer... then the retailer has to ship it to you. And people have to handle both of those transactions. With a download and sale of a mere alphanumeric code it would be virtually 100% profit, so it stands to reason that should be cheaper. But it looks like that's just my opinion. I'm not finding a good deal on Win7 that seems legit, other than buying a disk through eBay. There are good deals there, down to about $50, but I've never used eBay and don't really want to start. I guess I'll have to just hold my nose and give MS 10 times what they deserve to be paid. |
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"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. |
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On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:40:13 -0500, Wolf K wrote:
On 2016-12-15 11:21, Mayayana wrote: "Wolf K" wrote | The ISO is free. I hve one on this box. The key is what costs. I would | buy a key only from MS, or buy the ISO plus key from a legitimate | reseller such as Newegg: | | http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-804-_-Product | | A 2nd-hand key may work if it was bought by an end-user, because you can | transfer the licence if you do a hardware upgrade. However, an OEM key | will definitely not work. | I'm not talking about a second-hand key or questionable sources. That's why I'm asking this question. I want the cheapest way to get legitimate Win7, perhaps buying just the key to save money. But I want to know whether sites selling just the key are selling legitimate keys. Samples: https://softwareempire.com/product/w...um-sp1-64-bit/ http://www.softwareking.com/microsof...Speed=noscript I have no knowledge of those vendors. To me, their names are a red flag. Kking??? Empire??? www.resellerratings.com used to be the place to go to check on whether a company was legit. Not sure how relevant it is these days, with everything moving to Facebook lately. http://www.resellerratings.com/store/The_Software_King They get a high rating, but a very small number of reviews, only 377. Not enough reviews for me to trust them at this point. Newegg, OTOH, has a slightly lower rating, but over 40K reviews. I've ordered from newegg literally hundreds of times and never had a problem. http://www.resellerratings.com/store/Newegg I don't even see an entry for Software Empire, so that's a red flag. The NewEgg link shows no price. $139.99 shown in right-hand box. I've dealt with them, they are reliable. So is Tigerdirect IME. -- Char Jackson |
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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. |
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On 2016-12-16, Art Todesco wrote:
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. If a product key is activated "too many times" Microsoft considers it to be an abuse and will not longer activate it. I'm not sure what the number is. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Blake (Posts from Google Groups killfiled due to excess spam.) NSA sedition and treason -- http://www.DeathToNSAthugs.com Don't talk to cops! -- http://www.DontTalkToCops.com Badges don't grant extra rights -- http://www.CopBlock.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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"Art Todesco" wrote
| 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. | I didn't notice any details like that on the listings I looked at. Here's an example: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Microsoft-Wi...-/291701318202 $60. But it's not clear whether it's really full retail version (which can be installed on multiple computers as long as it's only one at a time) or "full oem", which is keyed to a single machine. It says "full version & upgrade". If you bought a copy from an "outdated" PC that worked then it must have been a full retail license that was installed by the seller, not a pre-installed OEM license. There are some tempting offers at eBay but there's just not enough info there. It looks like the one I linked is probably for a new, unopened, OEM disk, but it's just not clear. And if that seller is selling thousands of disks at $60 then where are they getting them? Mysterious. |
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"Mayayana" wrote
|| $139.99 shown in right-hand box. I've dealt with them, they are || reliable. So is Tigerdirect IME. || | | OK, thanks. I also like TD. I've bought from | them several times. An update about Tigerdirect, for anyone who might be interested: I just placed an order yesterday. It turns out they were bought by "PC Mall", pcm.com. It's no longer the same company at all. They seem to be just a middleman operation now, with support and sales staff based in someplace like India. Previously, a TD order came from the TD warehouse, in a single box. This order is being shipped with each piece coming from a different, unnamed source. I've got something like 8 packages coming for 10 items. They mixed up the email address. The shipping invoice was confusing. They did, at least, get the order right. It looks like the whole thing will eventually work out and that the mixups are mainly just a result of them not being very organized, but I don't think I'll deal with them again. One reason I avoided Amazon was because of just this MO. I don't want to be buying every item from a different seller. (And I also don't want to support the exploitive, monopoly approach of Amazon.) I also noticed that TD prices had gone up since last year and that prices across different companies are very similar. Looking at Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, etc seems to show nearly the same price for items as TD. It's not clear that any of these companies are actually acting as retail stores. They seem to be all just middlemen arranging shipments through other companies. I wouldn't be surprised if they all just forward the order to the same "fulfillment center". They all sell everything online, but nothing in their stores. (Ask for a CPU at Best Buy or Walmart and you'll just get stares.) I'd much prefer to avoid all of this and just buy in a store, but it's nearly impossible to do that these days. The only store left in my area that sells parts is Microcenter. I had a big fight with them many years ago when they refused a return on a faulty board and have bought nothing but minor items from them ever since. They seem to take a discount warehouse approach, with delicate electronics just piled up or even on pallettes, clerks who don't know anything, and when I do buy from them I have to run a gauntlet of pushy attempts to datamine. They want me to sign up with private info and ask that I actually click a screen twice to confirm that I've refused to share private info!) Staples, Best Buy and others that I used to get parts from have gradually cut their stock to just a few items. And they keep reducing. Last week I wanted a bluetooth adapter. The Staples clerk says he can get it online. When I recently wanted a cheap cellphone the Best Buy clerk said he could get it online. I ended up getting it at Target, of all places. The trend is frustrating and idiotic. Of course I could get these things online, but if that's what I wanted to do I wouldn't have driven to the store. And my choice of online merchants would almost certainly not include Best Buy, Staples or Walmart. Do others get frustrated with these changes in retail, I wonder? It's not clear what the solution is. One of the advantages of living near a big city used to be that a wide selection of items could be bought nearby. But that's changing fast, in all categories. The stores that are left are often just outlets or marketing venues for an online face which, itself, is not really a store but just an order forwarder. |
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