

I repeat: If you buy one of these product keys, you don’t have a valid license, as far as Microsoft is concerned.

And it would be trivially easy for an ethically challenged IT person in a large corporation to copy some unused license keys and sell them to someone who would in turn resell them on one of these e-commerce sites.) (Some Visual Studio subscriptions, for example, come with a passel of license keys intended for evaluation purposes. This outfit is selling “gray market” product keys that are harvested from a variety of sources and aren’t authorized for resale. Let’s make something clear right up front: If you pay for one of these offers, you are not buying a license.
