OEM Keys

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Check Microsoft's document on this:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sourc...gVmztg&cad=rja

OEM keys are illegal to install on any other hardware than what they were originally assigned too. Selling them you must include an original piece of hardware from the PC to be "legal" However the person receiving that license is unable to install it legally. But you can let them worry about that.

The best way to ship keys is

Tape it to a piece of paper, tape on a jumper from the mother board. Then it is light enough to fit up to 50 in 1 envelope if you trim the paper on one 42 cent stamp.

including an IDE cable or something along those lines with the auction. It can be something small, including a cover plate for the PCI cards, but it should be there to keep the auctions from being pulled.

No, this loophole has been closed years ago. This is now illegal.

Sell the code to computer shops. They buy them to use on desktop that they reformat.

Not a good shop. Breaking the law and selling stolen property. If MS catches them they will go under trying to pay all the fines. MS are a$$'s about their software and money.

Easy another outlet that i have found and have gotten more for my xp codes than ebay is accounting firms. I got $75 per for 4 codes last week because many accounting firms are downgrading win 7 to XP because they have so much software that is not compatable.

Traded a buddy a win 7 code for an XP code last week. Still trying to decide if im going to upgrade my wife or sell it. She's still running ( Nag and Annoy 3.1 )

If these people had a good IT staff they would know you can downgrade vista and windows 7 keys to xp. IE. you can legally install XP on a machine that has one of the other stickers. You can downgrade the license.

How do I know this? I was slapped by MS and Ebay for doing this. I sold Unopened, unused Windows ME licenses stickers, booklets, and Disks - with with a piece of hardware.. just as the rules said. Didn't work very long. Got quite the nasty-gram from both Ebay and MS. Scared me straight.

Actually, it's even illegal to sell rebuilt computers with valid license keys unless you include a copy of that software.

You are really required to buy a new key if you upgrade your motherboard. You don't have to if you repair you computer by getting a new motherboard.

Now, do people get away with selling these on ebay? Yep, they do. Is it legal? Nope. Will MS catch you eventually and could they fine you? Yep. Can you loose your Ebay account? Yep. I don't do it... I have worked to long to build up my account to get in poor standings. Each to their own I guess.

Funny how some on here are so against taking trash without asking, they talk about how illegal railroad iron is, are so against tweakers pulling wire from abandoned homes, but if they want to bend MS's software rules they see nothing wrong... :confused: