I have a bunch of COA keys, I tried to activate using one and it worked on a Dell Laptop. Is it illegal to sell these keys? When you use phone activation, they may ask 'how many computers have you used this key on?' and you press 1 for one computer, then they you the activating code, but realistically, how many times would this work when using the one key on multiple computers?
What did you do to get them? did you use your phone to make pictures of the COA stickers in your local bestbuy or the alike? I would just keep them for your own use...selling them, how lame! find a job, it pays better
and you have 200... you must be a Acer employee Anyway, i don't find it very ethical... what if such machine end up with new legitimate users, these users may end up not being able to activate their product because some jerk sold the keys on ebay besides that, i think selling just product keys without a COA Certificate and/or media is illegal anyway
They're worth about $20 - $40 on ebaY if they don't blacklist you AND Yes it is obviously illegal to sell something you stole.
I know this may be kinda hijacking the thread but I had a question kinda like this. Is it legal to sell a MSDN Retail Key for my friend. For some reason it was removed from Ebay cause of M$ but I think it was a mistake. Please, any information would be great, thanks -Sam
Selling a key that is not in compliance with the license's terms and conditions is considered to be illegal. A prime example is the windows 7 upgrade key for a vista computer. However, sending me some of these keys free of charge is totally legit
Your not playing Robbin Hood, getting some free windows 7, you are STEALING from the people who buy those computers and may need that COA key eventually only to find some penis wrinkle has allready activated it. Peddle your stuff somewhere else.
It is entirely illegal to sell COA keys however they can be "transferred" to a new system. I'm not sure about Retail keys but COA keys do not belong to you they belong to the OEM and the SLP belongs to M$
Ha ha ha..ROFL Acer obviously doesn't pay very well either... if their employees are forced into selling 'second hand' keys..