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Brilliant, but arguably not as brilliant as selling idiots grey market keys on StackSocial or SlickDeals for $30, which appear to activate but aren't legitimate for individual sale.

Hint: If you didn't pay out the a** for it, it's not a legit Microsoft product key.

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I just use LibreOffice instead of MS-Office. https://www.libreoffice.org/ I am not a big fan of MS-Office being forced software that takes over Windows and activates a key online and steals info on the user.

I don't use Office at home (I use Sandstorm apps instead), and I've convinced a few folks to use LibreOffice instead of paying for new Office versions recently, but I still deal with Microsoft licensing pretty regularly, so the prevalence of grey market keys on deals sites is of great irritation to me.

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