[SOLVED] Has anyone here bought one of those cheap Win10 keys?

[GorillaMonsoon]

And it actually worked?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/get-windows-10-free-or-cheap,5717.html

 

[Wolfshadw]

Lots of people come here and say they use these keys all the time and they've never had a problem.
Lots of people come here and say they use these keys and suddenly their Windows is deactivated.
Some people come here and say these keys have never worked for them.

Personally, I've paid full price for each key I'm using. I do not regret that money spent. I've ALWAYS considered the OS as a part of my build budget.

-Wolf sends

 

[USAFRet]

Just a few of the many threads we have here on this.

I get an error when i try to activate w10pro

i had windows 7 and upgraded to windows 10 and i bought a windows 10 pro key from kinguin.net and when i go to activate it i get Activation error Code:0xc004f014 i tried contacting Microsoft and they said i could only pay 200$ for a windows 10 pro key to get pro the key is a OEM key i really...

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win7 activation error

so i built a pc for my friend and i had a disk for win7 professional 64-bit which is legit and we then got a legit key from MMOGA.net to activate it, which we did and all was fine, however a few days ago he got this activation error message "0x8007232b" no side message that was it apart from...

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Kinguin Windows 10 key

Recently bought a windows key from Kinguin for Windows 10 Pro. After installing Windows into my new PC I plugged in the product key and it didn't work. I talked to customer service from Kinguin but it was clear he didn't speak English as his primary language so it created a small language...

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https://kotaku.com/shady-market-g2a-offers-to-pay-journalists-to-run-pre-w-1836186979

 

[USAFRet]

Did you cheap out on your hardware? No.
Then why would you try to cheap out on the licensed software?

 

[wpgwpg]

I've never bought one of these cheap keys, and don't know why I ever would. It's not worth it.

 

[USAFRet]

I'm looking for a new TV. Is that guy in the Walmart parking lot with a van full of 70" Sony's legit?
They're only $100 each.

 

[DSzymborski]

I always buy full price keys. When you get a cheap key, there's a range of reasons it's a cheap key, from someone at a company abusing volume licensing to outright money laundering; it's a lot less legwork to move digital products bought with a stolen credit card than physical products.

 

[GorillaMonsoon]

Did you cheap out on your hardware? No.
Then why would you try to cheap out on the licensed software?

Good point. I did cheap out in terms of best and newest and had to settle for older and mid range for the most part. But I do get your point.
I do pay for my software. I had asked here about what people thought of my parts list with Windows included and someone commented how I could save some cash. Plus the ad's on this website on getting cheap keys make it seem somewhat legit. Still sketchy IMO tho.