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They are both (possibly) legal and illegal at the same time. Hence the "gray market" term that gets used. One popular version of this type of site even allows you to buy "insurance" so that if your key comes back as invalid they will keep shooting you keys until you get one that sticks. Tom's official stance on these sites is to allow them to be posted/talked above, but we should point out the danger of using such a site.

There is a use for these types of sites. Lets pretend you are going to open some sort of internet/PC "cafe". You go and build 10 machines and buy 10 copies of windows. X time later you have to shut down for Y reason. These sites would allow you to sell your copies and at least get some money back. This is a...
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They are both (possibly) legal and illegal at the same time. Hence the "gray market" term that gets used. One popular version of this type of site even allows you to buy "insurance" so that if your key comes back as invalid they will keep shooting you keys until you get one that sticks. Tom's official stance on these sites is to allow them to be posted/talked above, but we should point out the danger of using such a site.

There is a use for these types of sites. Lets pretend you are going to open some sort of internet/PC "cafe". You go and build 10 machines and buy 10 copies of windows. X time later you have to shut down for Y reason. These sites would allow you to sell your copies and at least get some money back. This is a valid reason and AFAIK a legal one as well seeing as you aren't using the PCs in question anymore. Then there is the wildly illegal reason from a few years ago where people were using stolen CC numbers to buy copies of windows and sell them for real cash. When the CC company invalidated the sale of the key, the companies invalidated the key, and people were losing their programs at an alarming rate. There are many wrong reasons why keys end up there.

These sites cause headaches for us mods and as a general policy we suggest avoiding them. Buy a legit key and you'll never need to worry about it going bad. I'm not sure why you are looking at a key for $119, you should just get the basic 10home OEM key for $99.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832416892
 
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Thank you.
Why does Windows 10 have such a low rating still? I never switched to it from Win 7 in the past for those reasons and how unstable it is/was.
Now it appears I am forced to use it if I want to do any kind of streaming and play the newest games in DX12 once I build my new PC.
 
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You will notice that a few of these posts have been removed in this thread. Encouraging users to engage in illegal activity such as installing a "Windows activator" program is an admission of piracy and is *STRICTLY* forbidden per the board rules. Any further discussions of such software in this thread or elsewhere will see bans being handed out and this thread will be locked for further discussion.
 
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I honestly believe most of the win10 hate comes from the simple fact that it's a change. And people generally don't like change. I have a few legit gripes with win10, but I don't want to voice them and have it discourage you. I have win10 on my laptop and 90% of the time you'd never notice that it's different. Day to day things are exactly like on XP, 7, 8, etc. You will be fine buying and using it. It seems we all will if we want to continue gaming. 😉
 
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Yep.
We saw exactly the same, or worse, with each previous Windows iteration.

And a LOT of people are still relying on reports fro the initial Win 10 Tech Preview.
 
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I bought one Windows 10 Pro License for 6$ and its working fine. Here in my country these types of keys are given out by the tech giants to their employees who in turn sell them for a cheap price. And since activation is server based you won't be able to activate the same key on a different system.
 
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Just FYI, but Microsoft will allow you to install and run Windows 10 indefinitely without entering a code to activate. You can just skip that step.

You will see a nag on the desktop, and it lacks customization options, but it will still function without expiration.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3389009/windows-activating.html

https://www.howtogeek.com/244678/you-dont-need-a-product-key-to-install-and-use-windows-10/
 
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