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Until you discover it's an illegally sold volume license copy and the volume license gets voided. Fun times, fun times.

• Sohcahtoa82 6y ago
  Does this still happen? I bought my Win10 Pro key from a grey market site for like $10, so I figure it's likely an illegally sold volume license copy. Yeah, I totally acknowledge that it could get voided, but I know several other people who have bought their Windows key from these types of sites, and none have ever had a problem.
  • 1996 6y ago
    And in the worst case, buy another. As a customer, the question of the legality of the license key is not my concern. I purchased it, Microsoft checked it, while knowing my IP address, and decided it was good to go. The fault is theirs: if they don't want volume keys to work outside some markets, add some limitation like geolocalization.
    • Sohcahtoa82 6y ago
      > And in the worst case, buy another. That would basically be my plan. If the second key got revoked, THEN I might consider buying a legitimate one.
  • TheRealPomax 6y ago
    Usually only when the company that bought the volume license goes out of business, so not all the time, but it certainly still happens.