Solve : eBay Windows 10 Prices. Bogus??

Does this make you angry?
Do a search on eBay for Windows 10 product key.
Skip the ones that include DVD. Look for product key only.
Here is a screen shot I just made today
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Load the screenshot, There is enough detail that you can see the prices are all over the place. How? Why? Does eBay never look at any of the things?
Tell me this is not happening...

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]It's unscrupulous recyclers selling keys from scrapped machines, they attempt to get around regulations by claiming in the small print that you can collect the hardware from them. The key is still OEM and therefore installing it on different hardware is against the EULA.Thank you.I did not sport the fine print.
Yes, OEM has to stay with the hardware.Just a matter of time before the counterfeit disc's make their way online too. Be very very careful when buying an OS through ebay. Friend showed me a disc he got for Windows XP years ago off of ebay and it looked LIKE the real deal BUT the hologram on the disc for XP was blurry and not quite right. On install of XP no key was needed even though a so called key was on the yellow label with the booklet. Looking into the build it had a script file that ran that auto authenticated itself to crack it. He paid $75 for it thinking it was someone selling a unopened Windows XP Pro for just $75 when the price was like $139.99 at the time to buy elsewhere. So the Chinese got $75 from him. Later when Microsoft released the windows genuine advantage and his system flagged immediately as a counterfeit and he had to throw that disc away and buy a new OS for it and build it back up clean. This time he didnt buy it off of ebay!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Genuine_Advantage

With the DIRECTION of electronics, computers, and antipiracy efforts... Im surprised that they havent come up with a way to make a chip that cant be duplicated and put the OS on that with Boot ROMs that are these days large enough to hold GIGs of data. The chips are Read-Only to the system itself so they cant get infected. The Write-Line is only physically accessible to flash to a newer patched VERSION of the OS by someone who physically has access to the computer, but otherwise the OS runs same as a Live Linux OS which is protected from infection due to Read-Only. Personal Data, Software, and Games can still be on a drive. It would be almost a Console like computer similar to a Play Station 3 where you can yank the drive pop in another and just boot it and the OS is on the main board. The drive is then formatted and joined to the system and ready for software installation. I havent heard of anyone cracking Play Station 3's and selling them ... although you always have your emulators which aren't an exact copy of the ROM, but a hacked way of getting the software/games to run on different hardware etc. The OS this way would be officially paired with the motherboard. .... Only catch to this is that... if not socketed, the motherboard would be locked to only that OS, and so computers would be like iPhones where to get newer OS you have to buy newer device/computer.

To integrate say 32GB of SSD that has its write line disabled to make the OS Read-Only and immune from infection wouldnt be hard to do. Would just need Microsoft to back it and make a means for the software and games to not be on C: or say the OS is on B: which is never used anymore, where A: is reserved for the oddball floppy legacy support. However to protect the 32GB integrated SSD from a hardware hacker duplicating it is another challenge, but to run it they would need boards that support it and so the piracy issue can also be solved by the fact that no NON-OS boards supporting that Chip are AVAILABLE, and an alternate board is made that supports Linux and other OS's but is drastically different to where you cant yank the chip off one board and add it to the other type that is for all other OS's. My first thughtwas that this has to be fake.
One wouod thin that intimeeBay woul crack down on this stuff.
After a while, I planto come back to this thread if I learn somethning new.

Meanwhile, if anyubody wants to JUT try Windows10, MS will let anybody try it befsore you have to buy the product key. This is a big step for Microsft and it is drawing more people into Winmdows 10.

Sitll, it is hard to find a retail version ofWinmdows 10 under $110 at major stores.
From a Googlke search:
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Microsoft has released its official operating system prices and confirmed that Windows 10 Pro would sell at $199 and Windows 10 Home would cost $119. After running the system and the user needs to upgrade from the Home edition to the Pro edition, customers will be shelling out $99 to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro Pack.Jun 5, 2015

Buat the search also includes an Ad that sayhs "MS Windows 10 Pro $75.00" and I don't get it. These Google searches lack inteligence.
Quote from: Geek-9pm on September 09, 2016, 02:00:23 PM

Sitll, it is hard to find a retail version ofWinmdows 10 under $110 at major stores.

Microsoft set the prices of their software so if you see it significantly cheaper than the RRP you should be very suspicious.I did read that veterans and military can get discounts on Windows 10.
Also, some educational groups my get either a discount or free. Not sure about that.
From ZDNet.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-add-new-windows-10-pro-education-version-to-its-line-up/
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Microsoft is adding a new Windows 10 variant to its Anniversary Update line-up and temporarily disabling Cortana in its new and existing Education SKUs. Here's why.

Myself, I think disabling Cortgana is a bonus. When I was in college many years ago there was a website called Gradware and sharing with them your drivers license and document showing that your enrolled in that college was enough to prove that you were a student. I got about $3000 in software for only $600. Windows XP Pro I got for $59, I got Visual Studio .Net 2002 edition which was like a $999 software package for just $109, Office XP, also got some others like Macromedia Studio MX and anything else that was a bargain on heavy student discount. I bought pretty much any discounted software I could get that I would like to mess around with on the cheap.