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    leckey 0
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    I work for a large computer company and we got a copy of Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 professional for taking a 10 minute training. However, I don't need either because of my MSDN subsrciption. I thought about selling them on eBay but I wouldn't get near as much as they retail for. (Ultimate is $400 new at Best Buy and going for about $250 on eBay.) What would you do with the software?

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      I work for a large computer company and we got a copy of Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 professional for taking a 10 minute training. However, I don't need either because of my MSDN subsrciption. I thought about selling them on eBay but I wouldn't get near as much as they retail for. (Ultimate is $400 new at Best Buy and going for about $250 on eBay.) What would you do with the software?

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      Chris Losinger
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      hold a trivia contest.

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        hold a trivia contest.

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        leckey 0
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        I'm confused....have a trivia contest with whom?

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          I work for a large computer company and we got a copy of Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 professional for taking a 10 minute training. However, I don't need either because of my MSDN subsrciption. I thought about selling them on eBay but I wouldn't get near as much as they retail for. (Ultimate is $400 new at Best Buy and going for about $250 on eBay.) What would you do with the software?

          _________________________________________ You can't fix stupid, but you can medicate crazy.

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          dighn
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          Aren't those usually "not for resale" anyway?

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            Aren't those usually "not for resale" anyway?

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            leckey 0
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            Nothing on it says not for resale and nothing in the disclosure given to us says not for resale.

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              I'm confused....have a trivia contest with whom?

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              Chris Losinger
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              right here. use it as a prize

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                I work for a large computer company and we got a copy of Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 professional for taking a 10 minute training. However, I don't need either because of my MSDN subsrciption. I thought about selling them on eBay but I wouldn't get near as much as they retail for. (Ultimate is $400 new at Best Buy and going for about $250 on eBay.) What would you do with the software?

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                Lost User
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                leckey wrote:

                What would you do with the software?

                Donate it to a worthy cause - church, charity, school, me.

                "If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." - Dean Martin

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                  I work for a large computer company and we got a copy of Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 professional for taking a 10 minute training. However, I don't need either because of my MSDN subsrciption. I thought about selling them on eBay but I wouldn't get near as much as they retail for. (Ultimate is $400 new at Best Buy and going for about $250 on eBay.) What would you do with the software?

                  _________________________________________ You can't fix stupid, but you can medicate crazy.

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                  Richard Andrew x64
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                  Give it to meeee! :-D

                  -------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke

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                  • L leckey 0

                    I work for a large computer company and we got a copy of Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 professional for taking a 10 minute training. However, I don't need either because of my MSDN subsrciption. I thought about selling them on eBay but I wouldn't get near as much as they retail for. (Ultimate is $400 new at Best Buy and going for about $250 on eBay.) What would you do with the software?

                    _________________________________________ You can't fix stupid, but you can medicate crazy.

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                    You know you're gonna have friends, family, or neighbors hitting you up for a copy as soon as someone they know gets it. If you hang onto the disc now, you'll at least be able to oblige legally. I also like Chris's and Mike's ideas.

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                      I work for a large computer company and we got a copy of Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 professional for taking a 10 minute training. However, I don't need either because of my MSDN subsrciption. I thought about selling them on eBay but I wouldn't get near as much as they retail for. (Ultimate is $400 new at Best Buy and going for about $250 on eBay.) What would you do with the software?

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                      Rocky Moore
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                      Well, for Vista, since there is a registry hack to never register, you might use it for a coaster :) ::kidding::

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                        I work for a large computer company and we got a copy of Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 professional for taking a 10 minute training. However, I don't need either because of my MSDN subsrciption. I thought about selling them on eBay but I wouldn't get near as much as they retail for. (Ultimate is $400 new at Best Buy and going for about $250 on eBay.) What would you do with the software?

                        _________________________________________ You can't fix stupid, but you can medicate crazy.

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                        Joe Woodbury
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                        I'll also nominate myself as a prospective recipient of your generous gift.

                        Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke

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                          I work for a large computer company and we got a copy of Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 professional for taking a 10 minute training. However, I don't need either because of my MSDN subsrciption. I thought about selling them on eBay but I wouldn't get near as much as they retail for. (Ultimate is $400 new at Best Buy and going for about $250 on eBay.) What would you do with the software?

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                          CDs make good Christmas Tree Decorations!

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                            I work for a large computer company and we got a copy of Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 professional for taking a 10 minute training. However, I don't need either because of my MSDN subsrciption. I thought about selling them on eBay but I wouldn't get near as much as they retail for. (Ultimate is $400 new at Best Buy and going for about $250 on eBay.) What would you do with the software?

                            _________________________________________ You can't fix stupid, but you can medicate crazy.

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                            loket
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                            leckey wrote:

                            What would you do with the software?

                            Anything but installing it on my computer. ;)

                            /M


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                              I work for a large computer company and we got a copy of Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 professional for taking a 10 minute training. However, I don't need either because of my MSDN subsrciption. I thought about selling them on eBay but I wouldn't get near as much as they retail for. (Ultimate is $400 new at Best Buy and going for about $250 on eBay.) What would you do with the software?

                              _________________________________________ You can't fix stupid, but you can medicate crazy.

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                              code frog 0
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                              Save it for the next family wedding you have to drive 400 miles to. Then make them your wedding gift and you don't have to buy one.:-D

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                                I work for a large computer company and we got a copy of Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 professional for taking a 10 minute training. However, I don't need either because of my MSDN subsrciption. I thought about selling them on eBay but I wouldn't get near as much as they retail for. (Ultimate is $400 new at Best Buy and going for about $250 on eBay.) What would you do with the software?

                                _________________________________________ You can't fix stupid, but you can medicate crazy.

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                                Fernando A Gomez F
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                                Donate it to Microsoft so they can resell it... you'll help them to be more powerful and the day Microsoft has full dominion of the world becomes an even larger company, they might have sympathy for you and perhaps they won't enslave you they'll give you discounts. :)

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                                  I work for a large computer company and we got a copy of Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 professional for taking a 10 minute training. However, I don't need either because of my MSDN subsrciption. I thought about selling them on eBay but I wouldn't get near as much as they retail for. (Ultimate is $400 new at Best Buy and going for about $250 on eBay.) What would you do with the software?

                                  _________________________________________ You can't fix stupid, but you can medicate crazy.

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                                  Douglas Troy
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                                  Give it to the person that cures your insomnia.


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                                    Give it to the person that cures your insomnia.


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                                    Douglas Troy wrote:

                                    Give it to the person that cures your insomnia.

                                    Hmm, invite me over and I'll start getting frisky. It cures my wife's insomnia every time! (Ba dum bum.)


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                                      I work for a large computer company and we got a copy of Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 professional for taking a 10 minute training. However, I don't need either because of my MSDN subsrciption. I thought about selling them on eBay but I wouldn't get near as much as they retail for. (Ultimate is $400 new at Best Buy and going for about $250 on eBay.) What would you do with the software?

                                      _________________________________________ You can't fix stupid, but you can medicate crazy.

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                                      I'd keep it until I found it years later going through the boxes looking for something else at which point I'd laugh and say "I remember this" then take it out back and burn it in a fire for the heck of it or just toss it in the garbage. What you should do is just give it away to someone else or sell it on Ebay, if you can do that then do it, is 100 bucks not significant to you?

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                                        I work for a large computer company and we got a copy of Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 professional for taking a 10 minute training. However, I don't need either because of my MSDN subsrciption. I thought about selling them on eBay but I wouldn't get near as much as they retail for. (Ultimate is $400 new at Best Buy and going for about $250 on eBay.) What would you do with the software?

                                        _________________________________________ You can't fix stupid, but you can medicate crazy.

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                                        I think what your question was, was how to make as much money of off this as possible. I would do one of the following - Install it on a computer, both windows and Office, and write an article on CP, win the monthly C# price and then you will have more software to sell - Try to break it into a billion pieces, add paint, dirt, dead animals and make it into art somehow (I don't really understand art, but that's how it usually works, right? :() - Trade it for a couple of lottery tickets - Go incognito into a software store, and put your copy on the shelves. Wait till someone buys it, and then rob the store afterwards, without any guilt because it did actually belong to you. Let us know how much profit you eventually made. And seeing as how you paid 0$ for it, I'll give you 1$! Thant's more than infinity % profit!


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                                          Save it for the next family wedding you have to drive 400 miles to. Then make them your wedding gift and you don't have to buy one.:-D

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                                          Ugh. We have a wedding in LaCrosse Wisconsin. In September. The bride's name? September. Too annoying. I'm offering to be the DJ as the last family wedding the DJ blew chunks and I took over. Everyone agreed it was one of the best dances they had ever been to.

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