I had Office 2010 on my computer but I understand that Microsoft is going to discontinue support for 2010. I found Office 2019 on eBay for a significant discount. So I contacted the seller and we agreed to have a telephone conversation. I asked him how he can sell Office 2019 for that much of a discount. His answer was that he buys the software inventory of failing businesses for pennies on the dollar and then he turns around, sells it at a significant discount and still makes a decent profit. He commented that you'd be amazed at how much of that distressed software is out there. He added that he has a variety of software products that he gets in those sales.
He pointed out that Microsoft has gotten their money for the software so Microsoft is not being cheated. The loser is the business owner of the failed business.
So I decided to take a chance and I bought the product from him. It installed fine and I activated it without any problems. Microsoft recognized the Product Key as legal and as a standard retail key.
Anyone have any alternate insights or opinions about such software and purchases?
Mike