Selling a second handcopy of Windows XP Home Edition

[Guest]

What rules do I have to follow . I want to sell 2 copies of Windows XP Home
Edition SP2 CD's on an auction site . I bought them as second hand copies on
the same auction site . Do I have to sell a computer component with these
operating systems . I asked at the website community website and there has
almost been a riot and some argument and everyone tom dick and harry has put
their opinion in the thread . As a MSVP Microsoft employee or very nearly the
aforesaid , can someone answer this question for me please ?

 

[Edwin vMierlo]

two questions :

1) are these retail version of the XP Home SP2 ?
2) do you have the original COA of both versions ?

 

[DL]

You own them, you can sell them as long as you describe exactly what you are
selling.
ie what it says on the cd label

 

[Pop`]

You own them, you can sell them as long as you describe exactly what
you are selling.
ie what it says on the cd label

No, those are NOT owned by anyone but Microsoft. People can only "own" a
license to use them!

 

[Alias]

No, those are NOT owned by anyone but Microsoft.

MS owns the CDs?

People can only "own" a
license to use them!

Hey, if I walk into a store, plop down my money, and the clerk gives me
a CD, be it music, software or pictures of your grandmother, I own the
CD. Period!

Alias

 

[Alias]

What rules do I have to follow . I want to sell 2 copies of Windows XP Home
Edition SP2 CD's on an auction site . I bought them as second hand copies on
the same auction site . Do I have to sell a computer component with these
operating systems . I asked at the website community website and there has
almost been a riot and some argument and everyone tom dick and harry has put
their opinion in the thread . As a MSVP Microsoft employee or very nearly the
aforesaid , can someone answer this question for me please ?

If they are generic OEMs, you're "supposed" to sell them with a
computer. If they're Retail, you can sell them without a computer.

Alias

 

[Bruce Chambers]

What rules do I have to follow . I want to sell 2 copies of Windows XP Home
Edition SP2 CD's on an auction site . I bought them as second hand copies on
the same auction site .

Simply read your EULA. It clearly explains the conditions that must be
met before you can legitimately resell an retail WinXP license.

Do I have to sell a computer component with these
operating systems .

The requirement to sell a WinXP license with a non-peripheral computer
component applies only to OEM licenses. As these licenses are
permanently bound to the first computer on which they're installed, they
can never, ever be resold as second-hand software. If this is the type
of licenses you have, then you have never had legitimate licenses to use
the software, and certainly cannot legitimately resell them.

I asked at the website community website and there has
almost been a riot and some argument and everyone tom dick and harry has put
their opinion in the thread . As a MSVP Microsoft employee or very nearly the
aforesaid , can someone answer this question for me please ?

Getting a legitimate license of any kind from eBay, or any other
on-line auction site, is something of a crap shoot. One should be very
careful buying any software on such sites, as they make no prior effort
to ensure that such sales are legitimate. The problems stem from two
completely different sources, but have the same results: the buyer gets
ripped off. A great many people don't fully understand the terms of the
license they own, and don't understand that they cannot legitimately
resell it, and - worse still - there are a great many sellers who do
know that they're selling bogus licenses. The sites react only when
someone files a complaint, and then all that really happens, especially
in the case of the many deliberate fraudsters, is the seller of the
pirated software returns using a different alias, to continue selling
illegitimate licenses.


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[Bruce Chambers]

You own them, you can sell them as long as you describe exactly what you are
selling.

That's not necessarily true, at all. For instance, if these are OEM
licenses, the OP isn't their legitimate owner and he'd, in affect, be
selling stolen goods.


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Bruce Chambers

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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell

 

[Carl Kaufmann]

MS owns the CDs?

Not the physical media, but they own what it contains.