"CD Cheap" OEM Software

[montemon]

Anyone ever buy software from this company www.adventure.xxxxxxxxxxx they're based overseas? They have really good prices on OEM CDs. Payment method is via Smart Payments ...which is something else I'm not familiar with.

Thanks

 

[Buz2b]

Originally posted by: montemon
Anyone ever buy software from this company http://www.adventure.net@www.wlycos.com/ they're based overseas? They have really good prices on OEM CDs. Payment method is via https://www.smart-payments.com/ ...which is something else I'm not familiar with.

Thanks

Run, don't walk away from this site and their "deals". It's a scam. You cannot buy Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for $60; not legally anyway. This same sort of thing (almost looks like the same site) came up a while back and the same conclusions were reached; scam. You will either not get squat for your money or get some sort of copied, illegal CD-R of the program.
If it seems to good to be true............! You know the punch line to that, I'm sure.

 

[DaveSimmons]

If you are a college student you might be able to get legal academic versions of the software you want, through your campus bookstore or academic computing center.

Your link is to a scam vendor -- you probably don't want to end up in their customer records when MS and Adobe get the company shut down. Also, if you give them a credit card number, expect it to be shared around.

 

[Buz2b]

montemon,
Interesting that you have three posts but I cannot find any record of them using the search function here at AT. Perhaps you are legit or perhaps you are asking this in order to promote. I always try to give the benefit of a doubt to someone until they show otherwise so here's a store that sells academic versions of some software and can save you a few pennies if you are a student. At least they are legit.

 

[montemon]

Thanks for the feedback..I thought it was too good to be true.

Buz2b - Don?t know why my other posts don't show up... maybe because my last post was awhile back. I'm definitely not promoting scam web sights. I should have thought twice about listing the actual sight name...my mistake. I've since edited my message.

I'm not a student so I can't buy the academic versions...thanks for the suggestion though.

 

[Buz2b]

No problem and welcome to AT forums (better late than never).

 

[alrocky]

Received an email from those folks earlier this week. Didn't like their vague description that they were in Eastern Europe. A search showed one a reference to them (cdcheap), a thread from last year. Run sounds like good advice.

 

[foofoo]

hi,
probably they are realted to this earlier thread warning
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=1088959&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=arc

the general impression hasnt changed