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"I am so irritated, that am actually considering legal options."

Hilarious. Good luck with that. If people only knew the legal system and what you were up against, if they would consider the MASSIVE expense of having to use the legal system they would reconsider their words. You get a free product, you wait to use it, it dosen't work ... the course of action is clear ... SUE!


 
To all the 'lawyers', I never said I was suing MS, but considering legal options. Anyways, all is moot as I have a working product key.
 
Originally posted by: toslat


I now have $1K+ of hardware that I need to decide what am going to do with. I am so irritated, that am actually considering legal options.
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So you will spend $500 on a lawyer arguing over a piece of software that cost $0. I got my Vista from a launch event. I did not install till about a month ago... but got the key the day after I got the product.
 
Originally posted by: toslat
To all the 'lawyers', I never said I was suing MS, but considering legal options..
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And what legal option where you considering? A "strongly worded blog post" ?

legal action = sue

i've never heard of anyone retaining a lawyer for the purposes of writing a letter.


btw.. unless your gross income is $300 billion ... good luck fighting microsoft on legal grounds.

they have lawyers that have your annual salary as an hourly retainer.

 
Legal options? You would consider suing over a $300 product? It will cost you almost that just to file the papers. This is what we like to call, an empty threat.
 
Originally posted by: guyver01
Originally posted by: toslat
To all the 'lawyers', I never said I was suing MS, but considering legal options..
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And what legal option where you considering? A "strongly worded blog post" ?

legal action = sue

i've never heard of anyone retaining a lawyer for the purposes of writing a letter.


btw.. unless your gross income is $300 billion ... good luck fighting microsoft on legal grounds.

they have lawyers that have your annual salary as an hourly retainer.
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You don't need a income near that to sue MS and win. you just have to be right (well in a small claims wich this would be..actually it would be thrown out but you know..).



 
Originally posted by: toslat
Ok called MS CS (1-800-642-7676) and got a product key. Will try it out later.
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Hey, imagine that. An unfortunate consequence of the digital age seems to be an increasing inability to cope with denial of instant result or gratification.

Almost weekly on this or another forum, I see a similar drama play out as follows:

- Someone is denied instant result or gratification
- Freak out like an addict whose dealer didn't show
- Conclude a diabolical plot or scheme must be at work
- Come straight to a forum and rant about legal action, petitions, boycotts
- They finally contact the relevant company about it
- Come back to rant thread and report one of the following:

"OK, everything is good now. Apparently, the company's server went down for 27 minutes yesterday during the time I tried to register/login/activate. Who knew such things happen?"

"OK, everything is good now. Apparently, there was a problem when importing/exporting/transferring/entering something into their database and they're trying to sort it out. Who knew such things happen?"

"OK, everything is good now. Apparently, I entered the wrong information. Oops."

:roll:
 
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