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Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true?

I'm about to turn my XP machine into a dual-boot setup. I'm looking to get the Windows 7 Professional Upgrade. This site offers it for an amazing price:

http://www.wholesaleretai...professional-upgrade/#

Too good to be true?

Should I just get it off another more reputable site which would be $50 more expensive?

Please advise..

Thanks in advance!

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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/14 18:28:36 (permalink)
    B San

    I'm about to turn my XP machine into a dual-boot setup. I'm looking to get the Windows 7 Professional Upgrade. This site offers it for an amazing price:

    http://www.wholesaleretai...professional-upgrade/#

    Too good to be true?

    Should I just get it off another more reputable site which would be $50 more expensive?
    You probably need the full version of W7 rather than the upgrade.  Only get the upgrade if you are replacing an existing installation of XP or Vista.

    The site appears legit as far as I can tell.  I would be more suspicious if they were offering downloads rather than boxed versions

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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/14 18:44:30 (permalink)
    ^ Thanks for the words!

    I'm under the impression that even if I wanted to replace my existing installation of XP with Windows 7, I would have to completely uninstall XP prior to installing Win7 anyway...

    I heard that if I have the serial # & some other information about my purchased copy of XP, that I would be good for the upgrade..

    I think I'll hit up Microsoft customer support to make sure tho..



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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/14 18:52:52 (permalink)
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    B San

    I'm about to turn my XP machine into a dual-boot setup. I'm looking to get the Windows 7 Professional Upgrade. This site offers it for an amazing price:

    http://www.wholesaleretailproducts.com/microsoft-windows-7-professional-upgrade/#

    Too good to be true?

    Should I just get it off another more reputable site which would be $50 more expensive?
    You probably need the full version of W7 rather than the upgrade.  Only get the upgrade if you are replacing an existing installation of XP or Vista.

    The site appears legit as far as I can tell.  I would be more suspicious if they were offering downloads rather than boxed versions
     
    I don't think it's legit, but I could be wrong. It reminds me of those 1000's of emails I used to receive about buying cheap software.
     
    I suspect the boxed versions are chinese made illegal copies. It is fairly easy to calculate the algorythm for the "serial number/product key" for any software, and most of these copies will likely work. But that doesn't make them legal.
     
    I suggest you wait a month and see if the site is still up  
    edit: Or call Microsoft and ask them if the site is real!
    post edited by codamedia - 2011/09/14 18:55:37

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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/14 19:06:31 (permalink)
    Just got off the phone with Microsoft support - not as bad of an experience as I thought it would've been lol..

    The lady basically said I'd be good to go if I wanted to install Win7 on another partition or hard drive, but that I would need to call customer service if I had an issue with the activation key...
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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/14 19:10:44 (permalink)
    codamedia


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    B San

    I'm about to turn my XP machine into a dual-boot setup. I'm looking to get the Windows 7 Professional Upgrade. This site offers it for an amazing price:

    http://www.wholesaleretailproducts.com/microsoft-windows-7-professional-upgrade/#

    Too good to be true?

    Should I just get it off another more reputable site which would be $50 more expensive?
    You probably need the full version of W7 rather than the upgrade.  Only get the upgrade if you are replacing an existing installation of XP or Vista.

    The site appears legit as far as I can tell.  I would be more suspicious if they were offering downloads rather than boxed versions
     
    I don't think it's legit, but I could be wrong. It reminds me of those 1000's of emails I used to receive about buying cheap software.
     
    I suspect the boxed versions are chinese made illegal copies. It is fairly easy to calculate the algorythm for the "serial number/product key" for any software, and most of these copies will likely work. But that doesn't make them legal.
     
    I suggest you wait a month and see if the site is still up  
    edit: Or call Microsoft and ask them if the site is real!
    Yeah it does come off as having a 'made-in-China' look lol..

    Maybe I'll just pay the extra 50 & get it from a known reseller - since peace of mind is priceless..




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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/14 19:29:51 (permalink)
    B San

    I'm under the impression that even if I wanted to replace my existing installation of XP with Windows 7, I would have to completely uninstall XP prior to installing Win7 anyway...

    I heard that if I have the serial # & some other information about my purchased copy of XP, that I would be good for the upgrade..
    You said dual-boot.  I assumed that you would be using both XP and W7.

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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/14 19:51:03 (permalink)
    Well, at least it's not in China. The server (fw7.bigcommerce.com) is in the U.S. but the IP is registered to a company in Australia. Could be legit.


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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/14 20:48:14 (permalink)
    Probably getting rid of the old WIN 7's to make space for WIN 8!



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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/14 22:35:33 (permalink)
    @ Kev99 Yeah I plan on using both XP & Win7 in the form of dual-boot.. I apologize as a typo I made in haste gave the wrong impression *makes small edit on a previous post*

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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/14 22:54:22 (permalink)
    Well I decided to make the leap.. turns out they use Google Checkout & that the item will ship from North Carolina.. we'll see what happens *crosses fingers* Oh & now they only have 1 copy left..

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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/14 22:56:47 (permalink)
    Just out of curiosity (and procrastination) I did some digging on wholesaleretail.com and came up with:

    the domain was bought in July (through namecheap.com) and only a 1 year term??? long-term business plan?

    There are no on-line reviews yet at big review sites like bizrate, as in bizrate says yes the site exists and no one has said anything about it yet. Actually, I don't see much of anybody's site except google is referencing this site.

    The physical business address in google maps is, well, shall we say, tumbleweedish. Maybe google is wrong,  maybe.....

    One search site's keyword summation for the site in question: wholesale, wholesalers, china wholesale, wholesale china, wholesale products, wholesale from china, buy wholesale, chinese wholesalers, china wholesalers, dropship.

    I'm just, as they say, sayin'. (and my procrastination time has expired.)

    Edit note: I typed this message before you placed your order, not trying to be a party-pooper. I trust your order will go well.

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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/14 23:20:57 (permalink)
    czyky

    The physical business address in google maps is, well, shall we say, tumbleweedish. Maybe google is wrong...
    Googlemaps is always out-of-date, so it would be optimistic to expect to find something there that has only been present since July.  Actually any published map data is always out-of-date.

    I'm suspicious about the China thing though.

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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/15 12:22:31 (permalink)
    FWIW - I've always had good response from MS customer service when is comes to the OS.  I recently bought the 3in1 Home Premium Upgrade and had only used one install on my DAW.  I purchased a used PC for my daughter that had XP but when I delivered it to her (out of state) the hard drive fried and I was without a disc or restore option so I decided to use one of my other 2 Win7 installs but didn't have the discs with me.

    I bought a new drive, downloaded a Win7 ISO online, loaded it on a new HD, and called the to activate.  Had a little hiccup because it was an upgrade but they passed me on to someone who allowed me to use the clean install. 20 minutes later, it is activated and rolling ever since.
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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/15 13:42:00 (permalink)
    "bitflipper"
    Well, at least it's not in China. The server (fw7.bigcommerce.com) is in the U.S. but the IP is registered to a company in Australia. Could be legit.

    Obfuscated whois... and that's a big no-no when dealing with commercial web sites. I don't draw any conclusions at this point, but I would by nature avoid it anyways.





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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/15 15:39:39 (permalink)
    I googled Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Upgrade Shopping and came up with a whole list of vendors, Amazon was the top with a price of $74.99(along with new egg).. even wally world has it for 75.94 http://www.google.com/pro...OjjCQ&ved=0CIUBEPMCMAE

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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/15 17:19:08 (permalink)
    ^ That price is only if you're upgrading from Windows 7 Home to Professional I believe..

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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/16 12:58:08 (permalink)
      you are correct, but I purchased my Wn 7 Home 64 bit for $99 http://www.newegg.com/Pro...x?Item=N82E16832116986 and was slightly confused and didnt pay attention to my own google...

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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/16 18:14:40 (permalink)
    ^ Perfectly understandable... I initially found the myriad of options to be daunting to say the least lol..

    Looks like my package is supposed to arrive tomorrow so we'll see.. *fingers still crossed*

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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/17 07:36:53 (permalink)
    You can't "upgrade" a Windows XP to Win 7. You have to do a complete new install.  

    You can "upgrade" Vista to Win 7. 

    You can buy an OEM Version which is cheaper than a full Retail version.  The OEM version is only (legally) for the PC it's installed on.  If you change motherboards or want to install it on a different PC you are supposed to get a new copy.

    I have an OEM version and had a motherboard failure.  The motherboard, an Intel under warranty was replaced by Intel with an exact replacement.  I still had to jump through hoops with Microsoft to get Win 7 reactivated as it sensed the motherboard replacement as a "different" PC.

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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/17 18:28:32 (permalink)
    ^ Thanks for the info!

    Since I'm planning on turning my system into a dual-boot, I will be performing a new install on a new solid state drive.. and my system will still have the same motherboard/processor from before..

    Looking forward to 64-bit land!

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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/17 18:39:57 (permalink)
    My copy just arrived... looks legit!






    post edited by B San - 2011/09/17 18:45:02

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    Re:Website offering Windows 7 upgrade for an excellent price.. too good to be true? 2011/09/17 18:53:15 (permalink)
    Lastly - I got an email from Newegg & they got Win7 Pro on sale for 117.99.

    http://www.newegg.com/Pro...dex-_-index-_-32116992

    Enter promo code: EMCYTZT764

    Free shipping & that promo code is good for today only...

    So if you're looking to make the jump into Win7 but don't trust the site I ordered my copy from - then give Newegg a try!

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