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I thought Omega is actively policing their products off auction because
according to the licence agreement, no one is allowed to sell their keys
to anyone. God forbid they disallow this freedom, since they never fixed
the product, but I digress...
I never thought counterfeits were stupid enough to sell their wares at
ebay, but perhaps I'm missing something.
At 05:28 PM 3/21/2002 -0800, Volny wrote:
>Dear List
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>I need your expert eye: I need to know whether the two Prosuite 2000i CDs I
>have are fake or not.
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>Background: I recently took the plunge and upgraded from TS4 to Prosuite
>2000i courtesy of an ebay purchase that looked bonafide at the time (seller
>showed photos etc). After a few weeks of happy usage I suddenly got the
>following error upon startup: "See \sq0.e for details on duplicate keys
>and/or bad serial numbers" and all my historical data was wiped off my hard
>drive. Fortunately I was able to reinstate the data without having to
>reinstall Prosuite. Suspicions aroused, I took a close look at the Prosuite
>CDs I had bought and I now think they may be clever counterfeits: at first
>glance they look okay, but when you look a little more closely the fonts and
>graphics that are printed on the CDs all look slightly "jagged". The same
>sort of effect you get if you photocopy a document too many times down the
>line. I've never ever come across a mainstream software company whose CDs
>appeared jagged in this way. CDs also have a 13 digit number emblazoned at
>the center.
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>I've taken a high quality photo of each CD. I have attached three small
>excerpts (apologies for leaning on bandwidth). The images are totally
>representative of what you see when you hold the CD in your hand, and are
>not a limitation of the camera. Please could someone take out their
>original Prosuite CDs and compare to the pics and let me know. I can send
>the complete image privately if need be. Need to make a claim with ebay if
>not bona fide.
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>Many thanks
>Rhetus
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