[DUG] WARNING! Do NOT buy from TradeMe or EBay

[Paul A Norman]

I know this will sound obvious, but it needs to be on the box under the
plastic.
 I saw a Delphi 7 media kit last year and it had no sticker on the box
either and had been rewrapped.

 On 07/11/05, Richard Vowles <Richard.Vowles at borland.com> wrote:
>
> Turns out they all have a sticker on the outside of the plastic wrap that
> indicates Media Kit and Academic and all that stuff.
>  Richard
>  ---
> Richard Vowles, Solutions Architect, Borland New Zealand
> email: richard.vowles at borland.com
> phone: +64-9-9184573
> cell: +64-21-467747
> other: MSN richard.vowles at borland.com, skype: rvowles
>
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> *From:* delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
> *On Behalf Of *Paul A Norman
> *Sent:* Friday, 4 November 2005 2:41 p.m.
> *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> *Subject:* Re: [DUG] WARNING! Do NOT buy from TradeMe or EBay
>
>   Thanks Richard.
> Acedemic versions and the like as well or are they already marked?
>
>  On 04/11/05, Richard Vowles <Richard.Vowles at borland.com> wrote:
> >
> > Sounds like a spiffingly good idea to me. I'll pass it on.
> >  Richard
> >  ---
> > Richard Vowles, Solutions Architect, Borland New Zealand
> > email: richard.vowles at borland.com
> > phone: +64-9-9184573
> > cell: +64-21-467747
> > other: MSN richard.vowles at borland.com, skype: rvowles
> >
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> > *From:* delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
> > *On Behalf Of *Paul A Norman
> > *Sent:* Friday, 4 November 2005 11:29 a.m.
> > *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> > *Subject:* Re: [DUG] WARNING! Do NOT buy from TradeMe or EBay
> >
> >   Dear Richard,
> >  A well placed corporate computer industry type fellow was once selling
> > some stuff but we were spared some difficulty because . .
> >  Corel, and sometines Adobe I think, regional offices in the past have
> > put clear (but elegantly designed) Media license stickers (permanent glue!)
> > on the outside of their media kits.
> >  Seeing these on other companis products has helped us avoid bad moves.
> > We nearly got stuck with something very bad once becasue it was not marked
> > in any way. A journalist was selling stuff openly and that itseslf alerted
> > us on another occasion.
> >  When I look at the picyures supplied on the recent postings in New
> > Zealand Trademe, there do not appear to be any media kit warnings on them.
> >  Do you think that that is something that Borland USA, Singapore and
> > other regional offices might consider implementing?
> >  Paul
> >  On 04/11/05, Richard Vowles <Richard.Vowles at borland.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > Guys,
> > >  A real warning. In the last two weeks alone I have been contacted by
> > > THREE people who have been burnt by this.
> > >  One guy purchased from ebay and got the item sent out. It turned out
> > > to be an educational license where the key was attached to an account in
> > > France (not the UK where he purchased it).
> > >  The other two purchased off TradeMe and paid $600 and $800 for media
> > > kits. They were unopened so the person selling probably didn't know they
> > > weren't full versions, but they may have. This is also not legal, only our
> > > resellers with reseller agreements can resell our products without explicit
> > > permission from us.
> > >  We aren't trying to make things hard for you guys, if you have a
> > > legitimate sale (decreasing developers, etc) then we are happy to grant
> > > permission, but it is to protect people from things like this happening.
> > >  Richard
> > >  ---
> > > Richard Vowles, Solutions Architect, Borland New Zealand
> > > email: richard.vowles at borland.com
> > > phone: +64-9-9184573
> > > cell: +64-21-467747
> > > other: MSN richard.vowles at borland.com, skype: rvowles
> > >
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