Corel draw x5

[Cheshire cat]

Hi Guys,
I have seen on ebay corel draw full graphics suite x5 multi language version. brand new, £64.94 or best offer is this a good deal.
Thanks
Pete

[John G]

At that price its a copy its a fantastic deal but be aware that coreldraw recently put something in the program which, when a certain date arrived, made the software (X4) unoperable if it was a pirate copy.

Cheers John

[Cheshire cat]

Hi John,
Just had another look at the item it says 100% genuine brand new and sealed.
Then at the very botton of the listing it says
To comply with ebays OEM policy.
This OEM software comes with a computer hardware. ( sold " AS IS") Little or no value.
What does this mean?

[Kaz]

I agree with John, for that price it's got to be a copy.

And re the updates that rendered the pirate copies useless, it was a windows update that caused the problem, though, from reading the corel draw forums, there is a work around to make it work again.

Gets me though that they published it on their forum

[Kaz]

And it's an unregistered business seller aswell

[Cheshire cat]

Yep il give it a swerve.
Thanks guys

[John G]

I disagree with the windows update theory - I had a friend, who had an ebay bought genuine fake, copy of coreldraw x4 installed on a computer that hadn't been connected to the internet for over 6 years. It still went down after said date - the original software already had a date programmed into it and when copied this effected the software and started the clock running - it only ever effected copies - all around the globe.

Cheers John