Negative Experiences With Kinguin?

[nosirrah123]

I'm considering buying windows 10 and some games and I was wondering if anybody has had any bad experiences. It seems too good to be true, which is a sentiment I've learned to trust on the Internet.

[as96]

6 hours ago, nosirrah123 said:

I'm considering buying windows 10 and some games and I was wondering if anybody has had any bad experiences. It seems too good to be true, which is a sentiment I've learned to trust on the Internet.

There isn't a definitive answers for websites like kinguin and g2a, they work, they are fine until you get fucked by a key that doesn't work and you can't get back your money.

There's like an 80% chance that you are going to be fine but you never know...

[ShadowCaptain]

8 hours ago, nosirrah123 said:

I'm considering buying windows 10 and some games and I was wondering if anybody has had any bad experiences. It seems too good to be true, which is a sentiment I've learned to trust on the Internet.

 

Generally the keys work

but they could be illegally stolen keys, or there is a chance working ones could be revoked later

 

personally I avoid all key sites, recently G2A have had fierce flack and Levelcap did a great video on how credit card fraud is being done to buy cheap keys and then selling them

 

Honestly its like piracy but you are paying the theives for the key

 

If you want bargains buy in sales from genuine stores

[Praesi]

I use Kinguin for Years and never had a single Problem with them.

 

The "stolen credit cards" argument is Nonsense.

[TheRealParker02]

12 hours ago, nosirrah123 said:

I'm considering buying windows 10 and some games and I was wondering if anybody has had any bad experiences. It seems too good to be true, which is a sentiment I've learned to trust on the Internet.

I've used them to buy games like arma, and also to buy windows licenses. However, just in case, I have always bought what kinguin offers as their protection plan. It guarantees your money back if the key doesn't work or gets revoked. It is only like one dollar, and since your not spending much of the key itself, I would go ahead and pay the dollar for the extra protection. I myself have never actually had to use that protection just because the keys have always worked. I say go ahead and purchase from them, just get the protection. 

[kelvindeschutter]

4 hours ago, ShadowCaptain said:

 

Generally the keys work

but they could be illegally stolen keys, or there is a chance working ones could be revoked later

 

personally I avoid all key sites, recently G2A have had fierce flack and Levelcap did a great video on how credit card fraud is being done to buy cheap keys and then selling them

 

Honestly its like piracy but you are paying the theives for the key

 

If you want bargains buy in sales from genuine stores

they do have a protection service for if your key is invalid. you pay a small premium but then you get the ability to just ask for another key if the one you got is invalid or somehow get invalid after sometime

[ShadowCaptain]

16 minutes ago, kelvindeschutter said:

they do have a protection service for if your key is invalid. you pay a small premium but then you get the ability to just ask for another key if the one you got is invalid or somehow get invalid after sometime

Yes, but you could still be buying an illegally obtained key, and promote a platform that allows this behaviour 

[TheRealParker02]

2 minutes ago, ShadowCaptain said:

Yes, but you could still be buying an illegally obtained key, and promote a platform that allows this behaviour 

It is a chance, but at the same time it may not be a stolen key. It really is just a matter of are you willing to be ok with that in trade for paying about 20 bucks instead of 100. (this price referring to the price of a windows key of course.)

[ShadowCaptain]

2 minutes ago, TheRealParker02 said:

It is a chance, but at the same time it may not be a stolen key. It really is just a matter of are you willing to be ok with that in trade for paying about 20 bucks instead of 100. (this price referring to the price of a windows key of course.)

or its a grey import, or from a foreign country etc

honestly barely any money from those sites goes to developers , and any stolen keys actually lose the company money

 

if you want to support the devs just buy the thing - dont give money to these companies imo

[TheRealParker02]

2 minutes ago, ShadowCaptain said:

or its a grey import, or from a foreign country etc

honestly barely any money from those sites goes to developers , and any stolen keys actually lose the company money

 

if you want to support the devs just buy the thing - dont give money to these companies imo

And I totally understand where your coming from. I do actually own a few legitimate copies of Windows that I purchased at Best Buy. I used to not be able to afford things like that. I can now, but because at the time I built my first pc, I did not have enough money to pay for all of those components plus a $100 Windows License. So I would say if you have the money, yes do it legitimately and buy it from Microsoft or somewhere in store. But if you are on a really tight budget and just can't squeeze the money for it, I wouldn't really have an objection to using Kinguin just once or twice.