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Looking for an Office 365 Family subscription key. My renewal is coming up and to spend R1399 is too much. Anywhere I can get it cheaper?
 
phillyza said:
Looking for an Office 365 Family subscription key. My renewal is coming up and to spend R1399 is too much. Anywhere I can get it cheaper?
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Cheapest I found was from HP R889 but it does go on special on takeout and loot from time to time.

www.hponline.co.za

Microsoft 365 Family for up to 6 People PC Mac and Mobile 12-month Subscription FPP 6GQ-01560

Microsoft 365 Family for up to 6 People PC Mac and Mobile 12-month Subscription and other Microsoft products available at FirstShop South-Africa. Price, availability and reviews for Microsoft 6GQ-01560
www.hponline.co.za www.hponline.co.za
 
For R1399 you can get nearly 5 licenses at R299 each from here:

R299 | Microsoft Office 2019 Professional

R299 | Microsoft Office 2019 Professional Lifetime Activation | 32 & 64 Bit | Once off purchase Packaging: Email Warranty: Yes, full refund if not satisfied Location: Cape Town Reason: Not needed Shipping: Email Collection: Email Price: R299 each Payment options, EFT or cash deposit BTC to...
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Never have to pay a yearly subscription again.
 
Dairyfarmer said:
For R1399 you can get nearly 5 licenses at R299 each from here:

R299 | Microsoft Office 2019 Professional

R299 | Microsoft Office 2019 Professional Lifetime Activation | 32 & 64 Bit | Once off purchase Packaging: Email Warranty: Yes, full refund if not satisfied Location: Cape Town Reason: Not needed Shipping: Email Collection: Email Price: R299 each Payment options, EFT or cash deposit BTC to...
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Never have to pay a yearly subscription again.
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Does that include the benefits of 1TB OneDrive storage per account?
 
|tera| said:
Does that include the benefits of 1TB OneDrive storage per account?
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Not the office one

For the 1tb you need O365. And for family its 6x not 5. They increased it

I usually wait for specials on Amazon...they show up a couple times per year. Usually around 50 gbp / 989zar
 
Hi guys, I'm resurrecting this thread instead of starting a new one.

I want to get a MS Office 365 Family licence anew. It is officially priced at R1499 per year with MS's official website; DELL and First Shop have this for under R1K. I assume this is a starter price. My questions are the following, and I wonder if you can clarify them for me:
1. This is a starter price (discounted ones from the vendors); after the 12 months, should I choose to renew automatically as a sign-up, will the price also be at the official MS price list R1499 or remain at the starter vendor's price?
2. When I sign up, I will get a [email protected] account as admin, from which I can allocate five other users from the family. Is this still the case?
3. If I choose not to renew automatically, then each time I purchase a vendor's O365 Family (cheaper offer), will I receive a new Microsoft admin email account? Correct? That means all the other accounts will be lost, including the first admin account. Now this has implications for OneDrive storage, all new accounts wont be linked to the old onedrive account thus losing the storage and access to the storage? Is this correct?
4. So the initial savings for signing up "locks" you in for life...seems like that. Unless you break loose of MS "ransomware" behaviour, we do not have options right now (Google Docs is not an option).
5. I opted for O365 Family as it has 1TB of OneDrive storage for each user, unlike what we used when we were at School or University (they have now reduced storage to 100GB per user (from 01 Feb 2024), not 1TB on the EDU SKU licence A1 type). As a family, we use MS Office as our Office package, collaborate, and do school work. I want us to be able to store files on our account for personal work and not the school's account. We will keep the school account for that specific purpose. We can sign into the 2 OneDrive accounts separately on the same Windows PC/MacOS, etc.

I would appreciate your help figuring this out.
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To your questions,

1. You can buy as many of those and add to your account, it just extends the subscription by a year each time.

2. You sign up with your personal email e.g outlook / Gmail etc. From your Microsoft 0365 account that is associated with that , you can assign and manage your other family members.
 
TedLasso said:
To your questions,

1. You can buy as many of those and add to your account, it just extends the subscription by a year each time.

2. You sign up with your personal email e.g outlook / Gmail etc. From your Microsoft 0365 account that is associated with that , you can assign and manage your other family members.
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Thanks for this. So it would appear that just before the 12-month expiry date, I can purchase these "chapter offers" from the vendors using the exact login details (I have an MS Outlook account) and enter the 25-digit key to an existing licence. This will extend ("renew") the licence for another 12 months. I should not opt for an auto-renew option.
 
Smiley_lauf said:
Thanks for this. So it would appear that just before the 12-month expiry date, I can purchase these "chapter offers" from the vendors using the exact login details (I have an MS Outlook account) and enter the 25-digit key to an existing licence. This will extend ("renew") the licence for another 12 months. I should not opt for an auto-renew option.
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Correct. That's what I do. I normally buy about 3 to 4 and stack them on my account and turn off auto renew.
 
AchmatK said:
Correct. That's what I do. I normally buy about 3 to 4 and stack them on my account and turn off auto renew.
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This got me thinking: why is there no offer from MS to have a 5-year "lease" agreement, which would be discounted to these pricing levels?
So you saying, that by going to setup.office.com, signing in using an existing (previously activated Office licence) MS account, and then keep adding these 3-4 licences on the profile simultaneously under the same MS account? How will the MS Office licencing system know that these are not current licence (first 12 months) vs the subsequent months after this first licence?
 
Smiley_lauf said:
This got me thinking: why is there no offer from MS to have a 5-year "lease" agreement, which would be discounted to these pricing levels?
So you saying, that by going to setup.office.com, signing in using an existing (previously activated Office licence) MS account, and then keep adding these 3-4 licences on the profile simultaneously under the same MS account? How will the MS Office licencing system know that these are not current licence (first 12 months) vs the subsequent months after this first licence?
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If you add them to an existing MS account it will stack. If you create a new MS account the first one you add will give you 12 months and every additional key you enter will add a further 12 months.

Keys are not limited to new accounts. The same key can either be used on a new account or an existing account.
 
For home use, what are you doing that requires O365?

I just bought 2019. It is sufficient for the occasional home use.
 
rh1 said:
For home use, what are you doing that requires O365?

I just bought 2019. It is sufficient for the occasional home use.
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Even 200GB Google storage will cost over R500 soon. I’m thinking of moving over to Microsoft 365 myself.
 
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