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| Barry. 2004-05-27, 7:14 am |
| Hello to you all! I have recently purchased a scanner with Adobe
Photoshop album included (bundled) in the package.
During installation it required a serial number. however there is no
serial number attached or included on or in the shrinkfit wrapper.
I have visited the Adobe site and it seems the only option is to
telephone the USA for assistance re serials. not a good solution for a
someone residing outside the USA. Yes I've tried the local area option
from the main Adobe site only to be returned to the main US page.
Can anyone help? I feel that I am justified in requesting this
assistance as the software is probably a crippled version anyway and
appears to be dated 12-02. Secondly I cannot evaluate the software if
I cannot use it.
Win XP
Many thanks,
Bob.
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| Gene Palmiter 2004-05-27, 12:14 pm |
| go to any search engine...type in Adobe Album Serial....and have a good
time.
"Barry." <dokee@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
news:bv7bb0h2ggmire4vkkcqsuh388h1to0vn9@4ax.com...
> Hello to you all! I have recently purchased a scanner with Adobe
> Photoshop album included (bundled) in the package.
> During installation it required a serial number. however there is no
> serial number attached or included on or in the shrinkfit wrapper.
>
> I have visited the Adobe site and it seems the only option is to
> telephone the USA for assistance re serials. not a good solution for a
> someone residing outside the USA. Yes I've tried the local area option
> from the main Adobe site only to be returned to the main US page.
>
> Can anyone help? I feel that I am justified in requesting this
> assistance as the software is probably a crippled version anyway and
> appears to be dated 12-02. Secondly I cannot evaluate the software if
> I cannot use it.
>
> Win XP
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Bob.
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| Barry. 2004-05-28, 12:14 pm |
| On Thu, 27 May 2004 10:35:27 GMT, "Gene Palmiter"
<palmiter_gene@verizon.net> wrote:
>type in Adobe Album Serial.
Thanks to Jim Guest who Emails me each post I place on this NG and
this post urging me to visit crack sites. However I am requesting a
serial for a legitimate program boxed with a scanner. By the way Jim
your Emails are now consigned to the recycle bin!
Thanks but no thanks!
Barry.
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| David Haley 2004-05-28, 12:14 pm |
| This day of Fri, 28 May 2004 20:54:36 +1000, Barry. <dokee@tpg.com.au>
proclaimed:
>Thanks to Jim Guest who Emails me each post I place on this NG and
>this post urging me to visit crack sites. However I am requesting a
>serial for a legitimate program boxed with a scanner. By the way Jim
>your Emails are now consigned to the recycle bin!
How did you expect to obtain a serial number any way but illegally if you don't
get it from Adobe?
-dhaley
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~david-haley
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| Stuart 2004-05-28, 12:14 pm |
| Barry. wrote:
> Hello to you all! I have recently purchased a scanner with Adobe
> Photoshop album included (bundled) in the package.
> During installation it required a serial number. however there is no
> serial number attached or included on or in the shrinkfit wrapper.
Is there anything written on the disc label or contained in a file on
the disc?
Seems really odd that a program requiring a serial number does not
contain one in the packaging somewhere.
> I have visited the Adobe site and it seems the only option is to
> telephone the USA for assistance re serials. not a good solution for a
> someone residing outside the USA. Yes I've tried the local area option
> from the main Adobe site only to be returned to the main US page.
What about contacting the place you purchased the scanner from?
> Can anyone help? I feel that I am justified in requesting this
> assistance as the software is probably a crippled version anyway and
> appears to be dated 12-02. Secondly I cannot evaluate the software if
> I cannot use it.
That is what demo versions are for.
Stuart
> Win XP
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Bob.
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| On Fri, 28 May 2004 20:54:36 +1000, Barry. <dokee@tpg.com.au> wrote:
>On Thu, 27 May 2004 10:35:27 GMT, "Gene Palmiter"
><palmiter_gene@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
>Thanks to Jim Guest who Emails me each post I place on this NG and
>this post urging me to visit crack sites. However I am requesting a
>serial for a legitimate program boxed with a scanner. By the way Jim
>your Emails are now consigned to the recycle bin!
>
>Thanks but no thanks!
>
>Barry.
>
You do not want to / cannot contact Adobe ?
You have cot a legit copy of Album that you paid for ?
You cannot use it as you do not have a serial ?
You have two choices
Contact Adobe
Get a serial from the www
Where else do you expect a serial to come from.
No one in this group will give you one from their copy
John
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Very often the serial number for bundled software is on a label inside the
install document.
Let me guess: you haven't cracked the install doc yet. How did I do?
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| On Fri, 28 May 2004 16:57:36 -0500, "jjs" <nospam@please.xxx> wrote:
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>Very often the serial number for bundled software is on a label inside the
>install document.
>Let me guess: you haven't cracked the install doc yet. How did I do?
>
you are replying to the wrong person. I tried Album and did not like
it at all.
John
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| Gene Palmiter 2004-05-29, 12:14 pm |
| Same here...I got a free copy with some hardware....put it on....looked at
it...took it off and gave it away.
"John" <john@world.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 28 May 2004 16:57:36 -0500, "jjs" <nospam@please.xxx> wrote:
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> you are replying to the wrong person. I tried Album and did not like
> it at all.
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> John
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| In article <0kgfb09fa0fomofp6euvg6qt6d5njfqbi2@4ax.com>, john@world.com wrote:
> On Fri, 28 May 2004 16:57:36 -0500, "jjs" <nospam@please.xxx> wrote:
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> you are replying to the wrong person. I tried Album and did not like
> it at all.
Sorry it looked like that, John. To clarify, I wasn't responding to you,
but to the OP. :(
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| Barry. 2004-05-29, 12:14 pm |
| To answer some of the comments.
>That is what demo versions are for.
Precisely
Simple!! Have it included with the CD
Did I pay for the copy..YES it came bundled with a recent scanner, I
have already mentioned that in my initial post if you care to read
before you critisize..
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>Let me guess: you haven't cracked the install doc yet. How did I do?
You did very badly! The CD was in a thin paper envelope with a
transparent front, nothing is written on the envelope at all. What
install doc? There was no mention of Adobe in the scanner docs or any
adobe related literature in the unopened scanner box.
All contents of the box are still to hand and have been searched a
number of times. Please don't judge everyone like yourself for
incompetance! Installation instructions up to the serial request are
no more than following the on screen prompts after an auto boot.
Given some of the comments as to the uselessness of the program.
Telephoning Adobe from outside the US waiting for someone to
eventually answer my request only to find the programme is worthless
is not a viable option.
One wonders why a serial is required for an old, probably crippled
version anyway. I requested assistance here under the impression that
there may be a standard serial number to open only demo software, or
that someone may have bundled software that Adobe remembered to add
the serial somewhere on the packaging.
Even though I made it plain that I was not asking for the serial
number of the latest full version I still seem to have been branded a
cheat.
Strange folk these Adobe users! One must conclude that Adobe does not
really want new users to evaluate even older versions their software.
Thanks to those who posted rational replies, as to those who did not
then please read the origional post carefully before replying
critically.
Stick your Adobe software where it hurts most!
Barry.
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| David Haley 2004-05-29, 11:14 pm |
| This day of Sat, 29 May 2004 18:38:45 +1000, Barry. <dokee@tpg.com.au>
proclaimed:
>To answer some of the comments.
>
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>Precisely
>
>
>Simple!! Have it included with the CD
>
>Did I pay for the copy..YES it came bundled with a recent scanner, I
>have already mentioned that in my initial post if you care to read
>before you critisize..
With all due respect, I don't think you understood my question. Or perhaps you
didn't read the second half: 'if you don't get it from Adobe' (bundled with the
CD.) If you didn't get the serial number from Adobe - which is where your
software comes from - how did you expect to get it legally?
You should contact the vendor of your scanner. If you ask for a serial number
online, then you are basically asking for something illegal.
>One wonders why a serial is required for an old, probably crippled
>version anyway. I requested assistance here under the impression that
>there may be a standard serial number to open only demo software, or
>that someone may have bundled software that Adobe remembered to add
>the serial somewhere on the packaging.
It would be illegal to use somebody else's serial number. You know that, right?
You know that serial numbers are for full versions, and not demo versions, don't
you?
-dhaley
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~david-haley
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| >You should contact the vendor of your scanner. If you ask for a serial number
>online, then you are basically asking for something illegal.
Basically I am asking for a serial of an old version of bundled,
therefore paid for software. What IS illegal is using full version
software that has not been paid for.
Asking here "I thought" would have been easier that contacting the
vendor.
>It would be illegal to use somebody else's serial number. You know that, right?
What I know is that provided the software was purchased ligitimately,
where the serial was obtained is immaterial. Right?
>You know that serial numbers are for full versions, and not demo versions, don't
>you?
What I know is that (as stated in my first post) is that the "Full"
version is dated 12/02 so is virtually a demo compared to the latest,
at least I presume that Adobe has updated since then.
Bye bye not buy any Adobe.
Barry
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| In article <0amib05e0q7tcinolt2gc5vjao5o3gjo87@4ax.com>, Barry
<dokee@tpg.com.au> wrote:
> What I know is that provided the software was purchased ligitimately,
> where the serial was obtained is immaterial. Right?
No, it is not immaterial. Did you look in all the material they sent you?
Did they include the software on a disc? And I forgot, but what product
did you buy that include the Adobe program?If anyone's acting strangely,
it's not Adobe. It's the vendor who bungled, I mean bundled it.
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| Gene Palmiter 2004-05-30, 4:14 am |
| Now that we have discussed this far too long we are back to where I was at
the start....just go get a serial. I am not at all sure that its illegal to
do so. Oh, I suppose they copyright the serial too...but really! Get a
serial any way you choose. But, if you bought the software...make it
work...download a serial.
And if we seem rude to you...its because we get all kinds here. And people
who ask for help and then don't accept it are really just wasting our time.
"jjs" <john@xyzzy.stafford.net> wrote in message
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> In article <0amib05e0q7tcinolt2gc5vjao5o3gjo87@4ax.com>, Barry
> <dokee@tpg.com.au> wrote:
>
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> No, it is not immaterial. Did you look in all the material they sent you?
> Did they include the software on a disc? And I forgot, but what product
> did you buy that include the Adobe program?If anyone's acting strangely,
> it's not Adobe. It's the vendor who bungled, I mean bundled it.
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| David Haley 2004-05-30, 4:14 am |
| This day of Sun, 30 May 2004 13:52:30 +1000, Barry <dokee@tpg.com.au>
proclaimed:
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>Basically I am asking for a serial of an old version of bundled,
>therefore paid for software. What IS illegal is using full version
>software that has not been paid for.
It's also illegal for us to give you serial numbers. For all we know you may be
lying to us and trying to crack a stolen version.
>Asking here "I thought" would have been easier that contacting the
>vendor.
No offense but you thought wrong. :-)
>
>What I know is that provided the software was purchased ligitimately,
>where the serial was obtained is immaterial. Right?
Wrong. Legitimately purchased software is supposed to come with a serial number.
If it didn't, go talk to whoever sold you the software.
>
>What I know is that (as stated in my first post) is that the "Full"
>version is dated 12/02 so is virtually a demo compared to the latest,
>at least I presume that Adobe has updated since then.
>
>Bye bye not buy any Adobe.
>
>Barry
Well, you have an old version, but that hardly makes it a demo. It's not as if
Adobe is giving away Photoshop 5, 6 or 7, you know, now that 8 is out. In fact,
very few companies give away free versions of their software, especially if the
'old' version isn't even two years old yet.
In any case, for us to give you a serial number would not be entirely legal. You
may be honest, in which case you should talk to the vendor like an honest person
would do. Asking on the Internet for a serial number when you could just as
easily contact your vendor (not necessarily Adobe) just seems slightly
dishonest.
-dhaley
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~david-haley
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