So it made sense to get a second hand license for $400 instead of dropping $1000. I fly all over the country with my kit so no, a sticker coming off due to wear and tear doesn't sound strange at all for something I was buying as second hand on ebay.Īt the time the market was flooded with bundled Resolve licenses that a lot of people didn't need and I wanted to pick up a license because I needed DCTL for an ACES IDT I was making, but not much else. The actual dongle is from the same supplier, it looks the same. Wear and tear? on a usb dongle? Should have told you right there that it was fake Michael Garrett wrote:The person who sold me mine over two years ago said something like the label came off because of wear and tear I get it, you got taken for 200 dollars.that isn't the end of the world, and it isn't BM's fault, on any level. I paid 1000 for Resolve, 2600 for Fusion, and continue to pay about 300 per year for Avid, plus the other upgrades needed to maintain a suite in this industry. And then you are done paying for your software, ( if BMs history stays the course) That's not bad as far as a business plan goes. At 300 dollars, you should be able to pay off that cost over the course of a few projects. Most in this forum are trying to earn money by using this software, so think of it as an investment in your business. Did you honestly press that "buy" button without even the slightest wonder if this was legit? Buyer beware.Īt some point, please do the grownup thing, and pay the developer for their software.
I love the audacity of some people thinking blackmagic should give them a break on the price.of a 300 dollar piece of software!.because they tried to avoid paying full price in the first place!Īnyone who buys second hand dongles has to have an inclinking in the back of their head somewhere, that this might be too good to be true. I get that the camera and Resolve each promote each other. I would have rather BMD have only provided a certificate for people to redeem for a version of Resolve instead of a dongle, but it's not my company or my decision to make. I think the problem was complicated a few years ago when BMD began providing free Resolve dongles with camera purchases, and that started a small dongle market on eBay for "new / never-used" ones.
But I'd say if you don't have a real box and a real serial number, there's always going to be a question whether it's real. You can argue this hurt both pirates and also honest users who thought they were getting the real thing. (I'm an honest guy: I have no problem paying for the real thing.)
From roughly Pro Tools 10 on, it became extremely difficult to crack it, forcing many to fork over more money for the real thing. As one example: a few years ago, Avid/Pro Tools was so overrun by pirates, they completely scuttled Pro Tools, rewrote it from scratch, required an entirely new kind of dongle, and made sure the program constantly checked "the mothership" over the net every so often.
Pirated software and counterfeit goods are a huge problem in business. No any chances for refound for me, after almost a year since this purchase.
But another side, why BM didn't mentioned anywhere, anytime that fake dongles are on the market, and how to recognize them?. BM don't owe us free software (yep, my fault, no questions). I guess I've learnt my lesson the hard way here! It's going to take me a while to get together the money to buy a new licence code from an authorised reseller here in the UK as most of my money goes on the family essentials.īasically I understand BMD's position, but some form of goodwill gesture/amnesty might not have gone amiss as there was no prior warning that BMD was aware of fake dongles and the only way to find out was boot up 15.2 only for it to say "Enter Serial Number" (had to come here to find out what was happening).Īlex Potemkin wrote:As many wrote in the closed thread. Mine is out of return period, but I have managed to engage with the seller about a potential partial refund (better than nothing I guess!), but it's totally at his discretion. I figure that ~70% of retail is what a secondhand licence for software would typically cost. I can get behind that, as I've been a fake dongle "victim" - purchased what I believed to be a genuine secondhand dongle for ~70% of original retail price before Black Friday (that apparently alerted BMD to the presence of the fakes), not even knowing you COULD fake a hardware dongle! (Clearly I'm naïve about these things )