microsoft onenote v.ebay

I'm looking to pick up this program for school and the stick price is about $50 bucks at our school bookstore. Ebay is offering it from about $20-25. How legit are these copies? Most of the auctions say new, never used, not a copy, cd keys are authentic,etc but pretty much none of them come in a sealed box. whats the catch here? I would love to save $25-30 bucks if I could.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...MEDW:IT&viewitem=&item=230040620116&rd=1&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...MEBI:IT&viewitem=&item=140044569578&rd=1&rd=1

those are some links. pretty much none of the auctions have legit photos but merely taken off a website.

pull the trigger or no. im poor but is it worth the risk?

 

I would not trust any Microsoft keys from sites like e-bay or craigslist.
Serial from other compaines are mostly likely to work, but 7 times out of 10 you will have a problem with buying mircosoft keys.

^^^^ONLY 2005 AND ABOVE^^^^^

Being that it's 2003, it very likely that it will work with no problem at all.

 

Cant you get the program for free/significant discount? From MSDN I get all their OSes and alot of other programs (OneNote being one) for free. Check with your school to see if that is true for you as well.

 

lots of free alternatives

i used evernote for a while, but i went back to OneNote

but evernote is still pretty good.... and free