"wgan" wrote:

> I'm in australia, can you help me as well, I've already given it up making
> any calls, I bought it on www.studentdiscounts.com.au, it seems ok to me.
> after I found the product cannot be activated through neither internet nor
> telephone, I then call 132058, it's supposed an australian service call, what
> they did is just pass the call from one to another, some of them are good, I
> cannot complain anything except the fact I get nothing. I know it's pretty
> hard to both of us, since I cannot give a "valid" installation ID, they
> cannot give any useful helps. I just dont want to waste my money and time on
> such things.
> btw what details I need to provide?
>
>
> "Peter van der Goes" wrote:
>
> >
> > "wgan" <wgan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:0D522308-7B21-441C-A7C3-6853D2DCD549@microsoft.com...
> > > It's really bad I cannot get any useful info from microsoft neither
> > > thought
> > > internet nor telephone services, they just tranfer it to another guy all
> > > the
> > > time, finally, I get nothing from them, REALLY REALLY BAD!!! I always use
> > > freewares, the only two commercial applications in my system are winxp and
> > > vs.net, but I cannot use it at all, how can I trust microsoft any more???
> > > I reapeat my problem here, I just purchased vs.net 2003 academic, install
> > > it
> > > without any problems, then I try to activate it with installation ID,
> > > however, it never worked, the system gives me a error message said
> > > "invalid
> > > id", or "the product is not supported" throught telephone...
> > > what the hell this mean?? the product key is not valid?? what is
> > > installation ID????
> >
> > Where are you and what telephone contact have you made with Microsoft
> > (please cite number(s) and location(s))?
> > Where did you purchase the product, and is the retail boxed product or some
> > other distribution? It wasn't purchased used, by any chance, was it?
> > If you can supply some details, I'll do the best I can to find you the help
> > you need.
> >
> > --
> > Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
> > Jack of all trades, master of none.
> >
> >