[NFBCS] Purchasing Office For Another Person?

[Chris Nestrud]

If it were me, I'd send them the money and then assist them with setup to the degree necessary. If both of you have
access to Zell through banks with checking accounts, this should be pretty straight forward. Otherwise, you could use
something like privacy.com to generate a single-use credit card number with an appropriate limit.

Chris

On Sat, Apr 06, 2024 at 08:55:19AM -0700, Jim Portillo via NFBCS wrote:
> Good morning,
> 
> I'm reaching out to all of my  resources right now, because I have a
> question for which I simply can't find a good solution. 
> 
> I was hoping to be able to buy a version of Microsoft 365 Family for a
> friend as a gift. In the past, I used to be able to do this, either from the
> Microsoft store or from Amazon. I would get a key emailed to me, and I could
> give that key to my friend and he would install Office on his computer, and
> it would go on his Microsoft Account. Mine wouldn't be affected. 
> 
> I can no longer seem to do this. When I try through the Microsoft store, I
> sign in with my account and it wants to link the purchase to my account.
> When I went to try on Amazon, the digital order wanted to tie it to my
> account as well and didn't give me any choice to redeem a key or transfer or
> give it to someone else. 
> 
> Both Google and Microsoft told me that I could go through a third party,
> such as BestBuy or Amazon, and that is what happened when I went through
> Amazon. 
> 
> This used to be very easy, but I wonder if now that more software like this
> is subscription based, things have changed.
> 
> I don't want to give him the standalone version of the software, because he
> and his wife use the MS 365 family and have their own OneDrive accounts and
> such.
> 
> Does anyone have any other thoughts or suggestions I haven't tried? If not,
> then I won't go down this path any further in trying to purchase Office for
> someone else, because it will tie into my account.
> 
> Jim
> 
>  
> 

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