[NFBCS] Purchasing Office For Another Person?

[charles.vanek at gmail.com]

Hi Jim,
Consider that there is the Microsoft 365 subscription products always
running the latest suite and with online storage. The Family edition is
$99/yr. These subscriptions don't have keys and are tied to an account
because they will run out after 1 year.  To gift one of these Microsoft has
their branded gift card at
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/microsoft-gift-card-digital-code/CFQ7TTC0K
61W/0012?icid=gift-card-page_R1_CP2_MicrosoftGC_01032024&activetab=pivot:ove
rviewtab 

Next there's the standalone purchase of Office which is a lifetime on the
version purchased with minor updates to that version.  Those will last
perpetually but lack all the cloud features of the subscription service.

For whomever you are purchasing for the gift card at $100 basically gives
them the year, then either cancel, you gift them again or they pay on their
credit card.

Best,
Charles


-----Original Message-----
From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Chris Nestrud via NFBCS
Sent: Saturday, April 6, 2024 12:48 PM
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Cc: Chris Nestrud <ccn at chrisnestrud.com>
Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Purchasing Office For Another Person?

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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