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Posted 3 February 2015
Upgrade existing Office 365 Personal (1 User) to Office 365 Home (5 Users) for 1 off £7.99 (Update: Possible 100% cashback via Quidco!)
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This deal is expired. Here are some options that might interest you:
Update June 2016: Confirmed still working, as would be a lot of effort for MS to patch billing vs sub websites to fix. Glad it has helped so many
Update 5th April 2015: Still working fine for me 2 months after initially using this. Thanks to all those that have voted hot & confirmed still working for others via comments.
Verified by myself as working in the UK, there's a glitch in behaviour between Microsoft Online Store and Office 365 subscriptions that allows you to buy 1 month of Office 365 Home from the Microsoft Store, but that will upgrade the whole rest of any existing personal Office Personal subscription period + add on 1 month!
What this means is if you picked up a free 1 Year Office 365 Personal with some cheap Windows tablet (like Linx 7) then for just £7.99 you can upgrade that subscription from 12 months 1 user to 13 months of 5 users (each with their own 1TB, soon unlimited, OneDrive cloud storage!) for just that 1x £7.99 amount!
Note before you do this deal add as many Office 365 Personal 1 Year licenses to your account as possible (Stacking up to 4 Years in the future appears to be the safe maximum) and this deal will apply upgrade to that multi-year expiry for same 1x £7.99.
Just make sure to do 2nd part of going in and turning off auto-renewal after initial purchase.
All instructions and more details are on the Deal URL which is thurrott.com/clo…-99
Update from wenttoabetterplace: Possible 100% cashback on this 1 month Office 365 subscription purchase via Quidco! quidco.com/mic…re/
Direct Office 365 Home product URL (But read Thurrott.com instructions above 1st & Change to 1 month, not 1 year default before buy!) microsoftstore.com/sto…200
Update 5th April 2015: Still working fine for me 2 months after initially using this. Thanks to all those that have voted hot & confirmed still working for others via comments.
Verified by myself as working in the UK, there's a glitch in behaviour between Microsoft Online Store and Office 365 subscriptions that allows you to buy 1 month of Office 365 Home from the Microsoft Store, but that will upgrade the whole rest of any existing personal Office Personal subscription period + add on 1 month!
What this means is if you picked up a free 1 Year Office 365 Personal with some cheap Windows tablet (like Linx 7) then for just £7.99 you can upgrade that subscription from 12 months 1 user to 13 months of 5 users (each with their own 1TB, soon unlimited, OneDrive cloud storage!) for just that 1x £7.99 amount!
Note before you do this deal add as many Office 365 Personal 1 Year licenses to your account as possible (Stacking up to 4 Years in the future appears to be the safe maximum) and this deal will apply upgrade to that multi-year expiry for same 1x £7.99.
Just make sure to do 2nd part of going in and turning off auto-renewal after initial purchase.
All instructions and more details are on the Deal URL which is thurrott.com/clo…-99
Update from wenttoabetterplace: Possible 100% cashback on this 1 month Office 365 subscription purchase via Quidco! quidco.com/mic…re/
Direct Office 365 Home product URL (But read Thurrott.com instructions above 1st & Change to 1 month, not 1 year default before buy!) microsoftstore.com/sto…200
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sorted byThis deal couldn't have come at a better time for me.. Yesterday the copy of Office 2010 Pro that came on my second hand laptop last year somehow became aware that it was... a little less than legitimate shall we say. I'd had my suspicions, but it had worked nicely up until now. In days gone by I might've hunted around for a way to 'persuade' it that it was legit, but I had decided yesterday evening that the time had finally come for me to cough up for Office. So today I was gonna probably subscribe to 365 anyway. I almost certainly would've paid £80 for a year of 365 home.
Instead I see this thread. I'm starting from scratch - no Lynx tablet or suchlike to get a free sub, so (thanks to realising I could from this comment thread) I figured I'd just buy a sub on ebay. Then I figured "in for a penny, in for a pound - I'm only gonna get one shot at this" - I bought 4 years worth for just under £80. The seller emailed the codes, I started a new MS account and signed up for a month trial of 365 (Personal, expiring Mar 4 2015)... I activated the 4 ebay codes (Personal, expiring Mar 4 2019), and finally, the moment of truth - purchased on month of Home as per instructions - boom - Home, expiring Apr 4 2019. Awesome.
So, provided it sticks, I've got myself 4 years of Home for £8 more than I expected to get 1 year for this morning. Now that's what I call a hot deal :-) Big thanks to the OP, the article he references, and a good ebay seller (boostcontrollers).
no.. it will change to only 2 months of home!
the 7.99 home premium 1 month auto renewal does two things:
1. Adds one month subscription to your existing subscription.
2. Converts the personal subscription to a home subscription.
What you would need to do is buy a 1 year subscription to 365 personal and activate that first (can be found on ebay for £20). Once that is activated and your account says it is active for a year THEN you buy the 1 month home 365
Thanks DigitalAmoeba and wenttoabetterplace for saving me at the last minute!!!! man I love this site
All worked perfect as above using my existing account. Looks like I got the extra month too. Expires 06 April 2019.
If it helps anyone I bough my 4 subs from ebay seller fresheggsman. He was the cheapest at the time and I seriously cannot recommend enough as he sent pics/screenshots on what to do and sent through very quick. I dont know the guy but thought I'd share my experience. Cheers.
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Okay I fixed it by clicking free trial and it said I already a 365 subscription so would I like to upgrade? It then let me buy..
Or you can install the free version of Office 2010 and use a utility to remove the ads. For email, you can use the free client obtainable from Ms for Windows 7. Not sure about Window 8 etc.
Cloud storage of 1 terrabyte may be useful for some. But it is all subscription based.
I think Ms would love users to go to a subscription based service for all their software. It has tried this for business users. ISPs and Anti-virus software makers are happy to give you it free or virtually free for 6 months or more of course.
For users of other operating systems there are free or very cheap (under £10) which will allow you to edit these type of files. Open office can apparently be used on the Mac.
So why get involved in a subscription based service?
Thats exactly what I just did and worked.
Having chatted with Microsoft CS last night, there is no technical way for them to downgrade the account back to a 'personal' one. They effectively consider the conversion to a Home account to be a goodwill gesture (which under any other circumstances, it would be!).
The only way to get back to being a personal account is to pay £5.99 for a month of Personal. You are then given a warning telling you that you are signing up for a less well featured version of Office.
The downgrade does work though. & I have since added an extra year of Personal to my account.
My account therefore looks like this;
1 yr Office Personal + 1 month Home + 1 month personal + 1 year personal.
I think the best way to do this seeing as 5 years does not seem to work is the following.
1 Month Personal Trial + 1 Year Personal + 1 Year Personal + 1 Year Personal + 1 Year Personal + 1 Month Home = Home O365 until April 2019
Which is what I have.
Yes, exactly that.
"Redemption Failed
We’re sorry, we are unable to fulfill your request at this time. You’ve reached the limit for Office 365 subscription renewals on this account. Please go to office.com/mya…unt to view your account details."
Looks like I am stuck. I will have to wait one year until the account expires a year of Personal and see if I am then able to redeem this key. So if you're doing this, don't buy 5 x Personal. The limit appears to be 4.
It still works, literally just completed it :-)
Yeah that would have been helpful, he's called boostcontrollers ebay.co.uk/usr…ers
Since April and working well. specialy the onedrive
Taken from the 2nd newest post in the Disqus comment section beneath this article on Paul Thurrott's website:
"LHpost • 17 days ago
Appears to work still in Sept 2015 -- I just stacked then converted, and it looks fine. Will verify that it still works after the first month, but it sure looks like it's good for the duration! Thanks so much for the tip."
Also I shall be attempting this myself for the second time this year in the next day or two so shall post back here if it still works!
jw021979
Fid you select the one month renewal or the one month? You need the renewal selection and also need to make sure that you are logged into the MS store with the same account that your personal licences sit in.
need to find a way to extend it cheaply.
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I found scouring the forums (AV OCUK ETC ETC) good for picking up cheap subs.
My big gripe with OneDrive is the fact you can't share a folder with another user and have it appear on their desktop client.
This works perfectly well in Dropbox, box etc so I thought I must be missing something. However after a chat with MS turns out that the lack of this must-have collaborative feature is right. You cannot access shared onedrive folders between users except via the web interface.
This, for some of my clients, was unacceptable so we're back with Dropbox until MS see fit to add this feature.
As a postscript to this, I have found a workaround using Easeus EverySync which allows one user to sync any local folder to a onedrive account. This gets collaboration working for a pair of users, which is a start....
This deal isn't for a year's subscription, but instead upgrades an existing Office 365 subscription period from 'Personal' (1 User & PC) to 'Home' (5 Users & 5 PCs) for just 1x £7.99 purchase. For those who got 1 year of Office 365 free with a recent PC purchase (hotukdeals.com/search?action=search&keywords=office+365) then that gives an effective saving of £87 if they want/need 5 installs instead of just 1.
If you're already paying for an Office 365 Personal subscription then this instead saves you an extra £2 per month. If you already had 3 years of Office 365 Personal stacked up on your MS Account that would potentially save you £64 over 3 years or £16 over 1 year.
Office 365 is a subscription method of paying for full MS Office, but also then gets you 1TB+ of OneDrive online storage + bundled Skype calling minutes. Here's official comparison product page products.office.com/en-…cts (edited)
Hopefully my other comment clarified things, but Office 365 is a separate monthly subscription method of paying for always latest version Microsoft Office desktop programs + massive OneDrive online storage + Skype calling out minutes.
I'm afraid it's a completely separate system than older method of paying a much larger upfront cost for a particular version of Office once but then being able to use it without further monthly costs. So I'm afraid no you can't apply this offer to any existing Office software installs, only Office 365 Personal subscription method.
As JamesBody linked you can find much more information on Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wik…365 and my other comment had the link to official Microsoft store showing latest different methods to buy office and their prices.
Cancelled the auto renew and still get 'Expires: Friday, March 4, 2016'
Thanks OP.
*Remember to cancel the auto renew if you have multiple MS accounts|Hotmail|Outlook|Tablet access accounts*
Looks like the whole of the UK is buying MSO keys for this, so just shows you how popular MSO would be if MS actually reduced the price to a more affordable, everyday user price range!
- MS Office is far superior in my opinion (and that is my opinion)
- DropBox does not offer 1TB (soon to be unlimited) for free. Though, DropBox is the far superior service. (again my opinion)
This is ideal for those that (1) need MS Office, and have an overhanging Personal subscription (2) need substantial space for cloud backup.
Thanks OP. Converted from Personal to Home with success - been looking to get the new Outlook on my iMac as well as the MBA for a while, but didn't wanted to shell out for a second sub.
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Office 2013 Pro for a tenner is a no brainer. The only reason to think about 365 in that case is the storage (which you could get elsewhere) or if you want to use across the 5 accounts/machines that 365 Home offers.
For the previous guy who asked about ebay delivery time - I clicked 'buy it now' just before midday, the guy emailed photos of the code cards at 3:30. He's US based I think, so that probably effects his hours of operation.
thanks - just did it on my uni account and it works very nicely!
The guy's ebay username is "boostcontrollers" - if you do a search for user you should be able to find him, or just search for "Office 365 Personal" Buy it Now (sort by price!) and he's one of the sellers. I've just had a quick look and his prices seem to have gone up a bit (now about £23 a sub) - not sure if that's him reacting to demand or just currency fluctuations - still the cheapest on ebay as far as I can see though. He still has multiple BiN lots available.
To reply to you and the later similar post - this trick isn't much use to anyone who already has Home - there is no way of adding a Personal sub to an existing Home sub, and so the only thing you can do in that situation is start a new MS account and stack that with as many Personal subs as required before using the trick to bump them up to Home. A bit wasteful if you have more than a couple of months of Home already on your account, but it is what it is.
If however you already have a part-used Personal sub going, you can totally add extra personal sub keys to stretch it out a year or 3, but only BEFORE doing the bump to Home. After is TOO LATE.
Also, it's worth reminding anyone who's thinking of doing what I did and buying a bunch of Personal subs specifically to take advantage of this exploit, there's no guarantee that after a month all our magic Home glass coaches wont turn back into Personal pumpkins. As far as I can see the trick was discovered less than a month ago, so no-one can say for sure. It looks pretty unlikely to go wrong, but it is a gamble. I guess the worst that can happen is ending up stuck with a few years of Personal - as long as you get it a decent price (or free) that's not the end of the world.
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The deal title makes it pretty obvious that the price is for an upgrade so don't see your issue!