If I buy VDMX and can I let’s say after a month don not want it anymore.
Could someone else buy that VDMX from me?
The license is tied to your email address. In theory, you could sell your license to someone else you personally know, but they will be using your email address for the software, and if they ever run into any issues, they will have a difficult getting support from a license they didn’t purchase.
I don’t know of any other software out there that you can sell after you’ve purchased it.
Okey thanks that was helpful. Du you work at VDMX or are you an ordinary sort of user because it says Leader on you.
/Anniak
A bit of both, but I’m not speaking on behalf of VDMX in the previous post. You’d have to look at the license agreements, but it’s an odd question to ask being that you can’t really sell any software to someone else legitamately. Not since they got rid of CDs and DVD versions of the software.
Now everything is online shared, and I wouldn’t trust buying a VDMX license off eBay.
Not speaking specifically about VDMX but it’s more the norm that you can resell licensees to software than not. I’ve sold several. Just go to Knobcloud for example (I sold Pigments on there not too long ago).
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I know that you can sell Resolume Avenue, Arena or Wire licenses to someone. These have a serial number and the email and other data can be pre-adjusted when passed on, i.e. assigned to the buyer in the account what is connectet with the SerialNr… You can even find such offers in the Resolume forum. I don’t know how easy it is with SMODE, Notch, Q-Lab, Modul8 (GarageCube), GrandVJ etc., but it should be no problem as a software license is actually property like everything else once acquired. I find it a little strange that it is handled this way by VIDVOX, but on the other hand every seller can also specify conditions, i.e. a license agreement, as they wish.
Read the license terms and conditions to see whether reselling is expressly prohibited or if anything else is said about it. If not, then I don’t see a problem and I think VIDVOX support should be able to transfer the associated email at your express request.
You can also see my reply to" ProjectileObject" in this thread.
Here are some problematic senarios:
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The problem here, is a VDMX license can be installed on 3 machines before needing a reset.
So, lets say someone “sells you a VDMX license.” You pay for it, they continue to use it on their machine, and you on yours. Then down the road you hit the 3 machine limit and email support, but we don’t have a license assoicated with your account? We can’t reset it (and yes, this happens). -
Or, the original seller emails us, and says their account was hacked, and that they can prove they were the original buyer of the VDMX license? How is VDMX supposed to know if the license was sold (and reverted), or stolen?
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A online reseller purchases a large number of VDMX licenses on Black Friday / Cyber Monday (with bots or directly), and is now selling them throughout the year and constantly asking for us to change the license information. (This is why VDMX doesn’t have resellers).
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A users keeps buying student licenese and sells them as retail licenses.
Technically, you can sell any software, but there are lots of trust issues associated with them, the buyer and seller. In hopes to make VDMX accessable, the demo is fully functional (with out the ability to save projects). You can learn, use, and play with VDMX entirely without spending anything. No other VJ software out there does that. They either give you time limits, resolution limits, or watermarks.
And if you still want to buy VDMX, there’s a Hobbiest and Education discount.
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That is a really good comment and I have to agre with most of the statements regarding tricks and fraud with licenses. Cornelius would not be able to make a point like: “If you want to sell your VDMX5 license, you must notify us and submit proof that you are the current license holder, a purchase receipt from us, VIDVOX, or the seller who sold you the license. After your notification and a related query, you must confirm this to us and then your license will be transferred to the new buyer and your receipt will expire for the purpose of a renewed license transfer. You will be invoiced for the administrative costs at Vidvox at US$ 15. The license transfer process will only be implemented after you have paid this invoice, i.e. you will be authorized to purchase the license. With the payment, the existing VDMX5 license expires for you XXO (serial number + name)”! Dan Cornelius, you create a database and manage these license transfers personally or automate it. A license refresh on the authorized machines via the network, which is due approximately every three months, would have to be anchored in the program, as is the case with Resolume products or cloud-based applications where this happens every time you log in. This would give you full guarantee that users have a clear opportunity to sell the license and you could prohibit mass purchases purely for resale purposes and also monitor this. But that’s all time-consuming and some clever guys will somehow circumvent such mechanisms, so I have to agree with you completely, you can test the software extensively and when you buy it, you shouldn’t do so with the intention of wanting to resell it again tomorrow. And I can only say that the general immorality in society, wherever you look, is very offensive. People have probably always been like this to a large extent and will remain so, which is a shame but is in the nature of things. So, the bottom line is that I know that supporting license transfers is not without risks and is tricky.