Hello--
It seems I have purchased a copy of CS6 from the same outfit based in Canada. I ordered the CD version, which arrived shrink-wrapped and seemingly legit, although smaller than most Adobe product boxes I have purchased in the past. It came with a note that reads:
"Dear Customer,
"What you should know about Registering your Adobe product
"There is no need to register your product manually with Adobe, please note:
The product you purchased is a Commercial Volume License Product, which means; unlike a Commercial Retail product that can be registered manually, the commercial volume product registration of the product is done automatically once it's activated. Registration Transfer to your name takes place after you install the product and activate it. You will see it registered in your account automatically within 30-45 days: (transfer process time). The reason the transfer process takes this amount of time, is due to Adobe's back log and they must go through their processing queue in order to transfer client installation information with Volume Licensing.
"In addition the advantages of a Commercial Volume License product is that it can be installed and used on 2 computers simultaneousy, whereas a Retail product can only be installed and used on 1 computer simultaneously.
"The validation and registration transfer to your name and email address starts right after you activate your product. There is a copy of the product key in the disk that has the warning label, as well as below.
"Please let us know if you have any other questions,
"Regards
"Sales and Support"
Well, I do have questions, a lot of them. This is all strange and garbled, and has little in common with any licensing procedure I have ever known. I have not broken the shrink wrap, and have left a message for their customer support.
Rajshree, or anyone: what do you make of this? I suspect someone may have purchased a valid Commercial Volume License but is now selling off individual disks. Can they do this legitimately? The software was somewhat inexpensive, but not excessively so.
Anything anyone can suggest would be welcome. Thanks.