@Anonymous wrote:
This is Authorized dealers - Amazon, Best Buy, BJs, Costco, Dell, Newegg, Office Depot Max, Sam's Club, Staples.
I can buy it at Walmart, Target, and other stores. Are you want me to tell that Walmart will sell me PIRATE TurboTax..
Be Real and stop talking stupid stuff........................
Guy, Target is listed. And Sam's Club is the same as Walmart, I expect not listing Walmart is an oversight.
Look, here's how it works:
An authorized reseller gets their boxed copies, or their authorization codes, in bulk at a discount off the "suggested" list price. The reseller can then sell the boxed copy or license code for any price they want. It so happens that Costco usually sells at or below their bulk wholesale price, because Costco makes most of its operating profit on their annual membership fees. Everyone else sells for a price that is higher than the wholesale price, but usually lower than the official "list" price, so they can call it a discount.
Any other reseller must get their copies from someone else, because they can't get them from Turbotax. So maybe the reseller goes to Costco and buys 100 boxed copies. And then lists them for $10 less than the Costco price. How exactly do they make money?
Which is why they don't sell boxed copies, only downloads with activation codes. Do you really think they buy the activation codes from legitimate vendors for $49.99 (Turbotax Deluxe Fed+State PC download) each and sell them for $39.99 each? No, they sell the same activation code 2, 3 or more times. Now that's $120 revenue off a $50 purchase, and most customers never know the difference.
There's a reason that web sites like this are registered anonymously through registrars like "www.namecheap.com" (actual registration data for this site) and serve their software copies from Dropbox or Google Drive instead of legitimate servers.
Nearly all consumer goods are like this. You go to a street vendor and by a"Gucci" handbag, you know the vendor didn't get it wholesale from the Gucci factory. It's most likely counterfeit, or stolen, or used. But as long as it looks real enough to fool your friends, you don't care.
What you are essentially saying is, "I trust that this anonymous company more than I trust multiple volunteers with 100+ years of combined experience".
So good luck to you, and happy Christmas or whatever else you celebrate.
