IK heb in 2014 Adobe Acrobat XI Pro aangeschaft. Tot op heden geen problemen gehad. Maar door een herinstallatie van mijn Windows PC heb ik alle software opnieuw moeten installeren. Nu krijg ik de melding “The serial number you entered has been revoked. This product cannot be lincensed. Please contact customer service”.
Nu heb ik contact opgenomen met de klantenservice en krijg ik de horen dat ik een nieuw product moet aanschaffen en ze niets kunnen betekenen. Het is toch raar……….
I purchased Adobe Acrobat XI Pro in 2014.So far no problems.But due to a reinstallation of my Windows PC, I had to reinstall all software.Now I get the message “The serial number you entered has been revoked.This product cannot be licensed.Please contact customer service”.Now I have contacted customer service and am told to purchase a new product and they can't help.It's weird.......
According to customer service you can only use the product for 5 years and then you are obliged to buy a new product???? Which is really weird, I just bought a license for mac and windows without a term. But according to customer service, that's internal policy.
That's absolutely not true. A perpetual license is, well, perpetual. You can always use it. However, it's possible that at some point it will stop being compatible with newer OS versions. Also, Adobe has retired some activation servers for very old versions (Acrobat 8, for example), so those can't be activated at all, but that's not the case for Acrobat XI.
Did you ever register this product with Adobe? Does it appear under your account on Adobe's website?
It is registered and I can also see it in my account. Unfortunately, customer service is unwilling to help as it is an older product and they claim it can only be used for 5 years. I don't know what to do right now.
Contact them again and ask to talk to a supervisor. They might have an "internal policy" but that doesn't mean you're compelled to it if it's not stated in the EULA you agreed to. You should be able to use the license you purchased, even if it's no longer supported by them.
The contact was via online chat, as the Dutch numbers are not available. I have already tried to speak to a supervisor via chat, but that is next agent, not possible. Tried several times of course. All they offer is to present the problem here...
That she can't help because it's an older product. She can give 2 euros a month discount if I take a membership on the last acrobat. They can do no more.
Disgraceful. You should insist on talking to a supervisor, or go to a lawyer. You can also try social media. Unfortunately, many companies care more about their public image than about actually helping their customers.
After talking to a team leader who also spoke very bad English (for English language support) I decided to replace Acrobat Pro with another product from another company. The costs for a lawyer do not outweigh the costs of the product. It's a shame that Adobe treats its paying customers this way.
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