Free product activations

[Manuel Alejandro Cercos Perez]

Let's say you get a market product for free, and later on its price changes to some amount (so now it has a limited amount of activations).

For the users that got the product for free, what would happen? Would they get X activations when the price is set (having to purchase again if they run out) or do they have that product for free forever, even though now it's not?

[Fernando Carreiro]

Please read the following topic ... Do downloads during “free” phase of a market product have to be (re)purchased during a “paid” phase?

[Manuel Alejandro Cercos Perez]

Thanks. However, when the price is set, do you get the amount of activations that are set at first? Or does the author decide in some other way?

The thing is I have one of those, and it says I have 4/5 but it has 20 now (I don't know if you get the minimum by default, or if it had 5 and then was changed later to 20)

[Fernando Carreiro]

Manuel Alejandro Cercos Perez #: Thanks. However, when the price is set, do you get the amount of activations that are set at first? Or does the author decide in some other way?

The thing is I have one of those, and it says I have 4/5 but it has 20 now (I don't know if you get the minimum by default, or if it had 5 and then was changed later to 20)

As far as I know, the number of activations is based on what was initially defined by the seller when you update it the first time, after it had become a paid product.

In other words, when the seller first sets it to a "paid" version, the seller sets the number of activations to a number between 5 and 20.

However, when a seller later changes the number of activations, from 5 to 20 for example, then 20 will only apply to new sales. Older customers will continue to have only 5 activations.

At least, this is how I have come to understand the Market functionality.

[Fernando Carreiro]

This is what stands in the Market rules ...

IV. Products

18. The Buyer purchases the right to activate a Product as many times as specified by the Seller at the moment of purchasing or renting this Product. For example, if a Product allows 10 activations at the moment of its purchase, the Buyers can install it on 10 different hardware + OS configurations even if the Seller will decrease this number afterwards.