Copycat websites and fake product news has been hitting the headlines over the last few weeks.
Trading Standards officers are reporting a sharp rise in the number of copycat websites selling fake branded goods over the Internet. A trading standards officer commented "Anything that you can sell, you can now copy."
Autodesk and other graphics applications that Computer Aided Business Systems sell are not immune to this practice. There are numerous sites offering software at discounted prices. They often use images, logo's and text from the manufacturers website to appear genuine.
If an advertised price is too good to be true, then make sure you investigate the product that you are purchasing. Autodesk have strict rules regarding grey selling (purchasing goods from outside the EU), and you may end up spending £1000's on a product that isn't genuine, and you will not receive an authorisation code to use it.
Autodesk provides a list of genuine resellers on their UK website. Computer Aided Business Systems are included in this list as authentic resellers.