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Y14.5-2009 pdf file $49, is this legit?

Y14.5-2009 pdf file $49, is this legit?

Y14.5-2009 pdf file $49, is this legit?

(OP)
I stumbled upon this website selling PDF copies of the 2009 standard for only $49. If purchased directly from the ASME website its $185.

Does anyone have experience with this specific website/pdf, is it legit?
http://www.engineer-standard.net/asme-y145-2009-pdf-p-244.html

lightweight, cheap, strong... pick 2

RE: Y14.5-2009 pdf file $49, is this legit?

(OP)
It looks and smells like a scam to me. There is no way they could sell it for that cheap, and no indication of user single user product license. They obvious giveaway is they cant use grammar correctly...

Quote (http://www.engineer-standard.net/)

NOTE: Our website provide PDF immediately download,sometimes when you purchased can't online download please contact us,we will send the document to you with email.

lightweight, cheap, strong... pick 2

RE: Y14.5-2009 pdf file $49, is this legit?

Can you say ... "offshore" ?

John-Paul Belanger
Certified Sr. GD&T Professional
Geometric Learning Systems

RE: Y14.5-2009 pdf file $49, is this legit?

I had some guy try to sell my CDs for Unigraphics V16 one year. Told him he had no legal right to sell them and he insisted he did. I asked him for a license file and he said it wasn't needed, they had included it. I reported him to the Unigraphics people to investigate.

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Ben Loosli

RE: Y14.5-2009 pdf file $49, is this legit?

I suggest that you send ASME an email with the link and let them do whatever they want to do (which will likely be ineffective).

ASME
Two Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016-5990
800-843-2763 (U.S/Canada)
001-800-843-2763 (Mexico)
973-882-1170 (outside North America)
Email: CustomerCare@asme.org

RE: Y14.5-2009 pdf file $49, is this legit?

Quote (Belanger)


Can you say ... "offshore" ?

A "whois" search on engineer-standard.net reveals the following...

CODE

Registrant: 
Name: Patrick sullivan 
Organization: Patrick sullivan 
Address: 8 st margarets road 
City: London 
Province/state: London 
Country: GB 
Postal Code: N176ty 
Email: Oatherplace28@yahoo.co.uk 

Administrative Contact: 
Name: Patrick sullivan 
Organization: Patrick sullivan 
Address: 8 st margarets road 
City: London 
Province/state: London 
Country: GB 
Postal Code: N176ty 
Phone: +86.7545875052 
Fax: +86.7545875052 
Email: Oatherplace28@yahoo.co.uk 

Technical Contact: 
Name: Patrick sullivan 
Organization: Patrick sullivan 
Address: 8 st margarets road 
City: London 
Province/state: London 
Country: GB 
Postal Code: N176ty 


Nameserver Information: 
ns3.01isp.com 
ns4.01isp.net 

Create: 2013-04-30 13:09:45 
Update: 2013-04-30 
Expired: 2014-04-30 
QueryTimes: 57 

You would think that a person from there would type better English.

--
JHG

RE: Y14.5-2009 pdf file $49, is this legit?

Better spelling from someone in London? You surely jest. Plus who's to say that's the real information?

I once reported a site to ASME for having some of their standards to download. ASME acknowledged that I contacted them, not sure if it went any further.

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