You can't expect we could help you in any way with such a generic description of the problem. What do you mean with "eSellerate will not let me activate the product" ? There are precise error messages, with error codes, you should clearly indicate what they are and what you are doing to activate.
But in any case, the public forum is not the correct place to ask specific questions about order activations, for the obvious reason that in order to check your issue, you should provide with your Serial Numbers or Order Numbers, so email support is the correct place to be supported about your orders.
So, contact us by email using the email address indicated in the "Contact Us" page of this web site, and provide with your Serial Number and with the precise, exact, description of what you are doing to activate the software, and any messages/errors you see.
In any case, I'll try to indicate a generic solution that MIGHT be the relevant on in your case. Perhaps you are confusing the SERIAL NUMBER with the ACTIVATION KEY.
The activation method that asks for an Activation Key, is the OFFLINE activation, and it’s not the normal way of activating the software. The normal method is the ONLINE activation.
The offline activation method comes out automatically for one of these reasons:
OR
- There’s an antivirus, a firewall or a similar program that is blocking online access to the activation servers, so the programs thinks there’s no internet connection, and will display the manual activation procedure. This is the most common cause so, it’s likely that what fixed it was turning off either the antivirus or the firewall, or both.
- The Esellerate activation servers are really unreachable, this is very rare because they have multiple redundant servers running at the same time, even if one is down, another should work. Sometimes, it’s enough to reboot Windows and/or restart the sim and try again.
In any case, the offline activation will work just the same, even if it’s more complex than the normal one, this is the complete procedure:
- Inside FSX, select the "Register Serial" option and put your Serial Number there
- It will ask if you want to Activate, reply "Yes"
- If there's no internet connection, a dialog will ask you what to do, select "Offline"
- A Window will appear with 3 choices, select "Activate Using a Different Computer that has Web access"
- It will show a code called "Installation ID" related to this machine. Save this code and go to another PC which has web access
- Go to
http://activate.esellerate.netand type the Installation ID into the field. It should reply back with another long code. Save this code and return to the non-internet connected PC.
- Launch FS and wait again for the manual activation screen to come up. Now select "I already have an Activation Key and would like to Activate Now". Type the code you obtained from the web from the other PC, and it should activate.