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Florian Gschwendtner's profile image
Florian Gschwendtner posted Fri May 23, 2025 09:22 AM

Hey, when i downloaded SPSS it sent this error "Sorry, you have already used an IBM SPSS Statistics Subscription trial on this machine. To use IBM SPSS Statistics Subscription, you will have to purchase a copy. Please visit the IBM Marketplace to review purchasing options". Although i have never used it before and also haven´t downloaded it. My computer hasn´t been owned by anyone else, so there is no option that i have used anything. What is the problem here?

Thank you for helping 

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BRIAN CARTER

Hello @Florian Gschwendtner

The subscription and trial use hardware identifiers of the computer being used, it will also use the IBM ID being used to determine if the trial has already been requested by the user, these are unique identifiers and prevent a user or specific hardware from using a trial for a period of 12 months after the last trial expiration.

There is no override that the support team can perform to remove your machine ID or IBM ID from the trial request.

Also note that the trial starts at the time of requesting, so it is possible that even if you did not use it during the proceeding month period after requesting the trial, it would have been counting towards the time limit.

Please see the following for more details and examples:

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/discussion/spss-trial-version-says-that-the-machine-has-been-used-before

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/869278#:~:text=The%20cause%20of%20the%20error%20is%20that%20you,one%20where%20a%20trial%20has%20been%20used%20before.

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Brian Carter
SPSS Technical Support
IBM Software
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