Buying Photoshop CS4 for only $387.99? Legal?

Hello,
A friend of mine wants to buy Photoshop CS4 Extended for Windows. He found a website (www.ztechsoftware.com) where it is sold for only $387.99.
The website claims these are commercial licenses. Does anybody know if it really is and if the software being sold is legal?
I find it hard to believe that the software is sold legit for that price... Please help!

If you read the bad reviews for ZTech Software on ResellerRatings.com it
seems they may not be legit.
http://www.resellerratings.com/store/ZTechSoftware#reviews
(page 1, all positive reviews)
http://www.resellerratings.com/seller22535-p2-s1-d1.html
(page 2, some bad reviews)
Most of the reviews are good, but most are on the same day or within a few
days after the last bad review and this suggests that someone has entered
bogus good reviews to scroll the bad ones off to the second page.

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