Selling a pc with various software installed - bad idea?

DazedAndConfuzed

Donnie wrote: »

We are still waiting for the make and model of PC.

What's the rush? Why do you need to know, especially in such a hurry?

I'm only asking for a bit of advice here so I don't shoot myself in the foot.

Donnie

DazedAndConfuzed wrote: »

What's the rush? Why do you need to know, especially in such a hurry?

I'm only asking for a bit of advice here so I don't shoot myself in the foot.

Never mind...you carry on. I think that you already know the answer to your questions.
You are ignoring the advice and acting just as dodgy and cagey as can be.

Adobe CS5 was launched in April. Available for sale in May, with the Trials available on the website in June.

The Suite can cost in excess of £1000. So you think that you friend would fork out £1000 for software and then give it to you a couple of months later.

More likely, as JasX has alluded, is that your friend has informed you that he can purchase the CD for £2 and you can install it, hopefully receiving a premium price for the product.

Forget about it.

DazedAndConfuzed

I only asked the question as if you needed to know straight away I could try to find out the spec of the pc by getting my girlfriend to check it out, if not then I'll get back to you this evening.

I'm not acting cagey at all, I genuinely don't know how this works, hence me asking the question about how registration codes, etc work. If it all looks dodgy as, which it probably does to people who know more about all this then I do, then it's not a route I want to go down at all. For all I know there are student versions of the software, or it could be an old version, etc, so there may be reasons why it didn't cost the full retail value. But yes, I accept it may be hooky which is why I came on here for advice in the first place.

If the advice given is to steer well clear then fair enough, but if it's legitimate stuff that means someone can get a bargain and I can make a couple of quid in the process of course I'll want to find out more. From what you've said about the release dates, etc, then it seems it's far from legit, which is the sort of information I was looking for, so thank you for that.

I wasn't asking people's opinions on how to best avoid selling pirated software, I'll leave that to people who know what they're doing and are happy to take the risk, I don't know and I dont want the risk or the hassle of it.

catflea

I say scrub it. The new user likely wouldnt want all of said software and would be mighty miffed to find that they've not got the CDs/its a dodgy copy.

DazedAndConfuzed

That's my thinking now too, the old story of if something looks too good to be true......

tronator

JasX wrote: »

...yes, thats not at all a hotbed of fake DVDs, cracked software and/or other miscelanous dodgy goods.:cool:

That's what I was thinking when I read this too

Donnie wrote: »

We are still waiting for the make and model of PC.

What does this has to do with the problem? Even if it was pre-installed (which I doubt), without the original discs and/or the license keys it's not a legal copy (anymore) and he can't resell it. Period.

DazedAndConfuzed

tronator wrote: »

What does this has to do with the problem? Even if it was pre-installed (which I doubt), without the original discs and/or the license keys it's not a legal copy (anymore) and he can't resell it. Period.

That was the kind of advice I was hoping for, thanks. End of the day I've been given a pc I dont need so want to sell but was wary in case I'd get in trouble if it turns out the software was hooky. If not then it'd be a good deal for me and whoever gets it, but if it's illegal to sell on without the original discs then case closed.

Cheers for your help

JasX

DazedAndConfuzed wrote: »

but if it's illegal to sell on without the original discs then case closed.

Cheers for your help

yup, to be precise it is not of itself illegal but 99% of the time will be and for the other 1% of the time you'd better have some solid supporting evidence and a verifiable story (eg disks lost in transit/destroyed in a fire but the software company was happy to re-supply the license key/file when you sent them proof of purchase)

Donnie

tronator wrote: »

That's what I was thinking when I read this too



What does this has to do with the problem? Even if it was pre-installed (which I doubt), without the original discs and/or the license keys it's not a legal copy (anymore) and he can't resell it. Period.

To check the Factory Restore path of the machine.

Donnie

DazedAndConfuzed wrote: »

That was the kind of advice I was hoping for, thanks. End of the day I've been given a pc I dont need so want to sell but was wary in case I'd get in trouble if it turns out the software was hooky. If not then it'd be a good deal for me and whoever gets it, but if it's illegal to sell on without the original discs then case closed.

Cheers for your help

This isn't correct, as you can obtain the software legitimately without discs. For instance, here

So perhaps those who don't know enough about the subject can refrain from posting 'advice'.

Of course the Student Verson is cheaper at under £180. But again, who would spend this and then two months later, get rid of the PC without transferring the expensive licence to a new PC.