Wow, got extra copy of windows home!

tlucca

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Hi all,

I just got my refurbished for my own use and it came with a copy of win. professional and win home! Can I sell one of these on ebay, or are they only going to work on a dell?

thanks,
Tom
 

cheetoden

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Originally posted by: tlucca
Hi all,

I just got my refurbished for my own use and it came with a copy of win. professional and win home! Can I sell one of these on ebay, or are they only going to work on a dell?

thanks,
Tom

Tom,

The helmet you wear while riding the short bus to school might be a little too tight.
 

DorkBoy

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No, you cannot sell it on Ebay. It is OEM version from Dell without a COA.

Ebay will pull the ad.



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bentwookie

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Software distributed without the components with which it was originally
distributed, including a CD-ROM and a Certificate of Authenticity and, for
certain software, the user manual and the end-user license agreement (e.g.
CD-only offers; software pre-loaded on hard drives)


most people get around this clause by shipping the oem software with an "untested piece of hardware", usually some old ram chips.
 

mikeford

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I've seen the Dell OEM XP CDs sold at swapmeets for anything from $5 to $30. What I was told was that they install XP without the need of a key on any of a range of Dell motherboards, but only Dell, and its hardly some kind of cheat since all of these Dell motherboards came with XP.