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buying a powerbook illegally?
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Baninated
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Hi! Here's the situation I'm hoping someone can help me figure out. A friend works at a local college where they get a huge discount on apple laptops. He wasn't planning on buying one this year and so he said he would buy one for me, which he did. After waiting for awhile for the ordered laptop to come in, he finally went to pick it up and they made him sign a form saying that he wouldn't sell it or give it away (practically under penalty of death).
So, here's my question. If we go ahead and buy this computer, can I register it in my name and use the warranty? or do you think that the school would have some sort of agreement with apple to notify them if the serial # and the name of the person who registers it don't match the name of the person who is supposed to have bought it?
I would like to have it in my name since I will be moving in about a month and it wouldn't be so easy to have him help with repairs should it need any.
Thanks in advance for any help (and please don't judge too harshly for my lack of integrity on this one!)
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You're being paranoid. It's just the education discount if they're buying it from the school. You can certainly use it and register it, no problem. It's just to discourage non-students from using the discount.
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The normal education discount brings the computer from 1500 to 1400 and this one actually brings it down to 1200.
so they can't really do anything to the person, then, if they discover that my friend has sold the computer to me despite all of the scary language on the form he would be signing? Yes, maybe paranoid, but I don't want to cause my friend any trouble for doing me this favor. (also, I wouldn't want this to preclude his being able to buy a laptop from the school in the future.
thanks for your help. any other input is greatly appreciated.
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Don't be afraid about that.
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Yeah, don't worry. I bought my sister a laptop from my school under the same rules. It's just a bunch of empty threats.
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Clinically Insane
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The online Apple Store does not verify the enrollment status of those who claim to be college students when they try to get the regular college discount, so I doubt they'll be too upset over what you're planning to do. It's not like you're taking advantage of anyone or stealing anything - you're just purchasing a single computer through your friend who is perfectly eligible for the discount. If it's something that will keep you up at night, it may be worth it to you to make the purchase in a different way, but it does not seem to be that big of a deal.
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You're getting it through deception via a deliberate scheme that you know is not legal nor morally right. If you can live with that, that's your decision. 
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Originally Posted by msuper69
You're getting it through deception via a deliberate scheme that you know is not legal nor morally right. If you can live with that, that's your decision.
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Apple cannnot force anybody to keep his property because he bought it via discount.
That would mean the student buyers can never ever sell their stuff. Thats rubbish of course as long as students don't deal with discounted notebooks on a larger scale.
Your friend can just buy the notebook, decide that he does not like it and then sell it to anyone on this planet.
It might be different with applecare. If you buy it on student discount without qualifying apple might decide to charge you an upgrade or don't give you full service. I don't know what their policy is in that case.
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yeah seriously, if you buy something its yours period and you can do what you want with it whether you want to sell it or give it away.....frankly, apple or any other company for that matter is nuts to think that they can have such ridiculous ordinances dictating what people can do with their own property and they'd be fools o actually attempt to enforce it. You'll be fine....go get your computer.....and tell your friend to pick me up one too 
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