04-17-2009, 08:43 PM
so, I'm reading this thread and thinking, "if the buyer wants Leopard, and the seller is willing to prep the iMac for sale; why doesn't the buyer go out and buy Leopard for whatever deal they want, and provide said copy of Leopard to the seller to prep the the machine?"
if the seller is nice enough to offer to prep the machine w/ something other than the original restore DVD, then the buyer should provide whatever that is. to do anything else is bending or breaking rules somewhere, or taking advantage of someone/something for some sort of personal gain. in an economic transaction, personal gain, by definition, comes at the expense of others, so it boils down to whether or not that expense is at the will of, or w/ the knowledge of the others that said expense comes from. all one has to do, is think about what they're doing to know if their transaction is legitimate. caring about what they're doing is clearly a different story.
if the seller is nice enough to offer to prep the machine w/ something other than the original restore DVD, then the buyer should provide whatever that is. to do anything else is bending or breaking rules somewhere, or taking advantage of someone/something for some sort of personal gain. in an economic transaction, personal gain, by definition, comes at the expense of others, so it boils down to whether or not that expense is at the will of, or w/ the knowledge of the others that said expense comes from. all one has to do, is think about what they're doing to know if their transaction is legitimate. caring about what they're doing is clearly a different story.