Dell Operating System Restore CDs Vista Business and XP pro

Just been given about 10 Windows XP Pro restore CDs and the
application disks and Roxio and also about 5 Vista Business DVD's
that
are basically not required. Offers welcome if anyone has any use for
them, let me know how many you want and I usually ship Priority Mail
mainland USA only.

 

Any reason you can't place them up on ebay? They'll sell..........

 

i recently listed a emachines windows xp recovery cd on ebay and it was
removed because of a complaint that it was in violation of copy rights to
sell it. i relisted it with the original pc which was trash (failed
motherboard/powersupply/etc) and they removed it again. but i also listed a
gateway xp pro restore cd and it was not canceled... so go figure. but the
bottom line is that microsoft trolls ebay listings and obviously objects to
certain items and/or language used in the listing.

 

They claim its Microsoft but it is actually eBay that will prevent the
sale of restore disks for systems that a lot of manufacturers will not
include but instead form a partition on a hard drive. Dell will issue
a free disk (For the cost of postage), but again this is not
applicable if you either re-sell the system or it is out of warranty.
I have had in the past numerous auctions pulled for the same reason
above but again I have had succesful auctions as well (And very good
prices they do bring on eBay too I may add). With the amount of these
disks I receieve on a week to week basis, trying to work the ebay
loophole is not always viable and especially when an hour before the
auction ends they decide its in violation because Microsoft state it
has to be sold with the machine. (If thats the case then why are Dell,
HP, Gateway etc allowed to re-sell them if you have no warranty etc is
beyond me, and at a price a lot higher than the $15-$20 they usually
bring on eBay)

 

Not to mention if you have a Windows-based issue on any of these OEM
machines and phone Microsoft, they will almost always refuse support and
refer the user back to the system mfr. .... heh heh

"It's not our problem. WAIT, that's our CD and you can't sell it....."
bastids.

 

Keyfinder is the Windows installer's friend. The "Windows installer" here is a
real person, not some stupid .MSI file. But, of course, one must first match
the Windows CD version with the sticker on the computer, write down the product
key, and change it with Keyfinder before attempting to do on-line product
authentication... Ben Myers