Install Snow Leopard without CD

Hi
I bought a Macbook pro, and the previous owner formatted the whole HD. So, there is no operating system anymore in there.
Now, i wanna install OS Lion and then upgrade to yosemite. But i have no CD for snow leopard. I saw i can order from store, but i dont wanna wait till they ship...
Is there any other possibility to be able to boot the macbook and install an OS?
They said from apple i can go to the genius bar, they will upgrade for free to yosemite and install me snow leopard. but i have to wait a week.
What can i do?
Thank u

Okay, that's what we needed to know. Your Mac came with Snow Leopard, 10.6.6. I guarantee you cannot install the retail 10.6.3 version of SL on that Mac. The version you need were on gray DVDs that came with the Mac, and were supposed to stay with it. If the seller no longer has them, you'll have to get replacement disks from Apple.
Call Apple customer support and let them know you need to purchase replacement OS disks. They will ask for the Mac's serial number to make sure you get the correct ones. Typically, there are two disks. Pretty much the machine specific version of the OS on the first disk, and all of the bundled software such as Garageband and such on the other. Expect to pay about $45 for the two disks.
After you finally get the disks and install Snow Leopard, you'll be able to create an App Store account. Then download and install Yosemite.

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