How to reinstall ilife in a second hand mac

Hi I found several tthreats with this problem. after reinstalling mac os lion, ilife suite is not available. If this is a second owner, with different apple id than the first one, app store will not allow them to download the apps.
The solution in the forums work in other cases: same owner reinstalling mac os and ilife, for example. Others just plainly suggest to buy them, which is neither possible, since app store does not allow you, because the mac "has" the apps already. here is the solution /thumbs up fro apple genius bar!!!
ANOTHER SOLUTION TO GET BACK ILIFE AFTER FRESH INSTALL OF MAC OS
I went to the apple store and told them exactly what i did> purchased the mac from the original owner, fresh install of Mac OS lion, ilife apps not appearing and unable to downloead because " they were assigned to another id". The woman smiled, got a hard drive with ilife suite, and installed. She said anyone could solve the problem if they had a copy of ilife in a dvd. She says this problem started when mac os was shipped with ilife installed, but without the bundled dvd or original dmg file.
Of course, she suggested me to buy the new apps, but i declined. I could have also order a hard copy of ilife from applecare, thought. So, for those without a mac store nearby, it is a potential solution. Please note that the mac have had always the right to have the apps, so it is a legal installation.
good luck to all! it is possible to recover the ilife.
Sorry for not putting it as a question, but i got the answers, hopefully helpful to others.

The Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico, Spanish is my native tongue. I do not speak English very well, however, I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture perhaps very very different from your own. When offering advice in the ASC, my comments are not meant to be anything more than helpful and certainly not to be taken as insults.
Apple doesn't sell the iLife apps on a disk any longer and Apple Care doesn't sell Apple software, the Apple Retail store does. The apps this "Apple emplyee" placed for free on your Mac are not the same versions of the apps that came preinstalled on the Mac and they are not the Mac App Store (MAS) versions. And they will not be udates by the MAS. You may be able to get updates through Software Update.
I doubt that it is a policy of Apple to have its employees installing the iLife apps from an old disk for free on 2nd hand Macs, so others trying to get this done may not be successful.

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