Need help-test, from Air 2013 owners, just 10 sec.

Please kindly try/check if you can download Mountain Lion (if you bought it before, have license) in App store.
This information is absolutely essential to determine if the issue I am having  applies only to my Air or more (or all 2013 Airs)
When I click on "download" get the "Mountain Lion is not compatible with this computer" which is absurd since this Air runs on ML.
Apple Care second tier consulted developers and told me that this behaviour is not normal and indicates rare case of corrupt original factory installation, which might happened one in thousands, and that I should erase Macintosh HDD and install fresh. I did it yet it did not fix the issue.
Air does not recognise installation USB stick, neither boots form external drive with standard OSX Mountain Lion (both work perfectly with my MBP)
Thanks in advance to Air 2013 owners who could take 20 sec of their time and click on download Mountain Lion in their App store
There are 2 possibilities:
1. something is wrong with my particular machine
2. Air 2013 ( all of them) dont not use standard OSX but some sort of ML OSX customised to 2013 hardware.

The game changed regarding Apple Care at least in Europe. The 1 year limit was not legal and since some time there is the note about 2 years warranty on the Apple website and when you call Apple Care there is always recorded announcment about it. Seems like another win for consumers not allowing corporations to do as they please. I suppose it was EU commision that forced Apple to do it.
I am questioning sense of buying Apple Care based on this current experience - I am getting, correct information here, from users 2 out of 3 posts while none of Apple Care support team - 3 individuals from 1 tier and 2 from 2nd tier provided me with such information. Contrary, they made me waste hours, actually 2 days testing, experimenting absolutely for nothing. The bluff - telling me that (2nd tier) actually consulted developers who told him that my installation is corrupt is outrageous.
Fazit: any hardware failure is covered with 2 years warranty (at least in European Community). Software issues- you can get faster and more competent response here and other internet sources. So is it really worth 250 Euros for just one year extra warranty. Since I like to update the hardware every 2 years, I am not sure.
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