ReInstall Mac OS X Mountain Lion
Hello,
I bought an iMac from a guy on eBay with mountain lion on it. When I go into the recovery partition to re install mountain lion, it asks for my apple ID and password but then it says I need to buy it. What The Heck??
If the seller stated in his listing that Mountain Lion is included, then you must contact the seller to get a refund for whatever it costs to get your Mac's operating system up to the level stated in the listing. If he doesn't have the Snow Leopard disks (and it is a Snow Leopard machine), it is going to cost $50 at least to get the Machine to OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion
If he does not help you, then contact PayPal (if that was your payment method) and eBay, and give the seller a negative rating (which you can adjust if he finally assists you).
I just sold my MacBook Pro, and once I figured out that I had listed it with ML, but it really came with Lion (and you used to just be able to ship your Macs with whatever OSX was on it), I included an Apple App Store gift card for the amount of Mountain Lion so that the buyer could upgrade. The buyer was thankful.
You have an incompetent seller to have not known this.
You have
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