Safe to buy Garageband from Ebay?

sorry for being a little naive, fairly new to all this, I'm looking at buying the ilife package, primarily for garageband, and there are several up for sale on ebay.
Is buying the discs from there ok? (aside from all the usual issues about buying from ebay of course)
ie. if someone has already installed and used the software on their machine, will it actually still work and install on another machine?
thanks in advance....
G4   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

Yes, even if they are being dishonest and selling you the discs they've already used to install it and use it, it will still install on your machine. There is no serialization to any of the iLife apps.

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