Selling Mac OSX and iLife Restore Discs?

Hi. I would like an expert opinion from an apple representative on this matter because i really need an accurate answer. OK basically my college just got 60 iMacs which are awesome and me and two mates are allowed to have the restore discs for Mac OSX and iLife because they dont need them. This is we reckon we could make about £4000 selling them which would be great but we are not sure if it is legal to do this and we dont want to break the law.
Also im sorry if this has been posted in the wrong area of this forum, i couldn't seem to find an accurate forum title for this issue.
Thanks
Barny

barnyiz2cool wrote:
Hi. I would like an expert opinion from an apple representative on this matter because i really need an accurate answer.
You aren't going to get an Apple Representative here, this is a user to user forum. All the people that post are volunteer end users just like yourself.
OK basically my college just got 60 iMacs which are awesome and me and two mates are allowed to have the restore discs for Mac OSX and iLife because they dont need them. This is we reckon we could make about £4000 selling them which would be great but we are not sure if it is legal to do this and we dont want to break the law.
I suggest you read the SLA on OS X, while it may (I'm not saying it is or isn't) be legal to sell them they are pretty worthless as the discs are specific to the hardware that they shipped with. For example lets say your college bought all Mid 2010 21.5 iMac's with i3 processors. Unless you find a buyer with identical (and I MEAN IDENTICAL!!!) specifications the discs won't work on the buyers machine and are therefore of no value. In addition selling them is very short sighted, at some point those machine may need to be restored with the original OS and iLife applications then what do you do?
IMHO it's a nice idea to try and earn some additional revenue for your college (I'm assuming that's the intent) however it's short sighted and overall a bad idea.
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