Upgrading and Buying Software on E-Bay
Hello All,
I need to have answers to a few questions about buying and upgrading software:
1. If you have a suite (e.g. CS3 standard), can you buy just Photoshop Upgrade CS4, rather than buy the more-costly suite, especially since Adobe has changed pricing between student and educator.
2. On Adobe's site, it said that if you bought a student edition of software, the item could be registered without problem if you already had an educator (teacher) status - can someone corroborate this and tell me where the info is (Heaven knows if I could find this again!).
3. If you have CS2, and then buy the CS4 upgrade- will the upgrade work to replace the CS2 or would one have to buy CS3 and then CS4 upgrades, or simply buy a whole new CS4?
Thanks, and have a nice day...
Stacey Bindman
Montreal,Quebec
The problem with any laptop sale on ebay is that you can never tell whether it is legitimate or not.
If there's a MBP for $1000, chances are there's a reason why - either it doesn't work, or it doesn't exist.
You don't want to make large investments on ebay, as you can easily get burned.
There are many organizations in the UK and Nigeria that are involved in a large ebay laptop scam ring, and what they do is they "sell" super cheap laptops, or offer very large amounts of money for used laptops. They use cheap stories like they need to close the deal immediately because of XXXXXX or YYYYYYY, but it's all just a scam to get your money because the faster you send, the easier it is to fraud.
I'd say just do the right thing and save up money to buy one... if you're going to spend $1000, save up $2000, you're halfway there, and maybe when you're ready you will get the latest edition with newer features, and the new OS X 10.5.
Please don't waste your time buying a laptop on ebay, it's too difficult to sort out the "good sellers" from the bad. I tried SELLING a laptop, and I almost quit because of the amount of scams I received when trying to sell it, I'd receive roughly 10 to 20 DAILY
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