My brother is a ebay freak and had a bunch of these NT 4 packages w/ licenses. He also had his auctions removed from ebay. The problem was that it had to be sold with a new pc. The funny thing is that the definition of a new pc is not quit a whole pc or even remotely new ( nor does it have to work ). He sold all his copies on ebay w/ either a motherboard or a hard drive. The motherboard didnt' work and the hard drive was and old apple 80 MB -- also fried. He even stated on the auction that he only sold them with hardware to comply with the MS crappy dumn ass license. I thought that was pretty damn funny when he told me. So if you have an old broken or useless hard drive or motherboard than you can sell them on ebay. Or you can dig throuth the dumpster out back. ; ) sim Troy Johnson wrote: > Email Ebay back and let them know you're doing nothing that is illegal and you will be taking your business elsewhere. > > Then try another auction site. > > >>> blayer at qwest.net 03/18/01 02:57PM >>> > Ok, I guess I'm just a wee little bit irritated with the folks in Redmond > today. Someone I know gave me two OEM copies of MS NTWS 4.0 that I decided > to sell on eBay. Microsoft had the "action removed at their request" because > I am (apparently) beholdant to some licensing agreement that is sealed > inside this un-opened software package. I guess MS auto-trolls eBay 24 hrs > a day... > > Now since I have never opened the package, nor was I aware that there was an > agreement therin, how could I ever be construed as a party in a license > agreement? Sure, there is a tiny little blurb on the cover that says "For > Distribution with a new PC only" - but that is like saying "Use only > approved cleaning products", or "not packaged for individual sale"... It > reads like a simple suggestion or inducement, not a legal order that must > be obeyed OR ELSE. > > How do they get away with bulling people on such flimsy legal grounds? It's > not like the software is stolen, counterfeit etc. If MS was so deeply > concerned with the way in which their product might be distributed, why > didn't they take effective steps at the time the product was released, or > not release it at all? > > Here is the kicker - the email notice that eBay (not MS) sent me, contained > 1) an email address where they suggested that I might report the names & > activities of anyone that might be an illegal source of MS software and 2) a > link to the 'about me' eBay page, where MS rants on about how devastating > the impact of software piracy is on the US economy, and quotes the studies > that prove it... > > .... the studies were done by the BSA ;) > > They really do own the world, don't they? =/ > > B > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list