I have an Emac, one of the first 700mhz, with a combo drive, bought it brand new, and really haven't had any trouble with it in all these years.
I recently have had a hard time running new apps because of my 10.2.8 "handy cap". So I decided I should upgrade to Tiger.
I've got a gig of Ram and figured Tiger would be a good install to extend my computers life for a few years.
I ran across this ad:
SFR-6080 OS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, (DVD), eMac, Apple Mac iPod
It' s from a company called allmac. Sounded like a good deal, 50 bucks for tiger! Unfortunately I got my money's worth.
They sent me the bundled "gray" disks that come with your computer. These disks are locked, and of coarse they don't work on my machine.
I've tried contacting them many times, no response. The disks say on them "this software is part of a hardware bundle purchase- not to be sold separately"
In the picture fo
r the ad, they show the retail disks, which is what I thought I was getting.
First question, Did allmac break the law, and should I report them to Apple? I'm pretty sure I'll be taking allmac to court just to get my money back, but beyond that, shouldn't they be stopped from doing this to others?
Second, I did get a paper saying that I own the rights to Tiger, but since I got it via this seemingly fraudulent disks is it valid.
I recently have had a hard time running new apps because of my 10.2.8 "handy cap". So I decided I should upgrade to Tiger.
I've got a gig of Ram and figured Tiger would be a good install to extend my computers life for a few years.
I ran across this ad:
SFR-6080 OS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, (DVD), eMac, Apple Mac iPod
It' s from a company called allmac. Sounded like a good deal, 50 bucks for tiger! Unfortunately I got my money's worth.
They sent me the bundled "gray" disks that come with your computer. These disks are locked, and of coarse they don't work on my machine.
I've tried contacting them many times, no response. The disks say on them "this software is part of a hardware bundle purchase- not to be sold separately"
In the picture fo
r the ad, they show the retail disks, which is what I thought I was getting.
First question, Did allmac break the law, and should I report them to Apple? I'm pretty sure I'll be taking allmac to court just to get my money back, but beyond that, shouldn't they be stopped from doing this to others?
Second, I did get a paper saying that I own the rights to Tiger, but since I got it via this seemingly fraudulent disks is it valid.