Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.wanted:2532 soc.college:6832 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!media-lab!garp!henry From: henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted,soc.college Subject: Re: Will pay $200 for Student to Buy Mac Message-ID: <5130@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Date: 6 Feb 91 08:09:47 GMT References: <5606@auspex.auspex.com> <3866@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> <1991Jan31.031816.5109@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <340@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM> <1991Feb3.230629.15541@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Feb5.034345.9115@bond> Sender: uucp@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU Organization: MIT Project Athena External Relations Lines: 32 bond!aaron@nyu.edu (Aaron Sosnick) wrote: ->It is not clear that reselling a Mac bought with a student discount is ->illegal. It is certainly not a criminal offense. You cannot go to jail for it. it's not clear that this is a *criminal* offense ... nor that it is *illegal* ... but if you sign an agreement which says you won't resell it and you break that agreement then you might find yourself subject to civil suit. here at MIT, the campus computer store pushes macintoshes, ps/2's, and 386 boxes provided by the various manufacturers under an academic discount. to purchase one of these you sign an agreement which states that you won't resell the computer within some period (two years, i think). you're allowed to buy one of each type of computer during that period (therefore, one macintosh, one ps/2, and one 386 box). it would seem to me that, while a civil suit is certainly overkill, the Institute could make your life miserable with administrative sanctions if you chose to dishonor this agreement. note also that the contracts are not typically with the computer manufacturer, but with the reseller (usually a campus computer store which has the capability to service these computers, monitor the purchases, etc.) ->I am not a lawyer, but I play one on the net. indeed ... # Henry Mensch / / E40-379 MIT, Cambridge, MA # / / # via X.400: S=mensch; OU=informatik; P=tu-muenchen; A=dbp; C=de