If you read the window EULA, it is said, if I remember well, that if you
don't agree to the terms of the licence you have to reject it and send the
licences back "for a complete refund". Normally the refund is available to
any purchaser of a machine with wiondows (or other microsoft software)
bundled with it, and I suppose the refund thing applies to whatever software
you don't want that is pre-installed on your brand new machine. Provided
you didn't ran / register the programs, getting refunded should be simple.
The problem is more that with some companies asking nicely doesn't seem
enough. I haven't yet tried to get any refund for software I didn't wanted
(didn't pay attention to it at the time) but, from what i've read, it seems
that most EULAs offer refund but that the people you get on the phone / you
mail to have (obviously) to persuade you that it's not a good idea, that
their soft could be usefull to you [blah blah blah .....], so it's better to
know who to talk to and to locate the EULA fragment talking about the refund
before trying to get you money back =).
Martin
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Luis Motta Campos <
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> Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> > Le 13 mars 08 à 11:31, Luis Motta Campos a écrit :
> >> I would like to report a big success here. I recently got a HP 6710b
> >> laptop and (as usual) didn't agreed with the Windows License terms and
> >> conditions (so I can send it back and get the license money).
> >
> > Are you being serious about getting your money back? Are you successful
> > in it in the UK?
>
> I don't know about the UK. I sent them back my licenses in the
> Netherlands, where I live now. I told them in a very formal letter that
> I didn't agreed about the terms and conditions, and, as I never used the
> licenses (it was a new computer) I got my money back.
>
> I recommend everybody to at least try. :) It's not possible that the
> only way to buy computers is swallowing licenses we will not use.
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> Perl fanatic evangelist, and amateur {cook, photographer}
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