ebay software business question

[hyg71886]

I have a bunch of software that I want to sell on ebay. How do I go about doing that? I Have an ebay account but I need to know whats legal, illegal, etc.

[TheJackal]

First of all, you have to know what the license agreement says for the software that you want to sell... If it is NFR then you cant really sell it legally.

Ebay does allow academic software to be sold, and I have seen NFR stuff being sold as well, even though it is NFR.

Of course copies of software cannot be sold, nor can bootleg software. And of course, if you still have it installed on your machine, then you shouldn't be selling it.

You may want to list it for sale here on PCMECH before taking it to Ebay.

[glc]

You may want to list it for sale here on PCMECH before taking it to Ebay.

We discourage this, due to the many legal and licensing issues. We play strictly by the book here. The only software offered for sale here that will not raise our eyebrows is sealed retail software, never opened, never used.

You have to keep this in mind - you do not *OWN* software. You have purchased a license to USE the software in accordance with the licensing agreement. These licenses vary widely and are full of legalese and fine print, some are transferable, some are not.