John, I think you need to carefully consider the nature of this transaction. There are enough unanswered questions, or more to the point questions I don't like the possible answers, which would make me walk away from the transaction. For example, you stated previously, if he presents you with one Office CD, you will ask for multiple keys to install. How will you know if those are actually valid keys, and legally permissible to use on the equipment you have? You indicate he's agreed to your price, you don't indicate how you acquired this business, whether you and he have a personal or professional relationship (based on your emails, it doesn't appear that you do). All this is enough for me to walk away. Sure he's agreed to your price. For $450 he is transferring the risk to you in the event his enterprise is less than legal, he can simply say you did the work and assured him everything was fine. You're then caught in the middle of a he said/he said battle with legal, possible criminal implications.
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 6:16 AM, John Aldrich > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm just installing what he gives me. :-) > > Be warned that you may still be held liable for > copyright/contract/license violations if it turns out this "client" > didn't have the rights to do what he's asking you to do. > > "I didn't know" may sound good to you, but the courts don't always agree. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
