This is fishy as ****. If the tools legitimately were purchased at Home Depot, go return them. They usually will do it without a receipt for store credit. It sounds like you bought them somewhere else (not HD) and now want to take them there and get money. Thats not ok...
My name is Brett, and I have a problem.
But really, most of my purchases are purpose made. There are people here that buy old tools just as a collectors item, so don't feel bad.
Did you mention anything about warranty? Ive heard they take them down for stuff like that. Although "intellectual property rights" sounds like BS to me
I worked a little bit with ArcGIS, which is a pretty big geographic information systems program. At my school they gave everyone a student copy which was good for a year, and you could just go back and get them every year. Also, the computer labs are typically stocked with the newest full...