> but thieves won't get anything out of it, barring some grand e-waste conspiracy. A conspiracy isn't required for this to increase theft. Recyclers could star

> but thieves won't get anything out of it, barring some grand e-waste conspiracy. A conspiracy isn't required for this to increase theft. Recyclers could start advertising maybe $50-100 per Macbook if they can guarantee they'll be able to sell each mac people bring in. Next thing you know, people start stealing more of them since there's now a middleman that pays out enough per device and doesn't ask questions like "did you steal these" or "why are all of the Apple IDs different". The only way this would work is if the program had the e-waste centers submit a photo ID of the person that brought the product to match against the current Apple ID name and address.