mainstreetmark said:
I truly honest person would contact Apple and report their error and attempt to make things right financially.
But, then, I've never met a truly honest person, and question whether or not such people exist, even theoretically.
it's a matter of caveat venditor, mainstreetmark.
this is more likely a matter of it being cheaper for Apple to send over-specced machines in the mix of stock models from their refurb store.
otherwise, what would they do with the extra parts? they don't sell refurbished hard drives or memory. by law they can't put the extra components for sale as new, and installing used parts in new computers would also be illegal. the quantities of used ram and hard drives may not justify selling them to wholesalers on auction, or just the same it may just not be worth the management and labor expense.
consider the extras a counter-offer to MrSugar's initial offer, and one to which MrSugar has assented. the mutual benefit is Apple doesn't have to fuss with extra parts, and MrSugar gets the extra parts. it's win-win.
it may even be the case that his machine used to be in the VT cluster, in which case Apple likely spread the extra RAM among the refurb machines (as each of their G5s had 4GB of RAM).