[Jojomojo]

I have had an apple account for years as well, but have only ever bought my products (phones mainly)  from third party retailers. Will this lower my chances of success with DNA?

As long as the transaction Is demonstrated on your Apple account, then that's all that matters.

once you report the laptop stolen will you ever be able to use it with your Apple ID or does it have to be used without connecting it to ur Apple ID?

Apple does have the capacity to check the activity on a given device.

Whether or not they follow It up, remains to be seen.

Thanks for the quick response mate, your blog and willingness to help the community is legendary.

I guess to play it safe , while in the process of the DNA claim one could refrain from linking the “missing” MBP to one’s personal Apple ID.  Do you think this would be okay or would that fuck up the SE attempt?

Assuming all goes well and the claim is closed, I suppose at that point it’d then be ok to link to your own Apple ID.

Is there any other method you would recommend specifically for SEing a MBP directly from Apple?

(I now know it’s easier via Amazon but wasn’t planning on SEing until it was too late :/)

Thank you @mothered