Author Topic: Hah Hah Dumbass Bought An Xbox360 (Read 5192 times)

TarpleyG · « **Reply #1 on:** November 25, 2005, 11:45:42 AM »

What was it that PT Barnum said???

Greg

Nathaniel Firethorn · « **Reply #2 on:** November 25, 2005, 12:38:57 PM »

4 out of 5 English housewives can't tell the difference between an Xbox 360 and a dead crab.

- NF

TarpleyG · « **Reply #3 on:** November 25, 2005, 02:15:07 PM »

And don't think for one moment this ahole didn't know what he was doing all along. Brilliant but deceptive.

Greg

Declaration Day · « **Reply #4 on:** November 25, 2005, 04:43:57 PM »

I guess it pays to read the description of the item you are bidding on.

Gewehr98 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 25, 2005, 05:13:02 PM »

Those must be darned good cardboard boxes! Here's another one, it sold for $152.50!

Strings · « **Reply #6 on:** November 25, 2005, 05:20:41 PM »

same thing happened with the PS2: some rocket scientist bought the box (with packing material!) for $300+...

280plus · « **Reply #7 on:** November 26, 2005, 02:04:30 AM »

Damn, I gotta get some boxes up for sale...

Smoke · « **Reply #8 on:** November 26, 2005, 04:44:32 AM »

Item number: 8236980721

Sold for $555.00

It's the original auction Blackburn posted.

Five Hundred and Fifty-five Dollars for an empty box......morons.

Smoke

Iain · « **Reply #9 on:** November 26, 2005, 05:52:41 AM »

Well the next big one is slated for next year.

Reckon you'll be looking at more for a PS3 box.

natedog · « **Reply #10 on:** November 26, 2005, 11:16:02 AM »

I really regret not waiting in line and getting an XBOX 360 to scalp on ebay. I'm totally going to be out there for the PS3 though.

Werewolf · « **Reply #11 on:** November 26, 2005, 01:57:19 PM »

And yet E'bay bans the sale of guns and gun related items but allows obvious fraud....

One of the many, many reasons I do not use E'Bay!

Declaration Day · « **Reply #12 on:** November 26, 2005, 02:01:49 PM »

Quote from: natedog

I really regret not waiting in line and getting an XBOX 360 to scalp on ebay. I'm totally going to be out there for the PS3 though.

Just remember to sell the system and the box separately. You'll end up with much more $$.

buy guns · « **Reply #13 on:** November 26, 2005, 04:05:52 PM »

Quote from: Werewolf

And yet E'bay bans the sale of guns and gun related items but allows obvious fraud....

One of the many, many reasons I do not use E'Bay!

there is nothing fraudulent about those auctions. it clearly says the auction is for the box only. if someone is dumb enough to buy it then that is their problem. think of it as financial darwinism...

280plus · « **Reply #14 on:** November 26, 2005, 04:11:23 PM »

How's that go?

"There's a sucker born every minute and none of them should get an even break"

Cheesy

Werewolf · « **Reply #15 on:** November 26, 2005, 05:03:42 PM »

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there is nothing fraudulent about those auctions. it clearly says the auction is for the box only. if someone is dumb enough to buy it then that is their problem. think of it as financial darwinism... smile

From a totally pragmatic point of view I cannot in all honesty disagree. From a philosophical and moral point of view, however, it is IMO wrong to take advantage of the terminally stupid and those folks so trusting that they don't pay attention to details that would show they're being ripped off.

It says a lot about people in general that there are those who perpetrate these deceptive sales and there are those dumb enough to fall for them.

But then as I often say - Darwin ALWAYS wins!

SpookyPistolero · « **Reply #16 on:** November 26, 2005, 05:22:53 PM »

These things always make me very sad to see. While it's certainly a responsibility of the buyer to 'read the fine print' (in this case not so fine) and to be cautious, suspicous, it is still designed to trap people. I just picture some grandma or grandpa out looking to buy a suggested gift for a grandson and blowing retirement money on a box, out of unfamiliarity with an often culpable electronic world.

MillCreek · « **Reply #17 on:** November 26, 2005, 05:50:07 PM »

In the completed auction, I noted that several of the bidders were EBay neophytes, insofar as they had very few rating points. As is so often the case, there is a difference between doing the legally-accurate thing and doing the right thing. Did the seller of the empty box think he/she is doing the legally-accurate choice or the right choice?

Guest · « **Reply #18 on:** November 26, 2005, 08:33:36 PM »

Quote from: Werewolf

And yet E'bay bans the sale of guns and gun related items but allows obvious fraud....

One of the many, many reasons I do not use E'Bay!

You cant really attach the words "obvious" and "fraud" together. If its obvious, then it isnt a fraud. It says right in the title line *exactly* what the purchaser is bidding on, and it is made very clear in the description as well. If I walk into a gunshop to buy an old revolver and the owner *tells me* that it doesnt work, is he ripping me off by selling me a broken pistol?

Werewolf · « **Reply #19 on:** November 27, 2005, 07:55:05 AM »

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If I walk into a gunshop to buy an old revolver and the owner *tells me* that it doesnt work, is he ripping me off by selling me a broken pistol?

He is if he knows you don't really pay attention and the fact that the revolver doesn't work will go right over your head.

But then that's just me. I give wrong change back to grocery and dept store clerks to dumb to count it out right.

Firethorn · « **Reply #20 on:** November 27, 2005, 09:08:52 AM »

All I can say is that it's better to default an take the negative feedback for a newbie, or even pay the money, chalk it up to a learning experience rather than to get taken for thousands for useless land, a get-rich scheme, bad car, or any other of the myrid ways I've seen people waste thousands and thousands of dollars.

Guest · « **Reply #21 on:** November 27, 2005, 02:34:11 PM »

Quote from: Werewolf

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If I walk into a gunshop to buy an old revolver and the owner *tells me* that it doesnt work, is he ripping me off by selling me a broken pistol?

He is if he knows you don't really pay attention and the fact that the revolver doesn't work will go right over your head.

How is he supposed to know that? If he has to assume that you are too stupid to know the difference, wouldnt he also have to assume that you are too stupid to be in possession of a firearm?

Headless Thompson Gunner · « **Reply #22 on:** November 27, 2005, 10:17:21 PM »

My boss recently had to "let go" of one of our secretaries due to chronic incompetance. She gave a great big sob story about how we owed her a job because she has young children to feed. Then she wrote a nasty letter threatening to sue the company for firing her. Her reasoning was that it wasn't fair to fire her because she's poor and the company is rich. (It isn't rich, revenues are down recently, due in part to her shoddy work. But she doesn't understand that concept.)

Anyway, I just saw this poor helpless mother of two starving infants camped out in front of the local Best Buy. She and her husband spent the night on the sidewalk along with all the other XBox junkies trying to be the first to own the new wunder-toy. (I didn't ask who was watching over the toddlers while the parents were away...)

Now I hear that people are buying empty boxes on Ebay for hundreds of dollars. There are some days when you just hafta feel sorry for the race.

Strings · « **Reply #23 on:** November 27, 2005, 10:49:13 PM »

> There are some days when you just hafta feel sorry for the race.<

Not relly. But there ARE some days where you have to wonder "WE are the top of the food chain?!?!?"

Spot77 · « **Reply #24 on:** November 29, 2005, 09:59:46 AM »

Here's an update to Gewehr98's post: The seller, 574lucas hashad his feedback rating drop even worse since the original post. Check out another of that same seller's gems:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=88433&item=8221273409

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