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-CraZed- on 08 December 2013

Two ways to look at this IMHO.

Either this is rewarding this guys stupidity or,

He is a mad genius who figured out a great way to sucker some sympathetic (and arguably as moronic as we all thought the original guy was) soul into buying him a free XB1.

Either way no one is clear of the stupid gene in this story.



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Max King of the Wild on 08 December 2013

Is the picture him? Anyone else notice day 1 box?



Max King of the Wild on 08 December 2013
Zkuq said:
Umm, people, the guy wasn't being stupid. The photo was listed in the console category, not in some photo category, in which case it's reasonable to expect that a product of such price is actually the console and not just a photo. eBay is full of erroneous product listings, and often you just have to guess what information is correct. Of course the smart thing would be to ask and not assume, but in this case, it seems to have been pretty safe to assume it was the actual console. And either way, the seller wasn't up to anything good, no matter how you try to spin it.

The only thing I'm not liking about this too much is the fact that he got not only a refund but also a free console.


He even admitted he noticed that it said it was a photo of one. He was stupid



kyokusanagi on 08 December 2013

damn that's awesome, good for him.



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Frequency on 08 December 2013

All this will do is encourage idiots to delibrately buy empty boxes and photos of products on ebay hoping some advertising seeking company will step in and "save the day" irony is its from cex, thus has every possibility in the world of being second hand.

Only reason this kid got the thing was because it was run enough in local rags for cex to consider it worth the advertising in exposue

Quick everone, list pictures of consoles with a nice clear disclaimer so payment cant be revoked, some chavvy idiot with a months dole in his account will follow mr chavsworthy's lead.



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Zkuq on 08 December 2013
Max King of the Wild said:
Zkuq said:
Umm, people, the guy wasn't being stupid. The photo was listed in the console category, not in some photo category, in which case it's reasonable to expect that a product of such price is actually the console and not just a photo. eBay is full of erroneous product listings, and often you just have to guess what information is correct. Of course the smart thing would be to ask and not assume, but in this case, it seems to have been pretty safe to assume it was the actual console. And either way, the seller wasn't up to anything good, no matter how you try to spin it.

The only thing I'm not liking about this too much is the fact that he got not only a refund but also a free console.

He even admitted he noticed that it said it was a photo of one. He was stupid

Now where did I say he didn't notice it? I'm fully aware he did notice it, thank you. I'm saying he still had every reason to expect it was the real thing and not the photo because of the price and category of the product. You don't simply list a photo in the console category and price it at the price of a console and expect people to believe it's a photo. It's reasonable to expect that the word 'photo' in the title is an error unless it's repeatedly stated in the description as well. Heck, for all you know, the word 'photo' in the title could indicate that there's photos of the product in the description.



Frequency on 08 December 2013
Zkuq said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Zkuq said:
Umm, people, the guy wasn't being stupid. The photo was listed in the console category, not in some photo category, in which case it's reasonable to expect that a product of such price is actually the console and not just a photo. eBay is full of erroneous product listings, and often you just have to guess what information is correct. Of course the smart thing would be to ask and not assume, but in this case, it seems to have been pretty safe to assume it was the actual console. And either way, the seller wasn't up to anything good, no matter how you try to spin it.

The only thing I'm not liking about this too much is the fact that he got not only a refund but also a free console.

He even admitted he noticed that it said it was a photo of one. He was stupid

Now where did I say he didn't notice it? I'm fully aware he did notice it, thank you. I'm saying he still had every reason to expect it was the real thing and not the photo because of the price and category of the product. You don't simply list a photo in the console category and price it at the price of a console and expect people to believe it's a photo. It's reasonable to expect that the word 'photo' in the title is an error unless it's repeatedly stated in the description as well. Heck, for all you know, the word 'photo' in the title could indicate that there's photos of the product in the description.

You must be new to ebay, repeat the following. "If in doubt, get the f**k out".



Euphoria14 on 08 December 2013

Usually you are penalized for stupidity.



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Max King of the Wild on 08 December 2013
Frequency said:

You must be new to ebay, repeat the following. "If in doubt, get the f**k out".


Exactly. Smart people would be more careful with their bids. Stupid people would ignore that it is described as a picture of the system. Now obviously the seller was trying to scam people. However, that scam was targetting stupid people.



smroadkill15 on 08 December 2013
Mmmfishtacos said:
19 years old with a 4 year old son... hmm. And then claims he's buying the console for the 4 year old. Pays 750 for a photo, get's a free xbox and his money back. There's so much stupid here it's got to be real life. You can't make this shit up.

Exactly my thoughts.