Man pays $750 for a picture of a Xbox, gets angry

[halik]

Umm, no it states you get an xbox.


But yeah this is bullshit and too many people do it every time theres a new console up for sale.
It should be forced into the photo category, not the console category.

heh smartass 🙂

 

[Red Squirrel]

lol so is it actually legal to trick people like that? Imagine all the money to be made. I'd even go as far as getting the photos professionally printed in full colour, because I'm a nice guy like that. 😛

Though guess he's getting a refund so the trick did not work so well. Which is good... it's just being an asshole to purposefully trick people. Though corporations get away with it all the time.

 

[sze5003]

lol so is it actually legal to trick people like that? Imagine all the money to be made. I'd even go as far as getting the photos professionally printed in full colour, because I'm a nice guy like that. 😛

Though guess he's getting a refund so the trick did not work so well. Which is good... it's just being an asshole to purposefully trick people. Though corporations get away with it all the time.

Yea it's legal trickery but the refund is coming back from the seller not eBay itself. They should have a regular expression to check titles for the word photo and then compare it to the category the listing is about to be put in, forcing seller to either put it in photos category or have them change the title. It's not that hard.

 

[waggy]

wait, the article says he's 19 years old. and he had saved the money to buy an xbox1 for his son? lol, lies

/facepalm

just because you weren't able to have sex at 13-14 or so does not mean not everyone wasn't.



the ebay seller should be banned from ebay. though the kid is a idiot.

 

[WelshBloke]

Its against ebays TOS, that's why the guy will get his money back.

The seller is totally in the wrong here.

Guys still an idiot, but hey, at least he's an idiot that didn't lose £450.

 

[Colt45]

/facepalm

just because you weren't able to have sex at 13-14 or so does not mean not everyone wasn't.

Some of us are smart enough to have sex without getting pregnant constantly, though. him and mate obviously weren't.

 

[midwestfisherman]

You can't fix stupid!

 

[Doppel]

Expecting this:

He gets this:

Ad says it's a photo:

I was going to hate on the guy but if that is the only thing in the auction that says photo, knowing the casual nature of listings it's easy to assume the listing included a photo of it.

It's highly deceptive. Whoever sold it should be banned from Ebay and at least threatened with mail fraud (whatever the equivalent of it is in England).

Imagine if you went to buy one from Amazon and everything looked like a regular XB1 except some random word photo was put in there.

 

[Perknose]

Reminds me of the days before the net when a guy offered a 100 page book on how to make surefire money for only $10. Buyers got 99 blank pages and one other on which was printed, "Get a job." :biggrin:

 

[Newbian]

I was going to hate on the guy but if that is the only thing in the auction that says photo, knowing the casual nature of listings it's easy to assume the listing included a photo of it.

It's highly deceptive. Whoever sold it should be banned from Ebay and at least threatened with mail fraud (whatever the equivalent of it is in England).

Imagine if you went to buy one from Amazon and everything looked like a regular XB1 except some random word photo was put in there.

The problem is as was pointed is the comma makes it say the xbox and a photo and not just the photo only thus the seller screwed up.

 

[momeNt]

The photo is different too. Refund on that alone if he indeed did want a photo.

Not just talking about print quality, the ebay listing shows an actual xbox one on what appears to be a carpet floor. The other is a product image probably taken from a website.

 

[mmntech]

I'm truly shocked how a boy who knocked up a girl at 15 could possibly be this stupid.

I was going to hate on the guy but if that is the only thing in the auction that says photo, knowing the casual nature of listings it's easy to assume the listing included a photo of it.

It's highly deceptive. Whoever sold it should be banned from Ebay and at least threatened with mail fraud (whatever the equivalent of it is in England).

Imagine if you went to buy one from Amazon and everything looked like a regular XB1 except some random word photo was put in there.

Especially where the seller placed the comma, it does indeed make it seem like it's an actual Xbox with a photo of it in the ad.

It should have said "Xbox One FIFA Day One Edition Photo, Brand New UK". If the seller was smart.

I'm more offended that they sent such a low quality photo of it too. That's the real kick in the nuts. 😀

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Dude's a moron and ebay is enabling him. Should have let him learn his $750 lesson.

I'm pretty sure EBay is specific about this not being allowed. Probably in the ToS.

I'm mostly surprised that it didn't get pulled before a sale occured.

 

[xBiffx]

Man, whatever happened to at least selling an empty box? Fuck, people are so cheap these days. 😀

 

[sze5003]

I'm truly shocked how a boy who knocked up a girl at 15 could possibly be this stupid.



Especially where the seller placed the comma, it does indeed make it seem like it's an actual Xbox with a photo of it in the ad.

It should have said "Xbox One FIFA Day One Edition Photo, Brand New UK". If the seller was smart.

I'm more offended that they sent such a low quality photo of it too. That's the real kick in the nuts. 😀

More like it should have said photo only. Listings like this only get taken down if someone is looking or someone reports its. But still, as a buyer it's your responsibility to properly check out the product as much as you can. It's common sense if there is no description to ask the seller some questions.

 

[mmntech]

More like it should have said photo only. Listings like this only get taken down if someone is looking or someone reports its. But still, as a buyer it's your responsibility to properly check out the product as much as you can. It's common sense if there is no description to ask the seller some questions.

Oh, I never said the buyer wasn't a complete moron. He's got four years worth of proof of that.

 

[Leros]

Heck. He should be able to return the photo. It's much lower quality than represented in the picture on the listing.

 

[Wreckem]

Ebay just needs to ban the listings and shut down any account making such a listing. Its a scam pure and simple and Ebay should be doing more about them.

 

[Schfifty Five]

EBay lets you set the title. And the better title you have, the more views you could attract. EBay puts a standard description based on what you choose you are selling. It's a scam technique. Choose electronics, follow the prompts and use eBay to select the type, and model, then put a misleading title with the new launch hype people may miss..and that's it.

Sorry should have been more clear. I meant, legally, what takes precedence? If this guy sued the seller, would he have a case in that eBay's generic description says 500gb, console, etc?

Or would the buyer not have a case b/c the seller put a disclaimer saying that it was just a picture.

 

[sze5003]

Sorry should have been more clear. I meant, legally, what takes precedence? If this guy sued the seller, would he have a case in that eBay's generic description says 500gb, console, etc?

Or would the buyer not have a case b/c the seller put a disclaimer saying that it was just a picture.

No what you are saying makes sense. I was just pointing out how lazy the developers at eBay can be. Their office is not far from my building. They should have a check on the title to prevent this at least in the electronics area, anything with photo in the title should probably be placed in the photo and arts section or have a pop up letting the seller know this.

Technically it could be a disclaimer like you say but the average Joe doesn't think like this.

 

[JulesMaximus]

He got xboned.

 

[MrDudeMan]

I don't understand why everyone is hating on the guy. It wasn't his brightest moment, I'll agree, but such predatory practices are designed to trick people. Just because you didn't or wouldn't fall for this particular scam doesn't mean you're impervious to all scams. Ebay is siding with him because it's clearly the right thing to do. I hate Ebay et al. as much as the next guy, but the seller is so obviously in the wrong that this isn't even worth a debate.

 

[jagec]

Heck. He should be able to return the photo. It's much lower quality than represented in the picture on the listing.

LOL, it would have been hilarious if he'd asked for the refund for this reason instead of the obvious one.:awe:

 

[Attic]

Simple answer, ban the account of the guy who made the ebay posting.

Either that or drag him out into the street and beat him.

Either way, someone should forcefully indicate this deceit for monetary gain won't be tolerated.

 

[mugs]

eBay has sections where you can list photos for sale. The scammer listed his in the game console section. Hopefully they didn't refund his fees.