Temporarily ban Xbox sales in FS/FT?

[thecoolnessrune]

We did something similar with the Wii and PS3 releases. Right now after the Walmart sale there are many Xbox 360 Arcades available that many bought simply to turn a profit. That's not necessarily a bad thing.

What *is* a disturbing trend however is the dramatic increase in banned / gut swapped Xboxes on the second-hand market.

Since there is literally no way to tell if a console is gut-swapped or banned without already purchasing, I think there should be a hold on the allowance of selling these boxes. We are a generally honest and truthful community. But that does not necessarily mean that there aren't those here that would lie about it.

The threat of someone selling a banned / gut-swapped console is always there, but in these times of exhorbitant console bannings I think something should be put in place for the safety of the members. Just temporarily of course. After the holiday season is over we should be in a much better position when it comes to the number of these types of consoles.

Ebay at least provides a slight recourse to those who were lied to, but it isn't the same here.

 

[Gillbot]

We did something similar with the Wii and PS3 releases. Right now after the Walmart sale there are many Xbox 360 Arcades available that many bought simply to turn a profit. That's not necessarily a bad thing.

What *is* a disturbing trend however is the dramatic increase in banned / gut swapped Xboxes on the second-hand market.

Since there is literally no way to tell if a console is gut-swapped or banned without already purchasing, I think there should be a hold on the allowance of selling these boxes. We are a generally honest and truthful community. But that does not necessarily mean that there aren't those here that would lie about it.

The threat of someone selling a banned / gut-swapped console is always there, but in these times of exhorbitant console bannings I think something should be put in place for the safety of the members. Just temporarily of course. After the holiday season is over we should be in a much better position when it comes to the number of these types of consoles.

Ebay at least provides a slight recourse to those who were lied to, but it isn't the same here.

A hold here will not prevent their sale. If someone really wanted to, they'd wait out the temp ban on sales and would sell at a later date.

If you are that concerned with this, either:

1. Don't buy online, Do local purchases only
2. Buy new
3. Ask the proper questions before purchase
4. get AS MUCH contact info as possible to aid in followups if there is an issue

 

[SunnyD]

As much as I despise it - this is a non-issue. Pay with paypal, receive Xbox, plug in and try to hop on live; if banned, contact seller. If seller refuses to acknowledge, file paypal dispute. If paypal refuses to help, file a chargeback with your CC (you did pay with CC funds, right?). If none of the above work, contact the troll hunters.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

I didn't buy an Xbox from here. I just recently bought an Xbox for the first time and that was though the Walmart deal. It was just a suggestion as I've been noticing a *lot* of scamming going on between different forums and of course through people crying to the Xbox Live forum to have their Xbox unbanned (several were from people who bought a console from one of the many banned Xbox users from the past few weeks. The user, of course, told them that they hadn't modded the console, so the buyer hops on live for a few days and then he's suddenly banned).

It was only a suggestion according to how epidemic this scamming has become this past week. Most people don't buy from other users here with CC Paypal, but rather through Personal paypal so as to avoid sellers fees, so there isn't much recourse to these people. Since the seller wouldn't care anyways, paypal wouldn't involve itself, and the purchase from here would likely be made without credit card funds, it leaves buyers here little recourse if one of our members is one of the many Xbox scammers that's formed in the past week.

Again, its nothing personally from me since I never bought a used Xbox, but it was a concern I figured was worth noting 🙂