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- unloud, on 10/12/2007, -3/+188Or, just read the auction; whatever works.
- MaSC, on 10/12/2007, -4/+120Has anyone noticed that the seller actually as 100% positive feedback, with 58 comments? What could cause such a good ebayer to turn... evil?
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~$800 profit? - somunny, on 10/12/2007, -4/+94New/zero feedback buyer. They killed the auction and saved some poor sap.
- MrBabyMan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+66"THERE IS NOWHERE TO FIND EVEN THE 20GB SYSTEMS THIS CHEAP....BUY THESE INSTEAD!" Evil, evil, evil!
- tinkertoy, on 10/12/2007, -10/+73Four words for any buyer: Read. The. Fine. Print.
- mrussell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+66Has anyone noticed that the seller actually as 100% positive feedback, with 58 comments? What could cause such a good ebayer to turn... evil?
- headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+62I'm not sure what eBay's policies are on this type of thing. The whole description seems misleading. "HOT ITEM! Not PRE-ORDERED..HAVE IN HAND", "THERE IS NOWHERE TO FIND EVEN THE 20GB SYSTEMS THIS CHEAP".
The buyer could probably make a good case that the seller was purposely trying to mislead bidders. - unloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+51@chris
The problem is that people see the shiny "Buy it Now" button and think "This sweet deal is going to be gone in a heartbeat!" So they rush to get it, pat themselfs on the back, and then they read the auction...."Oh crap." - speqter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51This is my fave part:
"You're bidding on Sony Playstations, 3 of them. " - chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -1/+40I feel sorry for the guy who wanted 3 Playstations and got outbid.
- subxero37, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36It wasn't racist. That's actually what it's called.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Scam - persaltier, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27Just because you win a stupid auction on eBay doesn't mean you have to go through with the payment.
- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -11/+33if I was gonna drop $900 on something i'd print the page out and get others to read it aswell.
- squegie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Reminds me of the guy who a few years ago that sold a 42" PLASMA TV PICTURE for right around $1000. Bidder bought it now, paid the bill, and received a picture of a 42" Plasma TV -- exactly as the auction described.
- Tomanta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23You know, I had considered doing the exact same thing. By "considered" I mean mentioned it jokingly to one of my coworkers then forgot about it.
- Fluidity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20I wonder if I can sell 1.5 PS2's the same way as I have a working one and a faulty one!
- carguy84, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25Never buy something from New York unless it's from B+H Photo
- calebcharles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Yeah, how much do I trust the seller ratings now?
- achoo5000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16maybe, is that username a phone number?
I think it might actually be someone who is just new at ebay, he's the only bid. - pixelate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Personally I think it's hilarious, but there's no way in hell you're seeing that money... Ooh, ooh-- you should try this again with 360 Xboxes.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I think it was in quotes for a reason. The guy's "emptying" his pockets.
Next time, a detailed analysis of why the chicken DID cross the road. - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17Of course nothing he can "loose"
He also cant lose anything - trubbleshute, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16This person on ebay was a scammer, there is no other way to put it. The draconian policy of "buyer beware" is dumb, imagine going into a store and them saying "We can offer you a brand new playstation, but you have to buy it in a bundle for $1000" You then say yes, get home and find out they sold you a PSone with 20 or so games.
Is that a buyer beware? Or does some blame fall on the seller? You can't absolve the seller of responsibility in this type of situation, because it won't end with just Ebay auctions. - Nogger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I can see how the buyer misread it. You know, who knows about these little squiggles nowadays. Interpunctations, grammar and uppercase letters are so lame...
- scratt, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17Caveat 'Emptier'! ;-)
- djruden, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14So where's the proof that the guy sent the money? Maybe he just accidently bid on the auction and then saw it wasn't a ps3 and didn't pay. He didn't technically "spend" money yet, he just clicked a button that said 'bid.'
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11But you shouldn't have to go searching for the "hitch." This is ridiculous! If eBay wants to stay alive, they have got to stem or not endorse this kind of blatantly fraudulent behavior. I mean, COME ON!
- psyiode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I'm certain that you are indeed the true creator of this auction. I mean you've been a member on digg for less than a day!
- roastedbagel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Yea, and now that 100% feedback will be going down, quite quickly. Good job schmuck
- aegis9975, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12From the article:
"You're bidding on Sony Playstations, 3 of them."
The guy clearly wrote it to trick some poor sap, and there's plenty of them on Ebay. - TheSaladMan, on 10/12/2007, -13/+23I'm not so sure, I mean honestly it's like the 419 scams, if you're stupid enough to fall for it you shouldn't have that much money in the first place.
- cardoso, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Nigerian scammers are very intense when one of their pairs is attacked.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11If i am going to spend that much on a Playstation I at least want "Games on Controllers"
- kevbryant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10wow. dumb. especially using your school email address.
- LeFrenzy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13""Bid with confidence.""
rofl, something tells me he's going to lose his ebay account. - xLiKx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13haha, best story on digg today
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Damn Digg cut my edit time short...
The reason why most Ebay scammers don't get prosecuted is becuase they only have one victim, who usually is satisfied with just getting the auction invalidated and not losing any money. But if a major store does it, there are lots of victims, and only one has to want to pursue legal actions.
I DID press charges agaisnt someone on Ebay who took money from me and did not send anything. I gues he thought that since the item was a cable descrambler the people he stole from would be afraid to report it. It was a Dutch auction too. Three of us knew that there was nothing inherently illegal about what WE had done, and when the idiot actually cashed on ofthe guys' checks, we had his name and address. We called him and explained what we were going to do and he told us to go right ahead. So we did.
This ***** then turned what would have been nothing more than a fine and probabation into 3 years in jail by threatening me by phone (and like an idiot, leaving it on my answering machine!) after he was contacted by police to come down to questioning.
So yes, people DO go to jail for things like this. It is just more rare becuase of hte numbers of victims. - brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It's funny how if a store were to set up a display with that verbage, they would probably be hauled into court for false/misleading advertising. It's amazing what illegal things you can get away with on eBay.
- psyiode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The winning bidder had 0 feedback. He probably did this to end this *****'s auction. There were other 0 feedback users bidding on PS3 related auctions too; some did good, others did evil. The good guys went around a bid up/buy it now'd auctions that were trying to deceive people. The bad ones bid up perfectly honest auctions to ridiculous prices...
There is no way this guy is going to end up paying if he is just some illiterate newb anyways. - scabbers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9You're a true American hero.
- CielChocobo, on 10/12/2007, -7/+15It sounds like an idiot described the auction. However, it's legit, in that everything it says is true. It clearly says $900 for three Playstation systems. It says to get the three systems -instead- of the system with the 20gb drive. Take every word literally, and it's just an expensive bid for three older consoles. He's going to get exactly what he bid for. I'd say the bidder has a lot of cash and just didn't do too well in English class.
- quisph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7If the victim "deserves" to be screwed over, does that mean that the scammer "deserves" the $900? I don't think so.
- revenant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7that is the line which is the real evil misleading part.. if that was left out I could almost think the person was not too much at fault for trying to gip someone.. other than the ridiculous price tag for those..
- jcarrion1976, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7By the way, tdiddymarathon, thanks for posting on digg. I have forwarded everything you have written and boasted about here to ebay.
Report the seller to ebay using the following link:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/contact_us/_base/index_selection.html - zeero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8he's the only bid because it's a buy it now auction
- zetsurin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Good point. You'll see that there are a lot of zero bidders 'snapping up' these things. Worth checking over the next few weeks as those go to -1.
- daigakuinsei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The fact that he used stock photos of the PS3 when he wasnt selling one is against ebay policies. Regardless of his description of the item, by using the stock photo he gave the buyer a strong case for getting his money back. I've heard of people having their ebay accounts revoked in similar instances.
- SpacemanSpiff, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Overreact much Tommi?
- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5yes I know but it was a joke.
hahaha and all. - pjsson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6at least the seller offered free shipping...
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