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- antipasta, on 10/12/2007, -4/+92That's actually a blog for discussion of the laptop situation. The blog posted by the guy that bought the faulty laptop, full of embarrassing-picture goodness, is: http://www.amirtofangsazan.blogspot.com/
- drw2583, on 10/12/2007, -10/+83"Grammar".
- CamZak, on 10/12/2007, -9/+74Priceless. Technichally I'd have to say that if the person bought the laptop, they also bought any contents on the hard drive. If the laptop was broken, I doubt amir had much of a chance to wipe it. Here's a direct link to the person's blog:
http://tofangsazan-the.blogspot.com/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+59Do you carry around topless images of all your ebay sellers?
- jessecollins, on 10/12/2007, -10/+59He should have used Darik's Boot and Nuke. But this is still bullsh1t.
I recommend Darik's Boot and Nuke to anyone that is planning on selling a computer or hard drive on eBay.
http://dban.sourceforge.net/ - AdamFitz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+39Just because you can't put a harddrive in a different computer and get windows to boot don't assume others can't.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38Just because nothing is stopping him doesn't make his actions libel. The truth is proof against libel; it's a bullet-proof defense. If the stuff was on the computer, then so be it. Good luck proving it wasn't. Also, to prove libel, a plaintiff would have to prove that the defendant knowingly and wilfully published false information.
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27soogy: The scammer's life absolutely deserved to be ruined. He was a scammer. Was $600 worth ruining his life? The answer is no. So he shouldn't have scammed somebody for $600, should he?
There's a lesson here: If you don't want your life ruined, don't be a dirty no-good scammer bastard. - mrjeffery, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27The page we all want to see:
http://www.amirtofangsazan.blogspot.com/
And heres the auction itself:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6825578528&ru=http://search.ebay.co.uk:80/6825578528_W0QQfromZR40QQfviZ1 - tito13kfm, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28I'm tired of arguing for the sake of arguing.. but here you go.. How to get windows to boot off of a foreign HD.
Install HD.
Turn on computer
Hit F8
Safe mode with networking
Replace drivers of all devices.
??????
Profit - ReiToei, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26"I doubt he was able to plug the hard drive into different hardware and get it to boot."
He must be some kind of superh4X0r!!!!
...or maybe you just know absolutely nothing about computers. - tito13kfm, on 10/12/2007, -15/+38Ugh.. yet another blog that contains the term "After the jump"
Hopefully this fad dies off and people will realize that sticking ads in the middle of your article is pointless and lame. Let your article stand on it's own with ads to the sides or bottom if you are so inclined. Do NOT interrupt the train of thought of the reader by sticking ads in the middle of the story. It discourages repeat visitors and actually reduces your click thru rate. - tito13kfm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24I have been able to boot off of various harddrives without issues on many occasions, at worst you have a bunch of devices that dont' work properly, but you can always install new drivers.
- Ottergoose, on 10/12/2007, -6/+28Destined to be an internet classic.
See also: http://www.p-p-p-powerbook.com/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25I don't get it. He ripped a guy off, used faulty advertising and collected money under false pretenses. I would be worried about a lawsuit and an ass-stomping. What a *****.
- sl9sl9, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21And here is the BBC's take on it. "Police investigate 'hate' website"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5030814.stm
"A website apparently created to ridicule a teenager by showing his photograph alongside pornographic images is being investigated by police." - numb401, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23Even with the bad rep on ebay, the buyer still got the shaft. There was no DVD-RW drive, 512mb of ram as opposed to the 2GB that was advertised. You expected the buyer to just sit around and cry? I say all was done was fair.
- electromagnetic, on 10/12/2007, -9/+25Oh wow so much for the BBC being neutral, why don't they just team up with the daily mail now... sadly the daily mail article is more accurate - god I want to die for saying that and it not being sarcastic. Where's the hydrochloric acid bath? I feel so dirty I need to remove all my flesh.
- mrroach, on 10/12/2007, -12/+27Apparently, publicly humiliating someone and his whole family is fair because of a broken (but obviously not that badly broken) laptop. Just because you have the technical capabilities to do something spiteful doesn't mean that you have the right to do so. I don't care about the legality, though I doubt it's legal, at the very least the original owner holds copyright to all images he took and the new owner is clearly distributing those copyrighted works. I do care about the fact that this is morally reprehensible. Don't get me wrong, I like seeing jerks get their comeuppance, but this is just way over the top.
-Mark - tito13kfm, on 10/12/2007, -8/+23"do they even have internet in Iran?"
Yep, they have internet and nuclear bombs... Don't you watch Fox news?
- I just had to say it... don't flame me! - Sirocco, on 10/12/2007, -8/+23>> Ugh.. yet another blog that contains the term "After the jump"
Amen. Yet another idiotic 'net fad that needs to die. - TheWorkz, on 10/12/2007, -7/+22Did you read his feedback rating? -2. LOL
http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=amir6626&iid=6825578528 - sinfree, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17NSFW (not safe for work)...
We desperately need some kind of marking or tag for that. - violentvinyl, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Generally, "after the jump" means "in the full blog post". You don't notice this when you link directly to a blog post, but when you view the brief version of a post on the front page "after the jump" signals to the reader that theres more content in the full post, it's not neccesarily related to the advertising.
- Outdoor83, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18I'd agree with you, but he has 3 negative feedbacks on eBay, all of which look like fraud to me. If it were once, he might just be VERY unlucky with someone who made some stuff up. Faking three auctions is much more unlikely.
- Unicron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15@yukevster:
The whole situation could have been remedied before the million hits if the guy who knowingly (!) sold a faulty laptop had just given the guy his money back. If you look in the comments you'll see that he was one of the first posters to the original site, posting under pseudonyms and accusing the guy he had ripped off of pedophilia and other such nice things.
So, in conclusion and not being 14, I still think he deserves this.
//murloc yell - Moocat, on 10/12/2007, -11/+24By identifying the website and quoting only those who dislike it, it's not neutral journalism, it's showing the edges of yellow journalism. While not over the top like say...Fox news, they still are tainting the effects it will have on viewers/readers by not even mentioning the other side of the story and eliminating some important facts about it...like the fact he tried to pawn it off on eBay as a legit working laptop.
Media bias FOR THE LOSE. - Sirocco, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18Considering the guy is studying to be a barrister...... shouldn't he know exactly what his legal options are at this point?!? Sounds to me like the guy should just flunk out and return to Iran.
Oh, and the leg fetish material is priceless :) - Unicron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12@yukevster:
Second reply to you, but it seems slightly childish that anyone who disagrees with you is immediately labeled "childish".
Prepare for the long dark tea-time of the soul. - repins, on 10/12/2007, -14/+26dude is getting what he deserves....I totally support nonviolent revenge :P
- Klisk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Eh. Another day on the internet, I guess.
- AdamFitz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16Just get adblock and firefox, then the blogger looks like more of an idiot cause it's just the next line.
- Sirocco, on 10/12/2007, -7/+18>> In my experience, which is a lot, if the motherboard or CPU have been changed,
>> Windows will (95% of the time) not boot.
Total BS. If for some reason you can't boot normally, hit safe mode and do what you gotta do. - millixaw, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16Whehther you agree with the reveng of the buyer or not (I do), Amir is not just a "victum" of revenge here. He's now an example of what happens when you try to scam computer-literate people on eBay. Maybe if this is popular enough, it might just send a message to all would-be "professional scammers" mainly in third world countries.
This story should be printed and sent to every individual in Nigeria. Show it on the news over and over and over and over... - OptimismPrime, on 10/12/2007, -13/+23"...What the purchaser has done is completely wrong and distasteful..."
yep, wrong...as in he should have made a flickr galery with all the pics, not choose just a few....
and distateful....well, the design of the blog isn't that snappy, but that is blogspots fault i guess...
*gg* - Unicron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12@mmartin:
Call the analogy police - nights0223, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12In my experience, which is a lot too, when changing the motherboard, Windows will still boot about half the time, even without safe mode. I have never had a problem when switching a processor.
- mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13My favourite part of his resume is the unintentionally alarming "My interests include cooking the stock market...". Ironically, one of his other hobbies is "communication skills."
In other news, Britons love black pantyhose. - alspar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13RTFA. He was not only late to ship, he lied about the contents of the package, shipped it in a broken state and seems to have scammed a few others on ebay. If this story is true, this guy really had it coming to him.
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Liars and theives SHOULD have their lies and cheats exposed. If he'd been arrested for stealing (as he deserves), a criminal record would have done more to "ruin his life" than this. Why do you think stealing is less of a crime when it's done via the internet?
- DDRSkata, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Haha, the only good feedback he received was from a user (no longer registered) called nicktofang. Tofang. You know, like Tofangsazan.
Still, he doesn't deserve to have his entire LIFE ruined. - mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13He doesnt really have much of a reputation.
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -8/+17I say the blogger was totally in the right to post these images, legally if not morally. Once he paid for and recieved the laptop (2 months later) he owned the machine, the disk, and everything on it. The seller should have removed any content he didn't want to pass on to the buyer. It's not illegal to post content you own on the internet.
I may even go as far as to declare that the buyer logged on to the seller's Hotmail account legally. Again, the seller could have removed his account authentication information from the machine, but instead he chose to sell it to the highest bidder. - LockeDigitalus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13... just goes to show how rotten most people really are. On both sides of the proverbial coin. I laughed anyway.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11uh, that usually means, "i'm not putting the whole article on the front page, click through here to get to the post's page and see it all"
example: http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/07/backstage-at-the-google-press-conference/
> ...Our notes are after the jump.
>
> 6pm Las Vegas (PST) Friday
>
> Larry explains that...
that's how it flows on the post's page, no ad in the middle of the "jump", just a link, when on the front page, to the rest of the article. - jlowe, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14@Yukevster
Well, I've never done anything shady on ebay, and I never would. If I ever got scammed, knowing there is little in way of retribution, I would do all that I could to get back at the scammer.
"Pissing someone off" is not the same as being a scam artist. This wasn't his first time doing this on ebay, either. - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10He couldn't wipe it--because it was broken.
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12"The guy hasn't killed anybody and even if he had, he wouldn't desserve to have his privacy exposed"
This is what happens when hippies raise children. Even murderers deserve privacy, apparently. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11This is fantastic. It's people like him that scare others away from eBay and similar sites.
He should take a positive outlook on this. At least now he will have had some experience with Justice-Serving. - marvy, on 10/12/2007, -8/+15I find public humiliation to never be an option. Although I do believe the blogger is correct in stating, that the seller had lied to him about the laptop, and no doubt was he a moron for leaving the data on the disk. But you can hardly do worse than destroying someone's dignity.
I agree with some of the people here: The internet is a very powerful tool, and it seems a lot of people are misusing it for their personal interests, on a global level that has not existed before. What internet users must learn, is that this power also imposes great responsibility on the user. It hardly seems appropriate to ruin someone's dignity over a broken piece of hardware. But as it seems, people are applauded today for "hitting back hard". -
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