Arghh!! Why Do They Do It???

shellsuit

Avoriaz wrote:

He replied

"do you say this to every one thats selling a dummy phone "

What should I write in reply?

Could you just give me a straight answer without spitting your dummy out

tomstickland

What a !!!!!! the seller is!

Here's my question:

Hi,
will this phone work for spoken calls?
Tom.

I also contacted the bidder.

ChequeBook_2

I've bought quite a few dummy phones for photography and filming work.

Ironically if this guy had not set out to deceive but putting the features in bold and the fact its a dummy in light grey I might have bid on it instead of reporting it to eBay as a bad listing !

Looks like the bid on it has ben retracted so I think he is wasting his time.

tomstickland

The bidder retracted his bid after I contacted him.

Avoriaz

shellsuit wrote:

Could you just give me a straight answer without spitting your dummy out

Excellent.

I should have thought of that.

pennylane99

tomstickland wrote:

The bidder retracted his bid after I contacted him.

someone else has bid now...;)

delluver

Ah, but they soon retracted

pennylane99

looks like the seller has been changing the description today....

Jakejakejake

He sold it for £25! To a buyer with 1 Feedback, I feel bad for the buyer...

ChequeBook_2

Someone won with a bid £25.01 (+£5 postage) so the stakes have been raised in his deception as I think it was only £1.04 this morning!

Proves how important it is to read the description carefully even if the bidding is nearly ending. He still had the greyed out text about it being a dummy, easy to miss if you felt under pressure to bid.