Idiot pays £450 for a photo of an Xbox on Ebay.

bloss0m

I agree wouldn't call this guy a idiot as some others may have said, he is more lazy. They take advantage of the gullible or lazy especially when a item is rare and in demand or at Xmas.

These scammers try and play deceptive word games to catch out unwitting buyers, they know full well a poxy photo wouldn't sell for that amount let alone 4p. Ebay should as they done in this case made the seller pay for this with paying back and being banned. The sooner sellers like this get banned the better.

RFW wrote: »

Fraud and con tricks rely on the stupidity and greed of individuals. There's a scale of course and perhaps this chap is at the wrong end, it doesn't mean they deserve to lose money on a con.

Idiots need protecting more than most. Sometimes the 'idiots' may be the elderly or disabled or whatever. This con is reprehensible with the pretense that it is somehow within the law. It isn't.

The full force of the law should come down on the scumbags who do this kind of thing. They should even get Microsoft to sue them for breach of copyright, I'm guessing they don't even have permission to sell the picture.

Flyonthewall

bloss0m wrote: »

I agree wouldn't call this guy a idiot as some others may have said, he is more lazy. They take advantage of the gullible or lazy especially when a item is rare and in demand or at Xmas.

These scammers try and word games to catch out unwitting buyers, they know full well a poxy photo wouldnt sell for that amount let alone 4p. Ebay should as they done in this case made the seller pay for this with paying back and being banned

How is he lazy? He read the listing properly.

There were no word games. It stated photo and the buyer himself states this.

The category wasn't right, but I don't know why anyone would decide they're getting a different item to that stated just based on category. If people start assuming that then there's going to be many far worse problems on ebay.

Flyonthewall

Aside from the seller being banned I would assume that ebay will still make them pay the fees which are not going to be low on that amount. Some may think the seller should pay more but at least they're not getting away with dodgy listings.

Principia_2

Flyonthewall wrote: »

How is he lazy? He read the listing properly.

There were no word games. It stated photo and the buyer himself states this.

The category wasn't right, but I don't know why anyone would decide they're getting a different item to that stated just based on category. If people start assuming that then there's going to be many far worse problems on ebay.

I personally don't think the guy was very bright (although he has apparently now got a free xbox!).

So he had several pieces of information - the item was listed in the category for games and consoles. The item was listed at either a starting bid or buy it now for £450, the item was described as a photo.

Now most people would think that that didn't add up. Some people (the less cynical and unrealistic of us) might feasibly think that the seller made a mistake somewhere and it must be the description of the item as a photo as the price and category listed both back up the item as a high value item.

The guy is only 19, he might also not be as suspicious about possible conmen as most of the rest of us most of the time.

Simmysim

techspec wrote: »

Obviously stupid "it said photo but i didn't think it would be" said the 19 year old father of a 4 year old (chav).


He could have opened a SNAD - anyway. That wasn't a photo - it was a printed picture with lines across.

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

I have zero sympathy for the gormless chav.

When did we switch from a money saving site to one that insults innocent members of the public based on the information of a few lines written in an online paper.

So he had a kid at 15. Show me a 15 year old who has yet to make a mistake in life and I'll show you liar. Appalling behaviour from the two posters.

A Metallica fan with a Bon Jovi avatar? :rotfl: and you have the cheek to call somebody else gormless.

marking_bad

Clear scam, is this "photo of item" really allowed on ebay? Makes a mockery of hard working, honest sellers, they can **** off and die, tbh.

And they can take stupid buyers with them too >.<

DavidFx

Another lot of people failing to read an item description - this time for a PS4

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sony-PlayStation-4-500gb-Pre-Order-With-Game-Online-Guaranteed-For-Xmas-/281221300901?pt=UK_VideoGames_VideoGameConsoles_VideoGameConsoles&hash=item417a1882a5

So what do these people think they are getting for £390?

Simmysim

marking_bad wrote: »

Clear scam, is this "photo of item" really allowed on ebay? Makes a mockery of hard working, honest sellers, they can **** off and die, tbh.

And they can take stupid buyers with them too >.<

Of course its not allowed. It was also listed in the console category and had all the console details. It looked just like a legitimate listing except it just contained the word photo in the title. You can see here in this article the listing titles.

Seller managed to sell 3 of them in the space of 5 hours.

Simmysim

DavidFx wrote: »

Another lot of people failing to read an item description - this time for a PS4

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sony-PlayStation-4-500gb-Pre-Order-With-Game-Online-Guaranteed-For-Xmas-/281221300901?pt=UK_VideoGames_VideoGameConsoles_VideoGameConsoles&hash=item417a1882a5

So what do these people think they are getting for £390?

The PS4 is sold out all over so they may well know what they are buying, but I doubt it.

The fact that the seller has used the "Item specifics" and the "Detailed information" to list PS4 details, along with a picture of PS4 means the buyer will easily get their money back.

If the seller was 100% genuine then they would use a picture of what they were actually selling. Id say the seller is half chancing his arm.

Principia_2

Simmysim wrote: »

Of course its not allowed. It was also listed in the console category and had all the console details. It looked just like a legitimate listing except it just contained the word photo in the title. You can see here in this article the listing titles.

Seller managed to sell 3 of them in the space of 5 hours.

With a carefully placed comma to add to the ambiguity of whether it was a new photo of the item or only a photo.

How dishonest when the seller could easily have put "photo of xbox 1 Fifa etc" in the title. But of course his intention was to deceive and with that deception to defraud.