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

Stoke

Flyonthewall -
A joke? How many people are laughing? Not many... I don't see how listing something like that could ever be considered a joke. I don't have a particularly Scrooge-like sense of humour, but I do think there's something to be said when listing an item intending to defraud someone is just a joke. If the item was a joke, how come he didn't message the eventual buyer and say "Look mate, this listing was a joke, I didn't expect it to end on £450". What did he do? He took the money, sent the photo and a piece of paper with the words "Thank you very much". You may call that polite, but I call that rubbing salt in an open wound and a little joke turns into a great Christmas for the seller eh? I bet all pints were on him that night, him and his chummy mates having a laugh at what was after all, just a joke... right?!

Flyonthewall

Stoke wrote: »

Flyonthewall -
A joke? How many people are laughing? Not many... I don't see how listing something like that could ever be considered a joke. I don't have a particularly Scrooge-like sense of humour, but I do think there's something to be said when listing an item intending to defraud someone is just a joke. If the item was a joke, how come he didn't message the eventual buyer and say "Look mate, this listing was a joke, I didn't expect it to end on £450". What did he do? He took the money, sent the photo and a piece of paper with the words "Thank you very much". You may call that polite, but I call that rubbing salt in an open wound and a little joke turns into a great Christmas for the seller eh? I bet all pints were on him that night, him and his chummy mates having a laugh at what was after all, just a joke... right?!

A lot of people are laughing at the buyer...

Anyway, if it were a joke I doubt the sellers friends expected that to happen. Nor could you say for sure that the seller sent the image and not their friends. Either way, jokes don't always go to plan and some people have a weird sense of humour.

Even if that's not the case no one on here can say for certain why the seller (or their friends) listed that as they did.

My point was simply that everyone is quick to judge but we only have one side of the story. Chances are it is just a dodgy seller out to scam but we don't actually know that for sure.

jassi_9

Stoke wrote: »

Flyonthewall -
A joke? How many people are laughing? Not many... I don't see how listing something like that could ever be considered a joke. I don't have a particularly Scrooge-like sense of humour, but I do think there's something to be said when listing an item intending to defraud someone is just a joke. If the item was a joke, how come he didn't message the eventual buyer and say "Look mate, this listing was a joke, I didn't expect it to end on £450". What did he do? He took the money, sent the photo and a piece of paper with the words "Thank you very much". You may call that polite, but I call that rubbing salt in an open wound and a little joke turns into a great Christmas for the seller eh? I bet all pints were on him that night, him and his chummy mates having a laugh at what was after all, just a joke... right?!

I laughed my head off

The buyer was a derp, he is lucky he got his money back. What an idiot. He nearly ruined his own Christmas because he couldn't be bothered to read. Why should the seller get banned for that?

Flyonthewall

jassi_9 wrote: »

I laughed my head off

The buyer was a derp, he is lucky he got his money back. What an idiot. He nearly ruined his own Christmas because he couldn't be bothered to read. Why should the seller get banned for that?

lol

It's worse than that, he nearly ruined his own Christmas because he did bother to read, he just chose to believe it wasn't right.

SlowCooker

Flyonthewall wrote: »

However, I am curious if you'd all be so hard on the seller if there were more to his side of the story.

I read somewhere within the news story comments about it being the sellers friends who had put up the listing as a joke. If something like that were the case do you still think it's fair that due to other peoples bad sense of humour that he can never sell again?

Actually, yes, I don't think the seller should be allowed to sell again if his friends were able to access his eBay account. The same applies to buyers who bid on items and then claim that their cat did it.

Stoke

jassi_9 wrote: »

I laughed my head off

The buyer was a derp, he is lucky he got his money back. What an idiot. He nearly ruined his own Christmas because he couldn't be bothered to read. Why should the seller get banned for that?

Well luckily you aren't the one who made the final decision. Let's hope you never fall for the same scam eh? You can sit in your ivory tower laughing and calling this buyer a 'derp', but the fact is the seller is a con-man. Nothing more. Like I said earlier, I'd like to gauge the reaction of people if this was a little old lady. I found it interesting that Flyonthewall said assuming the old lady didn't have any obvious health problems... like what? Alzheimers? Dementia? The seller couldn't give a flying !!!! you do realize that right? The seller didn't give a crap about the buyer which is why he received the jokey "Thanks very much note". Imagine if the buyer HAD been someone with the early to mid stages of Alzheimers, it could have quite easily sent them into a clinical depression or made them extremely ill. Clinical depression and Alzheimers has been known to cause patients to die. Merry Christmas to that family, and a Happy New Year! How much !!!! did the seller give? None. He was laughing and so are you... but it's okay because it wasn't an Alzheimers sufferer; the lad was just a scrotey little chav with a 4 year old. Thanks Dave for the big society. We're all in it together... not.

If the seller had an ounce of a conscience, he would have stopped the transaction before this 'joke' turned into a horrible reality for the buyer. Who cares if the buyer was a 'derp'? The seller was a con-man, plain and simple and you guys shouldn't be encouraging it or even condoning it!! I don't buy this 'joke' !!!!!!!!. It sounds like a great way to get out of admitting you're a filthy little scammer.
The seller deserved to be banned and in my opinion investigated by the police. If this really was a joke, the seller would have been quickly cleared but who knows how many people this has happened to. Like I said, the best thing for him/her is to spend Christmas behind bars. Would give them time to think about all the people they've ripped off.

I hope eBay recovered the funds from the seller as well. They've got into a habit recently of refunding people without necessarily pursuing the funds from the dodgy seller. If they didn't, they'll be back doing it again in a few weeks with a different item and a new identity.

Flyonthewall

SlowCooker wrote: »

Actually, yes, I don't think the seller should be allowed to sell again if his friends were able to access his eBay account. The same applies to buyers who bid on items and then claim that their cat did it.

So he happens to leave his laptop (closed) on the table, he's always logged into ebay as he's the only one that uses that laptop. His friends come round, he leaves the room to go get them drinks and they see the laptop and pick it up. They happen to go on ebay and see he's logged in and think it would be funny to make that listing. They could close the window or even the laptop before he sees what they're on.

That's the sellers fault? He can't even leave a laptop on a table. So what, he's expected to clear out half his house in case his friends find a way to make it a bad joke? Sure, doesn't say much for his friends, but still.

The above may be far from the case, but the amount of times I've seen people with stupid comments on social media where it's obvious someone has borrowed their mobile or computer and written something stupid. Not that unbelievable that some people may take it one step further.

That doesn't make you a bad seller or worthy of being banned. A bad judge of character perhaps, maybe a bit too trusting of people but not a bad seller.

Friends unknowingly borrowing a laptop or mobile is very different to claiming a cat did it.

Flyonthewall

Stoke wrote: »

I found it interesting that Flyonthewall said assuming the old lady didn't have any obvious health problems... like what? Alzheimers? Dementia? The seller couldn't give a flying !!!! you do realize that right? The seller didn't give a crap about the buyer which is why he received the jokey "Thanks very much note". Imagine if the buyer HAD been someone with the early to mid stages of Alzheimers, it could have quite easily sent them into a clinical depression or made them extremely ill. Clinical depression and Alzheimers has been known to cause patients to die. Merry Christmas to that family, and a Happy New Year! How much !!!! did the seller give? None. He was laughing and so are you... but it's okay because it wasn't an Alzheimers sufferer; the lad was just a scrotey little chav with a 4 year old. Thanks Dave for the big society. We're all in it together... not.

Wow did you take that the wrong way. Forget the seller, totally forget the seller and their aim.

Picture a little old lady in perfect health, no dementia or anything like that. She sees the word photo of xbox one but she wants an actual xbox one console. Despite seeing the word photo she thinks "no it'll be the actual console" so she bids, wins and pays. That woman is stupid.

It doesn't matter that the seller would have scammed her even with dementia; that doesn't change the fact that this little old lady knew what she was doing and bid anyway.

It could be a really cute dog with the brain of a human or some weird green and blue spotted alien, it doesn't matter. If they know what they're doing and they still do the same as that guy then they're stupid.

If the buyer has something such as dementia then that's different as they probably didn't know what they were doing so they wouldn't be seen as stupid, it's a clear health problem, and yes, the seller probably wouldn't care. But that wasn't my point.

SlowCooker

Flyonthewall wrote: »

So he happens to leave his laptop (closed) on the table, he's always logged into ebay as he's the only one that uses that laptop. His friends come round, he leaves the room to go get them drinks and they see the laptop and pick it up. They happen to go on ebay and see he's logged in and think it would be funny to make that listing. They could close the window or even the laptop before he sees what they're on.

That's the sellers fault? He can't even leave a laptop on a table. So what, he's expected to clear out half his house in case his friends find a way to make it a bad joke? Sure, doesn't say much for his friends, but still.

The above may be far from the case, but the amount of times I've seen people with stupid comments on social media where it's obvious someone has borrowed their mobile or computer and written something stupid. Not that unbelievable that some people may take it one step further.

That doesn't make you a bad seller or worthy of being banned. A bad judge of character perhaps, maybe a bit too trusting of people but not a bad seller.

Friends unknowingly borrowing a laptop or mobile is very different to claiming a cat did it.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but yes it's considered your mistake when you don't protect your online account. And, no, you don't have to clear out half your house; you simply need a password for your laptop or phone.

Flyonthewall

SlowCooker wrote: »

Sorry to burst your bubble, but yes it's considered your mistake when you don't protect your online account. And, no, you don't have to clear out half your house; you simply need a password for your laptop or phone.

Making a mistake is not the same as him being a bad seller though.

A password on a computer/phone doesn't stop other bad jokes, which is what I said. Would he have to clear out half his house to stop them doing any bad jokes, just in case they happened to pick up something they shouldn't and find something stupid to do with it.

Anyway, all I was saying is that we don't know the sellers side and it is possible that there's more to it than you'd think. Not likely but possible.