Black Friday TV's appearing on ebay/facebook..

ballisticbrian

I can normally find an over inflated price box every time I've looked for one. I can also find illegal items being sold under a euphemism, and fakes every time I look for them. The worst time I can remember was the launch of the original xbox and masses of wanna be con men were selling xbox boxes.

RFW

The biggest crime in that box listing is it being described as "new". If it has had a TV in it, then it can't possibly be new.

lovinituk

It's been taken down now.

I_have_spoken

Not too long now and we'll get the Xmas 'unopened' presents, lucky-dip scam.

soolin

I_have_spoken wrote: »

Not too long now and we'll get the Xmas 'unopened' presents, lucky-dip scam.

Oh yes , I forgot about those. I'm sure the sellers are already deciding which of the items in the 99p shop will look good disguised in a bit of holly wrapping paper.

Brooker_Dave

harveybobbles wrote: »

I don't get all these people rushing out to buy polaroid and Blaupunk TV's.

Blaupunk remind me of a early 1990's Citroen AX radio...

And Polaroid makes me thing of my grandparents camera...

Unlike todays offerings those were both actually made by the companies involved, rather than being cheap junk rebranded and imported for chavs to fight over.

harveybobbles

soolin wrote: »

Oh yes , I forgot about those. I'm sure the sellers are already deciding which of the items in the 99p shop will look good disguised in a bit of holly wrapping paper.

I did well one year rewrapping the rubbish items that were bought for me.. Some family member bought me a bath bomb set. but I have a walk in shower...

marking_bad

I don't know about this particular example, but doesn't this show the ebay rule of no text in pictures to be a bad thing?

If the sale was a genuine sale (I have no idea if it was, it's been removed) then a quick text of "no tv included, box only" in the picture would actually help, because i know from experience some buyers don't read listings (or even titles!). They probably casually breeze through listings on their mobile phones sitting on their sofa, and try to pick up "bargains" whilst keeping one eye on whatever trashy tv show is popular at the moment.

mrcol1000

marking_bad wrote: »

I don't know about this particular example, but doesn't this show the ebay rule of no text in pictures to be a bad thing?

If the sale was a genuine sale (I have no idea if it was, it's been removed) then a quick text of "no tv included, box only" in the picture would actually help, because i know from experience some buyers don't read listings (or even titles!). They probably casually breeze through listings on their mobile phones sitting on their sofa, and try to pick up "bargains" whilst keeping one eye on whatever trashy tv show is popular at the moment.

To be fair, the listing did seem to genuinely be about selling the box. It didn't mention the TV and showed questions they'd answered repeating the fact it was just the box.

It does show that a minority of people on Ebay are idiots and will bid £100's on the picture of a TV box without reading to see if you get the TV with it.