We're teaching real bad life lessons here!
The best life lesson this young chap could have had was the 'ole "if it seems to good to be true, it most probably is".
Unfortunately this time he has learned "if it seems too good to be true - do it anyway and someone will probably bail me out" and he will apply that to the rest of his living life.
And this is why society slides ever-downhill.
*sigh*
Butuz
ik9000 (11-12-2013)
The best thing is it wasn't even a particularly good deal. The XBone sells on Amazon Prime for £30 less than the photo. :/Originally Posted by Butuz
I would have demanded a refund as the photo is clearly a low quality print, they could have at least ran a head cleaning cycle first!
He got lucky, but although he got bailed out and rewarded for his own stupidity, he's still stupid.
Lol!
My favourite comments on this saga are from @moonjam - both his original and the followup:
Original http://t.co/XD2AMUGBiw
Finale http://t.co/VsyXrC5RpR
so what makes this guy stupid he buys a xbox in good faith on eBay and gets conned.sounds like sour grapes to me do people use there brains before posting on here ,
The auction advertised a printed photo of an XBone. He had read it and recognised the 'photo' part of the advertisement but disregarded the ad's contents and "decided to risk it", he made the risk (at greater than retail cost, no less), and lost. The only qualm eBay seems to have is that it was miscategorised. If he played Russian roulette and blew his brains out I'd be equally unsympathetic, and equally consider him stupid (even though the odds are better than not receiving a photo of an XBone from an order for an XBone photo).
Clearly you don't....im guessing you didnt read the articles or any other posts.
It didn't fall off, it merely became insufficient at it's purpose and got a bit droopy...
Sigh, I cant help but think rewarding stupidity is not the way forward.
Hey Mark, you discovered Bitterwallet recently ?
The idiot is 19 and he has a 4 year old kid.
He didn't read the ebay description where it says you are getting a photo ( I don't approve what the seller did though )
He moans about his lack of reading skills and gets a Free Xbox.
Damn, why hadn't I thought of that !
Exactly we are all to clever to get a free xbox.
All you smart assed cynical people, I suppose all of you are so smart you have never been had. Well one day you might be then I will be cynical towards you. See how you like it.
Good luck to the kid and thanks from me to CEX for making this kids Christmas. So what's wrong with a little good publicity. I'm shocked that so many of you say serves him right, I suppose you would say the same if an OAP got ripped off, it's because their not smart like you lot.
Enjoy your Christmases and remember, one day some of you will get scammed as well.
Spare us the lecture, there are genuinely clever scams that catch people out, however this isn't one of them; it clearly says photo and the guy even acknowledged it said photo and still bought it and complained when he got....... ........a photo. This isn't like aggressively miss-selling things to OAPs they don't need because they don't know any better. This guy doesn't deserve sympathy, let alone an xbox because he knew it was probably a scam...
Vulnerable people who get scammed deserve compassion and I doubt anyone who thinks this guy is an idiot would disagree.
Disturbedguy (11-12-2013),ik9000 (11-12-2013)
Ok even if it was a cleaver scam he fell for, he got a full refund. So why does he then deserve a free xbox?
If he was had by the scam and didn't get a refund far enough on the free xbox, he pays for one he gets. But right now he has paid for nothing and got an xbox.
Can you honestly say that is right?
Did you even read the rest of the thread or the article, at all?
Or did you instantly decide to take the moral high ground and then label everyone as asses? (Chrismases, bet you smiled like a chesire cat when you came up with that)
As has been said umpteen times already, he acknowledge it said photo, yet still went for it.
It didn't fall off, it merely became insufficient at it's purpose and got a bit droopy...
To be refunded is one thing, to then get a free x-box? WTF? We should all email the store and point out their stupidity in providing this person with a freebie. Why did they feel the need given he was refunded and had ultimately not suffered a material loss?
If I were the seller I'd seriously think about complaining - if the goods sold were as advertised. That ebay refunded him suggests not, but is this goodwill on ebay's part, or have they reclaimed from the seller?
If the goods sold were as advertised then ebay would be well within their rights to refuse a refund.
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