One Expensive Xbox One Photo

Demon_Skeith

Demon_Skeith

Administrator
Staff member
Administrator
Credits
52,249
Steal Penalty
You're Rich Money Bags Award
Profile Music
Nottingham, UK resident Peter Clatworthy, 19, mistakenly purchased a photo of an Xbox One via eBay in an unfortunate seller scam. He spent £450 (nearly $750) expecting to receive a Day One Edition, but instead received a faded, printed photo of the console's box.

Clatworthy told the Nottingham Post the seller had "written on the back of it, 'thank you for your purchase.' I was fuming." As a regular user of the auction site, Clatworthy didn't expect the seller -- whose feedback was universally positive, which is reassuring for potential buyers -- to mislead him. ""It said 'photo' and I was in two minds, but I looked at the description and the fact it was in the right category made me think it was genuine."

Fortunately, Clatworthy will get his money back thanks to PayPal's coverage of these sorts of situations.
Click to expand...

see pic here.

Good thing this didn't happen to me, the only evidence of the purchase would most likely be in very tiny pieces digesting in my stomach.
 
That auction did say photo, he did see that it stated photo and yet he bid anyway...  So I don't really have much sympathy. (It's why you need to read the auction description very carefully. And furthermore, if you're not 100% certain about it then eBay does have the option to ask the seller a question. Which is a pretty good idea before dropping several hundred dollars on something if you're not 100% certain what it is.)

Just because it was in the right section for the Xbox one doesn't mean that is what was up for sale. (People mislabel things all the time.) Plus if they were going to trick someone into buying a photo instead of the actual xbox one, they'd want to make it look like they were getting the xbox one (since no one is really going to want to buy a picture of an xbox one...)

Though that stated, the person who set up that particular item for bid did so to mislead people to spend more on what was for sale than they normally would. So I think they should be marked as a scammer (along with any other accounts they have now or create later).
 
The seller is dumb thinking he can get away with this scam since eBay is owned by Paypal, and usually Paypal refunds the buyers money if a buyer gets scammed. Also, Credit Card companies can also get involve by taking the money back from the seller to refund to the buyer.

I remember watching a episode of Judge Judy where a woman scammed another woman into buying a photo of a cell phone instead of a real cell phone. Judge Judy got mad, and demanded the scammer to refund the money to the victim. This Xbox One scam could be a good Judge Judy episode since it may bring in a younger audience to Judge Judy's TV show.
 
While I'm glad he got his money back (and that the scammer got banned), I really don't think he should get a free xbox. 

I mean he saw it was a photo and just charged in to buy the thing (from my understanding) without even bother asking questions for clarifications.  That's on him. And he shouldn't be rewarded for being stupid. At best he gets his money back and learns a valuable lesson about reading, nothing more.
 
I think the store which gave him the free Xbox One did it to help advertise their store, so the store has a lot of website visitors from traffic from the store's links embedded on blogs, forums, and news article, so the guy gets a free Xbox One while the store's website gets a lot of traffic from the internet, and people going to the store after learning about the story on TV.
 
I'm starting to think this is an online viral ad like those fake online video viral ads created by Microsoft, the store and this guy, so people would read and share stories about the Xbox One.

There is also a chance that this guy wants to be famous for a few days on the internet, and set this whole thing up to get a few moments of fame in hopes of a paid TV interviews where he can earn hundreds to thousands of dollars for apearing on Talk shows, TV News, and being a guest on podcasts, blogs, and radio kind of like how Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, and MTV reality stars got famous by knowing someone who is famous, being on a reality show which makes them famous, or both.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top