eBay! so funny...

Karoma

Originally posted by The Brigadier
I have messaged the guy who bought it...hopefully he will come in to have his say...

OOoooOOoh! Boards.ie adds another bright spark to its user list :rolleyes:

iasc

fair play gimpy..anyone who is that carless doesnt deserve to have money in the first place, you might as well have it

The Brigadier

Originally posted by Karoma
OOoooOOoh! Boards.ie adds another bright spark to its user list :rolleyes:

Well I did message gimpy to bring him in here....

purely to explore all avenues on this subject

Guy:Incognito

The fact of the matter is that its the buyers fault, caveat emptor (sp?) and all that. I was in work yesterday when a friend of mine came in. This guy had a vicous hangover and only has the sight in one eye after some idiot shot him with a bb gun. He read the heading and immediately asked why someone was selling a box!!! so id imagine that someone who actually wanted to buy it would read it through

sceptre

Originally posted by gimpy
Hi. Im the guy that sold the box.

Welcome gimpy, glad you could drop in.

And thats the story, hope you enjoyed my auction

Heh, quite a lot actually:D

And the first thing I thought when I saw the auction was along the lines of "Heh, he's clearly selling a cardboard box"

Tiesto

Originally posted by nm
I hope you get ripped off in a similiar fashion, it seems to be the only way idiots like you will learn.

fair play to the seller i say, €180 for a box... thats good business!!

have u got no morals either?
suck my balls!!

kelle

God, I feel like I'm talking to my 3-year-old here, but, please, Gimpy, do the decent thing and give that guy back his money. You are a very deceitful individual as I'm sure while the bidding was going on that you knew he'd made a mistake. I urge you again - act like a human being.

CuLT

Heh, n1 gimpy.

BTW, I think this covers any opposition pretty well:


CAVEAT EMPTOR.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Originally posted by kelle
God, I feel like I'm talking to my 3-year-old here, but, please, Gimpy, do the decent thing and give that guy back his money. You are a very deceitful individual as I'm sure while the bidding was going on that you knew he'd made a mistake. I urge you again - act like a human being.

go broncos

Mercury_Tilt

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RobertFoster

Originally posted by Mercury_Tilt
They dont expect to be kidnapped... taken some where.. and welded into a barrell... cover in bales of hay... with some dead meat.. some maggots.. and their own **** and piss for a week...

I don't think anyone would expect that...

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

unless they were with Stephen...

sceptre

Originally posted by Mordeth
unless they were with Stephen...

Still bitter?:D

Tellox

It was very funny alright, but I'd refund him if I were you.
Karma stings.

Tivoli

gimpy,


i'll give you €10 for the xbox, that and the €180 (£120) from selling the box is a good price :cool:

dahamsta

I think gimpy should give the money back and the buyer should be banned from the Internet for life. The guy's clearly a complete and utter moron that needs protecting from himself. Oh, and Merc ticking gimpy off for being nasty to someone "weak" on the Internet is clearly a far funnier story altogether. Even in jest, talk about pot and kettle.

adam

Commissar

It seems to me that Gimpy followed the letter of the law. Yes there was some ambiguity but, as far as I can make out, nothing illegal.
Nevertheless to all intents and purposes he screwed the buyer.
People can rant about karma all they want but the fact of the matter is that the buyer is down £120 with nothing to show for it. To my mind this is simply unjustifiable whether it was over the internet or face to face.
Technicalities aside, Gimpy screwed him, no two ways about it- he took his money and gave him waste cardboard.

RossFixxxed

Yes we're all so clever here. Someone made a mistake, quick jump on them. Hide behind your keyboards guys, you're so so much better there. After all isn't that where the cool people are?

Give him his money back, laugh about it, move on.

Oh and by the way, I do appreciate the irony of using the internet in order to decry it! (I gotta use it to get paid)

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

how many hippies do we have on boards ranting on about karma with absaloutely no understanding what they're ranting on about?

come on kids.. don't be shy..

KARMA'S GONA GET YA

maybe gimpy did something really reallyy nice the week before he sold this and his karma is nicely balanced out there, why didn't any of you judgemental ****S think of that? EH?

Mercury_Tilt

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Karoma

i guess it's true what they say about a fool and his money...

you're getting the hump because you'd fall for it, or because it makes you think. awwww! you have to think when you're on the interweb... poor you. :rolleyes:


my karma ran over your dogma.

Mercury_Tilt

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Imposter

I reckon he should refund him the money but only if he gets the box back (minus postal costs, of course):)

Karoma

it's fair enough- it doesn't sit perfectly well with me either-but it's ebay,and it's to be expected. Fact is fact: he didn't question it, i don't know him, i'll continue to laugh at him (deservedly).

pclancy

Caveat Emptor: Let the buyer beware. You dont go onto any website (never mind ebay where you should be extra cautious) without fully looking into the product you are buying and making sure its exactly what you think it is. Nothing was done wrong. Maybe the money should go back but at the end of the day its up to the seller's own heart and guilty mind whether or not he repays, no rules were broken. If it was me I probably wouldnt give the money back.

This whole thread has to have been one of the funniest ive ever seen on boards tho.

skittishkitten

Strange that people are overlooking the fact that Gimpy said IF the guy had wrote and POLITELY asked for a refund that it would have been given . Instead the person wrote and heaped abuse and profanity upon Gimpy because that person failed to read the auction clearly. The whole defining moment on whether or not the refund was given was the offending email. As far as I can tell the person never wrote and said......."OK .... I've had a chance to calm down.....I'm sorry for my previous letter , can we talk about this." WHICH would more than likely earned him the desired refund.
Seeing as how the auction accepted payment through Pay Pal the payment was probably sent as soon as the auction closed. I doubt that Gimpy went to extremes in attempt to collect the money. I also notice that the buyer gave Gimpy negative feedback also using profanity. I say Tic for Tac Gimpy hit him back at his own game , give him negative feedback (politely though ) for failing to read the auction clearly and using profanity in attempt to get a refund.
Now seriously .......if it were YOU and this person had written you an email full of abuse and profanity , would you have been so eager to give his money back to him ? Honestly .......someone act like that to me , I wouldn't. Hell would freeze over before I would even consider it.

Karoma

it wasn't overlooked - people just don't believe him.
I believe(d) it. If somebody sent me abuse- I'd make them sweat it.

gimpy

Im still shocked im been accused of purposely defrauding the guy. In all honesty, if I had wanted to defraud someone and sell them a box in dodgy circumstances by making them think they were getting an xbox, I would have been able to word the auction a lot better. The auction was not pre planned, and I wrote it out in about 30 seconds in a way that I thought if soneone read it they`d get a laugh out of it (hence making jokes about the carrier bag, and it been the must have accesory, haha) Hell I was even too lazy to take a picture of the actual box I was in such a rush.

So far I must have had about 150 emails about the auction. I`d say well over %90 have been saying I have done nothing wrong, and they cant believe the buyer paid, even after winning the auction.

smoke.me.a.kipper

i think the seller presumed the guy REALLY wanted a box to impress his friends. i would keep the money. the buyer DESERVED to lose his money.

dahamsta

Originally posted by gimpy
Im still shocked im been accused of purposely defrauding the guy. In all honesty, if I had wanted to defraud someone and sell them a box in dodgy circumstances by making them think they were getting an xbox, I would have been able to word the auction a lot better.

I imagine you wouldn't be bothered your arse coming here to post about it either gimpy. Don't mind these other langers, they wouldn't know real humour if it came up and bit them on the arse. And seriously, give the dumbass back his money now. Not only will you be doing the right thing, you'll prove these muppets wrong into the bargain.

adam

knifey_spoonie

Your a lying BAST*RD , you said it was in GOOD COND IN BOX why would a empty box be in a box:mad:

smoke.me.a.kipper

Originally posted by knife_fighter
Your a lying BAST*RD , you said it was in GOOD COND IN BOX why would a empty box be in a box:mad:

i wouldnt send just the x-box box. id put the x-box box in another box, so the postman wouldnt be tempted to open it up etc, or them to see what was being sent.

Karoma

Originally posted by knife_fighter
Your a lying BAST*RD , you said it was in GOOD COND IN BOX why would a empty box be in a box:mad:

to protect the box... it's valuable y'know... someone paid good money for it..

knifey_spoonie

If you are selling something you dont say wraped in buble wrap , do you

smoke.me.a.kipper

Originally posted by knife_fighter
If you are selling something you dont say wraped in buble wrap , do you

no, you say its in a box, as new.

dod

If the buyer has, by his emails subsequent to the purchase, acted the twit, you cannot dignify this behaviour by acceding to his request for a refund.

However, if, as you say, you would have been happy to refund him prior to this sequence of outrageous emails, then donate half the profit to a charity of your choice.

Your assertion of noble intentions will no longer ring hollow; if he asks for the money you can justifiably say that it has been given to a noble cause and so is no longer available to be refunded to him; you profit by half the money taken; and the nay-sayers on this thread should be pacified by the gesture.

kelle

Gimpy, you've had your fun. I don't blame the buyer for his profanities. GIVE HIM BACK HIS MONEY! Just do it.

de5p0i1er

If somebodys that stupid they deserve to be ripped off.

Placebo

what bull**** gimpy.
if he would have said, the box was empty ? you actually think you would have given the money back ? if so DO you think he payed 180 for the box , just the box ? Did you expect him to be all merry about it ?
______
hey man
wassup,
hows it going, pleasure doin business with ya.
Just a little problem here,
the box is , eh.... well empty.
dont mean to be too much bother but do u mind sending my money back ?
______

when the guy got the empty box, he knew you ripped him off and he knew the chances of person ripping him off in the first place to send the money were SLIM TO NONE so you cant hold him being ABUSIVE.

without some gimp ripping you off

read that gimpy and dont excuse the pun.

StickyMcGinty

Why doesnt the buyer just re-sell the box, with the same description, if he doesnt get his money back?

thats what i'd do, pass the box on...

Commissar

Originally posted by dahamsta
I imagine you wouldn't be bothered your arse coming here to post about it either gimpy. Don't mind these other langers, they wouldn't know real humour if it came up and bit them on the arse. And seriously, give the dumbass back his money now. Not only will you be doing the right thing, you'll prove these muppets wrong into the bargain.

adam

You are a moron. Keep your sweeping generalisations to yourself.

vorbis

phrasing what dahamsta said a little better. Its funny in the sense that you got some idiot to pay 180 euro for a box. It stopped being funny imo when you kept that money. As dahamsta said, you should give the money back. Keeping it makes you a scammer.

rainer

Soooooooooooooooo funny!!!!hahahaha

neXus9

Here's the website about the powerbook scam (scamming the scammer!!!)

http://personal.stevens.edu/~achadzyn/powerbook/

Karoma

Originally posted by Commissar
You are a moron. Keep your sweeping generalisations to yourself.

aye. i hate people who make sweeping generalisations.



as someone pointed out, why not try re-selling the box with the same desciption? He wasn't the only bidder...

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

people who make sweeping generalisations should save up for a hoover

BlitzKrieg

I'm really sorry for digging up an old thread


BUT!!!!! i was poking around ebay (i love that word...poking) and i noticed this:





one

two

three



now i at first thought (ahhh someone is trying to do the same stunt as gimpy) but entering each auction i noticed they ALL have the exact same auction message. The message GIMPY used for his auction...hmmm


this *i believe* is either someone really stupid copying gimpy and just did a word for word copy OR...gimpy B*ll****ed everyone and is in fact a jerk...


i leave this evidence in the hands of the court

Hobbes

Originally posted by gimpy
Hi. Im the guy that sold the box.

Incase your wondering 2 days after he paid he realised his mistake and asked for a refund, I would have given him it if he had been polite, but he emailed me with more abuse than you could belive, so I thought screw it.

Funny but, as the buyer said you incorrectly marked your bidding when you put in the details ...

Item Specifics - Video Game Systems
Platform: Microsoft Xbox Bundled Items: --
Condition: New In Box Format: PAL (UK Standard)

When it is clearly a box. So not only should you refund him you better do it fast before he has the cops onto you. Also check up a little. The guy who posted the original "PS2 Box" actually got in trouble for the scam.

BlitzKrieg

Hobbes

i think the excuse he gave for that is he had to put something there or else it wouldnt be accepted, personnally i've never sold anything on ebay (one of my many faults, no sell 2nd hand stuff) so i wouldnt know 1st hand.

Ted_striker

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BUT!!!!! i was poking around ebay (i love that word...poking) and i noticed this:

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If ya take a look at this sellers ( m.robinson30 ) feedback it says "metalbadgeman"has already bought one of these boxes for £79.50 and his feedback left says "A1 e-bayer!!! Top drawer! " .Could this be a little scam goin down ????