GAME Manager selling eight XBox 360's on eBay...

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GAME Manager selling eight XBox 360's on eBay...

Post by Morkin » Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:34 am

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... RK:MEWA:IT

What are people's thoughts on this ? :?
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Post by andy vaisey » Mon Dec 05, 2005 1:59 pm

My sister's boyfriend is a manager of a Game store and if he had done this he would have been crucified and quite rightly so.
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Post by LeeT » Mon Dec 05, 2005 2:23 pm

I would also be very wary of dealing with someone who has zero feedback - who knows if he really is a Manager at a GAME store?

I spoke to someone on Saturday, who was supposed to be getting hold of some 360's today - I gave him my email address and mobile number an he promised to get in touch after midday - Still waiting (he is constantly on voicemail, so I have texted him and asked him to let me know one way or another! :x )
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Post by andy vaisey » Mon Dec 05, 2005 2:31 pm

LeeT wrote:...who knows if he really is a Manager at a GAME store?
Quite right! My sister's bf had only 58 360's delivered to his store and all of those were on pre-order.

Game's upper management are *VERY* strict on such things - my future brother-in-law constantly has boll**kings about the layout of his store and window displays! So something as serious and underhand as this (making money off Game's resources) would result in instant death... :wink:
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Post by Morkin » Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:31 am

I've just checked that auction again & they've all been withdrawn from sale. Hhmm...
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Post by markopoloman » Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:46 am

How about this one then.....

Bargain at £800 buy it now with 100 games :lol: :shock:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... R4_PCN_BIX
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Post by LeeT » Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:07 am

I'm STILL waiting for the person (see my last post) to contact me - he sent a text at 12.40am (!) saying he would phone me today and that he has some 360's... :roll:
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Post by Morkin » Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:12 am

markopoloman wrote:How about this one then.....

Bargain at £800 buy it now with 100 games :lol: :shock:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... R4_PCN_BIX

I see what he's done there...

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Post by Hungry Horace » Wed Dec 07, 2005 4:32 am

I can't find the link, but I saw an aution on eBay on launch day (2nd) that almost killed my faith in humanity.

The title was: XBOX 360 *PHOTOS* IMMEDIATE SALE!

On reading the auction, the seller DID clearly state that the auction was NOT for a 360, but glossy, PR-type photos of the Premium pack. At the end, it had around 30 bids and went for around £450. Clearly they did not bother to read the text.

I would love to see the feedback flame wars when the buyer realises what he has just paid for, and technically can't get his cash back as the auction was not...wholly...misleading.
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Post by Ash » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:07 am

These are the reasons I hate ebay. People are scum. Stick to free ads I say.

By the way, I don't know what GAME's policy is but if a GameStation manager had sold a load of 360s on ebay then they would have been instantly dismissed. There was a manager who got sacked for sellling promo discs a couple of months ago.
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Post by LeeT » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:31 am

I've noticed some prannet is selling XBox email addresses for £300, though looking at the auction heading it doesn't state that its an email address! :roll:
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Post by Turrican » Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:59 pm

If people are going to be suckered in like that though, they do seserve everything they get, well, in most cases anyways.
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Post by necronom » Thu Dec 08, 2005 6:55 am

Pay someone to phone you, then you can listen to THEM play THEIR X-Box!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Xbox-360-platinum ... dZViewItem

Or the one about selling e-mail addresses:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... %26fvi%3D1

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Post by andy vaisey » Thu Dec 08, 2005 4:22 pm

:evil:

Sh*t like this makes me sick and I hope Ebay does something about it.
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Post by LeeT » Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:44 am

If anyone DOES have a spare 360 that they want to go to a good home, please pm me! :)
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