"Graeme Cogger" wrote in message
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In article 40abda8d$0$20512$cc9e4d1f@news-
text.dial.pipex.com, says...
OK, seems I gotta be the one to post this he

See:


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=8101010 615

Some dickhead has paid £120 for an empty box (inc. p&p) and ain't too
happy
about it - check the buyer's feedback. What makes me smile is the seller
appears to be quite comfortable with it - check his feedback to the buyer!

Now, is it me, or is there *just enough* ambiguity in the description and
auction title to trap the unwary....???

Hit rate on the auction is 55,000 and still rising!

:-)


It's all a bit strange...


No it's not. The seller has achieved exactly what he set out to do IMO.
Check the bidding - there are a number of bidders all with low feedback
ratings (or whatever it's called - transaction numbers or summat) throwing
serious money at an empty box. If the seller was genuine he could have
stepped in at any time and pointed out that the Xbox wasn't actually in the
Xbox box and that it was only the Xbox box that the Xbox came in......

Check the description also - 'Platform = Microsoft Xbox', 'Condition = 'new
in box'

Wot woz 'new in box' - the box itself then?

Check also Postage and Packing = £5.

Woz the seller going to put the Xbox box (ie a box with no Xbox in it) into
a box and post that then?

(An Xboxless Xbox box inside a box....???)

:-)


Personally, I can't see how anyone
could misunderstand what the guy was selling - it was very
clearly described.


Still think so?


On the other hand, I wouldn't have taken the money in this
case. Once it was clear that the buyer _had_ (somehow!)
misunderstood, the decent thing to do would be to offer to
abort the sale.


Quite. If a significant refund (I don't say all of it) hasn't already been
offered to the dopey buyer, it bloody well ought to be, in my book!

Now, I wonder if I say all this because I inadvertantly bought a 7" record
the other day - thought it was an LP! (The description clearly said '7"'!!)

:-)