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Guys spends £300 and gets a picture of a MacBook

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Seen this type of thing before, someone bought an xbox for 350 and it was a picture, and someone not long after ebay started bought a ferrari, and was sent a ferrari toy car (the advert IIRC never stated it was a real car)
synaesthesia

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He's an idiot. Yeah the seller is unscrupulous but if you're spending a lot of money, at least read it properly. All he is doing by going the media is making himself look even more of a fool. Hence, he's an idiot twice over.
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He's an idiot. Yeah the seller is unscrupulous but if you're spending a lot of money, at least read it properly. All he is doing by going the media is making himself look even more of a fool. Hence, he's an idiot twice over.

 

but there are no consequences for being a brain dead moron these days its always someone elses fault it couldn't possibly be their fault. Example you shouldn't need to put caution hot on a cup of coffee its so blindingly obvious that anyone who needs that is too dumb to survive

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None of the articles make it clear whether he got what he paid for (in which case, more fool him), or if he had bid on an actual Macbook but was sent a picture instead (in which case it is fraud).

 

This puzzles me though:

He wanted to be a wedding DJ and needed the laptop in order to download the appropriate software.
So he paid £300 to download something? Even if the article is badly worded, I'm surprised that @abillybob didn't pick up on the fact that Mr Barrington seems to have fallen into the "I'm creative, so I must have a Mac" trap.*

 

*Admittedly, there may have been good reasons for it having to be a Mac - but why let that stand in the way of a good dig?

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To be fair, nowhere does it state that the auction said "Picture of a MacBook". I think some of you are assuming he's an idiot when actually he could have been a completely innocent party who did nothing wrong and just got scammed. I am well aware too of people who haven't read things properly and have chosen to buy an XBox box etc, I'm just not convinced this is one of those occasions, particularly as the seller has been suspended.
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Whats inside the Box: A4 print of a MacBook.

 

Condition: Poor Condition, doesn't work.

 

But yes we don't know the true facts as always from these news articles.

 

But been a seller before and clearly stated all relevant info about an article which was wholly honest and truthfull (I.E. COLLECTION ONLY), the seller paid but then wouldn't collect but wanted money back and eBay sided with the Buyer even though all communications between us was done through eBay and I'd clearly been trying to arrange for the buyer to collect the buyer complained he hadn't recieved the Item :censored:

 

I'd be supprised if eBay did not take this seriously.

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abillybob

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This puzzles me though: So he paid £300 to download something? Even if the article is badly worded, I'm surprised that @abillybob didn't pick up on the fact that Mr Barrington seems to have fallen into the "I'm creative, so I must have a Mac" trap.*

 

*Admittedly, there may have been good reasons for it having to be a Mac - but why let that stand in the way of a good dig?

 

True, that's what you get when you buy a Mac, a Picture of a Mac edited on a Mac and printed out on a Mac capable printer. Damn that man :troll:

 

Edit: People misunderstand though what I'm trying to get across, I don't care if you want a Mac and you prefer them to Windows that's fine, I like them for certain aspects of things but when buying them within a school environment where it's not your own personal money being used and the same outcome can be achieved with a Windows machine I'm still yet to see the reason to spend 4x the normal amount. If it's you own device and it's just because "iLikeiMac" fine that's your choice but for a school hmmmm.... Just my opinion anyway I'm sure a lot of people don't listen to it :laugh:

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I'm surprised there's so much hatred on here directed towards the person that got conned! I'd expect/hope Ebay will come down on the side of the buyer as the last thing they'll want as a company is to attract more copy-cat scammers trying to pass off photos of goods as the actual thing on their auction site!
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Stupidity should be a crime. To err is human, but outright ignorance and stupidity is often punished. This guys punishment is looking like an idiot and the loss of his money, no different to the xbox muppet. However, the xbox muppet was REWARDED for his stupidity. The mind boggles.

 

(For note, the original article linked in the OP had a photo of the plonker holding up the delivery note with the description very clearly stating PHOTO (and was highlighted). It appears that has been removed.)

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unixman_again

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Sorry, can't find the article - sure it was on Yahoo news, it linked to a picture of the ebay listing & packing note.

Here is the yahoo news story https://uk.news.yahoo.com/-i-sold-my-pride-and-joy-for-a-piece-of-paper---ebay-scammers-sent-surfer-a-photo-of-%C2%A3350-laptop-he-thought-he-d-bought-115731494.html The ebay packing note is for the xbox. I am suspicious of this story though; I have a feeling Barrington is using the power of internet news to publicise his charity drive or his new business.

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the original article linked in the OP had a photo of the plonker holding up the delivery note with the description very clearly stating PHOTO (and was highlighted).

This is him.

 

http://a.pomf.se/tkiibg.jpg

 

What I don't understand is how eBay can class this as fraud. The auction was for a photo of a MacBook and that's exactly what he received.

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synaesthesia

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Here is the yahoo news story https://uk.news.yahoo.com/-i-sold-my-pride-and-joy-for-a-piece-of-paper---ebay-scammers-sent-surfer-a-photo-of-%C2%A3350-laptop-he-thought-he-d-bought-115731494.html The ebay packing note is for the xbox. I am suspicious of this story though; I have a feeling Barrington is using the power of internet news to publicise his charity drive or his new business.

 

Aha, my mistake. Still though, will guarantee the listing made it reasonably clear. They are designed, of course, to entrap the stupid. In which case, it was successful.

 

Edit: I wonder if this is the offending one. It couldn't be clearer: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Apple-MacBook-Pro-with-Retina-display-Photo-15-2-8GHz-512GB-8GB-/281502103492?pt=UK_Art_Photographs_RL&hash=item418ad537c4

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Arthur

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I am suspicious of this story though; I have a feeling Barrington is using the power of internet news to publicise his charity drive or his new business.

That's what I was thinking too. Some of the articles include a link to his fundraising page.

 

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=paulbarrington

 

It's a win-win for him since eBay will refund the money he paid for the photo and he gets to publicise his business and the money he is raising for the British Lung Foundation.

 

However, I think a lot of people on the Internet will simply remember him as the idiot who purchased a photo of a MacBook.

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The bit that get me laughing (even though I do feel slightly bad for the fellow) is that the picture wasn't even in colour :pound:

I think you'll find the following article funny too, even though it is from 2011. :)

 

Woman gets duped into buying wooden Apple iPad for $180

 

Apparently a South Carolina woman who thought she was buying an Apple iPad for the bargain price of $180 belatedly realized she'd just bought a piece of wood.

 

Ashley McDowell, 22, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, filed an incident report on Monday night with the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office. She claims two black men approached her in a McDonald's parking lot selling iPads for $300 a pop.

 

McDowell told the men that she only had $180, and they agreed to sell it for that price, according to the report (see full text below). The men then reached back into their trunk and handed her a FedEx box.

 

After paying and driving off with one, McDowell opened her FedEx box to discover "a piece of wood painted black with an Apple logo." That's when she called the police.

 

Lieutenant Tony Ivey, a public information officer at the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office, sent over photos of the fake iPad, which were discolored because they'd already been dusted for fingerprints. "Basically what they'd done is taken a screenshot of an iPad screen turned on, with a copy of a Best Buy sales ticket on front. On the back they'd pasted a cutout of the Apple logo," Ivey said.

 

http://a.pomf.se/ggsogt.jpg

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