Man Who Bought $735 Xbox One Photo Gets Free Xbox One
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Well that's cute and all that, but I don't have much sympathy anyways.
He
a) Got fooled in the first place
b) Bought via eBay instead of official channels
c) Early-Adopted
and d) Could have just built a half-decent gaming PC at that price.
He
a) Got fooled in the first place
b) Bought via eBay instead of official channels
c) Early-Adopted
and d) Could have just built a half-decent gaming PC at that price.
Wow, this thread is filled with some people I'm glad I never have to know in person.
The wording of this NEWS STORY is intentionally slated to make the guy look like a complete idiot, because it's author WANTS everyone to make the guy look like a complete idiot. That's the same conclusion the author came to, and it's the same one he wants YOU to come to.
Congratulations to those of you on being a pack of obedient, predictable jerkasses.
This is not the story of some dipshit who went online, saw a PICTURE of an XBOX ONE, and blindly threw more than $700 at it. This is a man who READ the description well enough to later recall that it actually did state that the pictured item was, itself, a picture. But using his deductive reasoning skills, the things apparently half the folks in this thread utterly lack, he determined that in order to be placed in the Home Electronics category... it had to be a home electronics item.
He probably re-read the damn thing several times and, like any human not entirely jaded and cynical of the world, thought to himself "It's in the electronics category, eBay monitors these sorts of things, and this guy has no negative feedback. It's probably legit." A perfectly reasonable, in naive, assumption to make. Given that he's 19, it's one that I'm even more comfortable believing comes from a place of naivety.
Meanwhile, there's folks here suggesting he be neutered. There's folks here making him out to be the biggest idiot on the face of the Earth. There's folks here actually calling HIM the con, and others who say he shouldn't have even gotten his refund.
The author has gotten his wish. You've all turned the victim of a vicious scam into the villain, condemning him to the same place you condemn rapists, pedophiles, and people who talk in movie theatres in your minds, I'm sure. The man hasn't been REWARDED for anything. He's been singled out by a manipulative media and branded the 'village idiot', so that the lot of you can get riled up and rage at the otherwise PR-laden story of a company doing something nice for someone to make a good name for themselves.
No, he'll be 'that stupid guy who fell for that one scam that once' forever. Sure he got his money back. Sure he got an XBOX ONE for free out of the deal. But everyone will only remember that his naive belief that the world isn't out to screw everyone over got him screwed over to the tune of $700. They'll accuse him of manufacturing the whole debacle himself. They'll accuse him of milking the fact that he has a son (whom he obviously wants to raise to play games, and thus become one of you fine upstanding folks here) to garner sympathy.
And more-over, they'll completely ignore the very genuine surprise and gratitude he showed when CeX decided to put him up on a stage and make an even bigger deal out of his already-humiliating blunder by giving him a free XBOX ONE.
I, on the other hand, am happy for the man.
The moral of this story is that sometimes, good things come out of bad things. Sometimes, just sometimes, the world sees someone do something terrible and does something genuinely good to compensate. Even if the reasons are selfish, as all reasons are, the result was a kind one.
Kindness is the thing this world most desperately lacks. The tone of this article and the comments attached to it are proof enough of that.
[joke]
Now, if the kid grows up to play League of Legends... feel free to burn the guy at the stake...
[/joke]
The wording of this NEWS STORY is intentionally slated to make the guy look like a complete idiot, because it's author WANTS everyone to make the guy look like a complete idiot. That's the same conclusion the author came to, and it's the same one he wants YOU to come to.
Congratulations to those of you on being a pack of obedient, predictable jerkasses.
This is not the story of some dipshit who went online, saw a PICTURE of an XBOX ONE, and blindly threw more than $700 at it. This is a man who READ the description well enough to later recall that it actually did state that the pictured item was, itself, a picture. But using his deductive reasoning skills, the things apparently half the folks in this thread utterly lack, he determined that in order to be placed in the Home Electronics category... it had to be a home electronics item.
He probably re-read the damn thing several times and, like any human not entirely jaded and cynical of the world, thought to himself "It's in the electronics category, eBay monitors these sorts of things, and this guy has no negative feedback. It's probably legit." A perfectly reasonable, in naive, assumption to make. Given that he's 19, it's one that I'm even more comfortable believing comes from a place of naivety.
Meanwhile, there's folks here suggesting he be neutered. There's folks here making him out to be the biggest idiot on the face of the Earth. There's folks here actually calling HIM the con, and others who say he shouldn't have even gotten his refund.
The author has gotten his wish. You've all turned the victim of a vicious scam into the villain, condemning him to the same place you condemn rapists, pedophiles, and people who talk in movie theatres in your minds, I'm sure. The man hasn't been REWARDED for anything. He's been singled out by a manipulative media and branded the 'village idiot', so that the lot of you can get riled up and rage at the otherwise PR-laden story of a company doing something nice for someone to make a good name for themselves.
No, he'll be 'that stupid guy who fell for that one scam that once' forever. Sure he got his money back. Sure he got an XBOX ONE for free out of the deal. But everyone will only remember that his naive belief that the world isn't out to screw everyone over got him screwed over to the tune of $700. They'll accuse him of manufacturing the whole debacle himself. They'll accuse him of milking the fact that he has a son (whom he obviously wants to raise to play games, and thus become one of you fine upstanding folks here) to garner sympathy.
And more-over, they'll completely ignore the very genuine surprise and gratitude he showed when CeX decided to put him up on a stage and make an even bigger deal out of his already-humiliating blunder by giving him a free XBOX ONE.
I, on the other hand, am happy for the man.
The moral of this story is that sometimes, good things come out of bad things. Sometimes, just sometimes, the world sees someone do something terrible and does something genuinely good to compensate. Even if the reasons are selfish, as all reasons are, the result was a kind one.
Kindness is the thing this world most desperately lacks. The tone of this article and the comments attached to it are proof enough of that.
[joke]
Now, if the kid grows up to play League of Legends... feel free to burn the guy at the stake...
[/joke]
if he fell for the so called scam in the year ebay launched, i would feel for the guy. if he fell for the so called scam in when the first xbox launched i would feel for the guy. but it is the year 2013. the scam has been around so long, its elegible to vote.
being nineteen years old and having a four year old kid does not help to paint a picture of a person with a lot of foresight or good judgement at all.
buying an xbox for this kid is even more questionable, if he indeed bought it for the kid. a little bit much of an investment for a four year old kid who cant even care about next gen graphics yet, dont you think?
he should get his money back sure. not because he doesnt deserve a lesson, but because its the right thing to do on ebays part. but a free xbox? now that alters the message very much. i read it as this: "if you are too stupid or reckless to apply common sense on the internet in transactions that involve substantial amounts of money, cry, *****, moan, victimize yourself in the media and a dont forget to include a big cup of "wont someone think of the children!?", then not only will you suffer no losses but free stuff will get shoved into your face because everybody wants to be a saint on christmas"
that is what i see and i think its a very bad thing.
you know why? because there is no free stuff. the employee hours ebay spent on sorting this thing out will be payed by customers. the "free" xbox he got will be payed for by the customers of cex.
you knows who pays for his "free" stuff? everybody else.
being nineteen years old and having a four year old kid does not help to paint a picture of a person with a lot of foresight or good judgement at all.
buying an xbox for this kid is even more questionable, if he indeed bought it for the kid. a little bit much of an investment for a four year old kid who cant even care about next gen graphics yet, dont you think?
he should get his money back sure. not because he doesnt deserve a lesson, but because its the right thing to do on ebays part. but a free xbox? now that alters the message very much. i read it as this: "if you are too stupid or reckless to apply common sense on the internet in transactions that involve substantial amounts of money, cry, *****, moan, victimize yourself in the media and a dont forget to include a big cup of "wont someone think of the children!?", then not only will you suffer no losses but free stuff will get shoved into your face because everybody wants to be a saint on christmas"
that is what i see and i think its a very bad thing.
you know why? because there is no free stuff. the employee hours ebay spent on sorting this thing out will be payed by customers. the "free" xbox he got will be payed for by the customers of cex.
you knows who pays for his "free" stuff? everybody else.
Why is everyone fixating on the fact that he had a kid at 15?Rakschas said:
He had sex at a young enough age that resulted in a child, how on Earth does that reflect on his character or intelligence when you have no knowledge of the context?
The XBox is marketed as an entertainment system, not just a gaming console.
Sure, his kid might not be playing the latest FPS but that doesn't mean he can't use it for other things. Microsoft have been trying to aim the console at families. My two little cousins, 5 and 11, were given an XBox and a Kinect a few years ago and they love it. They didn't get it for the hardcore gaming experience, I can tell you that.
It was a goodwill gesture so a company could get some cheap publicity. He didn't ***** and moan for a free XBox, he just asked for his money back which, as you said yourself, was the right thing.
How exactly are the customers of CeX paying for it?
Are they going to hike up their prices to recover the cost of the free console?
To be fair, this is more about the game store wanting some good publicity than about Teen Dad getting a free XBone. Still, I am saddened any time I see such a display of blatant stupidity get rewarded.
It's like one of those news stories where a burglar breaks into someone's house, slips in the kitchen, breaks their arm, and then sues the family that lives there and wins.
It's like one of those news stories where a burglar breaks into someone's house, slips in the kitchen, breaks their arm, and then sues the family that lives there and wins.
No, no it's not. It's like one of those news stories where a burglar breaks into someone's house and then the press vilifies the family for being too stupid to fit window locks. The burglar gets away with all their furniture but the insurance company pays out. A furniture retailer sees the story and gives the family free furniture as both an altruistic gesture and free publicity for their business. A large number of children then scream that the family are being rewarded for being idiots and for playing up the fact that the burglar stole little five-year-old Suzy's bed and she'd have to sleep on the floor.RJ 17 said:
That's what it's like.
PhantomEcho, Lack, Smilomaniac and Colour Scientist - it was very nice to read some humanity in amongst the bile and vitriol this article was intended to produce.
Not quite sure I'd call the people here the worst of the gaming community. At least they're not foul mouthing each other - yet.Smilomaniac said:
I think I agree with you to some extent - there's a lot of vitriol going on here and while I disagree with the guy getting the console, a fair bit of this has gone too far. Calling the guy an idiot initially was a mistake, but I still stand by my objection to an XBone for a four year old. I also stand by my skepticism that the console was for the child and not for himself.
No, this is the story of a man who wanted to buy a new console, at launch, on Ebay. Set yourself in his position. If you wanted to get a new piece of electronic hardware, where would you buy it? Keep in mind that it's just released. Would you go to a)Local retail; b)Amazon; c)The place where people sell used stuff. If you even consider c), it could mean that you should rethink everything you do, at least, a couple of times and if you always come to the same conclusion ask your parents.PhantomEcho said:
Not only that but he doesn't even thinks twice when the description says that its a photo of an Xbox because it's in the right categary. To give you an idea how stupid it is: You walk in to your local electronic retailer, in the "Dollar Bin" someone, for whatever reason, put a newly released game which is adressed at 50$. You see the game lying there and think: "It says 50$ but it's in the dollar bin and everything is sold at the price of 1$, it must cost a dollar, the description is wrong because it's in the dollar bin". Please tell me that even you think that there is something horrible flawed in this kind of reasoning.
What I'd love to know is how the original story ended up in the media. Whichever side of this lovely little discussion you fall on, I'm pretty sure everyone could agree that he'd likely never have gotten this freebie had the initial story not been all over the periodicals.
Nope. No, I'm pretty sure my metaphor worked just fine without your need to spicen it up with extra frills and details. Brevity is the soul of wit, and as such all you've done is retell the story with different wording, thus completely negating the point of the metaphor itself. Allow me to break it down for you so you can understand why my metaphor was perfectly fine and yours was overly complicated.IndieForever said:
Someone gets hurt doing something stupid that they shouldn't have been doing in the first place. Such as a burglar getting hurt while breaking into someone's house, or someone buying a product labeled as a picture but still thinking it's the real-deal. That person is then rewarded for their foolish behavior. Such as an injured burglar suing the family and getting hundreds of thousands of dollars, or someone getting a free game console because they fell for a thinly veiled scam.
That's pretty much all there is to it.
While I do agree that there's no need to be cursing this guy's name as some people have in this thread (which is why I simply said I was saddened, not angered), I do believe their distaste for the situation is justified.
Captcha: "Swirling Vortex of Entropy". I think Captcha's feeling emo today...
The guy read the product description. He knew it was a picture, and he still ordered it anyway.IndieForever said:
So it's more like some guy leaving all his windows open and telling everyone what times the house will be empty, and then acting surprised when he's inevitably burgled.
RobDaBank said:
While I would like to point out opinions are flexible, and less rigid with being right and wrong, from my understanding of them I would like to point out one thing.Revnak said:
The Xbox One is a console that has not had the stock level problems of the PS4, so why did he pat MORE for the console, where there was a reasonable chance he could get one for less than what he got 'cheated' out of. And before you claim there must not have been any stock, he just got a free console.
I am curious as to why you are taking this so personally though. There are other people here who seem to have the same opinion as me, yet you make it seem like I am the leader of some evil cult...
I had a GROUP of friends who, shit you not, did this exact same thing. One day on their way over to my house, two of my friends were stopped by some guys who said they were going to steal the bikes my friends had. My friends said no, but preceded to tell the would-be-thieves where they were going. The thieves let them go, but the next morning the bikes had been stolen.Genocidicles said:
I managed to get the bikes back for them, as I am well familiar with the scum in my neighborhood.
The moral of my story is don't be an idiot cause I won't always be around to bail you out.
I'm not sure what the moral is for some 19-year old using his son as a sob story to get a free console.
They should have given him a Wii-U instead... for his kid.
Thankyou. The guy made a mistake, and all the twats on the internet, who have probably done similarly silly things in their lives, get their kicks by shitting on this guy's intelligence.Revnak said:
Everyone has done something idiotic at some point. People have lapses in judgement that can be brought on by a variety of external or even internal issues.
But fuck that, this guy is scum and should not breathe the same air my divinely crafted lungs do.
To be fair, everyone does make mistakes (I bought Dear Esther) but a quick look at this guy's twitter pre-XBone scandal is an education in how to be a football nut..Directionless said:
That said, his latest tweet: "@DevanteHeesom it's not my" is in response to someone asking if he's going to be enjoying Dead Rising 3. It gives me some hope that he genuinely means that and the console is for his kid. Plus, he's inquiring into game age ratings. It could be to counter accusations that the console is for him, or it could be genuine.
While I don't like the idea of a four year old with an XBone, I guess if the guy's genuine, then it's fair.