Man Who Bought $735 Xbox One Photo Gets Free Xbox One
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As much as I don't agree to the fact that this man is rewarded for a stupid mistake, I'm am shocked about how many people are shaming his character because of it.
People are ranting and raving about him purchasing a game system for his son. That because he became a parent at 15 years old he must be a terrible person. That he should be taking care of his son instead of buying a game system. And that he should be ashamed for being rewarded.
At what basis does anyone know this man personally? We don't know if he's a good father or a bad father. We don't know the circumstances of him becoming a parent. We don't know if he is emotionally or financially stable enough to take care of a child and own a game system.
Sure, there is a large chance he was primarily purchasing this system for himself, but there's also a chance he was purchasing it as a means in order to enjoy time with his child. My father and I used to play on the nintendo and playstation all the time when I was a little girl, and he bought those systems for us. There is a chance this man was doing the same. Why is he immediately harassed just because he became an early parent?
All the above could be wrong, he very well could be the worst parent in the world, but let's be upset with the fact that this man got a reward for a silly mistake (which I'm sure we've all screwed up somewhere at some time). And perhaps we should be less angry with him, and instead be angry with the individuals who decided to reward him in the first place.
People are ranting and raving about him purchasing a game system for his son. That because he became a parent at 15 years old he must be a terrible person. That he should be taking care of his son instead of buying a game system. And that he should be ashamed for being rewarded.
At what basis does anyone know this man personally? We don't know if he's a good father or a bad father. We don't know the circumstances of him becoming a parent. We don't know if he is emotionally or financially stable enough to take care of a child and own a game system.
Sure, there is a large chance he was primarily purchasing this system for himself, but there's also a chance he was purchasing it as a means in order to enjoy time with his child. My father and I used to play on the nintendo and playstation all the time when I was a little girl, and he bought those systems for us. There is a chance this man was doing the same. Why is he immediately harassed just because he became an early parent?
All the above could be wrong, he very well could be the worst parent in the world, but let's be upset with the fact that this man got a reward for a silly mistake (which I'm sure we've all screwed up somewhere at some time). And perhaps we should be less angry with him, and instead be angry with the individuals who decided to reward him in the first place.
I'm sorry, but you're showing empathy on the internet. I'm pretty sure that's not allowed.Revnak said:
This is dumb, it really is. He admitted to reading it was a photo, he shouldn't get shit. Rewarding people for being dumb is not a good thing. Try that in a work environment, people will just do the dumb thing over and over again. We shouldn't really approve of this shit.
When I originally read an article on this it listed that the description was reasonably long winded and said "Photo Edition" or something to that effect towards the end so it was certainly ambiguous. Couple that with the fact that it was in the home electronics category, and also that presumably that it was listed for a price that the Xbone would be expected to be selling for selling for, I think it's insanely harsh to label the guy a complete moron for bidding on it.
The backlash about it has been unbelievable in this thread. Why is it such an issue with people? The fact that he got refunded would be the most reasonable solution in my book and good job to Ebay for doing so. Of course he doesn't "deserve" to get the console on top of this but so what, it was a company doing a nice thing for somebody and getting good publicity out of it. Probably some of the best marketing money they'll spend given how cheap it is for them.
I don't view this as him getting "rewarded for his stupidity" or whatever, it's just a nice thing happening to someone else after a shitty thing happened to him that's leading to a win-win for everyone involved. It was clearly a con attempt, albeit a dated one. Why not more anger directed at the person who posted the deliberately misleading advert on Ebay?
As for the amount of negativity directed at this guy personally for having a kid so young, buying computer games for such a young child ect. I know I was playing videogames when I was 4. I loved them. Just because systems have gotten more complex doesn't mean a kid can't still enjoy playing videogames. As somebody pointed out earlier, you don't have to play the game right to have a fun time playing it. And while I wasn't sexually active quite as young as this guy I wasn't far behind him. I could easily have ended up with a similarly aged child at his age but I don't feel that should have any reflection on my intelligence level or on me as a person.
The backlash about it has been unbelievable in this thread. Why is it such an issue with people? The fact that he got refunded would be the most reasonable solution in my book and good job to Ebay for doing so. Of course he doesn't "deserve" to get the console on top of this but so what, it was a company doing a nice thing for somebody and getting good publicity out of it. Probably some of the best marketing money they'll spend given how cheap it is for them.
I don't view this as him getting "rewarded for his stupidity" or whatever, it's just a nice thing happening to someone else after a shitty thing happened to him that's leading to a win-win for everyone involved. It was clearly a con attempt, albeit a dated one. Why not more anger directed at the person who posted the deliberately misleading advert on Ebay?
As for the amount of negativity directed at this guy personally for having a kid so young, buying computer games for such a young child ect. I know I was playing videogames when I was 4. I loved them. Just because systems have gotten more complex doesn't mean a kid can't still enjoy playing videogames. As somebody pointed out earlier, you don't have to play the game right to have a fun time playing it. And while I wasn't sexually active quite as young as this guy I wasn't far behind him. I could easily have ended up with a similarly aged child at his age but I don't feel that should have any reflection on my intelligence level or on me as a person.
I'm done with work now. I guess I should do some replying.
He didn't pay more. It's roughly the same price as the Fifa pack. Also, he wanted to get a day one version, for whatever reason he had.
I'm not taking it personally, in the sense that I am not personally offended by the insults he has been facing. I am disgusted by them though. It's just so juvenile and pointlessly cruel.
I am quite willing to admit that my ideal vision of society, one where we stop acting like assholes, is definitely a pipe dream. However, so it your's. Your "fair" society, where bad people get punished (or are not allowed to breed) and good people go on to produce great things and push forward great ideologies. Except this idea of a fair world is totally undermined by how arbitrary and totally unfair the universe itself is and always will be. Fairness is, at best, no more of an attainable goal than universal compassion.
Now for my statement on this.
I'm not talking about opinions though, I'm talking about "opinions." Ideas which are hard to come to objective conclusions about, but where there are definitely some conclusions which are worse than others. Politics, for example.VoidWanderer said:
He didn't pay more. It's roughly the same price as the Fifa pack. Also, he wanted to get a day one version, for whatever reason he had.
I'm not taking it personally, in the sense that I am not personally offended by the insults he has been facing. I am disgusted by them though. It's just so juvenile and pointlessly cruel.
I am seriously creeped out by this post. I thought we all admitted social darwinism was a fucked up ideology based on total pseudo-science. I guess I was wrong.Skarvig said:
I am quite willing to admit that my ideal vision of society, one where we stop acting like assholes, is definitely a pipe dream. However, so it your's. Your "fair" society, where bad people get punished (or are not allowed to breed) and good people go on to produce great things and push forward great ideologies. Except this idea of a fair world is totally undermined by how arbitrary and totally unfair the universe itself is and always will be. Fairness is, at best, no more of an attainable goal than universal compassion.
Now for my statement on this.
I have been playing video games for literally as long as I can remember. Some of my first memories involve playing Sonic. I was 3 or 4 then. When I have a kid, I probably will buy them a game console at a similar age (if I can afford it).
Zachary Amaranth said:
Considering how unfair life is for us not stupid people, and most stupid people too, its perfectly natural to get annoyed about someone else getting lucky without even trying or doing anything noteworthy. And its not a very elaborate con, considering it revealed itself in the post, so he should really know better.Revnak said:
If life is inevitably going to be unfair and arbitrary, then we should just aim to make life as good for all of us as we can. I understand why someone would be annoyed, a few years back I would have been annoyed with them, but that does not make it the right reaction.sweetylnumb said:
What saddens me most about this is the vitriol being dished out towards the guy. He got very lucky, I doubt even he would deny that, but that doesn't warrant the bitter and hateful comments directed at him.
Well, they called their shop CeX. I wouldn't expect any better from them than to swipe some cheap publicity from a man's stupidity.
A dad at 15. If he doesn't learn from this I hope he at least knows how to put a condom on, now.
A dad at 15. If he doesn't learn from this I hope he at least knows how to put a condom on, now.
I live in Nottingham, this guy seems quite a fool. I seem to remember reading that this chap is jobless and on the dole. My question is how the feck did he get 450 quid to buy this thing. For your son? hmm... its nice to see my hundreds of pounds of national insurance money a month is going to a good cause.
He isn't lucky, he did something stupid and decided to get some people's attention and make himself look special.smithy_2045 said:
eBay saw it as covering their asses to refund his money, the site that started his story saw it as good clickbait and CEX saw it as a nice opportunity for good publicity.
It's a young man who, as far as we can tell, has not made great life decisions and continues to do so. And rather than people attempt to make him learn a lesson from his mistakes, it's being publically displayed as a story of the 'underdog' getting rewarded.
Except if this WERE the case of a legitimate underdog, it wouldn't be coated in caveats like '19 year old with a 4 year old son' or 'Even though I saw that the description said it was a photo of an xbone, I decided to buy it anyway because it was in the category I wanted to buy the product from' and best of all 'this gift is for my 4 year old son and totally not for me, the teenager who totally doesn't like to play video games'.
People are upset because the bullshit detector is going off the charts with this whole story. He plays up being conned and then goes around to con other people into buying his story and CEX decides to play along with the con by giving him a free xbone.
There is nothing 'lucky' about this, there's a VERY good chance this kid decided he could get some attention and some shit for free by acting like a moron and whadaya know, he did. It's society continuing to further reinforce that it's okay to be careless and make bad decisions, because you just might end up gold in the end when people pick up the pieces for you.
It's a continued reinforcement of this concept, just on an EXTREMELY small scale is all. He should not be praised for his 'luck', he was rightfully ridiculed in the original article that was posted. It's good that he got his money back but holy shit did he NOT need to be REWARDED for his mistake by not ONLY getting his money back but getting something for free too.
He's not a child, he's a fucking 19 year teen kid with a 4 year old son, though his behavior, actions and that smug look on his face in the photo SEEM to imply he has the mind of a 10 year old who just pulled the wool over the eyes of his parents.
Wow, you guys are jealous. Also, you guys don't le things die don't you? We get it, you think he's dumb for getting ripped off, and think he shouldn't be able to breed anymore ( Talk about pretentious.)
OT: Good for him.
OT: Good for him.
when youre a 19 year old with a 4 year old already that seems to have managed to scrape up the dough that most of us with jobs cant, I can see an argument for it...IAmTheToaster said:
Being dumb does not mean the scammer is off the hook. And he's a victim of someone else's predatory efforts to take advantage of his (and others') idiocy. We can all shake our heads in bewilderment that he fell for it, but the fact that it ever happened in the first place is the real crime here that we should all be pissed off about.VoidWanderer said:
I don't honestly know how I feel about this guy getting an Xbox One, though. I suppose it's fine...the store awarding it can do whatever it wants, after all....and I imagine this guy is not rolling in money...but doing this seems to be rewarding his lack of common sense. And while I don't bedgrudge the victim of a scam, I do think that the optimal solution here already happened (Ebay refunds him) while adding the free Xbox One seems somehow to be rewarding bad judgement and poor decision making skills.