U.K. Teen Buys $735 Photo of Xbox One on eBay

[Caiphus]

In America people are held to written contractual obligations that are made apparent, eg no fine print, no weird language. Unless he's claiming there was fraud, which will be difficult considering the product exactly matches its explicit description, this guy has no real argument. Thus, he is lucky the company was being nice and gave him his money back. He's an idiot.

I still have no idea what it is that you're confused about with regard to my comment.

Pay no attention to my post then. It was late, and I probably assumed that we were talking about the actual listing, rather than a hypothetical perfectly clear listing.

In any case, the actual listing wasn't apparent:

"Xbox One Fifa 14 Day One Edition, Photo Brand New UK 2013", while also posted in the wrong section. I can't imagine any court, even in the US, would uphold that contract.

So that's probably what confused me.

Edit: Oh, and he allegedly emailed the seller, who told him it was a console. But only one news site reported that, so it could be false.

 

[Kyle Jenson]

Everyone's so quick to blame the seller, and calling him a scammer.

the ebay listing was in the newspaper and it clearly stated about 4 or 5 times that it was a photo of an xbox one, someone even messaged the seller asking if if was a re xbox or just a photo and he answered that it was indeed a photo.

That was visible at the edits part at the bottom of the page, so no, he wasn't scamming, he only put the listing on to take the piss.


it was purely the buyers fault for not reading the damned listing, it's out of order that the seller had to give him his money back }:-(