by taoski on December 8, 2005
The Register reports how an innocent eBay'er was duped into buying a picture of an Xbox 360 for ?470. As BigFootCookie knows, stating the correct details of the item in the auction is very important - as is reading the auction before you part with your cash!
Here is a link to the eBay auction, complete with a full description of the XBox probably copied from the Official Microsoft Site - but with the added quip:
This auction is not for a Xbox 360 game system, but instead a picture of one. I hope you enjoy this high-quality item. The 360 is the hottest thing on the market.
I bet PayPal are working through their lunch break to sort this one out. If they can stop laughing that is.
And what does the purchaser have to say on this matter when leaving feedback?
Lying theif, stay away from this ebay member !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jesus. He can't even spell either!
by taoski on November 3, 2005
Cripes!
Mr Postman delivered my GBA Flash Cart this morning before 9am! Hows that for eBay service! Ordered yesterday afternoon - delivered today!
I unboxed my new toy and slapped it into the USB port on my XP box and installed the drivers, briefly read the instructions (ignored most of it) and launched the program from the included CD to upload some **ahem** backups of my games I already own.
ERROR: NOT ENOUGH ROOM
The Cart stated that it had 256mb free… but only 256MB RAM - not ROM…. Hmm…
I tried to format the card using the same program - but it just crashed every time.
Thoughts of negative eBay feedback entered my mind as I re-read the instructions.
I went off to the manufacturers website and began to download the latest version of the upload client and was a small part way through downloading it over my 2Meg ADSL line at 3.2kb a second when I found a slightly older version on another site. Downloaded that - unRARed it and tested… it worked!!!
I was able to pick my ROM images and load them into the application ready for uploading.
So why did’nt Mr eBay supply the latest version of the client too? He did supply his own CD with the drivers on, but they were obviously the old version!
So I now have …er… some ROMs on the cart. And for the record.. it works - perfectly!
It boots to a loader screen (with wallpaper you can change) and you arrow up and down the list of games and press the A Button to load them.
I don’t know why I did’nt get one years ago!
Now, i’m off for another “pretend poo” to play.
And tonight, I will be mostly searching the internet for ROMs and Emulators.
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by taoski on November 2, 2005
Well, it's not a giant lizard slaying robot and its not a new religion.