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Old 12-26-2007, 01:15 PM   #1 (permalink)


 
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Wii Auction proves you really need to read before you bid

Winning bid for this Wii box auction was $305, I think they overpaid...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...0%3D%26fvi%3D1

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Old 12-26-2007, 02:03 PM   #2 (permalink)
 
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Re: Wii Auction proves you really need to read before you bid

the guy who won it has only ever bought 1 other item on ebay, talk about rookie mistake.
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Old 12-26-2007, 02:28 PM   #3 (permalink)
 
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Re: Wii Auction proves you really need to read before you bid

Meanwhile, the guy who sold the box is selling the actual Wii that came inside it in a separate auction. No bids so far.
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Re: Wii Auction proves you really need to read before you bid

... and to think, I JUST got rid of the box for my Wii not two weeks ago.

If only I'd not had this stubborn faith in humanity! I guess that puts me in the buyer's league of stupidity.
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Old 12-26-2007, 05:24 PM   #5 (permalink)
 
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Re: Wii Auction proves you really need to read before you bid

I'm going to give the guy a break, sort of, and say its a bidder with no intention of paying. Either stupid, or one of the losers who bid things up and never pay, fairly bad either way really.
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Old 12-26-2007, 08:18 PM   #6 (permalink)
 
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ha lol...........sucker
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Old 12-27-2007, 01:35 AM   #7 (permalink)
 
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This is just the box for the wii console, that's it. If you could not get an actual Wii then this is a perfect way of saying I owe you 1 wii. A month or two after Christmas time is when all the wii's can usually be found.
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Old 12-27-2007, 09:46 AM   #8 (permalink)

 
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Re: Wii Auction proves you really need to read before you bid

This happens every console release. It was very wide spread at the 360 release. The best so far was a few months after the PS2 was released, all the PS3's that showed up on ebay. They were super Nintendo's painted black with a few other pieces of plastic glued on and a fancy PS3 logo.
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Old 12-27-2007, 12:39 PM   #9 (permalink)
 
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You cant bump your own bid on Ebay, it doesnt work. What he probably did was bid 280 and get immediately outbid by someone elses proxy bid, so he had to rebid to get the lead slot.

Still, it wouldn't be that surprising if he was a fake bidder.
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