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MacAddict Tracks Down eBay Scam Artist

Posted by pudge on from the ha-ha dept.

OS24Ever writes "A future high school history teacher, Jason Eric Smith, sold an 867MHz PowerBook G4 on eBay right before finals. He found out the hard way that people are out there to rip you off, and he went to great lengths to catch this guy with the help of Mac heads everywhere. A great read and agreat way for us little guys to get back at these scammers."

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  1. Re:Would a Windows User? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Your an Idiot!... Macloosers!

  2. Fucking moron by Jennifer+Ever · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yeah, I mean, good for him catching the guy and all, but let's be real for a moment--that's what you get when you ship a $3000 laptop COD.

  3. Read the fucking article by greygent · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    This is hardly insightful. It was a COD order, dipshit.

  4. Identity by Shamashmuddamiq · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I guess everyone needs to find an identity. If this guy thinks that using a Mac somehow makes him intelligent, more power to him. After living in Texas (dealing with "Texas pride" bigots), I find this kind of sentiment really annoying and uncalled for. The article was good, but statements like "you shouldn't mess with Mac people" and "he must be a PC user" just amplify my suspicions of his ignorance.

    Personally, I know several Mac users, and I'm surprised that a few of them are even intelligent enough to tie their shoes. My own experience tells me that the ratio of stupid people to intelligent people seems to be much smaller for PC users. Does that make a PC better than a Mac? Probably not, but it certainly doesn't make a Mac user better than a PC user.

    Dunno why I bother. This is Slashdot!

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    ...just my 2 gil.
  5. Re:Go against ebay rules, get burned by Pedrito · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1. Against eBay rules for selling, and 2. Stupid.

    Yeah, but what do you expect? He's a Mac user. (go ahead, mod me down)...

  6. Re:I had a farfetched thought... by Dimensio · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    That's why you do it as secretively as possible and you kill them so that they cannot identify you.

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    STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!
  7. Re:How about this... by drive · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    haha, that made me laugh. pretty good idea

  8. Re:If you're going to be dishonest anyway... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    THE TRUTH is that he's a MACHEAD with AIDS-related dementia

  9. what?! by Transcendent · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Obviously a PC user.

    Suck it you bubble-lovin Mac faggot...

    Oh geez... "all Mac users are kind-hearted loving people who would never do anything wrong!" ...you make me sick...

    I can see the sequal to the Mac add "My name is ____ and I saved christmas":

    "I'm a PC user and I ruined christmas!!"

    Soon we won't have racial steriotypes, but it'll all be based on your operating system! Oooooo!!! BSD user's BEWARE!!! Linux will form a clan and burn penguins on your lawn!

    ....wait....

  10. What an egotistical asshole by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Did you read that shit? Every other sentence he had to add some pretentious comment about how owning a Mac makes him better and smarter than everyone else.

    "I'm a Mac user! I'm so great! Only a Mac user such as myself would be smart enough to send out a $2300 computer COD. A Dell user would never have enough brain power to do that. By purchasing overpriced, underpowered computers, I raised my IQ 200 points. I have a 4.0 GPA because I am intelligent enough to effortlessly flush $2300 down the drain."

    Really. Where do these people get the idea that owning a Mac makes them a superior human being? Especially after doing something so stupid. Owning a Mac just makes you a sucker.