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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. hi kids by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    it's my fp

  2. Fucking formkeys by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They made me miss first post!

  3. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by trotski · · Score: -1, Troll

    Macintosh scams YOU!!!!

    Wait a second, macintosh scams you anyway... eg $100 bucks for Jaguar.

    Let's change that:

    IN SOVIET RUSSIA

    Macintosh DOESN'T scam YOU!!!

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  4. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm glad that I killed you Trotski.

    -Stalin

  5. Who care's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Macintosh sucks anyway, it just doesn't come close to the reliability and stability of Windows XP. The man was an idiot, of course you can't trust anyone selling a macintosh on-line. If he were buying a PC he would have gotten a good product at an excelent price. This is yet more proof that Windows is suppirior to Macintosh. Do yourself a favor and pick up Windows XP today!

  6. At least Mac addicts are good for something by ekrout · · Score: -1, Troll

    'Cause we all know they don't know sh*t about computers ;-D

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

    "Would a windows user go through all that trouble?"

    No. They aren't prone to being ripped off in the first place, by buying a Mac.

  8. Punishment? by JThaddeus · · Score: 1, Troll

    Wasn't it punishment enough just to give someone a 867MHz PowerBook G4?

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  9. no police force by moosemoose · · Score: 1, Troll
    .. might be better than having any police force at all. ok that's a slight exageration, but lets face it, for most of us the police are simply another governmental agency which issues paperwork that we have to submit to our insurance company along with our claim and THAT'S IT. i would be interested in knowing the percentage of people who have been victims of property crimes who have had a situation where the police actually solved their case. (in my life 3 home burglaries, 2 car thefts: none solved. i don't even bother reporting the small stuff like vandalism or theft from a car).

    in the absence of a police force we'd have about 60 days of chaos, a fair amount of frontier justice and then things would settle down with community organizations that really got some work done. by the way, the fact that a small police force actually helped in his case once again illustrates the fact that the larger an organization becomes, the less likely it is to serve the interests of its 'customers'.

    rant over.

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  10. LAMER AWARD GOES TO YOU! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Would a windows user go through all that trouble?

    Congratulations, you're the biggest _LAMER_ ever met on Slashdot. How can someone be so stupid as you are???

  11. Re:Hired to steal checks? by Kafka_Canada · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hint: Try not splittig your infinitives, you sound like a moron.

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  12. What a Dumbass by g_bit · · Score: 0, Troll

    Okay, sure I'll just ship ya that 3,000$ piece of equipment before your check clears, no problem.

    And he thinks PC users are stupid.

  13. Who's the scammer here? by cybermace5 · · Score: 2, Troll

    I don't know why everyone here thinks this is SO COOL.

    This guy buys and sells laptops...ok.

    He buys ~$3000 laptop for himself, and then decides he doesn't want it. He sells it, C.O.D. for crying out loud, to someone with zero completed auctions.

    Oh wait, he sold it to this guy yet this guy still has no completed auctions? Yes folks, in the article, our Mac boy states that he sold the laptop to videopro55, who contacted him with an offer for $2900. That's outside of the eBay auction, and directly in violation of eBay policy to sell outside of auction. It's not fair to the people who placed bids (he said there were bids on it already) on the laptop...one of them won it, right? Where's their laptop they rightfully won?

    So in summary, we have a story of a guy doing triage work, because he went around eBay policy and essentially defrauded his own legitamate bidders. Remember, the auction is legally binding, and you agree to this when you sign up for an eBay account.

    I don't feel sorry for him. And notice how the Paypal donation fund is conveniently mentioned, along with how broke he is after the mean scammer guy took his laptop.

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  14. I've got your insightful AC right HERE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Blow it out your ass, druggie.

  15. Re:Funny by Dan+D. · · Score: 1, Troll
    I'd guess he is a "Glass is half full" kind of guy.

    You'd have to be, as a Mac user. :)

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  16. Slightly misleading title... by unicorn · · Score: 1, Troll

    I think the editor should have called it MacBigot...

    The anti-PC rhetoric in a couple places was pretty tiresome.

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