To think this father shouldn't get a free Xbox One for making a mistake?

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"A teenager who was scammed into buying a photo of an Xbox One on eBay for £450 has been given the real thing by an electronics store.

Peter Clatworthy, 19, was planning to surprise his four-year-old son with the newly released Microsoft console but received a picture of one instead.

The teenager, from Bilborough, Nottinghamshire, was given a full refund by eBay but still lamented that Christmas wasn’t going to be Christmas without an Xbox One.

But now a CEX outlet in Nottingham has stepped in and gifted him the video games system, which is sold out in the UK."
metro.co.uk/2013/12/09/teenager-scammed-into-buying-450-photo-of-xbox-one-on-ebay-gets-given-real-one-for-free-4223279/

OK, so he was scammed but the listing did say it was for a photo and he received a full refund from eBay. I think that's where this story should have ended. It's gone too far now. He shouldn't be rewarded for making a mistake and a four year old doesn't need an Xbox One! If CEX wanted publicity, they could have donated the console to a charity.

AIBU to think he shouldn't get a free Xbox One for making a mistake and he was trying it on by saying Christmas was ruined because he couldn't get a games console for himself for his four-year-old son?

Plus he was BU getting an XBox One instead of a PS4. But then he'll probably get one of those as well and try to tell everyone that it's for his gerbil's grandad.

Can't see the issue. He got scammed, got his money back and in a brilliant display of publicity just before Christmas a company gives him an xbox. For him, for his son, who cares? Presumably he used his own earnings as I'm sure someone would have reported if he used benefit money. There is nothing to complain about because this affects nobody else. Your taxes have not paid for it, he is presumably still in his Son's life and hasn't ditched him despite being a child when he fathered him (something which would get him praised on any other thread), he's at Uni trying to further his education.
I can't afford an Xbox one for my DC's either. Christmas will be quite lean this year due to finances. But I really don't care. Bloody good on the company and I hope he his son enjoys it.
YABU.

My 2yo dd uses our xb one with no probs so can't see the issue for a 4yo.

(I prefer ps4 too and luckily we will have both consoles here come Christmas day)

traceypenisbeaker has put it perfectly.

SomethingkindaOod so he deserves a medal for being in his son's life? So he should be? The article has no relevance to that whatsoever.

Bah Humbug

To be honest, he got the XBox undeservedly and based on a lie. I don't think for one minute that Cex would have given him that XBox if he hadn't said that it was for his four year old. They did it for the publicity, so that the fools people who believed him would read the paper and be like 'aww bless, the 4 year old is getting his XBox after all, CEX have saved the day.' If he had been honest and said it was for himself, then there is no way they would have contacted him and offered him the console. 'Entertainment company gives gullible man-child free console' doesn't warm the cockles as much, does it?

That's not what I said, the fact that he is (I assume) in his son's life would have been praised on any other thread.
Would anybody on here refuse a free Xbox One whatever the circumstances of the mistake/scam? I bloody wouldn't!

Yabvvu the guy had been scammed and it was for his child !!

And the fact that he is 19 year old with a 4 year old son has been mentioned further up thread in a 'shock, horror' way.

Touch of the green eyed going on here.

I don't think the miserable buggers would refuse a free x box for one minute.

Why is he a man-child?

It's probably been opened and currently sitting in his bedroom the now. I can't actually imagine him wrapping it up in Mickey Mouse wrapping paper and leaving it well alone until December 25th for his son to open it.

Sorry, I'm a gamer myself so I just can't imagine it haha.

Something, so do you not think that having a child at 15 is shocking?

So as a gamer yourself would you refuse a free Xbox One no matter how stupid you managed to make yourself look in the process? This bloke is being laughed at in Nigeria and even his own family have been pissing themselves laughing at him, he's not exactly come out of it looking like the Brian of Britain..
Would you turn it down?

Jesus Christ people are reading an essay into a sentence...
Yes. Actually I do think it is rather shocking. However Tracey asked me to clarify something in a previous post and I mentioned the fact that his age and the age of his son has indeed become an issue on this thread, despite Tracey's assertion that it wasn't.
However having a good friend who fathered a child at 14 and is still married to the child's Mum just over 20 years and 2 more children later I don't automatically think that it is worth using as a stick to beat the guy with.

His name is Peter not Brian

I'd only accept a free Xbox One to sell it on. I was so unimpressed with the launch, namely because of the additional charges for second-hand games, lack of backwards compatibility and needs internet access once a a day. I was quite annoyed and wanted it to flop because of their cheek, especially with regards to pricing and the second-hand charges. So no, I'm personally definitely not jealous.

'Brian of Britain'... Oh FFS...

Brain.
I give in...

He's laughing all the way to Game! Yesterday he was tweeting about buying a PS4!

I think if CEX Nottingham were going to donate an XBoxone the Teenage Cancer Unit at the QMC would have been a far better place for it to go.

Is it the xbox controller that has the touchpad or is that the PS4? DS was distinctly unimpressed with whichever one it was anyway.
Not A Gamer.
Or particularly good at spelling Brain apparently either.

I'm not jealous.
In fact, I pity him for not knowing that the ps4 is the better console

In the real world however, I'll take anything for free.
So if you have an xbone and simply don't know what to do with it, I'll just about manage to take it off your hands..?

I dont think that he should have been given a free one. He could afford £450 ffs, which he got back, so Xmas was hardly going to be tight was it? No, he wanted it for himself and chucked a temper tantrum when it became clear he wasnt going to get one. I very much doubt that his 4 year old will receive it or get £450 worth of presents either.

Far better for CEX to donate the cost of the Xbox to their local Christmas gift appeal for families whose children will be getting nothing at all this year.

Sorry, I have to say again HE GOT HIS £450 BACK, THIS IS NOT A POOR MAN WHO GOT ROBBED STORY!

I'm not bothered if he impregnated someone at 14, he just comes across as immature, hence the 'man-child' comment. You'd have to be pretty immature to spend £458 on something (especially on eBay) having not even read the bloody title of the item properly. Plus his claim to be buying it on behalf of his 4 year old is pretty stupid too.