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

[Topaz25]

"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?

I suppose I expect other people....

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Picture-of-eBay-user-selling-a-picture-of-a-man-with-a-picture-of-an-XBOX-ONE-/331083935994?pt=UK_Art_Photographs_RL&hash=item4d1623f0fa

:o:o:o:o

Actually just realised I didnt see the original listing, was looking at a mock up, so dont know if it was clear. But the google reaction is that "stupidity pays"!

I saw his thread on the eBay forum on EBay. He was a bit naive but lots of sensible people get caught out (not me coz I never buy or sell on eBay).
He was polite to the people that gave him help. I was pleased he got a freebee. I hope he used his refund to buy something more sensible for his lad.

It's a well known scam but unfortunately people still fall for it. A lot of people sell iphone boxes for iphone prices. It's an ongoing problem. It's obvious if you look but sometimes people don't do there research properly.

Amazon are selling it, or at least they would be if they had any, for £430. How was he trying to get it for cheaper by paying £450? He was obviously trying to get a hard to find item anywhere he could.

And CEX might have donated stuff to every cancer ward in the country. Giving him a console doesn't preclude them from doing anything else.

This is not the first time ebay sellers have tried this. I think the one I saw before was someone selling a picture of a playhouse for the garden.

I think it's stupid to fall for these things too, but to be fair the first time you see one you think it can't be what it sounds like because 'ebay wouldn't allow it'.

Every day dozens or hundreds of people fall for cons of one kind or another.

YABVH - (You Are Being Very Humbug)

It's Christmas. The shop did a nice thing. Bloke gets the Xbox he wanted, shop gets some free very positive publicity. Where's the actual harm?

No cynicism allowed at Christmas!