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thump
06-17-2004, 06:19 PM
was looking on ebay and came across this.can you believe people are actually bidding on this thinking its the marker.right in the small print he says they are bidding on a picture!
some people are so dumb!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=16048&item=3683713151&rd=1

check it out.

Chronobreak
06-17-2004, 06:21 PM
lmao if thats really a pic and some one buy it itl be interesting to see what happens :spit_take

MayAMonkeyBeYourPinata
06-17-2004, 06:21 PM
Wow I think someone needs to report this to ebay

arsonpaintball06
06-17-2004, 06:22 PM
hahaha..........i would pay to see the expression of the person that wins when they find out

atm743
06-17-2004, 06:22 PM
it looks like hes selling the gun for sure?? i dont get it. it dose say pic in the title but that may mean that theres pics??

MayAMonkeyBeYourPinata
06-17-2004, 06:25 PM
The DM4 has been born. Created and developed by a unique team of paintball's finest athletes and engineers. Every detail has been carefully formulated and prepared to the exacting standards of DYE. The DM4 not only embodies the very idea of paintball gun perfection, it also shatters the boundaries of 3-D body sculpting. Under a mass of drillbits, metal and coolant, the CNC machines have carved and shaved the most stylistically inovative paintball gun available. You want fast? The DM4 houses unprecedented electronic control and is limited only to the speed of your hopper. Please note this auction is only for a picture of the DM4 which will be emailed to you.Utilizing cutting edge technical achievements coupled with superior elegance in design and function, the DM4 symbolizes the momentum, quality and perfection that is DYE.

someone with an ebay account should email the top bidder and try to stop this auction

Target Practice
06-17-2004, 06:28 PM
Son of a... :cuss:. Yeah, someone needs to show this to Ebay before the auction is over. :mad:

tony3
06-17-2004, 06:30 PM
And it says it in the title :rolleyes: Man, I got to try this sometime. LOL

Thermus
06-17-2004, 06:35 PM
The guy won't get away with it, ebay says something in the rules about misleading auctions.

coolcatpete
06-17-2004, 06:39 PM
I should sell pics of all of my gear. I could be rich and only lose temporary space on my memory card.
Pete

tyrion2323
06-17-2004, 06:42 PM
reported him anyways.

Geez, I hate slimebags like this.

RRfireblade
06-17-2004, 06:43 PM
Obviously intended to decieve and therefore against Ebays rules.

And no way is he going to recieve payment regardless.

MayAMonkeyBeYourPinata
06-17-2004, 06:43 PM
This guy has two auctions right now

Chris42050
06-17-2004, 06:45 PM
Ha. I got the picture for free. Im not paying 700 bucks for it. Just left clicked and saved. Hahaha all mine for free.

ZapTheMad
06-17-2004, 07:31 PM
I reported him too. This is total BS.

FallNAngel
06-17-2004, 08:05 PM
Honestly, I don't find it misleading. It says in the title "pic" and it says clearly in the description that it's for a picture, not the actual marker.

68automagpwnr
06-17-2004, 08:28 PM
it may not be misleading, it may be quite obvious, but still, some people dont read the auctions and everything and its their fault, but you are right, who the heck would sell a picture on ebay? for one reason only, to get money from people who think its the gun, thus decieveing them.plus, if you bid that much on something you thought was a gun, wouldnt you get pissed too?

LawnGnome7
06-17-2004, 08:47 PM
if i was bidding that much i would pay alittle more attention




just my 2cents

FallNAngel
06-17-2004, 08:53 PM
it may not be misleading, it may be quite obvious, but still, some people dont read the auctions and everything and its their fault, but you are right, who the heck would sell a picture on ebay? for one reason only, to get money from people who think its the gun, thus decieveing them.plus, if you bid that much on something you thought was a gun, wouldnt you get pissed too?


I completely agree with LawnGnome. You may also wonder who the hell would sell used underwear on eBay... but people do it. The fact that it's a picture is clearly stated twice. Now if it didn't have it in the title and had it in tiny print at the very end of the auction and a picture of a real DM4 (like he actually had one, not a glamor shot from a site), then I'd say it's misleading. As is, to me it just seems like the people bidding are just skimming the auction description and not fully reading what they're getting, which I don't see how it's the sellers fault. Buyer beware.

amoeba
06-17-2004, 08:59 PM
bless all your hearts for reporting him.

that's insane. hahaha that guy auctioning would get a good laugh out of it while counting the bills once the auction was done. lol $2000+ :rofl:

coolcatpete
06-17-2004, 09:02 PM
I think people already knew otherwise why would they bid way over retail for it. Oh well people are just cracking up now.
Pete

Halliday
06-17-2004, 11:34 PM
Ha. I got the picture for free. Im not paying 700 bucks for it. Just left clicked and saved. Hahaha all mine for free.
Oh man. Too funny :rofl:

68automagpwnr
06-17-2004, 11:50 PM
funny thing is someone bid 2500 and at 4 percent its 75 bucks for an ebay fee that the retard has to pay! lmao loser

ProX9
06-17-2004, 11:53 PM
how do you report someone on ebay?
what 4% are u talking about?

desslock
06-18-2004, 12:00 AM
when ps2 1st came out somebody paid $400 plus fo a playstation2 box, thats right the cardboard box it came in. That dirty seller did the same thing cut and paste sonys description and snuck "your bidding on the cardboard box only" into the text. Jackasses like those 2 is what gives online buying/trading a dirty name. They should be publicly flogged! :eek:

68automagpwnr
06-18-2004, 12:24 AM
sellers pay 4% of whatever the auction goes for to ebay. 4 percent of 2500-75 bucks.

Enemy
06-18-2004, 01:21 AM
yeah but doesnt the winning bidder have to pay up.. thats the point of ebay or people would go around running up the bid.. any how who would pay 2500 just for a real dm4... if i was the seller i would run out and buy a real one just to make an extra 1000 off of his attempted scam.

68automagpwnr
06-18-2004, 01:22 AM
dude, didnt you see the winning bidder? 0 feedback? he just created an account to fudge with the guy, he probably didnt even use his real info to create it. DUH!

indulgence
06-18-2004, 01:25 AM
You've gotta be pretty dirty to try something like that. And it was probably his buddies who ran up the bids.

ZapTheMad
06-18-2004, 01:41 AM
sellers pay 4% of whatever the auction goes for to ebay. 4 percent of 2500-75 bucks.

5.25% of first $25 and 2.75% thereafter.

$1.31 from first $25

$69.44 for the rest

$70.75 total

PWNED!!!

cheetah256
06-18-2004, 02:01 AM
yeah, i can tell you now, the guy set a $7000 max bid just to keep anyone else from mistakenly buying it. he's a user on the tippmann.com forums and has been posting about it for a while.

ProX9
06-18-2004, 03:56 AM
does the guy have to pay that 70 bucks regardless of the payment?

Banshee23
06-18-2004, 09:15 AM
Nope he'll have to file a non-paying bidder complaint & stuff but eventually he'll get his final value fee back from eBay. It'll just cost him his listing fee, somewhere around $1-$2