Ebay hall of shame

**Japan-Games.com** · 04-09-2011

Oh, yeah, I heard back from my friend about the Ozzy Dreamcast. It's legit. I mean the console is, not the price...heh.

**takeshi385** · 04-10-2011

this is a shame here

**Arkanoid** · 04-10-2011

The link doesn't work

Edit: You posted it as a pic but wow holy crap

http://cgi.ebay.com/NINTENDO-NES-GAM...#ht_719wt_1035

**Bomberhead** · 04-11-2011

Just received my 3DO in the mail today

Pic 1

Pic 2

Pic 3

this was the picture from the ebay auction

so do they have to not only give me a refund on the item and shipping but give me money for shipping it back too?

**thehive** · 04-11-2011

Ebay are crap - they pull hardware all the time...always erring on the side of caution when it comes to stuff their brain-dead admins don't understand.
And don't get me started on Vero - trying to get something into the Vero program is next to impossible, again, most likely 'cos they have such a limited understanding of most things, especially hardware.

**mooseblaster** · 04-12-2011

Originally Posted by Bomberhead

Just received my 3DO in the mail today

Pic 1

Pic 2

Pic 3

this was the picture from the ebay auction

Yikes, you certainly got a bit of a lemon there! Annoyingly, I think eBay only refund on original postage unless you push for it. Give them a ring and find out.

**bobzee** · 04-18-2011

**Cyantist** · 04-18-2011

Originally Posted by bobzee

Does the color indicate the amount of light it has gotten? most people keep these in boxes and thus not directly in the sun.

**bobzee** · 04-18-2011

The EPROM window is uncovered.
Not good considering UV light is used to erase them.

It can take a while for sunlight to do this, so it depends on how long it's been exposed for.

**Bomberhead** · 04-18-2011

Originally Posted by mooseblaster

Yikes, you certainly got a bit of a lemon there! Annoyingly, I think eBay only refund on original postage unless you push for it. Give them a ring and find out.

the seller ended up giving me a %50 refund and letting me keep the stuff. i have since been able to repair the mechanical dammage but the system looks like crap. oh well. $35 total spent. not that bad i guess.

**Cyantist** · 04-18-2011

Originally Posted by bobzee

The EPROM window is uncovered.
Not good considering UV light is used to erase them.

It can take a while for sunlight to do this, so it depends on how long it's been exposed for.

i ment the colour of the eprom windows. It seemed brown. normally they looked purply.

**ave** · 04-20-2011

The eprom windows? They're transparent, common practice in the "window producing" scene :p

The label looks dirty, but not exactly suntan. He should have covered the EPROMs though.

**Segafreak_NL** · 04-20-2011

Wouldn't be surprised if it was 'DEAD'

**ave** · 05-06-2011

Just noticed this:

That's not even Engrish anymore, that's just plain ignorance :P

**ping182** · 05-08-2011

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sony-Playstation...item1c1b6a43c7

I hate people trying to sell bootlegs as a legit thing...

**Twimfy** · 05-08-2011

Originally Posted by ping182

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sony-Playstation...item1c1b6a43c7

I hate people trying to sell bootlegs as a legit thing...

Considering the price, that's not too bad, at least they're semi-interesting chinese copies rather than a spindle of CDR's labelled ROMZ.

**Cypher** · 05-09-2011

Browsing ebay earlier in the dreamcast section I was so annoyed by people selling emulators, copied games, rom collections and all manor of dodgy freeware stuff taking advantage of those who don't know better I went on an item-reporting spree.
There's just so many.

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?rt=nc&...=p3286.c0.m301