Ripoff Merchant On Ebay!

[timeslip]

Some cheeky is selling a BLU for £200 with nothing extra!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...8119066692&rd=1

 

[Septera]

There are some extras if you buy from him.

So, here is what you get in my package:

* GP32 BLU modded to 166mhz for best speed, boxed and brand new.

* USB cable

* Brand New SMC writer for ease of transfer.

* Extra DVDs with:

* Every Snes Game

Every Nes Game

Every Gameboy Colour game (until last year)

Nearly all Sega Master System games.

Nearly all PC Engine Games Lots of Sega Genesis/Mega Drive games

* Lots of other games: including systems such as Atari ST, Atari 2600, MSX, Spectrum, Commordore 64, Mame and Neo Geo Pocket.

* PC game ports, such as Doom, Wolfenstein, Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle and many more.

* Some converted movies.

You will get all of the above.

 

[Maks]

200 is the buy it now price

 

[frolik]

cheeky bastards done it before too http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...item=8109710072 GP32 non-flu for £150?!!!

this is effectively selling illegal roms, what a con!

 

[timeslip]

So a cd of roms and and a £12.99 card reader is worth an extra £100 ?

Sounds like a bunch of robbing bastards to me

 

[Steve-O]

Its not realy a Con. Its the people who bid on thems Fault... I would love to sell my Non Flu for £150, I might try it (But without the roms)

I just hope that people that look at them relise that they can save £50 - £100 by Buying from GBAX or Lik Sang

 

[timeslip]

So u think its justifiable to double the price of a brand new unit 4 a 2nd hand one?

 

[Shirohagen]

It's up to the bidders what they pay for it...

®

 

[timeslip]

They probly Forum Board members too - Hell could even be Craig with a illicete side project to gbax - Opps dont wanna start any more conspiricy rumours

 

[Mark]

Don't BLU's cost about 160 from GBAX? And he is throwing in the disks, so whiles it's a rip off it isn't that bad. Good luck to him, if he can sell it why not?

 

[LHC]

The starting bid is £175, and yeah, on GBAX including VAT i think it comes to £160 or something, so it's not the worst thing ever. He's not threatening to kill anybody if he doesn't find a buyer or anything.

 

[Mosch]

Good luck to him, if he can sell it why not?

Because he sells Roms. And maybe copyrighted movies.

 

[moz]

a gp32 BLU is well worth £200 its just that other people sell them cheaper

 

[Mark]

Good luck to him, if he can sell it why not?

Because he sells Roms. And maybe copyrighted movies.

He isn't selling roms as such. If someone wants a BLU, they are obvouisly going to use it for emulation. That's what GamePark's are for, whatever anyone says.

He's just providing them on some dvd's so that people don't have to download them. I can see where you're coming from though.

 

[bringoutthegimp]

who the fuck cares????? the guy's just trying to make a bit of cash. good luck to him i say. if someone is retarded enough to buy it at an extortionate price then they deserve it

 

[Kop_007]

(If you cant be bothered reading this, go to the last line, it sums it up perfectly)

Dear Mr Timeslip,

Hello, I see you found my auction on ebay. Firstly, let me say thankyou for giving it some publicity. As you may see, there are currently no bids, although I do have an offer of £150 for it - but I think it's still worth a little bit more to sosmeone else. Remember to check my auctions in the future.

Now, I'm not going to get into an argument with you as I much above such feable things, however I would like to take you up on a few point s and in the process discuss some other peoples statements.

I take great offence to some of your slanderous/liablous (depending on how you see Internet Message Forums) comments.

Firstly:

‘No Extras’ – I think we can all see there are sufficient extras included, as kindly indicated by Septera

“£200’ – as pointed out by Maks this is a ‘Buy it Now Price’, this means that I am willing to sell the item as the starting price of £175, however, if someone really want the product they can guarantee success for £200.

“So a cd of roms and ….Sounds like a bunch of robbing bastards to me” – Two Full DVDs, sir. Now for the robbing bastards remark. I think the term ‘robbing bastards’ should be reserved for someone on ebay who actually is a robbing bastard. A person who takes your cash and runs. I am certainly not a robbing bastard. Everything is clearly written and described and is most certainly truthful. Although I only have 14 feedback, you can see it is 100% positive. You have no right to call me a robbing bastard, and as of now, I demand an apology for that statement.

“They probly Forum Board members too - Hell could even be Craig with a illicete side project to gbax - Opps dont wanna start any more conspiricy rumours” – so you’re one of those people, no-one actually believes that crap. I could read that as a joke, but for some reason, I dont.

Now that I have finished with you Timeslip, I shall move on:

frolik
cheeky bastards done it before too http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...item=8109710072 GP32 non-flu for £150?!!!

this is effectively selling illegal roms, what a con!

I sell the GP32, the roms come free. It may be argued that buyers like the deal because of the roms, but there is no way for sure of knowing this. Anyway, put your magnifying glass away now Sherlock.

An example of another GP32: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...agename=rvi:1:2

Steve-O
In a way you are correct. Not everyone is computer savvy. They would much rather have a way of receiving roms than going through the ordeal of finding them themselves, despite how easy is may seem to me or you…and yes, I would try and sell our FLU, it cant hurt to give it a go.

Shirohagen
“It's up to the bidders what they pay for it...” – never a truer words spoken. Timeslip has nothing to do with it.

Mark – keep up the good work on the magize, mate, great read.

Don't BLU's cost about 160 from GBAX? And he is throwing in the disks, so whiles it's a rip off it isn't that bad. Good luck to him, if he can sell it why not? – Exactly.

“He isn't selling roms as such. If someone wants a BLU, they are obvouisly going to use it for emulation. That's what GamePark's are for, whatever anyone says.

He's just providing them on some dvd's so that people don't have to download them. I can see where you're coming from though”. – the words of a sane man.

LHC
“The starting bid is £175, and yeah, on GBAX including VAT i think it comes to £160 or something, so it's not the worst thing ever. He's not threatening to kill anybody if he doesn't find a buyer or anything”. – This man knows what he’s talking about. Rip off Merchant, Timeslip? This is an honest deal.

Mosch
“Because he sells Roms. And maybe copyrighted movies”. – the roms are free. I cant tell you the number of requests I’ve had just to sell the DVDs. They come free with the GP32. I’m glad you said “maybe” there at the end. If you didn’t, you would have been number two on my list.

moz
“a gp32 BLU is well worth £200 its just that other people sell them cheaper” – thanks moz, remember, your’e the one who made me get a BLU in the first place. Thanks, I do not regret it at all.

Conclusion

To conclude, my friends, I would like to use the words of bringoutthegimp – “who the fuck cares?????

 

[EvilDragon]

Just for your information:

As I don't like warez and REALLY hate it when someone tries to gain a higher prize in auctions because of WAREZ, I just reported this auction to eBay.

And just saying that you don't sell them but give them away for free doesn't make them any legal.
Giving away commercial ROMS is definitaley illegal, whether you do it for free or sell them.

Only free roms are homebrewn, but they don't need 2 DVDs space...
And if you still wanna tell me these roms are legal: LucasArts games like Monkey Island surely aren't, unless you include the original CDs.

Keep cool, stay warez-free

 

[davey g]

Ignore Timeslip, he is the Devil.

 

[Kop_007]

I just reported this auction to eBay.

No need for that. What have you got against me?

Seriusly, with Craig's business being slandered daily on here, it's really going downhill.

Just been looking, some example of what a troll Timeslip is:

Here we see him biddin on his own auctions to rais ethe price. Very naughty.

Now let's look at the auction:

"I`m also including 50 or games, emulators for NES,SNES,MasterSystem,Megadrive,Atari ST and Gameboy with 1000`s of games and also gonna throw in 3 cds full of movies and TV series watching on the gp32 " - WoW, that's some double standards.

Timeslip tries to start a piracy empire.

The reason why ypu cant take him seriously. Rico put it best.

Yet more illegal trading!

 

[yaustar]

Even without the roms, free P+P brings it about the same price as gbax's (still a bit over)