Air Zombie Meat
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wtf at this thread. no john, you are the demons.
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Let me tell you a story about how I scam people on eBay and pretend to be the victim
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I'm not a scammer I'm just paranoid.
So he expected eBay to award him he cash payment? That would never happen.
Compensation = getting to use the code and keep the money = being a scumbag
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If the buyer files a complaint, could he potentially lose his paypal account and whatever funds he had in there?
Jimmyfenix
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I missed the best parts!
The seller is probably hoping that:
1) ebay looks into the buyer and discovers that they are a scammer and lets the seller keep the money- unlikely
2) ebay will tell him to return the money to the buyer and ebay will then credit the seller- even more unlikely.
This seller is clueless about how ebay works. Either way it will require the seller to lie about redeeming the code and saying he sent a good code but the buyer is lying. No way will the seller admit that to ebay that he actually used the code.
Edit: And since the selling of digital goods is not allowed anyway, ebay will not side for the seller and he knows it. Basically, all the seller is going to accomplish here is try to hold onto the buyer's money as long as possible, based on the assumption they are a scammer. As an ebay seller myself I am embarrassed over this behavior.
No. They'll take out whatever is needed to refund the purchase but having your account closed generally requires something like a chargeback from a bank.
Off-Kilter
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At the end of the day the thing that bothers me the most is how the buyer is a bonafide scammer because he has an indian surname. What.
Naked Snake
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What he meant is that he doesn't want to refund the buyer because he already lost the monetary value of the code (since he irrationally used it). He started with having a sellable product and he wanted to end with its value in cash. If he refunds the payment he loses everything since he "destroyed" the product and can't sell it anymore. And he didn't want to be a loser.
terrisus
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... Incredible.
So what would be a potential case for compensation? Was he going to lie and pretend he was scammed, or would he actually try to make the case that he was somehow forced into using the code himself?
I'm guessing the former. Now that the OP is banned, we won't have to (get to?) witness his descent into total darkness.
a secret-boss
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He who thinks of a scammer should look to it that he himself does not become a scammer
IISANDERII
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lol did you get to keep the car as compensation
Bobs Big Boy
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It's something else, what people can convince themselves of when they want to be right.
ZackieChan
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And there was some connection to a website with ARABIC on it!!!! Two disparate cultures working together to scam OP. I feel his pain.
I feel the OP's pain. One time I sold a house to this Indian/Aribic guy, then I realized he was an elite scammer so I changed the locks on the house and called the police. THey were so happy to lock up the criminal they let me keep the house and gave me a car as a reward.
This thread was great 10/10, would read again. I feel you should have given him the 48 hours before banning him so we could have seen how he justified not returning the money in the end.
This thread was great 10/10, would read again. I feel you should have given him the 48 hours before banning him so we could have seen how he justified not returning the money in the end.
AwakenedCloud
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Should've sold it on eBay.
Deaf Spacker
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My head hurts.
Jugding by the threads of people who are sad and mad that they didn't get into GAF I actually think it would sell pretty well. If you ever need money, you know what to do.
"Highlevel GAF Account, equipped with epic tag and 20.000 posts"
So the OP got banned is never coming back, good sadly he probably raging how gaf is "wrong" and he's in the right.
I hope the buyer get his money back.
Don't let the OP scare you off, I have use ebay many times and never been burned, you just need to be smart and if something goes wrong then Ebay and Paypal got your back as they always side with the buyer.
I hope the buyer get his money back.
Don't let the OP scare you off, I have use ebay many times and never been burned, you just need to be smart and if something goes wrong then Ebay and Paypal got your back as they always side with the buyer.
SunhiLegend
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Ken K in the Fresh!!!
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it all made sense.. in his head
Naked Snake
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Epic. Good work mang.
lol too good
Amazing gif, good work!
Delta Assault
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But then he might've gotten scammed by some imaginary Indian buyer.
Of course, I won't go so far as to say that such a buyer doesn't exist. I know that sounds confusing. These things often do to the layman. But I'll try to explain without getting overly technical. You see, it all gets down to this OP fellow.
The OP's psychotic sublimative/psycho-erotic Ebay behavior pattern is like a net. Weak-egoed neurotics like digital code buyers are drawn into corresponding intersticing patterns. You might say the OP commits the scams... using his so-called scammers as narcissistic proxies.
RACIST!
Resident4t.
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Ha, this is the first time I understand the story behind one of these gifs.
I opened this in a new page and half way through thought "this has to be one of Sunhi's" absolutely fantastic haha
figadapaura
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LOL brilliant
lmao
OP was europaen, maybe british. Remember how Ghandi scammed an entire colony from them?
CraigerGamer
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GIFantastic
Chezzymann
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