This guy got what amounts to a lump of coal for Christmas

SUBMAN1 · 12-27-07, 03:20 PM

http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/H...d=1.1.1&sflg=1

-S

bigboywooly · 12-27-07, 05:12 PM

Ouch

Dont think my kids would have took it that well

Kapitan_Phillips · 12-27-07, 06:51 PM

This reminds me of when I first got a Playstation 2. My mum swapped the boxes so I had a pair of shoes in the PS2 box, and a PS2 in a shoe box.

AVGWarhawk · 12-27-07, 07:41 PM

This reminds me of the Ebay sale of an Xbox. No one bidding read the fine print the seller put on the post. At the bottom is said, 'For the box only'. People were bidding like mad. I think it went for $600.00. Just for the box the console is shipped in.

donut · 12-27-07, 08:01 PM

At Walmart last nite I diden't even get all my grocerys,when I got home.

Letum · 12-27-07, 08:01 PM

Santa is trying to cut down on coal.
He has his carbon footprint to consider.

fatty · 12-27-07, 08:13 PM

As a former employee of EBGames, I can tell you what most likely happened. A less-than-honest customer pulled a fast one on a clueless employee by bringing back a PS3 box with a phone book inside and exchanging it most likely for cash. The employee should have opened the box and checked for anything fishy, but instead he/she probably taped it up and put it in the back room with the rest of the used consoles waiting to be sold. When our unfortunate subjects showed up to buy the console, they opted to save a few dollars by going with the used PS3, which was really just a phone book.

The Munster · 12-28-07, 05:26 AM

Would be nice to know the outcome of this matter after they return to the store

STEED · 12-28-07, 07:30 AM

That reminds me years ago of a joke about a boy who wanted a Action Man and all he gets is a empty box and is told he got a Action Man deserter.

SUBMAN1 · 12-31-07, 10:32 AM

How about this one - http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/H...d=1.1.1&sflg=1

Seems we have some anti-technology nuts in our mists still.

-S

AVGWarhawk · 12-31-07, 12:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

How about this one - http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/H...d=1.1.1&sflg=1

Seems we have some anti-technology nuts in our mists still.

-S

You know, how did that little girl feel when she got this in the box? I wonder what the idiot who did this would have thought when he or she was a little kid expecting something in a box only to receive a stupid note. Note says to read a book. It is called making a good mix of things. I read before I go to bed every night. Such idiots out there.

FIREWALL · 12-31-07, 12:40 PM

If I learned any thing from this thread it's to open and examine purchase before leaveing store.

Large $ internet purchases ?????

Haven't been burned yet.

12-27-07, 03:20 PM	#1
SUBMAN1 Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11,866 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	This guy got what amounts to a lump of coal for Christmas http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/H...d=1.1.1&sflg=1 -S __________________

12-27-07, 05:12 PM	#2
bigboywooly Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Swindon, England Posts: 10,151 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	Ouch Dont think my kids would have took it that well __________________ My mediafire page http://www.mediafire.com/?11eoq19bq9r41

12-27-07, 06:51 PM	#3
Kapitan_Phillips Silent Hunter Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Swansea Posts: 3,903 Downloads: 204 Uploads: 0	This reminds me of when I first got a Playstation 2. My mum swapped the boxes so I had a pair of shoes in the PS2 box, and a PS2 in a shoe box. __________________ Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into.

12-27-07, 07:41 PM	#4
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,255 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	This reminds me of the Ebay sale of an Xbox. No one bidding read the fine print the seller put on the post. At the bottom is said, 'For the box only'. People were bidding like mad. I think it went for $600.00. Just for the box the console is shipped in. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

12-27-07, 08:01 PM	#5
donut The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: The Shifting, Whispering Sands, NM Posts: 1,463 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	This country is becoming more buyer beware. At Walmart last nite I diden't even get all my grocerys,when I got home.

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Letum Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: York - UK Posts: 6,079 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	Santa is trying to cut down on coal. He has his carbon footprint to consider. __________________

12-27-07, 08:13 PM	#7
fatty The Old Man Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 1,448 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	As a former employee of EBGames, I can tell you what most likely happened. A less-than-honest customer pulled a fast one on a clueless employee by bringing back a PS3 box with a phone book inside and exchanging it most likely for cash. The employee should have opened the box and checked for anything fishy, but instead he/she probably taped it up and put it in the back room with the rest of the used consoles waiting to be sold. When our unfortunate subjects showed up to buy the console, they opted to save a few dollars by going with the used PS3, which was really just a phone book.

12-28-07, 05:26 AM	#8
The Munster Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Deepest Dumbria Posts: 1,243 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Would be nice to know the outcome of this matter after they return to the store __________________ *GWX Team Member; Retired* GWX Home Page

12-28-07, 07:30 AM	#9
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	That reminds me years ago of a joke about a boy who wanted a Action Man and all he gets is a empty box and is told he got a Action Man deserter. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

12-31-07, 10:32 AM	#10
SUBMAN1 Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11,866 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	How about this one - http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/H...d=1.1.1&sflg=1 Seems we have some anti-technology nuts in our mists still. -S __________________

12-31-07, 12:40 PM	#12
FIREWALL Eternal Patrol Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CATALINA IS. SO . CAL USA Posts: 10,108 Downloads: 511 Uploads: 0	If I learned any thing from this thread it's to open and examine purchase before leaveing store. Large $ internet purchases ????? Haven't been burned yet. __________________ RIP FIREWALL I Play GWX. Silent Hunter Who ???