{"id":130,"date":"2007-04-18T20:09:09","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T04:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2007-04-18T20:09:09","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T04:09:09","slug":"how-stupid-are-ebay-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"How stupid are eBay buyers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you saw an item on eBay titled &#8220;$$ NEW IN BOX WII VIDEO GAME CONSOLE WHOLESALE LIST $$&#8221; that was listed for $99 USD would you buy one?<\/p>\n<p>Likely you would if you are as smart as the average pet rock.<\/p>\n<p>The seller (derek34786) posts big headlines such as &#8220;SAVE HUNDREDS OR THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WITH THIS WHOLESALE LIST FOR WII VIDEO GAME CONSOLES&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the posting: <a href=\"http:\/\/\" title=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.ca\/NEW-IN-BOX-WII-VIDEO-GAME-CONSOLE-WHOLESALE-LIST_W0QQitemZ150113035278QQihZ005QQcategoryZ102491QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\">don&#8217;t bother with this stupid offer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The best part is reading the fine print towards the end of the listing. Statements such as &#8220;You are not getting what is pictured in the photo&#8221; and &#8220;Ignorance is not an excuse if you did not read or misread this auction&#8221; are strong indications of predatory behavior yet I suspect eBay will be powerless to stop such stupidity due to their own acceptable use policies.<\/p>\n<p>As of 9pm there were nine bidders, with less than 10 minutes remaining. Idiots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you saw an item on eBay titled &#8220;$$ NEW IN BOX WII VIDEO GAME CONSOLE WHOLESALE LIST $$&#8221; that was listed for $99 USD would you buy one? Likely you would if you are as smart as the average pet rock. The seller (derek34786) posts big headlines such as &#8220;SAVE HUNDREDS OR THOUSANDS OF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-world-wide-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}