Comments on: iPhone’s On eBay = Vaporware http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/iphones-on-ebay-vaporware/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:22:27 -0500 hourly 1 By: ilya http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/iphones-on-ebay-vaporware/comment-page-1/#comment-222648 ilya Mon, 14 May 2007 23:57:52 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/iphones-on-ebay-vaporware/#comment-222648 Update: The item has been removed by eBay: http://tinyurl.com/yt6b3a Update: The item has been removed by eBay:

http://tinyurl.com/yt6b3a

]]> By: ilya http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/iphones-on-ebay-vaporware/comment-page-1/#comment-222465 ilya Mon, 14 May 2007 19:40:33 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/iphones-on-ebay-vaporware/#comment-222465 I agree 100% on everything. Except that these aren't real 99% feedback accounts. Well they are, but they don't belong to the original owner of the account. If you look at items sold you will often find that they have little to nothing to do with phones or technology and are most of the time knickknacks and things of the like. A dead giveaway that the person who the account belongs to probably will have an easy password. The auction might be in different categories too. Ones that don't correspond to phones. I doubt the bidders are real either, but theres no link to the actual auction. I agree 100% on everything. Except that these aren’t real 99% feedback accounts. Well they are, but they don’t belong to the original owner of the account. If you look at items sold you will often find that they have little to nothing to do with phones or technology and are most of the time knickknacks and things of the like. A dead giveaway that the person who the account belongs to probably will have an easy password. The auction might be in different categories too. Ones that don’t correspond to phones. I doubt the bidders are real either, but theres no link to the actual auction.

]]> By: Ivan http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/iphones-on-ebay-vaporware/comment-page-1/#comment-222390 Ivan Mon, 14 May 2007 17:51:39 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/14/iphones-on-ebay-vaporware/#comment-222390 You said "there’s nothing you can do about it once you bid." Well, first you can choose not to pay. How many of these are fake bids anyway? Second if you pay with a credit card and don't get the phone you can have the charges reversed. PayPal will refund your money for an item that wasn't shipped. So bid away... but $10,000 for a crappy phone? I think not. You said “there’s nothing you can do about it once you bid.” Well, first you can choose not to pay. How many of these are fake bids anyway?

Second if you pay with a credit card and don’t get the phone you can have the charges reversed. PayPal will refund your money for an item that wasn’t shipped. So bid away… but $10,000 for a crappy phone? I think not.

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