Monopoly!!!
Last year I decided to do a little experiment on ebay.

McDonalds was doing their monopoly game promotion with all the prizes etc. I quickly sussed that the winning sticker for £10k prize was Bond street (Or Oxford st, something like anyway).

SO, I put a buy it now auction on ebay like this:

"Spare monopoly card for Bond street, duplicate item so not needed. £50".

It sold after about 15 minutes!

A few hours later the buyer obviously thought about it and started asking to confirm that it WAS part of the McDonalds promotion.

"McDonalds? No, nothing to do with that. Like the auction read, spare monopoly card, doesn't mention McDonalds at all."

She went ape shit. Since I live in Devon she was threatening her brothers from the base at Plymouth making a visit etc and got really abusive.

I played it calm and just told her she'd jumpred straight into threats and abuse, she hadn't actually bothered to ask me if we could cancel the purchase.

Eventually the penny dropped, and I agreed to refund her money.

I know I could have kept it but I had a new baby at home and the prospect of some idiot turning up and doing something stupid that might endanger my daughter wasn't worth it.

I wrote her an email explaining that she had been very stupid just buying something without any thought about reading the description which only was 3 lines long.

So I conned her, then let her off.

Ebayers are all too often too greedy and stupid to think through their actions. No wonder Nigerians scam them, it must be like shooting fish in a barrel.
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 10:27, 1 reply)

...and I guess what you did was, what? greedy and clever?
since you didn't get any money out of it, i don't think you can claim it as a con.
a more accurate description would be that you were a bit of a smartarse. congratulations.
(tomfantastic -it's a pleasure, Mon 22 Oct 2007, 15:15, closed)