Ripped Off - What was your first experience?

Hey Everyone,

I can't remember when the first time I was scammed or ripped off was, but I definitely feel I was a "sucker" when I purchased an Acer Aspire notebook as a gift. That piece of crap has been nothing but trouble. Random mouse movements, crappy USB connections, etc.

Anyone else have any stories or experience of when you were cheated, scammed, or felt ripped off?

 

Here's another one. One time I purchased a spindle of Princo DVD's. Ended up throwing the whole thing because non of the discs would keep data for more than 1-4 weeks.

Another time I purchased Memorex DVD-RWs, and the whole pack was able to write once, but couldn't be read/erased/re-written after :-/

 

I think I've just been ripped off on eBay whilst purchasing an Apple power supply. Blew up after a week, and on closer inspection the text on the supply is full of spelling mistakes

 

I bought a used 360, after a week of use BAM it stopped working and it gave me the RROD, after opening the console I realized that the guy who sold me the console had used a Heat Gun, the GPU and the PCB around the GPU was pitch black, the whole thing was burnt.

 

that's sad to hear... The only crappy thing that has happened to me is when i bought a DS game lot and someone in the post office read that it contained FF3 and cut the envelope open, took the FF3 and ducktaped the cut. What a prick. At least he didn't take the whole lot.

 

I didnt complain. I just told it to the guy who sold me the lot because its his fault he wrote the contents of the envelope on the envelope and he offered me a partial refund of approx 10 $ which doesnt even cover half of the ff3, but oh well. At least it wasn't thousands of dollars or not even hundreds.

 

Well, once, not so long ago, I bought via Mercado Libre Uruguay a copy of Mario Paint for SNES, for less than $5 including free delivery. When the seller came to deliver the game, it was a crappy pirate copy with a crappy label that said Super Mario World something instead of Mario Paint.

 

The mexican postal service, or maybe customs stole my Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2, the first time I bought it. The package disappeared as soon as it touched mexican territory.

It's now probably hanging from some illiterate hick's rear-view mirror, or something.

Play-Asia reimbursed me, though. Which was really good. I didn't expect that.

Never again will I use the mexican postal service.

Weird thing, though. I ordered an anime figure while drunk a couple of years ago and completely forgot about it. A few MONTHS later, I got a notification that I had a package for me, and I ended up getting a HUGE box from the post office, with my intact figure in it. And at that point, I remembered I had ordered it. They also had the Ubuntu CDs I had ordered many months before... so that's why I trusted the postal service in the first place.

Another quasi-rip off was preordering Eternal Sonata and paying 56 dollars for it, not finishing it still, and seeing it for 99 pesos at Blockbuster (that's 6 dollars! I ripped myself off!)

 

Did you tell the fucking cunt to go fuck himself, or did you accept the game?

 

If my memory serves me well, he took the game because it came with the mouse and mousepad (which were original)...However, these last two items were so POLLUTED with DIRT and OTHER SUSPICIOUS SUBSTANCES, that the tales of the cleaning spree that went on afterward are borderline epic.

Usually, when you get to buy Snes games around here, they are brutally deteriorated, stained, with labels that resemble a cubist painting.
I remember this one time in which I went to a local flea market an got myself a copy of SUPER METROID in almost mint condition (if you don't count the lack of box, manuals, etc).
The very same day, I bought the Zombies Ate my Neighbors cart for our friend here (Tchoin). I was so embarrassed because the cart was so effin dirty and the plastic was yellow, that I spent nearly 2 hours cleaning it and trying to make it look like it was worth the ten dollars I had spent.
Meanwhile, Tchoin was in the states, asking me via MSN if I had been able to get him the carts.

 

Back on Switchouse when I was... like 12 or 13 or 14 or something, my brother and I swapped our copy of Earthbound (complete w/no guide) and complete Breath of Fire for a complete copy of Chrono Trigger.
It never showed up.
We filed a claim, the site had some decent protection against that sort of stuff.
Then a week or two later, the site closed forever and we never got our reimbursement.

 

The only time I've been ripped off was when Parcel Force stole a couple of Megaman games that were coming from America. Looking at the tracking number they reached my local branch OK and then someone must have stolen them from there. The painful part was it was 2 complete Gameboy games that were stolen (Megaman IV and V). Took me months to track down replacement copies of those games!

 

The only time I have been ripped off, was when Yakumo-sama sent me a pirate handheld console, and the Danish postal service stole the fucking package. So that is why I am always recommending people to send with recommended package or with some kind of tracking number to it, cause then you can give your local post office, a polite hell afterwards. And what is a polite hell ? well imagine you go down to your post office, and speak almost Shakespearian language, but show your dismay with being firm, but polite in your words. And not use bad language, but words, that expresses your feelings, but in a non threatening manner, or translated into plain English. Go snobby with them in your expression of dismay and disgust. That usually does the trick. Or else you can always threaten to report them to the police about snatching your package. But I never got the package from Yakumo-sama and the only fuckers I blame, are the Danish postal service. And I never did complain to them back then. But then again it was no big loss. But still being polite, and snobby/Shakespearian in your language can at times give you a lot of respect and it will pave the way for future endeavours, where the service from the post office is top notch.

 

I got scammed by a Gypsy once when I was 19. The old lady essentially talked me out of 20$.

 

How do you get talked out of $20? (^_^);

 

Very smoothly.

 

I 'sold' my DS a week after I got it on launch day because it kept making me feel ill, the guy said he'd pay me after it arrived.

He never paid up and never came online on MSN again. Found him on facebook though, tempted to hunt him down IRL.

Young and stupid, eh?

 

i bought a loose PS2 once....for around 50 €..... and never saw it -.-