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Somebody paid $520 for a store dummy display phone (ie. a plastic mockup)

· PowerPC · 9 posts · Aug 8, 2004 View original thread ↗

#1 Sun, 8 Aug 2004 - 00:11

Oops

Description:
Brand New SONY Ericsson P900 Dummy Phone. This phone is not real. It's mainly used for display purposes. This is NOT A WORKING UNIT!!!!!. Looks, weighs, and feels like the real thing. Perfect for businesses in the cell phone market. You cannot use parts of this dummy phone to replace any broken parts of a real phone. It is fused together as one whole piece there are no parts for this phone.

Bids:
Aug-05-04 20:01:27 PDT US $520.00 bargainhunter996( 0 )
Aug-02-04 19:16:37 PDT US $510.00
Aug-01-04 21:59:41 PDT US $500.00
Aug-02-04 19:15:48 PDT US $498.88
Aug-02-04 19:14:11 PDT US $488.88
Aug-02-04 19:13:37 PDT US $388.88
Aug-01-04 10:23:28 PDT US $350.00
Aug-01-04 17:36:12 PDT US $115.00
Aug-01-04 17:34:54 PDT US $110.00
Jul-31-04 21:38:02 PDT US $105.00
Jul-29-04 10:20:21 PDT US $100.00
Jul-29-04 11:10:34 PDT US $100.00
Jul-29-04 11:09:53 PDT US $15.02

#2 Sun, 8 Aug 2004 - 00:16

Maybe he's really unpopular, so he won't know that the phone actually doesn't work.

#3 Sun, 8 Aug 2004 - 00:48

I don't think it was a mistake...

More than one person bid a lot for it.

If you own a cell phone store, it's probably worth it...I mean, you don't want a real phone that people would steal, so you display a fake one

. If it aids in the sale of hundreds of them, who cares about a few hundred bucks?

Of course, I could be completely wrong, as I usually am.

#4 Sun, 8 Aug 2004 - 01:53

I see people bidding tons of money for "this is not an actual phone, you will just be mailed instructions on how to get one cheap" crap all the time.

I even wrote a guy once asking him if he actually thought he was spending $500 on a real phone and not a text doc. He thought he was so I figure if there are that many stupid people in the world might as well take their money.

#5 Sun, 8 Aug 2004 - 06:55

Quote:

Originally posted by tavilach:
I don't think it was a mistake...

More than one person bid a lot for it.

If you own a cell phone store, it's probably worth it...I mean, you don't want a real phone that people would steal, so you display a fake one . If it aids in the sale of hundreds of them, who cares about a few hundred bucks?

Of course, I could be completely wrong, as I usually am.

Yes, you are completely wrong.

#6 Sun, 8 Aug 2004 - 08:56

there is a scam written all over it

check this out:
http://feedback.ebay.com/ws1/eBayIS...erospacepioneer

and the guy who won it is a n00b

#7 Sun, 8 Aug 2004 - 09:13

heh cool.

#8 Sun, 8 Aug 2004 - 13:37

Quote:

Originally posted by amsalpemkcus:
and the guy who won it is a n00b

I don't know about that. Item description says it was "NEVER USED," yet when the buyer complains about it, the seller justifies it by saying it was a used item.

#9 Sun, 8 Aug 2004 - 13:47

I think that I would save the $520 for a G5.