Advertisement

Register for free to remove this ad

So I just purchased this

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWN:IT&ih=002

Then someone informed me that this is a scam.

http://digg.com/xbox_360/Buyer_Bewar...ttered_on_ebay

I hear that I only get my 1 month trial out of this.

No wI haven't redemmed the code or anything. I was wondering if anybody has experience with this or knows more on the subject.

You should be able to check on your account after activating it when your gold account expires.

Yea.. its a scam. I made accoutns so I don't get a 1 month free trial. And entered the code she gave me.

Join date: 8/2007
End date: 8/2007

What now? Do I confornt the seller, take it to ebay/paypal? What do I say?

Wow she must have gotten all those others buyers too then... i think you should file a claim with paypal and leave negative feedback to beware other buyers.. be prepared bc she will probably leave you a negative in retaliation

Should I confront her before I og to paypal to get a refund, open up the claim and confront her, or...?

im surprised MS lets them get away with this for so long, assuming its a scam(and im sure it is). 'She's' been selling them since May so thats more than enough time for people to realize theyve been shafted.
Good marketing though - hot chick with big thingies.

The thing is... this is a scam that a lot of people have neaver heard of. Even googling it doesnt turn up much results. And man shes gotten a lot of people. I disputed with paypal, and emailed her.

Think MS could do anything? Or will they back off this seeing as I bought it from ebay and all.

I mean. .shouldnt they also take responsibility for this... I wish I knew more abou tthis scam... the details and all. Because this should not be going on.

The thing is on my XBL account it comes up showing the name.. 12 month + 1 month. But everything else says other wise. Do I contatc them about this?

Originally Posted by supafly1824 Should I confront her before I og to paypal to get a refund, open up the claim and confront her, or...?

File a claim with paypal immediately, but then contact her and let her know that you filed a claim for your protection, and if she refunds your money or gives you a code for the full amount you will withdraw the claim and leave her a neutral instead of a negative.


I find her listing practices to be pretty questionable. Putting up a picture of yourself? Why do you do that? Oh right, because you are a cute girl and your auction item is geared towards geeky 16-24 year old males. My bet is she really is a 35 year old dude.


However, she does have a LOT of positive feedback on these, so maybe it was just a mistake on her part getting a card that wasnt activated. Under no circumstance would I leave a positive, but if she fixes it quickly, I would leave a neutral saying "she fixed it, but I would beware before leaving her more positive feedback to check the date it expires"

My question is, her myspace URL leaves me to believe she is a 19 year old girl (born in 87). Where the hell is a 19 year old girl getting 600+ Xbox live cards discounted enough to profit selling them on ebay?

I was looking at other auctions... and she listed that she found a box with hundreds of them. And she had a newborn baby (she had a picture too) so sh ewas selling it for money.

Yea right.. bullshit. Hey I have a new born baby an di need money! *Buys xbox 360 with xbox live and high speed internet*

This girl is good.

But I have no doubt in my mind this is a scam.

And people who realize it later on after a month is over.. it's too late to file a claim.

Originally Posted by supafly1824 I was looking at other auctions... and she listed that she found a box with hundreds of them. And she had a newborn baby (she had a picture too) so sh ewas selling it for money. Yea right.. bullshit. Hey I have a new born baby an di need money! *Buys xbox 360 with xbox live and high speed internet* This girl is good. But I have no doubt in my mind this is a scam. And people who realize it later on after a month is over.. it's too late to file a claim.

Well, I added her to myspace, and it does look like she had a kid (has pictures up, people posting on her wall and all).

However, if she really was a gamer and just "found" them , she probably would have used one of these cards, and realized that they werent activated.

edit: I'm curious now as to my theory of her actually being a 35 year old guy. It's a pretty elaborate scam getting all these people from her area to post on her myspace, but the page isn't quite as full of stupid shit as most myspaces are.

She replied

How are they not 12 Month Cards? Have you even seen my feedback? How come you're the only one stating it's not a 12 month?

-Heather

Originally Posted by supafly1824 She replied How are they not 12 Month Cards? Have you even seen my feedback? How come you're the only one stating it's not a 12 month? -Heather

Tell her they have to be purchased from a store and activated to be 12 months, otherwise it is just good for the one free month, and if she did indeed just "find" them, they wouldn't have been purchased/activated. Tell her to try making a new live account (shes a gamer right), and putting in a code and then tell her how you came up with the expiration so she can see for herself.

"You saw yourself when you redeemed the code that it said 12+1 Month Subscription. The reason it has that end date is because you use the bonus month first...than it automatically renews after the month for the full year. I've sold over 800 of these cards now...for the last 6 months. Obviosly if these cards were only for 1 month and I was scamming people my feedback wouldn't be over 99% with over 600 feedback left."

"How about in a month...if your subscription isn't working anymore I'll buy you a 12 Month so you can renew your "1 month scam" card. This card will work for the next 13 months. I've used one of these cards myself, and I'm still playing and my card was used in February.

-Heather"

stubborn girl isnt she

She's trying to talk me into this "just wait 1 month and see!"

But after 1 month I'd have no protection.. right? And plus, the expiration date is set for THIS MONTH.

CutieH1088 [5:33 A.M.]: you basically have 50 days to get your money back
CutieH1088 [5:33 A.M.]: you have 20 days to file a dispute
CutieH1088 [5:33 A.M.]: but if you escalate it to a claim
CutieH1088 [5:33 A.M.]: it will remain a claim for 30 days

So we started talking on AIM... and this is what she sends me, is she trying to trick me into this "1 month thing?"

how do you know for sure it doesn't work the way she says it does? I have no experience with these cards.

edit: you could try contacting other people who've bought from her through ebay maybe they have something to say about it.

Well, according to paypl:

13.3 Filing Deadlines. We will not grant any Claim unless you first initiate a Dispute in our Resolution Center within 45 Days of the date of the relevant payment and then escalate the Dispute into a Claim within 20 Days of the date you file your Dispute. It is your responsibility to keep track of the deadlines under this section.

So her number of days are wrong, but it seems like you might have a bit more protection.


IDK, tough call. If you've already made a "dispute" though, you only have 20 days to turn it into a claim.

But heres another thing... I can get on xbox live now and play a game.

But I don't think this is coming form my 1 month free trial form MS... as this is my 5th profile.. and they've stopped giving those once you get aroudn this point.

Still... why does the end date say 8/2007?

See... I don't know the specifics of how this thing plays out. But if the end date is 8/2007 and it ends THIS MONTH I can still protect myself and change the dispute to a claim, right?

Because I cant tell her I can get on xbox live now.. thats +1 point for her.