alexandertyler
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[quote name='cochesecochese']I really don't see why the OP is getting his asshole chewed raw by this thread. He didn't stick his hands out as far as I could see. Am I missing something?[/quote]
Well he's getting his sphincter gnawed on, from what I can tell, because 99% of the people on this forum are experts at playing angles. We almost all play angles of some kind or other to get discounts and shady YMMV deals to go through. That is, after all, why the majority of us joined this forum in the first place. So posting a story like this, especially since the Letter of the Month in the latest issue of EGM just dropped, makes the angle detectors of its members go off -- too much potential scam factor.
People on the forum are "heading him off at the pass" by going to question the potential end result of this post -- which, in a less skeptical forum, may lead to an overwhelming outpouring of money, games, systems, etc. I guarantee that if he had waited to post with scans of the police report, photos of his broken-in apartment, coupled with other evidence and was also an active member of the forum, the response would have most likely been different -- we are obviously a giving community, look at the Christmas charity drive for example.
[For the ultra skeptics amongst us, yes, all of the abovementioned evidence can be very easily falsified; nothing a phone call to the police or media in his town could not fix.]
All of that being said, many of us including myself, offered him words of encouragement. He is going to be fine because nothing happened to him or his roommate. He really should be counting his blessings. Ten years from now when the Xbox 1080, PS6, PSPP, DS2, and the RiiRii are all out, he will look back at this and it will be nothing but a faded memory.
Later,
Alex
P.S. God bless the person who tires to pull a fast one on a CAG.
Well he's getting his sphincter gnawed on, from what I can tell, because 99% of the people on this forum are experts at playing angles. We almost all play angles of some kind or other to get discounts and shady YMMV deals to go through. That is, after all, why the majority of us joined this forum in the first place. So posting a story like this, especially since the Letter of the Month in the latest issue of EGM just dropped, makes the angle detectors of its members go off -- too much potential scam factor.
People on the forum are "heading him off at the pass" by going to question the potential end result of this post -- which, in a less skeptical forum, may lead to an overwhelming outpouring of money, games, systems, etc. I guarantee that if he had waited to post with scans of the police report, photos of his broken-in apartment, coupled with other evidence and was also an active member of the forum, the response would have most likely been different -- we are obviously a giving community, look at the Christmas charity drive for example.
[For the ultra skeptics amongst us, yes, all of the abovementioned evidence can be very easily falsified; nothing a phone call to the police or media in his town could not fix.]
All of that being said, many of us including myself, offered him words of encouragement. He is going to be fine because nothing happened to him or his roommate. He really should be counting his blessings. Ten years from now when the Xbox 1080, PS6, PSPP, DS2, and the RiiRii are all out, he will look back at this and it will be nothing but a faded memory.
Later,
Alex
P.S. God bless the person who tires to pull a fast one on a CAG.