EB Player’s Guide Profiteering

Aaaand…reported! The seller’s other items look awfully suspicious, as well.

~Sits back and waits for angry post from seller~

Hopefully no one falls for it…

To go and post something like this and think that nobody is going to notice?

eBay seller ‘sum1x’ reported

“eBay sum1x is the rights holder for this download product. Therefore, the download file is an authorized version for sale and distribution.”

HA!

^ Seriously? Did he write that to you in an email?

@Rock
HA HA HA! Seriously?! He’s trying to pull that kind of crap?! What an idiot.

He’s also trying to sell KFC’s secret recipe. 😀

But is the KFC recipe in high quality? 😉

It has to be. He’s probably the rights holder for that product, too.

This is hilarious.

I saw that too! I was like Waaah? But then I saw that it was a download and I was like NO!

Technically, FuncoLand WAS selling the guide alone at a severe discount for several years. Seems they had a large stock of it and several other old guides somehow. So that price actually should be about right for a physical copy.. too bad it isn’t one.

Is it just me, or are people seriously starting to try to make big bucks off of anything Earthbound/Mother related, thinking we’re stupid, and that we’ll pay through the nose for something like this? I started wondering when that reproduction cartridge of Mother 2 in an American SNES cartridge appeared the other day…

Oi! Yeah I’m just glad I still have my game. Collecting this thing is crazy, especially considering some games I know for a fact are much rarer and won’t ever be put on the VC (Uniracers is an example, taken off shelves when Pixar of all people sued over it) go for about $10.

Looking at the amount available, it looks like some poor sap went ahead and bought one. 🙁

History: 2 sold. People already have…. T_T

“Rights: eBay sum1x is the rights holder for this download product. Therefore, the download file is an authorized version for sale and distribution.”

Somebody asked Nintendo about that yet? 😉

It’s dishonest that he didn’t even put PDF in the title.
But he does have positive feedback so maybe he was an honest seller at one point
or maybe there is a market in buying scans of guides you could find for free?

Anyways I feel sorry for those caught in the scam and wish this guy would smarten up.

3 sold.

@ Uniracer: There is ALWAYS a market for items you get for free anyways… it’s called the “uneducated consumer market”. People unknowingly buy fake/free resource things ALL THE TIME and don’t ever do research on it.

For example… if you type in “Earthbound Guide pdf” EBC’s FREE scans comes up, FIRST LINK. People who don’t know better… they “deserve to suffer the consequences”. It’s not like it’s hard to do research.

Of course I am not promoting this type of thing, it DISGUSTS me. All I am sayin’ is this is a venus fly trap and some bugs can’t resist it’s sway, because they don’t know better.

Its sad that you need an account on Ebay to report stuff like this.

I also found this rather amusing:

http://www.twitpic.com/5os9w3/full

@KingDarian Remind me again why the seller has like 100% positive feedback?

@Schlupi

Yeah I do agree with that. Just look at Betascript publishing, they’ve been selling Wikipedia articles as books, and flooding Amazon. Plenty of consumers buy it without even looking at the info first. It may be a trap, but I still feel sorry for those who get caught in it