Guest tomdbomb61 Posted February 26, 2003 Report Posted February 26, 2003 hahaha sum cheely sod is trying to sell the unlock method on ebay haha wot a twat as if anyone with an ounce of brains is likely to pay for it when you can get it on one of the best websites for free!! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...&category=29781 wot a twat! lol
Guest benny Posted February 26, 2003 Report Posted February 26, 2003 Sadly, whenever someone has a great idea, that could be of a real benefit to a lot of people, someone always manages to screw it all up by trying to make a few quid. Some call it capitalism or free enterprise...I call it "profiteering"! B
Guest tomdbomb61 Posted February 26, 2003 Report Posted February 26, 2003 i call it just being a tight twat! hats off to the person who created the program and not charging every1 to use it!
Guest Jeeves Posted February 26, 2003 Report Posted February 26, 2003 I was going 2 post the same thing earlier. but i didn't cus i think that as well as profiteering these people are attention seekers. Basically i think the less said about him the better although i do agree with: i call it just being a tight twat!
Guest Tachyon Posted February 26, 2003 Report Posted February 26, 2003 I'm going to apply my usual solution. You add an auction yourself entitled something like "Unlock your Orange SPV FREE - DON'T BID READ THIS" and then in the auction (which has a fixed price of 1p to avoid paying large ebay fees) you tell "buyers" to email you for instructions rather than bidding on this or any other auction offering the same service. When a punter emails, you tell them the URL for the SPVUnlock.exe. That should stop the profiteering b****ds who think it's funny to charge for someone else's work. ATB, Frank.
Guest Tachyon Posted February 26, 2003 Report Posted February 26, 2003 I'm going to apply my usual solution. Done & dusted... :twisted: ATB, Frank.
Guest xmob Posted February 27, 2003 Report Posted February 27, 2003 I'm going to apply my usual solution. You add an auction yourself entitled something like "Unlock your Orange SPV FREE - DON'T BID READ THIS" and then in the auction (which has a fixed price of 1p to avoid paying large ebay fees) you tell "buyers" to email you for instructions rather than bidding on this or any other auction offering the same service. When a punter emails, you tell them the URL for the SPVUnlock.exe. That should stop the profiteering b****ds who think it's funny to charge for someone else's work. ATB, Frank. That won't work. Firstly, if it's a BIN then the 'dubious' seller can just buy the item which will stop it appearing in listings. It also then gives him the chance to leave you negative feedback as he has just completed a transaction. Just report the auction to eBay admins. It'll soon get pulled. :twisted:
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted February 27, 2003 Report Posted February 27, 2003 If any one sees scum selling information freely available on this site or orthers, please contact customer services on EBAY and lodge a complaint about the seller under Questional content. That was the sale will stop. Unfortunatly some poor sad has now lost £6 :)
Guest Tachyon Posted February 27, 2003 Report Posted February 27, 2003 That won't work. Firstly, if it's a BIN then the 'dubious' seller can just buy the item which will stop it appearing in listings. It also then gives him the chance to leave you negative feedback as he has just completed a transaction. Just report the auction to eBay admins. It'll soon get pulled. :twisted: Ebay don't always pull auctions in these circumstances. Even if they do, it can often take 24 hours, during which some poor sod has paid. The best way is to complain to ebay and add a free auction. I didn't use buy it now, so noone can instantly end the auction. It started at 1p over 10 days. If anyone bids, I cancel the bid. I've done this before, you know ;-) As it stands I've had 23 emails from people who said they were about to buy but now have the appropriate links to the relevant sites to do it for free. If I'd have saved one person from paying, I'd be happy. 23 is cool :) And this is fun - an email from one of the people who had the original auctions up selling the info: "yeah yeah you cant blame me for trying... i cancelled the auction anyway" Nuff said. :twisted: ATB, Frank.
Guest Tachyon Posted February 27, 2003 Report Posted February 27, 2003 Unfortunatly some poor sad has now lost £6 :) And at least another 23 so far haven't, which is cool :roll: ATB, Frank.
Guest wiltsboy Posted February 27, 2003 Report Posted February 27, 2003 Check this out some cheeky barsteward is charging £5 for the file to be emailed. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...2&category=3312 ://http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....egory=3312 :evil:
Guest mantrac Posted February 27, 2003 Report Posted February 27, 2003 Just sent this guy an message. I suggest you do the same. Use the Ask Seller a Question feature. You cheeky opportunist.... Selling other people's software which they provided to the community for FREE is OUTRAGEOUSLY UNGRATEFUL and ILLEGAL to say the least... Remove this auction within a day or I'll have you reported to eBay who will be happy to suspend your account for good.... I have the backing of the some of the MoDaCo community on this. It only takes 5-6 e-mails from us to eBay and they WILL wipe your account. Act now or pay later.
Guest TooMuch2AM Posted February 27, 2003 Report Posted February 27, 2003 The cheeky fecker who was selling the unlock program on eBay for a fiver obviously isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer; the link to his nochex account contains this: [email protected] Now now Hari, you're a very naughty (and stupid) boy... M
Guest Shire29 Posted February 27, 2003 Report Posted February 27, 2003 How much dya reckon I should charge for selling the URL to Modaco :) Cheers, Shire
Guest Tachyon Posted February 27, 2003 Report Posted February 27, 2003 hahaha, now I've done it. My email inbox is being swamped and I've sent loads of replies out. Talk about making a rod for your own back - still, if it stops the poor sods paying for what sensible MoDaCo readers get for free... ;-) ATB, Frank.
Guest Gorskar Posted February 27, 2003 Report Posted February 27, 2003 You could have just put in a link to the relevant article if you didnt want your inbox swamped.... Good idea though, stop those cheeky gimps hooking anyone.
Guest alanclose Posted February 27, 2003 Report Posted February 27, 2003 hahaha, now I've done it. My email inbox is being swamped and I've sent loads of replies out. Talk about making a rod for your own back - still, if it stops the poor sods paying for what sensible MoDaCo readers get for free... ;-) ATB, Frank. Good on ya - I was going to do that when I first posted the E-bay link a few days ago but I couldn't be arsed. I did e-mail the seller asking if it was the same unlock that you could get free of the net but he never answered. It really galls me that free loading shits will make money of the hard work of someone else - especially considering how altruistic the programmer was. Nice to see a good netizen in action
Guest Tachyon Posted February 28, 2003 Report Posted February 28, 2003 You could have just put in a link to the relevant article if you didnt want your inbox swamped.... Good idea though, stop those cheeky gimps hooking anyone. I did that once before, and ebay killed the auction within three hours. Apparently it's something against their policy as I was redirecting users away from ebay without actually offering a product for sale. :shock: Still, I've set up an email autoresponse (which I should have done in teh first place, duh!) and I'm now getting between 10-20 emails an hour asking for the unlock details. No doubt every one wouldn't have bought from one of the sharks, but I've had a number of follow-up emails from people thanking me after they unlocked their SPV. As Gibson said, "Information wants to be free" :twisted: ATB, Frank.
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