I'm not sure what annoys me more: the fact that this poor guy was duped by some jerk who decided to sell him a $400 chunk of firewood, or that the writer from ABC calls the item "A Wii game" repeatedly in her article about the incident. You write for ABC, don't you think you could have possibly researched the situation enough to know that the Wii is called a "console" and not a "game?" Do your job, you illiterate trollop.
Anyway, the incident is sadly not a new trend, but of course it's no less distressing for people when it actually happens to them. An Arizona resident won the console on eBay in February, paid $400 for it, and received a Wii box with a block of wood in it shortly thereafter. He filed a complaint with eBay, who found the seller's account had promptly been closed after the transaction took place. They are currently conducting an investigation into the fraud.
A word of advice to all the non-gamer adults out there: don't pay double for the Wii. The reason you want one so bad is because everyone you know wants one, which is very likely more important to you than actually playing the damned thing. Then when you get it you can invite all those people over to play multiplayer games and waggle your Wiimotes at each other and in a few months there'll be a thin layer of dust on it and you'll forget why you clamored for it in the first place. Trust us -- we're real gamers. We know.
[Via ABC15 - thanks, Jonathan]
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11:01 AM on 03.07.2008
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If that happened to me Id carve that fuckers screen name on the piece of wood and go on a manhunt and promptly shove it up his ass so deep hell be spitting out toothpicks.
A brick resembles a 360 the most, though...
quit bashing the wii :[.
I know i shouldn't laugh but that is pretty amusing.
Best use of the word trollop I've seen in a very long time. :thumbsup: :)
at least we're all friends :)
that's so awesome. I would have done it just to see the look on his face.
MGS4 might cause a level 7 dustplosion
And collects al your dust for free?
What's great for a snack and fits on your back?
It's Wii, Wii, Wii!
It's Wii, Wii, it's small, it's vapid, it's wood.
It's Wii, Wii, it's better than bad, it's good!
Everyone wants a Wii! You're gonna love it, Wii!
Come on and get your Wii! Everyone needs a Wii!"
Because that would be a great penis pun.
No More Termites
Endless Splinters
Super Mahogany Galaxy
Legend of Zelda: Twig Princess
Metreeoid 3
I have to agree with this. Until just recently when I apologized to my wii (shameless self-plug) it just kinda sat there for....oh, let's say six months, because after the party game fun wore out I hadn't really wanted to play anything on it. And illiterate trollop is my favorite new saying.
Poor bastard. Gotta check that user feedback...
Exactly! The Wii is a overhyped console that everyone wants because... everyone wants it. It's marketed for stupid people and it works. I love you Colette!
I love your user icon, btw ^__^
WORD OF THE DAY
trol·lop (\'trä-ləp\) noun a vulgar or disreputable woman; especially: one who engages in sex promiscuously or for money
. . . I'm sorry. Really . . .
First a man telephone set gets swapped with 2 cans of soup.
then someone's Hard drive with dried beans.
2 (they returned the first and then got an other) Ipod boxes filled with rocks.
(not to mention the Xbox-box filled with clothes)
and now a woo-d.
what is up with people lately, all these switcharoos.
in china people's wii's got switched by a hacked GBA in a casing weighed down with lead, how's that?
*nodnod*
How about a bike?
No!
A videogame?
NOOO!
Well ok...you pick a toy!
Hmm..I want..LOG!!!!
Or you know, they could play the games that are made for it. They could do that.
And on a related not, ebay will have to give the guy his money back. Because once an internet ninja disappears, the only way to find him is through 4chan... and they aren't your personal army.
Goddamn scammers.
Nintendo and the Wii, for having the nerve to embrace casual gaming and trying to expand the market with unusual games?
*OR*
Colette, for transparently posting Wii news just so she can spend the last paragraph bashing the system and getting high-fives from the Wii-haters club on Destructoid.
(More the latter than the former, IMO.)
Yeah, we got it... there is a group of people who think the Wii is a dust-coated gimmicky waggle-box with no good games and that only stupid people could enjoy playing.
Still kinda makes me lol though.
Im dialing 911 right now!
I guess that makes us idiots. Thanks, Colette.