Gaming@NINA

Okay so as ever one knows I have been worried about not getting my cameras and it appears yes I bought some nice equipment on ebay from a guy who had no stars and yes he stiffed me. So what's the most some one has ever scammed you?

$500 CAN (about $420 US)
I bought an Xbox with games and a sony clie ux40 off of a guy. Was able to get paypal to refund half that. So I guess the real answer is $250 CAN.

Well i havnt been scammed that bad. But a game store said that they have the cheapest prices around or your money back. so i saw a game cheaper and they said i had no real evidence when i had the recite!  :(

$3.50 for a small cookies and cream dippin dots, at the zoo when the theme park I went to had it for $2.50 -_-

150 euro for a gameboy color on ebay -.-

i didnt really get ripped off in this situation but, i got ripped on.
I was buying that Hyper magazine for $7.95, and i handed over a $20
and she gave me back a $10 and a $20.. ::)

i bought a dress for my GF..that costed like 28 US dollars(converted already)

apparently, i didnt know that dress costs much cheaper cuz i saw one just like it a few days after(10 US dollars i tihnk). I never got my money back cuz i lost the receipt. >.<

dude, dont ever shop cheap, especially for your GF. ;)

Especially dresses  ;)

Me? Well.....um....oh yah. I had to pay for an anime DVD box set featuring DBZ, Naruto, and Sonix X. Cost me $200. The next day, I saw it somewhere else for $50. Damn...

NOTE: The money was in US dollars. Though I bought them from Japan.

the most Ive ever been ripped off had to be for 200 plus shipping and handling  ::) so about 206 for a ps2 that i brought from gamestop it worked for like 2 months then just stopped reading everything , and iam sure i didn't break it  :'(

Oh! This one isn't really that much but it was an outrage to me.

I went to the local used gaming store here in Ottawa, Ontario, and I asked if they had any broadband modems for Dreamcast. In my ignorace I didn't realize they didn't make it to North America, and those that were here were rare, but the onwer said "Yes we do." But he told me I had to deliver him a normal modem from my DC (which I told him was WORKING, that's important), plus $30 as he had to put a modem into the Dreamcast that he was going to take the supposed broadband modem from.

I was lending my DC to someone that week so I went thourgh HELL getting just the modem off this guy and then when I went back to the store and talked to the manager he took out a normal DC modem and tried to sell that to me. I looked at the connector and saw that it WASN'T broadband and asked him why he had the gall to charge me $30 to trade in my working modem for his working modem of the same type. His response: "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't understand you I guess. I'm French you know." Granted, the guy has a French Canadian accent but one would think his grasp of the English language would extend to the jargon of video games as he owns and operates a used video game store. Needless to say, I do not shop there anymore.

So if you're ever in Ottawa and want ot buy some used games, stay away from Microplay.

i've been ripped off a couple of times. At the time i only had a cheap and nasty pc. Anyway i bought the sims deluxe unaware that it wouldnt run on a 600mhz pc with an 8mb graphics card. I installed it, loaded it up and nothing, after the blue logo screen, it went back to the desktop. I definatly know why it did that but since i didnt have any real $$$ to upgrade with, i decided id take the game back. No refund theey say... i brang the game home, and have kept it. Now i use it everyday or month..  ;D.

So at the time i guess you could say i got ripped off.

i bought a pokemon card
called mewtwo
from my friend for $30
and the next day my brother
bought a pack for $5
and got the same card
that i pay for $30

£870 (Around $1500) for a messed up PC that had to have about £260 ($400) worth of new parts to get it to work... :(  The new parts would of costed alot more if I wasnt friends with the repair guy. :-/