Buying online - have you ever been duped?

[Flutter's lover <3 8,206]

I got duped. Last March,I bought a used set of Hydraulic disc brakes for my mountain bike. "Avid Code R" The pictures showed everything...but what I got was this...

 

Partially the seller's fault, for not putting it in a box instead of a padded envelope.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm missing these. They fell out somewhere....

 

[Luna 831 466]

i have never been dupped online in shopping.

[Princess Periwinkle 3,775]

I bought these cables that were supposed to allow me to get content off old hard drives, which was great because my old PC died. They didn't end up working at all, but they were only seven bucks so meh.

[NotoriousSMALL 1,984]

And all this is why I do not want to buy this holo octavia card off of the internet, even though I want it for novelty purposes. It's like 20 bucks and that's a LOT of money to lose over a hologram card of a my little pony.

[BayoUni2847 528]

I never had any really bad experiences with online shopping, just a couple of little things.

 

When I bought one of my glass display cases off of Amazon, it arrived with all the shelves broken but the rest was in good condition.

 

So I sent them a message and they told me they'll send me another one for free and to dispose of the other one.

 

Being the crafty man that I am, I decided to make wooden shelves to replace the broken shelves on the first one and still use both of the shelves.

 

In the end, I only paid for one shelf and have two.

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"Duped" would mean the recreation of an exact copy of an item in a game that usually holds value and is usually duplicated for profit. 

A different word, coming from the stereotype that gypsies are liars and theives, "gypped" means that one felt/feels scammed/tricked out of a service or good, usually through person-to-person trades or online sales.

[caramba2654 602]

I think I accidentally duped someone once lol.

 

Well, it was his fault. I was selling a bricked Wii (I updated to the latest firmware and it bricked the Wii since it was pirated) just to get some of the money back. Nobody was buying it, so I kept lowering the prices until someone came by and bought it. A few days laters, we receive a very angry e-mail from him telling us that the Wii didn't work. He tried to get a refund, but couldn't, since the page where I was selling the Wii was very clear about it being bricked.

 

Basically, he bought what he didn't want and it was his fault, but I think it does kinda count as a dupe for him.

[Moonlight 7,288]

I order online a good bit nowadays but I've yet to be duped and hope I never do. I tend to order off Amazon, Ebay, and Hot Topic for the stuff that I want and I always check feedback ratings of the seller before ordering. I have yet to have a bad experience ordering online and it better stay that way.