Anybody here ever get burned before ordering stuff online? I think the worst I ever got was ordering some game OSTs from a place I believed to be reputable only to find out later that pretty much their entire stock is pirated SonMay and EverAnime trash. That was years ago, though. Anyways, I'm curious if there are any horror stories among us... and if so, dish!
I recall once I ordered a 4GB MP4 player off ebay. At least, it was meant to be 4GB. However, as it turned out (and as I found out later from mympxplayer), like a lot of other people I'd been had - it was in fact only 1GB, but formatted with compression to make it seem like 4GB. Naturally, as you're not supposed to do this to flash memory-based devices, it wouldn't hold the advertised amount.
Another good one. I bought a coupla SATA to IDE adaptors to plug my IDE hard disks into the SATA ports of my motherboard. Well, not only did they not manage the task required of them (letting Windows see my drives and access them), one of them turned out to be faulty, short-circuited and nearly set my PC on fire. This is of course a more extreme example.
Oh and one last one. Bought a copy of Pokémon SoulSilver from games-advance.com. Don't buy from them folks, they're a bunch of Thai pirates - as I found out when my copy of SoulSilver arrived, conspicuously missing a PokéWalker, and also with a "do not remove" label on the top of the cart. So naturally I removed it. Lo and behold, a MicroSD slot! Proof of illegitimacy was shown upon booting up the cart and being met with a customised R4 cartridge menu.
Contacted them about it threatening to call them in on it to the authorities. They gave back my money and told me to keep the cartridge. So I did, and now I have the capacity for running homebrew apps and emulators on my DS if the desire takes me 
So it wasn't all bad in the end.
The joys of eBay. I too have some SonMay / Ever Anime stuff...
That's about it, though - so far as I am aware!
DW
I've never been burned by accident, but I did buy a Zune-branded car charger cheap for my Zune on Amazon awhile back for $5, so I pretty much knew it was probably a knock off due to the price and when it came on shrink-wrapped cardboard. It worked fine aside from a clip on the cheap connector coming off (so to remove it from my Zune I need to manually push in the tab with a pen) so I don't really feel ripped off since I bought it knowing it was probably a knock off anyway.
I haven't fallen victim, but other clerks at the used game/dvd/cd store I work at have!
Fake HeartGold is on the top. The cart itself feels flimsy, and is grey, not black. Game plays for an hour or so before freezing.
http://www.lighthead.net/mf/hosting/upload/fake%201.jpg
Second pic is of the manual... Lots of screenshots with the IGN logo. Text is from some person's review of the game. And it also includes this bizarre picture...
http://www.lighthead.net/mf/hosting/upload/fake%202.jpg
The only other fake I have seen is this "Army Men III" Cart... The game is actually an army men helicopter game. Note the top of the cart reads GAME, not Nintendo GAME BOY tm.
http://www.lighthead.net/mf/hosting/upload/fake%203.jpg
I ordered SoulSilver from some guy on Amazon.com who was selling it for five bucks less. At first I thought it was a good deal, except that it didn't come with a Pokewalker, so I figured that's where he shaved off the money.
Then I got the game and gave it to my brother as a birthday gift. Turned out it was a crude, workable copy of the game; it worked but would freeze up from time to time, and I'm not even sure that it had the infrared transmitter inside it to work with the Pokewalker I bought extra. I shrugged my shoulders and just bought a legit version of the game, figuring that there was no way in heck I was going to get my money back now. But now I know to investigate a little more closely when someone is selling a game for less than the going store price when the game itself is a hot item.
Anybody need an extra Pokewalker? I really have no need for it myself, but it came straight from Nintendo so at least I know it's going to work.
Bahahahaha Hiro I just looked at the fake Game Boy cart. Not only does it only have "GAME" on it, but it also has "3DO" near the bottom of the label!
Bahahahaha Hiro I just looked at the fake Game Boy cart. Not only does it only have "GAME" on it, but it also has "3DO" near the bottom of the label!
3DO makes the Army Men games though 😯
Oh, so they do. There I go getting confused, seeing as there's the company of that name but there was also the console. Which we don't speak of.
