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Potato iPod, anyone?

  • 13-07-2009 12:34am
    #1
    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,137 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Well these guys must certainly feel stupid now

    http://gizmodo.com/5312889/german-bargain-hunters-conned-into-buying-bag-of-potato-ipods
    The con was simple (and old): A group of British con men showed the German bargain hunters a few iPods, laptops and other gear as "proof" of their authenticity; offered to sell them hundreds of second hand iPods at basement prices; and then proceeded to hand over a 4-lb. sack filled with potatoes instead.


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  • #2
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    I hear they used fake chips in them.


  • #3
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Were there a bunch of scammers like that near swords not too long ago with laptops and water bottles.

    Title needs changing to iPotato, tbh.


  • #4
    Mimikyu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,963 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


    This post has been deleted.


  • #5
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Captain Morgan wrote: »
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    Who would spend hundreds of euro without first inspecting the item, keeping hold of them and only then hand the money over.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I'd say they are boiling with rage.


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  • #7
    jaffa20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭jaffa20


    The should have used Apples.


  • #8
    Dusty87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭Dusty87


    This happened in Dublin not so long ago. Guys sellin 'laptops' which where really litres of milk in a laptop box. Joe Duffy screen was lightin up like a christmas tree


  • #9
    Jeanious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 644 ✭✭✭Jeanious


    Captain Morgan wrote: »
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    youre dead right, but greed is a powerful emotion!

    Either way, how would they not have at least looked in the bag to see? I tend to think of stuff like this as a sort of "idiot tax".


  • #10
    Bob Z
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,587 ✭✭✭Bob Z


    Does this mean that another group of tourist who were expecting a bag of potatoes got a load of ipods?


  • #11
    fitz0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,753 ✭✭✭fitz0


    Overheal wrote: »
    Title needs changing to iPotato, tbh.
    Definately iSpud.


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  • #12
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    fitz0 wrote: »
    Definately iSpud.

    Damn you. I was going to post that much earlier but held off until now.


  • #13
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    jaffa20 wrote: »
    The should have used Apples.

    Pomme de Terre


  • #14
    That_Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,342 ✭✭✭✭That_Guy


    If they were Roosters I suppose it wouldn't be too bad.


  • #15
    TanG411
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭TanG411


    i bet it was those cheap Golden Wonder potatoes.

    They got PotatOWNED :pac:


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