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Subject: I noticed this on Ebay.

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Posted by: xTRlGGER092x

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Posted by: Xplode441
Posted by: xTRlGGER092x
Look, you can do this on eBay. I don't think there's a copyright on the blue flaming helmet; it's fair game.

Just because you think it's morally wrong doesn't mean it's wrong in a legal sense.

They're pulling someone in to buy something that they can get for free, it definitely falls under the 'scam' category for me. He's preying on the people who don't know they can get it for free, without putting the information that people can get it for free without giving their information to some guy on the internet.
It is a scam and it is a violation of the TOS for ebay for being a scam.

People cannot get the idea that they can sell free stuff for a price when its not theirs to sell in the first place.

You clearly haven't been on eBay much; go search OpenOffice. It's an open-source MS Office clone that you could get for free. You'll find that it's all over eBay, being sold on discs for a decent amount of money. They're not being reported or taken down; they're not violating eBay as the item isn't under copyright.

Like I said, it's shady, but not a scam.
Solid objects is different then digital.

This is about something you will have to come here to activate. In the end, Bungie owns the flame and is giving it away and not some jester ebay player. The violation here is that the object in question is not his to sell. He cannot sell items that are not in his possession.

  • 07.01.2011 3:30 PM PDT

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Posted by: xTRlGGER092x
Nope; if it's not a scam in the eyes of the law, then it isn't to me. It's just a seller trying to make a quick buck off of people's stupidity.

No, I'm not the seller lol. I am a legitimate eBay seller, though. :)

I'm sure any police officer or judge I ask will tell me it's a scam, but they couldn't do anything about it, it's a scam, legal, but still a scam.

  • 07.01.2011 3:31 PM PDT

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Those few dollars could be used to buy stuff from the Bungie Store which ultimately is used for Charity, rather than being used for a scam :P

  • 07.01.2011 4:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: xTRlGGER092x
Nope; if it's not a scam in the eyes of the law, then it isn't to me.
Do you derive your entire sense of morality from the "law"?

Example: Adultery isn't illegal in all states. As soon as you step into a state where it's "legal" is it morally right to you?

It's okay to say this legally isn't a scam, but one would hope that you don't find all things legal moral. Basically, I hope you would find this morally wrong, if anything.

  • 07.01.2011 5:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: xTRlGGER092x
Nope; if it's not a scam in the eyes of the law, then it isn't to me.
Do you derive your entire sense of morality from the "law"?

Example: Adultery isn't illegal in all states. As soon as you step into a state where it's "legal" is it morally right to you?
It's okay to say this legally isn't a scam, but one would hope that you don't find all things legal moral. Basically, I hope you would find this morally wrong, if anything.
Exactly, a cookie for you fine sir!

[Edited on 07.01.2011 5:24 PM PDT]

  • 07.01.2011 5:24 PM PDT

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On the bright side at least he's not charging more than a few dollars for it.....You know there are people out there ignorant enough to drop serious $ on something like this

Jerk move to sell it in the first place though

  • 07.01.2011 5:25 PM PDT

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It's funny because he can't spell helmet.

  • 07.01.2011 5:28 PM PDT
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It's funny because he can't spell helmet.
I know right? lol.

  • 07.01.2011 5:30 PM PDT

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It's not a scam; look at the guy's feedback: 62 transactions, 100%.

Shady, but not a scam. Lrn2ebay, folks. Stuff like this happens all the time with no problems. Besides, it's the consumer's fault they didn't know the the item is free, not his.
Reported the listing.

Just because they don't know it's free doesn't make it right.

Look, you can do this on eBay. I don't think there's a copyright on the blue flaming helmet; it's fair game.

Just because you think it's morally wrong doesn't mean it's wrong in a legal sense.

Scamming is againt the law.

  • 07.01.2011 6:09 PM PDT

Posted by: Great_Pretender
Case and point: don't worry about it. Girls start getting boobies pretty soon, and then you'll have plenty of other things to think about. Being an Inheritor is not a life goal.
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It says it ended, so it must have been against the ToS or something. Proof that it was wrong and a scam?

  • 07.01.2011 6:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: Xplode441
It says it ended, so it must have been against the ToS or something. Proof that it was wrong and a scam?
Thanks for the update!

  • 07.01.2011 6:17 PM PDT

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There was a TON of these the first couple days it became available, glad its being taken care of now.

  • 07.01.2011 6:35 PM PDT

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Justice has been served?! Nice! Let's Tbag that noob.

  • 07.01.2011 8:05 PM PDT

Now the the listing is gone, care to enlighten those of us late to the party what was being sold? I'm guessing blue flames...

  • 07.01.2011 8:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: BigLanceLS
Now the the listing is gone, care to enlighten those of us late to the party what was being sold? I'm guessing blue flames...
Blue Flames, Bungie Nameplate, 2 All star nameplates.

  • 07.01.2011 8:27 PM PDT

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Ebay does not nor will it ever allow the selling of digital items that are not property of the seller.

  • 07.01.2011 10:31 PM PDT

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Well, I'm glad justice was served, I hate scammers.

  • 07.01.2011 11:09 PM PDT

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