The Register® — Biting the hand that feeds IT

eBayer pays £470 for photo of Xbox 360

Box of tricks

Free whitepaper – The Dell Management Console and ITIL

Here's one hot off the press: an unwary eBayer appears to have just paid £470 for what he or she obviously thought was an "XBOX 360 PREMIUM PACKAGE":

Done - yours for 470 quid

All well and good, as is most of the extensive blurb accompanying this tempting offer. It's worth reading right to the end, though:

Done? You have been

Yup, we sincerely hope it's a really nice picture of an Xbox because 470 quid is an awful lot of wonga. The moral? Caveat emptor. ®

And there's more

How much would you pay for two Xbox hotmail addresses? 481 quid? No, us neither.

Bootnote

The usual thanks to Jac Timms and Rick Miles for the tip-offs.

Free whitepaper – Thermal design of Dell PowerEdge server

Don’t Miss

DustbinDirty, dirty PCs: The X-rated picture guide

Ventblockers Horror beyond human imagination

SC09Top 500 supers - rise of the Linux quad-cores

SC09 Jaguar munches Roadrunner

Ubuntu teaser Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala

Smooth Windows upgrade it ain't

Sign up, sign up for The Register IT security newsletter

Narrowcasting for the email classes