Trotter's Independent Trading

[Chris]

After browsing eBay out of pure boredom, I stumbled across some auctions that Del Boy and Rodney would be proud of.





Oh the irony of it all ...

"Microsoft Office 2003 Full Version NOT A COPY"

Also ...





Bloody hell, £18.50 mate for a CDR with "OFFICE 2003 PRO" written on in black marker pen. Your "10 DAY RETUNE" doesn't exactly inspire confidence either.

I wouldn't even give you £1 for it - and that includes P&P.

So, I was wondering - has anyone come across any listings that are obvious they've come off the back of a van?

[iSon]

I'm jealous...I want "Office 2003 Professional Premium" edition.

[Snu]

I've got a copy of Office 1992 if anyone wants it? I've set the reserve at £78.

[Bail]

I've got windows 95 on about 15 floppy disks.

[Brad]

Sounds like it doesn't come with a spell checker!

[cwathen]

I've got windows 95 on about 15 floppy disks.

Ah, you have the MDF format disks (a proprietary Microsoft format which allowed them fit 1.9MB on a floppy disk), I've got the rarer 'backup disk set' which uses standard 1.38MB floppies - there's 31 of the buggers! And it takes over an hour to copy everything off them!

Anyway, weird stuff on ebay. Around 2002 a lot of people were selling 'secret ITV codes to get all ITV regions on Sky Digital'. Often packaged in the form of an 'engineering service document - for internal ITV distribution only'

What did these 'products' consist of? An explanation of how to use the manual tuning feature of a Sky Digibox, which as well as being fairly self explanatory anyway, is also printed in every Sky Digibox manual. And the frequency information for the 3 transponders, which were available on any number of websites.

Rather more disturbing, these ripoff merchants did actually have people bidding on these things.

[DJGM]

After browsing eBay out of pure boredom, I stumbled across
some auctions that Del Boy and Rodney would be proud of.





Oh the irony of it all ...

"Microsoft Office 2003 Full Version NOT A COPY"

Also ...





Bloody hell, £18.50 mate for a CDR with "OFFICE 2003 PRO"
written on in black marker pen. Your "10 DAY RETUNE"
doesn't exactly inspire confidence either.

I wouldn't even give you £1 for it - and that includes P&P.

So, I was wondering - has anyone come across any listings
that are obvious they've come off the back of a van?

To be honest, and FWIW . . . http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/Reporting.mspx . . .

At the very least, these shuysters (sp) would end up getting their eBay accounts revoked.

[Dr Lobster*]

To be honest, and FWIW . . . http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/Reporting.mspx . . .

At the very least, these shuysters (sp) would end up getting their eBay accounts revoked.

anybody who thinks you can get a £300 for a tenner is incredibly naive.

i have contempt for anybody who spends their time searching ebay for pirated software and then reporting it. they really need to get a life.

[russnet]

I'm tempted to sell a pack of Polo's in Mint Condition on Ebay soon.

[Bail]

I'm SO getting meself one of them!

[Bail]

I'm a bit worried now, kraM what exactly did you do with these?




Why on earth did you need a breast implant!?