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# Odd Consumer News
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/3274/
- Published: 2005-12-08T00:31:38.000Z
- Updated: 2005-12-08T00:31:38.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Essay, #wpChunk

> Capitalizing on shortages of Microsoft's new video-game console, several people have attracted bids as high as $600 or more on eBay this week by offering Xbox 360 boxes -- just empty boxes -- in ways that made it seem, without reading closely, that the items for sale were actually consoles.

> The common approach: Acknowledging that the item was merely a box, but surrounding that disclosure with so many pictures and descriptions of the real console and accessories that someone merely skimming the listings might not notice.

> "This is the Xbox 360 Core bundle box. It would include things like a new xbox, power cords, and a controller, if there was actually an xbox for sale in this auction," read one of the listings, which was still active Friday night.

[Link](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/250703%5Fxboxebay03.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).