Comments on: Glut of banned Xbox 360 for sale on eBay

By: board_surfer

board_surfer — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:22:36 +0000

Of course you can but I bet you a penny to pound none of the listed ones have been reverted.

Ebay should pull every one of the listings.

By: Leon Wolfeson

Leon Wolfeson — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:28:40 +0000

ebuyerfb – Ebay’s policy is against banned systems. You can revert the mod, and sell it, under ebay’s rules. No grounds for the auctions to be pulled.

By: ebuyerfb

ebuyerfb — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:17:34 +0000

Modded systems are prohibited from sale on eBay. You can’t sell any game enhancers or anything that has a secondary use of piracy.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/mod-chips.html

The sad part about that is there really are legitimate uses of such systems that don’t involve piracy. XBox 360 is a very good piece of hardware for the price. PS3 gets around the issue by allowing you to install Linux on it from the start.

By: Page Mage

Page Mage — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:22:22 +0000

That stuff is crazy. All those Xbox 360’s got on eBay in a hurry. I saw a bunch the other day, but didn’t think anything of it. Now I know why. I hope no poor sap got suckered into buying one of those.

By: EventHorizon1984

EventHorizon1984 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:21:10 +0000

There is the issue of downloaded firmware updates.

How hard is it for Microsoft to embed code that checks for valid systems? Like Windows software.

… and … well …

“Press this one, 30 seconds later, POOF!”
Montgomery Scott, Star Trek

By: Bigpoppa

Bigpoppa — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:58:49 +0000

Sellers of these consoles are not saying “banned from xbox live” because it has been banned.

Most are only saying that to let you know that it is a chipped console without saying “it’s a chipped console” for obvoius reasons.

By: david

david — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:55:19 +0000

i just say.. HA , i hope they cried when they got banned. as for selling on ebay, ebay should ban the sales.

ps3 all the way for security and best exclusives