And the buyer can claim not as advertised. You would also not be able to list flappy birds anywhere in the ad and also not be able to charge that high price for a normal iPhone since no one would know its "special"
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eBay Canceling Listings for iPhones With Flappy Bird Installed
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And the buyer can claim not as advertised. You would also not be able to list flappy birds anywhere in the ad and also not be able to charge that high price for a normal iPhone since no one would know its "special"
I don't get it...
I downloaded it the day before it was yanked. Played it for about ten minutes and deleted it. Too hard to control and I think my best was about 11. Meh.
I downloaded it the day before it was yanked. Played it for about ten minutes and deleted it. Too hard to control and I think my best was about 11. Meh.
Rajani Isa
macrumors 65816
And as a seller, you have enough to worry about buyers claiming "Not as Advertised" and getting refunds. After all, who needs a phone OR the cash it was supposed to bring in, right??
Solomani
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garylapointe
macrumors 68000
Advertising...
Yes, but I think the intent was to get more for the device since you're selling it with the app. If you can't tell anyone it's on there, you're not benefitting from that "feature"...
Gary
Yes, but I think the intent was to get more for the device since you're selling it with the app. If you can't tell anyone it's on there, you're not benefitting from that "feature"...
Gary
macs4nw
macrumors 601
Entrepreneurial ingenuity really knows no bounds. If they can find a sucker to buy it off them, I'd say hats off to 'em.
I don't understand the reasoning behind this. What's wrong with selling the iPhones on eBay? And I'm shocked that eBay even cares – they make it very hard to report stolen items and make it very easy for people to buy your stuff without paying for it thanks to their stupid new system where you pay AFTER you buy. And now they're worried about people selling phones that aren't wiped. Geez.
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Someone wants to buy an iPhone with Flappy Bird on it, and someone sells it to him. It's his money; if he wants to be an idiot and pay for Flappy Bird, so be it. The buyer and seller are satisfied. Where is the "scam" you're complaining about?
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Gizmodo isn't an Android website, though. This article is relevant here as a second-page post.
"FappyBird" XD
It's not against the rules above, but I'm pretty sure Apple doesn't want you to resell their accounts, so eBay might not allow it.
garylapointe
macrumors 68000
There you go. But that's NOT going to help search.
And it's probably against some technicality since you're not selling it with that item, but only if eBay notices....
Gary
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That's pretty silly. The iPhone is wiped when it's synced for the first time anyway, right? I sent my mom an iPod for her birthday with music she loves, and she connected it to her computer and *POOF* everything was wiped.
And it's not like ebay is apparently targeting *just* iPhones with Flappy Birds on it. -1 for thread title, but anyway...
And it's not like ebay is apparently targeting *just* iPhones with Flappy Birds on it. -1 for thread title, but anyway...
Of course you could sell you Apple ID. May not be "allowed", but not sure how Apple would know unless they took time to starting matching up names, etc. That could be a time consuming process.
Think this is dodgy :
So, if a sale has completed EBAY will void the transaction but still charge the person as if the sale had completed?
ebay said:
So, if a sale has completed EBAY will void the transaction but still charge the person as if the sale had completed?
velocityg4
macrumors 604
They need this same rule about computers. Rather than computers being sold with $20K worth of pirated software.
what about the people reading the articles?
obviously free apps or a few dollars worth is much more urgent than as you thousands of dollars worth
I think you mean 'when a developer is removed from the App Store, their apps no longer show up in purchases.'
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Really? When did that change?
So you'd give someone the password to your account with all your purchases?
And I 'm fairly sure that would violate the ToS anyway.
PrsnSingh
macrumors newbie
If you want to play Flappy Bird on your iOS device or on your computer, just go to http://flappybird.io/ on your browser.
OriginalClone
macrumors 6502
No I meant what I said.
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When Apple removed the poker app it no longer showed in my purchases.
OriginalClone
macrumors 6502
Yes.
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I know exactly what I'm talking about. For example, when Apple pulled their poker app from the App Store it was also removed from my purchases. That let's me know that they have the ability to remove apps from purchases.