Wanna buy Guitar Hero III – for $9,100?
p2pnet news | Games:- Let’s see, on eBay, Guitar Hero III, Guitar Hero III Legends of Rock: Wii Wireless Bundlem $109.50, New Guitar Hero III 3 Legends of Rock Xbox 360 BUNDLE, $149.99, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii), $103.51, Guitar Hero III 3: Legends of Rock Wii NEW WITH RECEIPT, $9,100.01 …
Wait!
$9,100.01 ?!?!?!
Yup. And under it, “This should teach my son a lesson!”
No kidding, But what lesson?
A Canadian father, an elementary sc hool teacher living in Toronto, caught his son, Isaac, smoking up and decided Isaac needed a serious lesson.
Here’s what he says about it on the eBay auction page:
So I spent who knows how many hours of my life trying to get ‘Guitar Hero 3′ for the Nintendo Wii for my 15 year old son who has been begging for it since he was born (well not really but he’s wanted it for awhile). So after waiting in lines and going into every game store in the city over the last 2 weeks (practically being laughed at when I asked for guitar hero 3) I finally got lucky and got one at EB Games (they just got a shipment of them 25 minutes before I walked in!).
So I was so relieved in that I had finally got the Holy Grail of Xmas presents pretty much just in the nick of time. I couldn’t wait to spread the jubilance to my son.
Then, yesterday, I came home from work early and what to I find? My innocent little boy smoking pot in the backyard with 2 of his delinquent friends.
Now I know santa applies the ‘naughty or nice’ paradigm to determine who gets what on Christmas. My son (Isaac) hasn’t exactly been Mother Teresa this year (he got suspended for fighting in the spring, among other things) but I thought I could still justify getting him this present. Maybe it would make him stay home more and ‘rock out’ on this fake guitar thing. He pretty much spends all his free time at his friend’s house playing it anyways (while high on marijuana, I would imagine).
Anyways, I am now finding it hard to justify rewarding him with this gift after he so greatly disappointed me. I know smoking a joint isn’t the end of the world, but if you can convince me that he deserves the gift, then I will end the auction. You will have to be very convincing. I am an elementary school teacher and I know that rewarding bad behavior is just asking for more of the same…
After I caught him getting high on my patio I did the typical yelling, screaming, kicking out the friends, etc… but I had not decided on a suitable way to punish him. As of the time of me writing this, he does not know I got him Guitar Hero 3. I will show him the auction once it is posted and we can watch it finish together. Sort of a ‘Father-Son bonding experience’. While I doubt this will keep him from ever smoking pot again, I think it will make him think twice before doing illegal (well I think pot is still illegal in Canada) drugs on my property.
I am still considering getting him a game for his Nintendo.
Maybe something like Barbie as the Island Princess or Dancing With the Stars. These games are in stock everywhere I go, and I know he will just love them.
Merry Xmas Isaac. I hope you’ve learned your lesson. –Father.
Now all he’ll have to do is get the winning bidder to pay up 
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December 14th, 2007 at 9:42 am
only an idiot is going to pay that much, doubt that story even, if it was a father he most likely have hidden that present as a future gift. this is someone who most likely just got his hands on it (if thats even true) and is trying to sell it at a very high cost
December 14th, 2007 at 11:31 am
Get him nothing.
I am a 33 y.o. divorced guy, and I have no children, yeehaw.
December 14th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
problem 1: he’s a stuck up, intolerant, politically-correct teacher.
problem 2: he stupidly shelled out money for a wii after he bought his brat a nintendo.
he won’t sell the crap game for much more than he paid for it.
no lesson learned.
solution 1 (for the son): as we all know – and the father would certainly agree – all p2pers are criminals, pirates and thieves. his son’s friends are delinquents (and so is his son by association at the least) so they are probably regular p2pers and should be able to download the crappy game from torrents found on pirate bay and mininova for free.
solution 2 (for the father): his son should show him how to use p2p to get the crappy barbie and dance games for free without ever having to leave home.
lesson learned: don’t pay for crap when you can get it for free.
December 14th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
well, i guess i was wrong. there’s a sucker born every minute.
some asshole actually paid $9100.01 for the crap game. the auction ended 10dec with 42 bids.
still, why pay for crap when you can get it for free?
December 14th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
But as I say in the post, “Now all he’ll have to do is get the winning bidder to pay up”.
December 14th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
IT’S OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!!!!
Sorry.
Anyway, I’m sure this is all just some guy trying to get rich off a scam, but doesn’t it bother anyone that he went ballistic over his son’s marijuana use, yet he didn’t seem to have any problem with him getting suspended for fighting?
December 17th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
It was probably the son and his pot friend signing up for ebay on separate accounts, and out bidding each other to jack the price up so high that no one would pay. Then they get to keep their guitar hero.