I just had to share this wacky news article I came across today. It features a surfboard a MacBook, and a poor disgruntled wannabe DJ….

After suffering from a nasty lung condition which forced him to give up his job, and his passion for surfing, a young man from Devon decided to sell his precious surfboard and buy a laptop with the money so he could set himself up in business as a DJ.

As he wanted to get the most for his money, hie did the sensible thing and headed off to good old Ebay, and began bidding on a MacBook. Now these usually sell for about £1500 so when his was the winning bid at £300, he was thrilled to say the least. His dreams of becoming a Wedding DJ were about to materialise.

He waited excitedly for his new possession to arrive, and a couple of days later it did! Excitedly he tore open the box (which incidentally felt a little light, but you know how modern technology is, always streamlining things).

Lo and behold……there was his MacBook. Well actually it was a photocopy of a Macbook. A very nice MacBook it looked too, but he would never actually get to touch it, let alone use it, as he had been scammed! Even though he had checked out the seller as much as he could,and there seemed to be nothing untoward, he was duped.

EBay of course, will look into it, and I am sure this poor chap will get his money back but I did feel for him. I know how exciting it is bidding on something, and then winning it at a bargain price. However, no matte how much we are warned that when something is too good to be true then it probably is, we still fall for it time and time again. We are the eternal optimists!